Day 7: Diary tape
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September 9, 2010, 12:44 am
Filed under: Drawings
Filed under: Drawings
I was sitting on the sofa thinking what to do next and I had a tape measure near by. I played with it a bit and thought what a clever mechanism it is. Why has it remained the sole domain of measurement? I decided to try and think of a new use. Firstly I sprayed the whole thing white.
Then I decided that it could be a portable diary and that I could document through notes and sketches each day of this 30 day project.
I recalled what I did in the previous days so far and drew them in order. I will continue through the forthcoming days.
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Your ideas, sir, are mindblowing. Is it too wrong to admire you?
Comment by Ada September 9, 2010 @ 1:40 amhow poetic. imagine a whole library filled with this tape measures – each for one month of your life. what fun your archivists will have… …once, when you continue to do stuff which comes with this whimsical kind of admiration. I’m looking very much forward!
Comment by nils September 9, 2010 @ 10:01 amWhat a great idea. You could fill them up with all sorts of information.
Comment by rosie September 9, 2010 @ 1:41 pmBravo. And again bravo.
Comment by Blackwatertown September 9, 2010 @ 1:58 pmThis is such a great idea that it came to someone’s mind too: http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=107
Comment by earthling September 9, 2010 @ 3:54 pmDidnt that also happened with the telephone and hovercraft?
Comment by joey van der bie September 12, 2010 @ 8:15 pm(Guess when society is ready for it i it wil happen )
different things.
Comment by Dominic (admin) December 16, 2010 @ 6:20 pmlove it! love it! u r sooooo creative! your mind works in an incredible manner!
Comment by Baronista November 1, 2010 @ 4:38 pmThanks
Comment by Dominic (admin) November 1, 2010 @ 5:17 pmSo ehm… do you make long days?
Comment by Erik Kroes November 1, 2010 @ 8:13 pmWhat did you paint it with? I would expect most paints to crack when you retracted the tape.
Comment by Riff November 2, 2010 @ 6:38 amthink it was acrylic spray, flexible.
Comment by Dominic (admin) November 2, 2010 @ 10:43 amWe used to make those in High School. We would write letters on long strips of paper.. usually cut out and taped end to end to achieve an even longer letter.. then given out as a roll to the friend it’s addressed to. ahh the memories.
Comment by jamie November 6, 2010 @ 5:38 pmBrilliant man. Me like!!
Comment by Anna November 17, 2010 @ 5:03 amSo innovative! What a fantastic project.
Comment by Emma Louise Layla December 13, 2010 @ 12:40 pmThanks Emma!
Comment by Dominic (admin) December 13, 2010 @ 2:58 pmA beautiful and brilliant idea. A manufacturing company in Ottawa (canada) made a similar tape for their yearly April Fools’ Day joke (http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=65357&cat=).
Comment by Mike Patriquin January 10, 2011 @ 9:23 pmgood fun, though they’re still using it for measurment…
Comment by Dominic (admin) January 10, 2011 @ 10:09 pmBrilliant!
Comment by Rosemary Breehl April 22, 2011 @ 4:33 pmhow did you stop the spraypaint from cracking and flaking off when you retracted and extended the tape?
Comment by mc June 12, 2011 @ 9:56 amThe spray was a type that doesn’t crack, most diy spray is like that
Comment by Dominic (admin) June 12, 2011 @ 10:25 amJaja, really cool!!
Comment by Adalberto Almeida March 13, 2012 @ 4:36 amI love this idea! Im trying to think of a neat way for my tape measure to be a memory measurement diary for my granddaughter.
Comment by Aimée Wierman October 2, 2012 @ 2:12 am