Weekend DIY: Make your own eco-friendly paint
Here's a DIY for the serious Hippy: make your own wall paint from flour, water, clay filler and mica - plus whatever colour you want. (Make sure to write down how you achieved the shade if you want to do touch-ups later.) If you want oil paint, you can mix up natural solvent, chalk and linseed oil plus colour - or you can make your own milk paint with a casein base, lime and chalk. Then there's no question about what to do with leftovers: simply compost them. [GT]
Make Safe, Natural Paint [via Sustainablog]
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What do Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Mozart all have in common? And what do they have in common with practically every other artist who's creativity has changed the world? They are all unique. But there is something in common.
They each changed the popular music of their times by combining already popular forms in a new way. Elvis - on that famous and fateful day in Sun Studios in Memphis he let it all loose and brought it all together again differently... the blues, country, gospel and regional elements that were his influences in his youth all came together into rockabilly, rock and roll, something that had not been heard before. Elvis on Ed Sullivan also brought together the new music form and the new medium - television in a new way which has influenced generations of rock icons to first pick up their guitar.
Posted by: make own music | February 7, 2007 10:22 PM