On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, bsinger wrote:
.... If you left sausage meat under a negative,
> out in the sun, long enough you could make some sort of image, perhaps even
> a smell-o-graph. But I think you might get a visit by the neighbourhood dogs
> before you get anything much to look at. [I think there is a dog in the
> neighbourhood called yupo, but I digress.] To quote a famous fellow list
> member. HeHeHe
Barry, et al -- you probably know that there was a vogue for a method
called by various names, including "living valentine" -- or so they
claimed in the photo magazines of early 20th century. The young lady
(usually young lady) fastened a negative of her sweetheart (or other
heartthrob) to whatever area of skin seemed appropriate... and sunbathed.
The claim was that a picture was thereby manifested.... tho I don't recall
seeing one reproduced in the "literature" ... it may have been.
Apples were also supposedly used for simpler imagery, possibly even
messages like "delicious."
J.
Received on Sat Mar 18 17:40:23 2006
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