Uranium glass electrodes 2012
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of viewing this little piece of artistry;
Violet Wanda blew a very limited run of uranium glass electrodes.
This isn’t something you see every day, as the glass hasn’t been produced since WW2.
The Adjustment Bureau Violet Wand
Here’s a fun one! The case of this prop from The Adjustment Bureau was up for auction – now wouldn’t that be something to own?
The case is by Peter Kreider (and so are the photos).
High Voltage Photography with a Helio-Lux
Every so often you come across something inspirational, this is one of those times.
Roughly translated from the polish blog retroradio47 according to google translate.
We decided to experiment with photography high voltage. It is a quite different, scientific matter. In fact, it’s the crown to register electrical discharge around the object to which it is connected voltage. No writes about the details, because the internet is full of the aforementioned publications / the topic. As you can see, we used to “bales you”, but it is their first lick of the case (- :)). And so – as a source of high voltage, we used the device to elektromasażu Helio Lux (actually, a small generator Tesla) – glass vessel in which the film We poured water mixed with salt, there is one electrode attached HV – Stand with the second electrode, HV, where put an object – a plastic bucket, providing darkroom and “doing” for the tripod – a digital recording corona effect.
Enough of that. Look at these gorgeous images; then visit his blog for more!
Fascia Concept
This is my initial concept for a custom violet wand fascia. (Thanks photoshop for letting me visualise it!)
The artwork will be painted onto 5mm hardboard of the appropriate size, then sealed.
It’s based off a photograph by the wonderful Alberto Santos who you should check out, for many reasons!
The dial is an amazing find, a reproduction of a 1930s Zenith radio knob from renovatedradios. It’s plastic but looks very similar to the original wood.
I’ll have to somehow re-mount the electronics onto their new home, as well as house the new dial.
Wish me luck!
Pansanitor 