What would you do?

[magid]

It looks like I'll be getting to keep the pictures of my brain (basically, big sheets of translucent black & white photos (on some sort of plastic)). Not sure what I want to do with them, other than perhaps scanning them.

Suggestions?

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Frame them ad put them on the wall?

[cnoocy]

Well, you've never had a userpic...

[bitty.livejournal.com]

bubblebabble kept his. he's also said he means to scan them in as userpics, but it's been a few months already, and we can see how that turned out.

[magid.livejournal.com]

How much did Queue bribe you? :-)

Yeah, I thought of that, but that's one of over a hundred photos.

Plus I've not been sure that I want a user pic, actually. There are a lot of factors involved, none particularly rational.
If I'm going to use LJ for a long time, I don't know that there are any photos/images that I'd want for such a long time, and I wouldn't want to end up with a later substitution user pic with some entries, ones that wouldn't related.
I realized at some point that some people use images that I take one way, and they see another way; the image is open to interpretation. I'd rather have readers focus on my words at the time.
I don't necessarily want someone's first image association with me to be a user pic, no matter what it's of.
Written out here, it doesn't look like much, really. I don't know why I resist so much.

Still, it's more likely that I'd (ask Queue to help me) post a link to the scanned images than make a userpic. I think.

My other thought was after scanning figure out how to link the appropriate ones together, for a little film thing. (That could be a user pic too, I suppose, but animated ones tend to annoy me.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Right now, they're big (wider than 11 x 17) sheets of negatives (I don't remember how many offhand, but at least eight, possibly more), so they'd need to be in front of a light source to be reasonably visible. Plus, right now, I don't have enough wall space... (well, not if I finally put up some of the pictures I've been intending to put up, anyway.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's taken me *years* to hang a picture on the wall that I'd already gotten framed *and* I already knew where I wanted to put it...

[bitty.livejournal.com]

You should get a pinky-finger x-ray. Then make a collage of the two pictures, and frame it.

[magid.livejournal.com]

make a collage of the two pictures

There are well over 100 images of my brain to choose from....

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I know. I meant two as in the brain, and the pinky. Mix them all up in a collage. Work of art.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ah.
And a TV reference to a show I've never seen....

[cnoocy]

You could conceivably mount them in some sort of array, so they would form a 3-d image of your brain. Then you'd have one or two largish sculptures that could double as a coffee table or something.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

i did try to make it as obvious as i could.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Don't frame them, and wallpaper your windows?

:-) (ducking and running)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hrm... maybe for a spooky themed party or something....
Or maybe not.
:-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Must be the cold slowing me down. Yeah, that's it.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

you could also go the route of having your brain and a chunk of chocolate on display. This Is Your Brain On [legal] Drugs.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Interesting.
I suppose I could cut up the sheets, and figure out some way of stacking them with space in between (some clear glue and clear plastic rods or something?). Of course, there are a bunch of different kinds of shots, so I'd have to decide which was the "base" set, and have other series head out ( :-) from there, in the appropriate directions. Hrm. I'd have to put a light source with this, too...
(I wonder if this is beyond what I can do?)

[magid.livejournal.com]

That chocolate wouldn't be on display long...

And what about that whole egg thing?

[bitty.livejournal.com]

are you saying that you're an egghead?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Or the Walrus.

gjoobgjoob

[bitty.livejournal.com]

A Tuscan Raider! Hosting a seder! Attacking Darth Vader! Voting for Nader!

Re: gjoobgjoob

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't eat that Vader cake!

(*how* much work don't you have today...?)

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Send a couple to the parents and tell 'em they're new pictures they can hang on the wall?
Do a brain themed party?
Make an odd plastic chandelier?
Chuck 'em in a file and keep 'em in a closet for 20 years?
Put some on the fridge?
Take treacle_well's suggestion and use them as window coverings?

Re: gjoobgjoob

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I didn't eat that Vader cake!

well, maybe later.

(*how* much work don't you have today...?)

hey, a whole new batch just came in. enough to keep me busy for a couple of hours. then, i head home and sleep - i had so much fun yesterday afternoon enjoying the sunshine & the company of zzbottom that i was up late last night plowing through as many chapters as possible to bring in today. tired now! more work than i'd expected. (which is good, $-wise.)

[queue.livejournal.com]

Chuck 'em in a file and keep 'em in a closet for 20 years?

This seems the most likely. ;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

As if I have closet space!
;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... a brain party... I don't want to have to serve brains for snacks...
Ceilings are high enough for a chandelier of that size.
Too big for the fridge, with all the toys and other magnets on it already.
Too big for a file, too :-)

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Good Eats had an episode on jello molds and one of them was brain shaped :-) They have online recipes at foodtv.com.

Besides, then peole can bring games that have Brain in the name or on the box (Give Me The Brain comes to mind) and somebody could hook up a small TV and VCR for episodes of Pinky and the Brain.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I think Hauntmeister used to have a brain(-shaped) mold.
Jell-o molds, though; they're scary.

Re: gjoobgjoob

[magid.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good day yesterday :-)

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've got three, actually!

One extra-large, two extra-small. The smaller set comes from England, and actually features vegan jelly...Can't really call it gelatine, I guess. It's some concoction of agar-agar, sugar and natural strawberry flavour. I haven't made it up yet.

I set up the large one as a Halloween party centerpiece one year. Made in a milky green color, and with two lightsticks under it so it would glow. Every giant green brain should glow! But I couldn't get the aquarium pump working the right way to make it pulse, which would have taken it right over the edge... ;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

No.... Must not think of shimmering lit green brains. Must. Not.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I Smell Your Spicy Brains (http://www.matazone.co.uk/kitty1.html)

[magid.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Balls of string have twiney goodness.

[magid.livejournal.com]

And we can play that game called... um... er... Memory! Yeah, that's it! :-)