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Dan Spector
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Started On : 21-Jul-2009 at 10:13:13 AM, #Views : 6448
Topic Subject : Re: How green is lifecasting? |
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Hi CJ
I've thought about this myself.
Gypsum is a really common mineral. Obviously it's under Paris, but
what I get was under Oklahoma and New Mexico where we have the White
Sands national park. All gypsum. It is recyclable but surely not
worth it. What we throw away is an earth-y stuff. It uses energy to
produce.
No good idea what's in Jesmonite, Forton, matrix.. but we don't
produce/consume much of this.
I like how lifecasts don't demand the expensive framing that flat art
does.
Pretty girls.. there seems to come a new crop every year.
Alginate.. i once read about it. Not a rare seaweed. And we don't use
very much. I wish it was reusable, like moulage.
A recent story in the New Yorker says burning coal is the worst thing
we are doing to the earth. When a big percentage of humans spend
hours each day lifecasting. we'll revisit the issues.
Dan Spector
901 323 8717
www.lifecast-art.com
dan@archicast.com
On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:24 AM, aliforum@lifecasting.org wrote:
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> Hello Dan Spector
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> Post Date : Tuesday 21st 2009f July 2009 09:18:12 AM
> Posted by : "CJ Munn" cj@rockabelly.co.uk
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> How green is lifecasting?:--
> I saw the advert running on the top of the ali posts about the silica-
> free alginate that 'nourishes the earth' when discarded. It made me
> wonder about something I've thought of on and off and never actually
> had time to research. But how eco-friendly is lifecasting?
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> Alginate is made from seaweed, and as far as I know there are no
> seaweed shortages, but is it a particular kind of seaweed, and IS
> there ever a shortage of it, or is it as 'green' as say us making
> something from grass cuttings when we mow our lawn? How plentiful is
> it, and how is it collected/harvested? Does it harm the local
> ecosystem in any way to remove quantities of it? Is there some sea
> snail that lives on the roots that we murder in vast quantities in
> the name of baby hand casting?
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> In terms of plaster - this is made from gypsum, yes? So dug up from
> the earth. Now we all know anything dug up from the earth comes in
> finite supply. So how eco-friendly is that side of things? Will there
> come a day in the future that we all suddenly run out? Is plaster
> 'recyclable' if broken down? How near the end of the reserves are we?
> Are areas of natural beauty ravaged to make gypsum quarries? Are we
> tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of years from running out?
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> It's not that I HAVE to know these things. I don't lie awake at night
> worrying about it, you understand. But I have wondered about it and
> would be really interested in the answers if anyone knows. Obviously
> when we get onto resins and so forth we know they're not terribly
> earth-friendly things, but what about the basics? Are we eco-friendly
> or not as an industry on the whole? Do our discarded plaster bandage
> mother moulds sit on landfills for millenia before breaking down? Has
> our increased demand for jiffy mixers or rubber bowls ever caused the
> destruction of some exotic hedgehog population in Latvia?
>
> Someone out there must know this stuff. I just thought it would be
> something fun to discuss. Anyone got any ideas?
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> CJ
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> of life casting, create public awareness of this unique art form
> provide its members with forums to exchange information, resources
> to enhance their effectiveness and advance opportunities for their
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