Sentences with phrase «by scraps of paper»

Not exact matches

John Strelitz, president of paper broker Streco Fibres, in Virginia Beach, Va., keeps paper out of landfills by buying, for example, scrap magazine stock and selling it to the gift - wrap market.

You people realize you're basing your entire lives around a few scraps of ancient paper written by primitive people?

It was written by her mother on scraps of paper.

The papermaking process doesn't just produce pristine rolls of paper; it also generates wood scraps, chemicals and other by - products rich in potential energy.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

The participant must «aha» herself to an answer by arriving at a fresh use for a paper clip or a scrap of paper.

During his time in jail, he kept a scrap of paper in his cell that contained the words of a poem by William Ernest Henley, entitled «Invictus.»

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«Real Steel» is «Rocky» with robots that look like «Transformers,» managed by a «Raging Bull» washout in need of a «Cinderella Man» comeback that's complicated by «The Champ» and «Paper Moon» sorts of parent - child issues, with a sweet bit of «Wall - E» - styled scrap metal who never pulls his punches.

Next he arranged half - used bottles of shampoo and conditioner, a compact and a tube of red lipstick, a bent toothbrush, a silk bathrobe with dragons sewn on the back and cans of Lily's favorite foods — pineapple and garbanzo beans — along with bits of handwriting, scraps of paper discovered after her death, things she had needed from the grocery store, lists of activities she had hoped to finish by the following Saturday and a parking ticket with fragments of a dream scribbled on the back.

With a narrative that unfolds in a procession of photographs, sketches, scrap paper, wine labels, mix - CD playlists, IM sessions, TV stills, letters sent home from school, and other bits of visual imagery overlaid by short bursts of text, this is a book that plays with the boundaries between novel, graphic novel, scrapbook story, and multiplatform blitz (paid apps, YouTube videos, and an interactive, electronic version of the book are also in the offing).

With a narrative that unfolds in a procession of photographs, sketches, scrap paper, wine labels, mix - CD playlists, IM sessions, TV stills, letters sent home from school, and other bits of visual imagery overlaid by short bursts of text, this is a book that plays with the boundaries between novel, graphic novel, scrapbook, and multiplatform storytelling.

Next to my desk, I hung a scrap of paper on which I wrote this quote from the life - changing book Coercion & its Fallout by Dr. Murray Sidman: «An overworked and incorrect bit of folk wisdom pronounces the carrot to be of no avail unless backed up by the stick.

This survival horror game is short and sweet, and sees you stalked through the woods by a featureless figure as you search for scraps of paper.

Once in a new location the story advances snippet by snippet on screen based on your choices, which come up as small scraps of paper along the bottom.

A small, hanging talisman by Evrim Kavcar pulled together hidden scraps of paper and other material gathered from the group over the month.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

Contents of Arriving Prisoner's Wallet, Diagnostic Unit, The Walls, Texas (1968) depicts more personal affects: scattered on a table are several photographs and some scraps of lined paper, one visibly marked by handwriting.

His practice is informed by found objects and the materials that surround him: scraps of paper, carton, plastic and more recently «protest wire», a tangled black mass of wire he salvaged from car tyres burnt during the political protests that accompanied the last elections in Kenya.

One of the challenges and thrills of drawing directly from life is to see how the white paper becomes street, or building or sky by the use of an adjacent single scrap of colour, a mark or a line.

Here, PEET has laid out almost all of the core elements to his practice: a love of analog, shown by his use of nondigital elements such as Wite - Out, pen, typewriter, and scraps of paper; an abiding interest in coding and symbols, demonstrated by the various signs and distinctly PEET - ian vocabulary inside; a challenge to consumerism and the pervading class system, indicated by his adoption (and transformation) of elements of Marx and Engels's famous manifesto; and finally, a pure, simple, visceral love of materials and process.

Random scraps of paper are translated into giant sheets of cut steel; tiny handcrafted maquettes are documented in larger - than - life photographs; and found images are manipulated by analog lighting effects, photographed, and then combined into video.

The exhibition features a series of nine collages by Stanton that are inspired by poems by Emily Dickinson that were published after her death and discovered scribbled on envelopes and scraps of paper.

Written on elegant stationery, scraps of paper, in black ink or in pencil smudged by tears, the correspondence would remain essentially untouched for the next forty - six years.

Lawrence Carroll deploys an «aesthetic of scraps» by using ordinary objects and scraps in his works such as old, patched - up shoes, flowers coated in paint, bits of bread or canvas and paper glued or stapled to the surface of his paintings.

Use newspapers instead of pigment, create paintings out of latex, dirt and clay, make sculpture out of scrap metal and self - portraits by lying on light - sensitive paper.

Hauser has managed to get students conserving by changing some everyday habits, such as using both sides of a sheet of paper, saving outdated fliers in a scrap drawer for reuse, placing food scraps in a compost bin behind the school, as well as collecting bottles and cans for recycling.

He turned Scott Paper and Crown Zellerbach into profitable companies by ruining thousands of lives, selling off the corporate scraps, and making millions for himself in the process.

Start by finding a scrap of paper and dividing your day into half an hour chunks.

Here's a little trick I like to use: Write down the name of the job you are targeting on a sheet of scrap paper or a sticky note, and keep it by your side as you write.

Whether you're looking to bring life to an apartment restricted by rental regulations, hoping to make good use out of the remaining scraps of your favorite paper, or are just in the market for a new DIY adventure, we're challenging you to think outside the box with one of these seven wallpaper projects.

5 Create a template for the liner by opening the flap of an envelope and tracing its entire perimeter onto a piece of scrap paper.