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Audio Drama Review: The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 3
Colonial Radio Theatre relaunched its Father Brown line earlier this year. Previous releases of Father Brown had stories taken throughout the Father Brown canon. A release might include a story from the Innocence of Father Brown, one from the Wisdom of Father Brown, and another two from the Scandal of Father Brown.
With the relaunch, Colonial Radio Theater is grouping stories from the same book together. The first two volumes of the Innocence of Father Brown include only stories that were released previously. However, Volume 3 contains two newly adapted stories, both of which have pitfalls for would be-adaptors. Each story features JT Turner as Father Brown and is adapted by MJ Elliott from stories by GK Chesterton.
"The Eye of Apollo" is a classic story which pits Father Brown against the founder of a sun-worshiping cult who has convinced a strong-headed wealthy woman to follow his way. When she dies, it appears to have been accident with the cult leader having a perfect alibi. The actual solution has a great ironic twist that's pure Chesterton. Colonial does a spot on job creating all the characters exactly as Chesterton wrote them.
"The Honour of Israel Gow " is difficult to adapt because the solution borders on the absurd. Father Brown, Flambeau, and a Police Inspector go the estate of a late Scottish lord and find inexplicable occurrences including candles, snuff, unset precious stones, springs and cogs, and an odd bamboo stick out loose.
This is an interesting story as Father Brown is wrong several times. The first few time are intentional. The story has fantastic scene where Flambeau and the Inspector insist that there's no way to explain all this and Father Brown comes up with one mind-blowing explanation after another just to prove that you could think of a solution. However, Father Brown's tone changes considerably when he finds Catholic texts have been defaced leading him to jump to a conclusion far more sinister than what really happened. Overall, the three actors really carry the story and the result is fun without being ludicrous.
"Sign of the Broken Sword" is one of Chesterton's most influential stories in terms of impacts other mystery writers. It's also a very hard story to dramatize because it consists of Father Brown and Flambeau discussing a mysterious historical event that occurred half way around the world in Brazil. I was curious how Colonial would adapt the story and they didn't depart from the original concept. As I think about it, I believe they made the right call.
It's easy to imagine doing an adaptation with flashbacks to Brazil or with a greatly expanded investigation by Father Brown. However, I think that would make the story weaker as the sagacity and wisdom of Father Brown is what takes center stage. The adaptation works because of a strong performance by JT Turner as Father in carrying the play and his strong chemistry with James Turner as Flambeau. It's fascinating as Father Brown reveals takes the accepted facts of a story in which a very wise general behaved foolishly and very merciful general behaved cruelly and peels away the layers of deceit and mystery to discover a diabolical secret. Because the story doesn't have much action, it's not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.
"The Three Tools of Death" is one best Father Brown mysteries. I actually based much of my Father Brown chapter in my book, All I Needed to Know I Learned from Columbo on this story. However, it's not always gotten the respect it deserved. In the 1970s, ITV ruined the story when they adapted Father Brown for television because the original story was too politically incorrect.
Colonial, on the other hand, didn't try to airbrush the story. Instead, they let it speak for itself and produced a faithful and well-done adaptation of this mystery that centers around Britain's leading optimist and teetotaler being found murdered. At first, there are no weapons found, and then all the sudden, there are too many. Father Brown says something's wrong with the crime scene, that all these weapons are "not economical." This is a very faithful adaptation. They even preserved the post-solution ending. Father Brown, after having unraveled one of the greatest mysteries in the history of detective fiction, goes on about his rounds as a Priest. That tells you all you need to know about Father Brown.
The one thing that may throw some listeners is that the first and last stories have a different theme and score than the middle stories since they were first released earlier.
Overall, this collection contains four solidly produced and faithful adaptations of the Father Brown mysteries. Colonial gets high marks for being willing to take on some of the tougher to adapt early Father Brown stories and doing them justice. The result is a very entertaining two hours of classic audio mysteries.
Rating: 4.25 out of 5.0
Note: I received a digital copy of this production in exchange for an honest review.
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2014 Detective Fan Christmas Gift Ideas
It's Christmastime and finding the right gift is always a challenge if you want to find something that the recipient will enjoy. This list is for you if you have a fan of detective fiction in your life and would like some gift ideas. Below are books, movies, and audios that I've found enjoyable and that I recommend as gift ideas. I'm a fan of a lot of detective fiction but I lean towards older material, but there are some newer items here as well.
In the hopes, this list will help you with your Christmas shopping. Here are some favorites I've enjoyed and would recommend as gifts.
1) The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen: There are few names that say detective fiction quite like Ellery Queen. This book, while not the first Queen book published is set at the start of his mystery solving career and finds him investigating will and then a bizarre murder. Then Ellery lays out his facts-only to be proven completely wrong. The older style of language may be a barrier to some readers, but if you can get past it, it's great if you enjoy puzzle mysteries.
2) Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler: This is one of Chandler's best. Marlowe's investigation into the disappearance of a wealthy man's wife puts his life in danger and puts him on the wrong side of a corrupt local police force. The book is stocked with some of Chandler's most enjoyable characters. Great for lovers of hardboiled private eyes.
3) Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout. I wanted to include a Nero Wolfe book on the list and I wanted to also throw in a short fiction collection on the list, so this book is the winner. This book collects not one but three Nero Wolfe stories, all of them are good and "Counterfeit for Murder" contains the best one time character that Rex Stout ever created.
4) Back on Murder by J Mark Betrand: The Roland March mystery series by Bertrand is simply superb. This first story is a great tale of a veteran detective struggling for one last chance to make it back to the Homicide department. This is a fantastic police procedural and a great character story.
5) The Thin Man Collection: This is the classic romantic comedy Detective film series. The chemistry between Myrna Loy and William Powell is just remarkable. The first two films are the best, but three through five are also quite good.
6) The Maltese Falcon: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre in the most iconic hard boiled detective film of all time on DVD for less than $7. A wonderful gift.
7) The George Sanders Saint Movie Collection: Many consider Sanders the definitive screen "Saint." This collection of five films showcase the charm and style that made Sanders a star.
8) Columbo: The Complete Series: This affordable DVD collection features all 69 Columbo Telefilms from the beginning starting with the 1968 telefilm Prescription: Murder through the 2003 telefilm, Columbo Loves the Night Life.
9) Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series: All 39 episodes of the very good 1950s syndicated series starring Ronald Howard and Frances Marion as Holmes and Watson.
10) Perry Mason: The Case of the Howling Dog: This isn't the Raymond Burr version of Perry Mason, rather a very faithful audio adaptation of Erle Stanley Gardener's original novels. This is just a very rich and complex mystery. While all of the Colonial Theater Perry Mason adaptations are good, this one is the best.
Jim French Productions offers a wide variety of Detective audio dramas on their website. Most notably, those featuring Harry Nile, a detectives whose adventures from the 1940s-1960s have been told by French in true Golden Age style for several decades, and the delightful Hillary Caine series.
Happy shopping, hope these give you some good ideas.
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Book Review: Murder in the Ballpark
I'm sure Robert Goldsborough is a nice man and he's nobly tried to carry on the Nero Wolfe stories. I bare him no animus.
That said, this is the worst mystery novel I've read in my life. It's a bad novel as a Nero Wolfe book, and it's a horrible mystery.
It begins on the cover. The cover trim is nice (only one of two good things I can say about the book), but the picture looks like a cheap public domain picture and I'm not sure what era it's from.
This was important, as I was thrown by the timing of the novel. Goldsborough previous run of Wolfe novels updated Wolfe to the late 1980s and early '90s. His most recent, Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries was set in the 1920s when Archie first met Nero Wolfe. This one was set in the 1950s for some reason.
However, since that wasn't clear from the get go, I didn't think at the time that it was odd for Archie to be asking for and receiving an info dump from Saul Panzer. However, given that this is the 1950s Archie Goodwin, the same one who has read both the Gazette and Times every day, having Saul suddenly give all the back story on a prominent State Senator for Archie's benefit was inexplicable.
Archie and Saul are in the park and they see the selfsame Senator murdered in the state and make a bee-line for the exit. The fact that they were at the stadium to see the murder doesn't serve any purpose for the plot, and nearly all the information that Saul Panzer dumped in Chapter 1 for some reason is later repeated by other characters throughout the book meaning the entire first Chapter was completely pointless.
From Chapters 2-26, there are key two points to address:
First of all, Archie Goodwin as written by Rex Stout is one of the most fun to read narrators in any language. Unfortunately, Goldsborough appears to have completely lost that in this book. All the rough edges and the humor that makes Archie so fun to read is gone leading to a very flat narrative that lacks personality.
This brings me to the second big complaint with the bulk of this book, it is boring. The questioning is repetitive and irrelevant, the dialogue is dull, the the characters are uninteresting and shallow, the settings aren't interesting. The progress of the case is mostly uninteresting. There were two exceptions to this. There was a so-so scene with Archie, Saul, and some gangsters that's okay. The sister of a veteran who committed suicide is a decent character though histrionics in the last act kind of weaken her power. But other than that, it's a tedious tale.
We get to see totally unnecessary details. For example, Archie wants to talk to a suspect who is a candidate to replace the State Senator and so instead of making an appointment or arranging to see her when she's not busy, Archie goes down to a long press conference about a proposed state highway that goes on for four pages.
Worst of all, nothing in the interaction between the long-standing characters sizzles. Two visits by Cramer are dull beyond belief, and there are no good moments for Archie or Wolfe.
Chapter 27 stands out as the one entertaining chapter in the book where Goldsborough did something Stout never did. He showed us in detail how Archie managed to gather all the suspects for the denouement and how he manages to get everyone including the murderer there. It was a fun chapter as Archie plays everyone. If the rest of the book where this good, this would have been a five star book.
Unfortunately, the final showdown doesn't go well and that is a shame because in the three prior Goldsborough books I'd read, he usually finished the book strong with a good final scene for Wolfe. In this case, the drama is minor and the interruptions Wolfe allows really detract from the scene particularly after Wolfe threatens to (but doesn't) eject the offending parties.
The solution has two problems. First, it's far fetched particularly given that the murder weapon was a high powered rifle where the bullet traveled to its target in about a third of as second.
Not only that, but it basically means that most of the line of inquiry in the book was a waste of our time. The nature of the solution and the whole story behind the murder made it the type of story that Rex Stout might have told, but it would have been in a novella rather than a novel. The effort to stretch this story out for more tan 220 pages led to it being padded beyond reason.
I also have to comment that Goldsborough's Wolfe was weaker than in other stories, particularly his very stilted dialogue at the end of the book. This is a shame because Goldsborough has usually had a decent grasp of Wolfe, but not so in this story.
Rating: Flummery
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Telefilm Review: Murder She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Murder She Wrote: The Last Free Man was the third made for TV movie featuring Jessica Fletcher following the cancellation of the long-time hit TV mystery show. This is definitely not your typical Murder She Wrote story.
In the film, while in Virgina, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) strikes up a conversation with Cassandra Hawkins (Phylicia Rashad) who is looking into the case of one of her ancestors Samuel Pickney who was labeled a murderer in the waning days of the antebellum South. To add to the mystery, he has not one but two gravemarkers with two different dates of death. Jessica and Cassandra uncover accounts left behind by Jessica's Great Great Aunt Sarah (also played by Lansbury) who was a slaveowner who owned Sam Pickney (Michael Jace) but considered him a friend.
Through the journal entries, the audience is transported back to the late 1850s and we witness the events leading up to the murder and see how Sarah tries to solve it while dealing with prejudice and tense politics of the era.
The telefilm can be divided into two parts: The framing story and the Antebellum story that takes up most of the movie.
The latter is very well done. The cinemotography is solid and captures the feel of the era quite nicely. Lansbury has a nice turn as the proper but determined Aunt Sarah. Jace has a great emotional performance as Sam. The mystery is an interesting puzzle. It's not great, but certainly worth watching.
The framing story is far more problematic. There are four scenes in the twenty-first century around the three larger scenes in the 19th century and the first three scenes involve uncovering letters and journals written by Aunt Sarah that tell the story of the murder and its investigation. In no case is the search actually interesting. There's no one trying to stop them from finding the information. Their search is simply finding a location, digging through boxes, and finding the documents for the next part of the main story. Where the final journal entry is found is not only easy to get to, it's absurd to imagine that something of that nature would not have already been found in the location they had it in.
Unfortunately, the framing story serves mainly to offer some ham-fisted political commentary about the modern South (the film clumsily suggests a link between Civil War re-enactors and people who spray paint racially motivated graffiti on cars) and debates over the history of the Civil War. In some ways, it feels like the purpose of the modern day scenes isn't to tell a good story but to tell us how we should feel about the scenes from the 19th century, which is the definition of bad writing.
The historical portion with the antebellum mystery is enjoyable and evocative. but the weak writing on the modern day portions leads to wasted performances by Rashad, as well as David Ogden Stiers.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5.0
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Audio Drama Review: Twenty-Six Hours
In Twenty-Six Hours (1952), Major Gregory Keen of MI-5 is dispatched to post-war Berlin. The diaries of a mentally unstable American general have been stolen by a ruthless ex-German General by the name of Manfred Von Remer who is holding them for ransom. The inflammatory nature of the diaries could set the world afire if they fall into the wrong hands and its up to Keen to get the diaries with the initial plan of connecting with Remer, paying his ransom to get the diaries. However, it's not that simple when both the Soviet MVD led by Colonel Pavlov and a neo-Nazi group led by Heinrich Schiller want the diaries as well.
This is the third Gregory Keen serial produced by Australia's Grace Gibson Productions (see reviews of Dossier on Demetrius and Deadly Nightshade) and far away, it is the best. For modern listeners, the serial may call to mind the TV series 24 and it bears some similarity to that, but not quite.
Like the previous two stories, 26 Hours is told over the course of 104 12-13 minute episodes. However, the previous two stories were set over the course of several weeks and in terms of story time, an episode might be set a few minutes after the previous or it might be set a day or two after the previous episode. In Dossier on Demetrius for example, there was time for a character to get critically wounded, go through weeks of recovery, and return to action. However, 26 hours is told in much more of a real time feel.
There's no ticking time bomb of that will happen if the mission isn't completed in 26 hours. It's just stated from the beginning that's how long Operation Quantro ran.
The result is quite pleasing as it creates a far more focused story. While there are a lot of characters in 26 hours, there are far less than in the previous stories and none as inconsequential as the shyster lawyer and designing legal secretary that showed up as a plot complication near the end of Deadly Nightshade.
The setting of 26 Hours in post-war pre-Wall Berlin is a fascinating and the series does a great job painting a picture of a bombed out ruined city still being rebuilt and going through the cold of winter. It's evocative and realistic.
26 Hours is an astonishingly good spy story with all you can expect from a pre-Bond adventure with car chases, escapes through the sewer , prison breaks, daring rescues, standoffs with hand grenades, and missions behind enemy lies. The story is packed with thrills, and also suspense, as the radio drama does a great job setting up one tense situation after another. The final twenty parts or so are absolutely gripping radio.
Unlike its predecessors, 26 Hours relies far less on characters making stupid mistakes. Keen's opponents: Remer, Pavlov, and Schiller are all solidly written intelligent characters who are very dangerous. The degree to which Keen outwits them comes from his own nerve (and boy he has nerve.)
Bruce Stewart, in his final serial as Keen, turns in a fantastic performance. In battle, Keen as tough as steel. However, away from the fray he's a bit fragile and shell-shocked. The hours tick by and Keen keeps going. He's haunted by the tragedy he's seen in the prior two adventures, and this one. He's fed up but he has a job to do.
The serial also features a solid romance with Keen falling for Remer's accomplice Anna Hoffman. He's determined to find someway to save her from the death that will eventually await Remer and offer her a better life than what she experienced in war-torn Berlin.
As usual, the story features a strong chemistry between Keen and his right hand man Sergeant Tommy Cutts. The strong bond of friendship between the two and conflict between friendship and duty is often quite moving.
There are things you could nitpick about 26 Hours. There are a few accents that are a bit off but not too many and some dialogue that's a bit forced. However, that's overwhelmed by just how good this story is. It is solidly entertaining and engaging, managing to portray realistic human emotion. The result is a true spy classic.
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Rating: 4.75 out of 5.0
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Book Review: Trouble Is My Business
Trouble is My Business collects four Philip Marlowe novellas written by Raymond Chandler. The stories were originally published in magazines such as the Black Mask with other detective heroes but were rewritten with Marlowe as the hero after the character became popular. However, other than that, the stories remained essentially the same. While Chandler thought he could improve on his Black Mask stories, he found that trying to do so destroyed them, so essentially we had the stories in their original form.
The titular story for the collection, "Trouble Is My Business" is pretty much a typical hard boiled private eye story and the one that felt most like several elements had already been incorporated in other Marlowe novels. A rich man hires Marlowe to prevent his son from marrying a designing woman and a series of violent incidents follow.
"Finger Man" is a much more intriguing story. Marlowe is the only witness against a mob boss' henchman and at the same time, an old friend asks Marlowe to help watch him as he goes to do some high stakes gambling and before you know it Marlowe finds himself framed for murder.
"Goldfish" finds Marlowe following a clue from an old policewoman in search of missing pearls and a pardoned criminal who keeps Goldfish. This is a great story that takes Marlowe out of LA for once and with some great hard boiled characters thrown in.
"Red Wind" is a Marlowe story that's been oft adapted to radio and television with both of the Golden Age Philip Marlowe radio series taking a turn at it, as well as for the 1980s Philip Marlowe TV series and the 1990s Series, "Fallen Angels." While out at a bar, Marlowe stumbles on a murder and then finds a woman who, though innocent in the crime, has nonetheless been caught up in a web of blackmail and deceit through no fault of her own. This is nearly a perfect hard boiled story. More than any other story or even novel, it highlight Marlowe as the knight in tarnished armor with his sense of honor guiding his actions through a very sketchy situation. It also is a great hardboiled story with some great characters and solid action. Given that this is only a short story, Red Wind delivers a lot.
Overall, this is a great collection of hard boiled fiction that really stands the test of time with each short story topping itself in quality.
Rating: 4.25 out of 5.0
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TV Mini-Series Review: The Escape Artist
In the 2013 BBC Mini-series The Escape Artist, Will Burton (David Tennant), a British barrister who has never lost a case, takes on the task of defending Liam Foyle (Toby Kebbell), a man accused of a heinous crime. Burton is able to get Foyle off but soon finds his family in Foyle's crossfire.
David Tennant turns in a fine performance as Will Burton. Burton is likable, earnest, and caring. He's a man doing a job he's a good at and you never feel he crosses a line. The mini-series is stylish enough and has good moments. Also, several members of the cast pull off their roles quite well including Toby Kebbell as Foyle.
The degree to which you enjoy this is largely the degree to which you can view the British Justice system as horribly broken and the minions of the law as hopelessly incompetent. The Crown manages to lose three murder cases through a sheer force of incompetence as they fail to check a computer history before going into court and accusing the defendant of being a consumer of revenge porn, failing to fill out the search warrant form properly, and failing to properly examine the body, all while running a crime lab that invites defense challenges. While Will Burton is supposed to be some sort of genius, we really don't see it until Part 3 as the Police and prosecutors manage to defeat themselves quite nicely.
The character of fellow barrister Maggie Gardener (Sophie Okonedo) is hard to even get a handle on. Her defense in Foyle's second murder trial is understandable despite her obvious distaste for the man. Her actions at the end of Part 3 are .simply inexplicable and only done so that one can uncover what actually happened. After all, what good is it having a clever protagonist if no one knows how clever he's been?
Overall, if you can enjoy the music and Tennant's performance and not focus on the plot holes, the Escape Artist is a decent but certainly not great British thriller.
Rating: 3.25 out of 5.0
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Five Golden Age Radio Programs to Remember
Today, we finish up the first five years of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio podcast
Over the course of five years, we've played a lot of programs. Beginning with a Monday-Friday lineup before expanding to Saturdays in January 2013, the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio had a lot of stability Wednesday-Friday with Let George Do It and Sherlock Holmes airing on Wednesday and Thursday for our first 3 1/2-4 years.
Beyond these two long time stables, there were several series that were fun and enjoyable. With new listeners coming along every month, and our RSS feeds limited, even though we've played these shows, it's possible that some of our listeners have missed them. So we present a list five lesser known but still quite enjoyable shows that have marked these last five years.
1) The Adventures of the Abbots (1955)
Episodes Played: 18
What it's about: Pat Abbott, a ritzy San Francisco private investigator solves cases with the aid of his lovely wife, Jean.
Features: Two different Pat Abbotts (Les Damon and Mandel Kramer) Good writing with a more mature bent. Also Claudia Morgan turns in a magnificent performance as Pet.
Best Episode: The Dead White Flame
2) A Life in Your Hands (1949-50, 1952)
Episodes Played: 13
What It's About: A successful lawyer, who is set for life financially, dedicates his life to finding the truth in cases as an Amicus Curiae, a friend of the court who acts for neither prosecutor or defense to find the truth in legal proceeding including trials and coroner's juries.
Features: Two different Jonathan Keggs, the definition of Amicus Curiae (numerous times). The closest thing to a true legal mystery drama in Old time radio.
Best Episode: Carol Carson Murdered
3) The Fat Man (1946-51)
Episodes Played: 10
What It's About: Rotund Private Investigator Solves crimes.
Features: A classic was extremely popular in its day. It was victimized by lost episode with 95% of its run lost. A great and human performance by J Scott Smart as Brad Runyon, a smart tough as nails private detective, with a big heart.
Best Episode: The Twice Told Secret. Also check out the Fat Man Movie.
4) Candy Matson (1949-51)
Episodes Played: 14
What it's a bit about: The life and times of San Francisco's best female hard boiled detective.
Features: Star Natalie Masters at her best. With all the flops and oddities that came out of San Francisco during the golden age of radio, this was a gem packed with local flavor and quirky writing. Clearly the best of several golden age detective programs featuring female protagonists.
Best Episode: Jack Frost
5) Pete Kelly's Blues (1951)
Episodes: 6 (+1 Audition)
What It's About: "This one's about Pete Kelly. It's about the world he goes around in. It's about the big music and the big troubles and the big twenties. So when they ask you tell 'em this one's about the blues. Pete Kelly's Blues."
Features: Best Jazz music in dramatic radio. So good that the crooks will stop to listen before doing their weekly quota of beatings and mayhem. In many ways, the program resembles Pat Novak for Hire or Johnny Madero only with jazz except Pete Kelly is a more sympathetic character as he's not out for money, he just wants to play his music but he keeps getting drawn into trouble. One of the more downbeat series we've played but so good.
Best Episode: June Gould
These are five of my favorite lesser known shows. Feel free to share yours in the comments.
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Book Review: The Little Sister
The Little Sister shows some features of some of the best Marlowe stories, but the fifth book in this series just doesn't stand up to its predecessors.
In The Little Sister it starts simply enough when a bored Marlowe is hired by the little sister of a man who moved to LA from Manhattan, Kansas and has stopped writing.
As is usual, Marlowe plunges into a case that gets him into the midst of a shady underworld, of Hollywood, and of course puts him on the bad side of police.
The story is worth reading once and has some classic Marlowe moments. Towards the end of the book, a couple of cops who've had to put up with Marlowe playing fast and loose with murders and bodies tell Marlowe off and it's a beautiful moment when the characters come to life.
It is a rare moment in this story. In 250 pages, I lost track of how many bodies were dropped and who killed them all. So many characters come and go, we really get no impression of them. There's no character in this book I really connected with in the same way I did with characters in, "Lady in the Lake," and "The Big Sleep."
Another thing that hurts the book is the focus. In the first four novels, Marlowe's scorn is directed at big city crime, crooked Los Angeles (and nearby communities) police forces. Marlowe's bile is justified because he knows of what he speaks. In the Little Sister, he uses a combination of a dirty mind and experience with two kids from Manhattan, Kansas as the basis for all sorts of psychological deductions about what a small town is like. It feels less like Marlowe's making street wise observations on life and more like he's expressing poorly informed prejudices.
Don't get me wrong. This isn't a bad book, but it doesn't measure up to Chandler's other works.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5.0
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Telefilm Review: Dead Man's Folly
In the Series 13 film, Ariadne Oliver's been hire to set up a "Murder Hunt" for a fête, which is a sort of bazaar or carnival. However, Oliver is suspicious by some changes requested to her scenario and calls Poirot in for help.
Trouble starts with the actual murder of the Girl Guide who was to play the victim in the murder hunt. This is followed by the disappearance of the lady of the house.
This is a solid mystery that lives up to the highest standards of the Poirot series. I also preferred this over the Peter Ustinov version from the 1980s, if for no other reason than I really had trouble buying Jean Stapleton as Mrs. Oliver in the Ustinov version while Zoe Wanamaker carries the role off with style.
Rating: 4.25 out of 5.0
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OR 215009017 m Y {ffl} j wrm" March 7, 1950 F. E. ALTMAN 2,500,017 5 gb- Ji AP0M5505Lsfm AND Filed July 7. 1948 'T2 0 2- ;!QWMMLJML 2170 X a .b Z FIG. l. 2 a 9 X 2 CS 27 28.*07 .92.48 \l 6 /27 I FIG. 2. 66 /7 oJfcT/VE 8 EF loo mm. f/.-.o LENS 4N v P RAD/l mlcmvfssfs I 5266 .5l-6 0.580 E, *64.09 mm. i', Z0/nm. 1T- l.5230 58.6 0.567 R2: ./7.52 f2 2.o m A6129 44.0 0.583 ef-30.59 f3. 2.o t LV 6203 60.3 0.566 R4=+24-43 f4: 5.7 4 5 y Rfk/44.67
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2 g i FRED 1;.ALTMAN J l @6 5- INVENToR BWM ,L ATTORNEY AGENT Patented Mar. 7, 1950 SEARCH Room APOCHROMATIC TELESCOPE OBJECTIVES AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING SAME Fred E. Altman, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey Application July 7, 1948, Serial No. 37,478
Claims. 1
This invention relates to lens systems and particularly to telescope objective lenses and the like, which are highly corrected over a narrow field of view of the order of 1.
An object of the invention is to provide a telscope objective which is fully corrected for coma, marginal and zonal spherical aberration, and spherochromatism and which is substantilly corrected for secondry color throughout the visible spectrum or an equivalent range of Wave lengths, that is to say about an octave of Wave lengths.
A particular object of the invention is to provide a lens system for copying the sound track of colored motion picture lm, and which is capable of producing a sharply focused image in all the colors to which the film is sensitive.
The requirements for the correction of secondary color in optical systems are well known and involve the use of special types of glass having unusual partial dispersion ratios such that the glasses used in the positive and negative components are similar with respect to these partlals. The partial dispersion ratio for a specied region of the spectrum is defined as the ratio of the partial dispersion for that region to the mean dispersion between the C and F lines. For example, the ratios N r-'N c l N rN c Where N with a subscript denotes the refractive index for the spectral line designated by the subscript, are the partial dispersions for the F to G' region, the e to F region and the A' to C region respectively. These particular ratios are usually taken as standard and listed in glass catalogs. In correcting optical systems for the whole visible spectrum, the G to F partial is the most troublesome, and so this ratio is used in the computations. For convenience this ratio may be denoted by P, that is N G'N r N r-N c It is known that for all ordinary glasses, P varies almost linearly with the inverse dispersive index or V-value and is within about 0.004 of the value expressed by the equation P=0.6760.00185V. Thus P normally runs larger for flint glasses than for crown glasses.
Some borate glasses (including the short flints) are known in which the value of P is smaller than in ordinary glasses and these are favorable for use in negative elements. Also, some fluoride glasses are described in patent applications Serial Number 568,314 filed December 15, 1944, by Sun and Huggins, Serial Number 644,178, led January 29, 1946, by Sun and Huggins, now Patent Number 2,481,700, dated September 13, 1949, and Serial Number 644,179, led January 29, 1946, by Sun. These fluoride glasses have P-values considerably larger than the normal as given by the above equation for ordinary glasses, and thus are favorable for use in the positive elements.
Theoretically, if P is the same for all the elements in the system, the light of the three wave lengths G', F, and C is brought to a common focus, and all the other colors focus very near to this point. Usually it is not possible to nd suitable glasses which exactly meet this condition, but there are a few combinations available that are favorable for the correction of secondary color if more than two glass types are used in the lens system. These combinations have partial dispersions such that the weighted average oi the P- values of the glasses used in the negative element is substantially equal to the like average for the positive elements, these averages being weighted according to the powers of the lens elements.
According to the present invention, an objective is made up of four elements cemented together and providing three cemented surfaces. The curvatures and powers of the three cemented surfaces are selected to simultaneously correct the zonal spherical aberration, and the spherochromatism. The outer surfaces of the objective are assigned curvatures which control the coma for the particular conjugate distances at which the lens is to be used, usually infinity. The central one of the three cemented surfaces corresponds closely in function to the usual cemented surface in a telescopic doublet and corrects the marginal spherical aberration. The front cemented surface is collective and concave toward the front, and is more strongly curved than the second cemented surface. Due to the high angle of incidence with which the marginal rays strike this first cemented surface it lhas a strong effect in correcting for zonal spherical aberration. I have discovered that if the V-value of the front element is less than that of the second element this surface has a stronger effect on the aberration for the shorter wavelength, and thus serves to correct the spherochromatism. I have found that when the V-value of the front element is between 85% and 95% of that of the second element, and the refractive indices of the two elements differ by between 0.0025, and 0.01, the best correction of zonal aberration and spherochromatisrn is obtained.
The glasses used in the third and forth elements are selected so that the partial dispersion ratio P of the third element is less than that of normal glasses, and that of the fourth element is at least as large as normal. In other words, a short flint glass is used in the third element. All known stable short int glasses have V-values greater than 41 and thus are not suitable for correcting the axial color unless hyperchromatized in known manner. This hyperchromatizing is done by cementing together a strong negative element of the short flint glass and a positive element of a crown glass with refractive index about the same as that of the short flint glass, preferably differing therefrom by less than 0.05, and with a V-value greater than that of the short flint glass by atleast 10. These two elements make up the third and fourth elements of the objective. The cemented surface between them, that is the third cemented surface of the objective, is convex to the front and has very little refractive power due to the very small difference in refractive index, and so may easily be varied through a considerable range of curvatures during the design of the lens to adjust the correction of longitudinal color without having any noticeable effect on the other aberrations.
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Fig. 1 shows a lens system according to the invention.
Fig. 2 gives data for an objective according to the invention.
Fig. 3 gives data for an objective vpreferred for use therewith in the optical system.
In Fig. '1 the sound track of a 35 mm. motion picture film I is copied onto a 16 mm. film 9 at a reduction in size of 21/2 to 1 along the length of the lm. A different reduction, about 1.27 to 1, is required in the width of the sound track. An apochromatic telescope or collimator objective 8, constructed as described in detail below and having a focal length of 100 mm. is optically aligned face to face with a cemented triplet 4 having a focal length of 250 mm. and with collimated light between them. The ratio of focal lengths is chosen to give the correct reduction rati the len th of the lm. A posi 1ve cylindrical s ronger negative cylindrical lens 1 are arranged between the two objectives and spaced afocally so as to change the magnification in the direction of the width of the lm without disturbing the sharpness of the image in the din along the film. lighrs'n a condens sys not shown) are provided in which one of the surfaces is preferably cylindrical or toric so as to match the image of the light source with the different pupil distances in the two azimuths in known manner. The prisms 2 and 6 renect the beam of light so that the lm gates which are optically conjugate to each other are in a convenient relative position whereby the sprocket wheels (not shown) run on a common axis and have diameters in the ratio of 21/2 to 1 to give the correct relative lm movement. The image is also inverted by the roof edge 3 of the prism 2 so that it moves in the right direction when the film advances.
Fig. 2 gives data for one form of the objective 8 of Fig. 1. This data is as follows:
Lons N V P Radii Thicknessos I l. 5286 51.6 580 R|=+64.09 mm. t|=7.0 mm II 1. 5230 58. 6 567 Rr= 17. 52 t1=2.0 III l. 6129 44.0 583 Ra= 30. 59 t:=2. 0 IV 1.6203 60. 3 566 R4=+24. 43 t4=5. 7
A second example has constructional data as v The focal length of each example is 100 mm. and the relative aperture is f/ 5.0. The lens elements are numbered by Roman numerals from front to rear. The second, third, and fourth columns give the refractive index N for the D line of the spectrum, the reciprocal dispersive index V and the partial dispersion ratio P as above defined. The last two columns give the radii and the thicknesses, each numbered by subscripts from front to rear. The and signs on the radii indicate surfaces respectively convex and concave toward the front. The two objectives shown have been designed for an overcorrection of spherochromatism. In Example 1 the index difference at the first surface is 0.0056 and the dispersive index of the first element is 88% of that of the second element. This combination results in an almost exact correction of the zonal spherical aberration. The f/5 ray being undercorrected by 0.01 mm. and the f/ 7 ray being overcorrected by only 0.02 mm. The second example has somewhat larger overcorrected zonal spherical aberration which is desirable in systems such as the present one to balance the ordinary zonal spherical aberration of the other objective in the system. In this case the difference in refractive indices at the rst cemented surface is 0.0032 and the dispersive index of the rst element is 94% of that of the second element. The third element is made of a glass which is designated as KzFSl in the Schott catalog and which has recently been substantially duplicated in this country. The fourth element is a dense barium crown glass in each case, differing in refractive index from the short flint glass by less than 0.01. This small difference in index is a convenience for the designer, but is not necessary for the best working of the lens because the third cemented surface is convex toward the front so that the light rays strike it at nearly normal incidence and thus it has a very small effect on the aberration. The secondary color is almost completely corrected so that the focus of the different colors from C to G' varies by less than 0.06 mm. in Example 1 and by less than 0.08 mm. in Example 2. The weighted averages of the P-values is less than 0.06 greater in the negative elements than in the positive elements.
In common with ordinary telescope doublets the radius of curvature of the front surface of the lens is determined by the requirement for coma correction and depends mostly upon the refractive index n of the front lens element and SEARCH ROON of course upon the object distance at which the lens is to be corrected. For very distant objects the quantity (2n-l- 1 )nRu (n-1)(n+2)F is preferably between the limits 2.0 and 2.25, while for a finite object distance S the radius of curvature differs from that of objectives corrected for distant objects according to the following formula:
Rl-Ro where S is the object distance for which the lens is corrected and is negative for a real object in front of the objective, R is the preferred radius of curvature for a lens corrected for distant objects as above defined, and R1 is the preferred radius of curvature when the lens is corrected for an object distance S.
I have found that the best correction ofV zonal spherical aberration and spherochromatism is obtained when the radius of curvature Rz of the rst cemented surface is between .14 F and .18 F. The radius of curvature of the second cemented surface is determined in a manner well known in the design of ordinary telescope doublets. It depends upon the index diiference at this surface, the object distance and the index of the element following the surface. I have found that this surface is preferably more strongly curved than in the corresponding telescope doublet having the same values of these three quantities. Preferably the difference in index at this surface is between 0.08 and 0.30 and the radius of curvature is between 0.25 F and 0.4 F. The third cemented surface is very easily determined during design by the requirement for chromatic correction and will vary greatly with the choice of crown glass that is used in the fourth element. Preferably lthis surface should have a radius of curvature between 0.2 F and 0.5 F. The rear surface of the objective is determined in known manner to produce the required focal length.
The 250 mm. objective is also apochromatic and has the following details of construction:
EF=250 mm. f/12.5
Lens N V P Radi Thicknesses V 1.5254 54.8 576 R=+l60.13 mm.- t5=3.0 mm VI l. 6129 44. 0 583 R1= 94.45 to= 2.0. VII 1.6170 55.0 578 Ra=+62.8l t1=3.
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Paraxial F/7 F/5 92.2707 mm. 92.2580 mm. 92.2623 92.2259 92.2340 92.2030 92.2766 92.2314
It will be noted that the shortest computed length is that of the F/ ray for the F wavelength and the longest is the F/'7 ray for the C wave- 6 length. These two differ by 0.0731 mm. The paraxial back focal lengths of these two color differ by only 0.0529 mm.
1. An apochromatic telescope objective corrected for an object distance greater than 2 F from the front principal point of the objective where F is the focal length of the objective and consisting of four lens elements cemented together and forming three interfaces, each element being made of a glass having a refractive index between 1.48 and 1.80, wherein the following algebraic inequalities hold:
where N, V, and P with subscripts denote the refractive index for the D line of the spectrum, the reciprocal dispersive index, and the partial dispersion ratio for the F to G lines of the spectrum, respectively, of the lens elements denoted by the respective subscripts the lens elements being numbered in order from front to rear, where R1 to R4 denote the radii of curvature of the front surface and the three interfaces numbered in order from front to rear, the and signs associated therewith indicating curvatures respectively convex and concave toward the front, and where S is the object distance for which the objective is corrected.
2. An objective according to claim 1 in which the weighted averages of the P-values of the glasses used in the negative elements is substantially equal to the weighted average of the P- values of the glasses used in the positive elements, said averages being weighted according to the dioptric powers of the respective elements.
3. An optical system for copying a small area of the sound track of a motion picture im onto another lm sensitive to substantially an octave of wave lengths and at a fixed magnification between 1A and 4, said system comprising a first objective according to claim 1 and a second objective having a focal length at least as long as that of the rst objective, the ratio of the two focal lengths being equal to the magnication in the direction along the length of the film, the two objectives being arranged with collimated light between them.
4. An optical system according to claim 3 in which the second objective consists of a single component comprising at three elements cemented together, an interior element being negative and being made of a glass such that lvm-N, VNG 0.072 0.00185 V) where Nc, Nr, Nc and V are the refractive indices for the G', F, and C lines of the spectrum and the reciprocal dispersive index respectively of said glass.
s. All Optical System according t0 claim 4 in REFERENCES CITED which two cylindrical lens members' one positive The following references are of record in the and a stronger one negative, are aligned in the colllmated light and optically separated by a disme of this patent' tance equal to the difference of their focal lengths 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS whereby the magnication in the direction across Number Name Date the motion picture lm is altered by a factor be- 576 996 Rudolph Feb. 9 1897 tween V3 and 3- 6711066 Graf Apr. 2', 1901 FRED F AL'I'MAN- '171,320 Urban Dec. 13, 1904 1,938,808 Ceccarini Dec. 12, 1933 2,252,682 Aklin Aug. 19, 1941 2,405,729 Altman Aug. 13, 1946 v; Certiicate of Correction Patent No. 2,500,017 March 7, 1950 FRED E. ALTMAN It is hereby certified that errors appear in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:
Column 2, line 26, for the Word element read elements; line 42, for telescopic read telescope; column 6, line 66, after comprising at insert least; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent OHice.
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I read this with a little mixed feelings.. Of course I agree with you about the fact that we need a little more detachment and be able to laugh at ourselves-I love to do that, too. But reading your anecdote I felt unconfortable, because-yes, it was funny, in a way, but: the woman was being amazingly stupid-and I think one shouldn't laugh publicly at someone stupid, but rather make her (and the others) what she was saying.. If she had realized the stupidity of her remark, she would never have said it.. So I would have probably had a big grin on my face and ask her and the audience: So what?? -or: Can anyone answer her? -This would have made her and the audience think and maybe realize the irony of what she had said.. As for Peace Now, I totally agree with you, but I am not astonished at their reaction-because to accept your joke would have meant to admit that they were wrong-and those leftist never like to admit they are wrong, because, by their own definition, they NEVER are!! *grin*
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The Hispanic Heritage Month celebration will culminate with "An Evening of Tejano Music" from 3 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Texas Lounge, 1007 S. Main St., Rockford.
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Sands of Time – A Nature Filled Necklace with ICE RESIN® and Natural Elements
Posted on | July 1, 2015 | No Comments
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And Heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of you hand
And eternity in an hour."
A picture paints a thousand words, but a few aptly written words can paint love, joy, warmth or longing, distress and sadness. Poetry is like that…touches the soul and fills our minds with pictures of what is beautiful or haunting. I chose a beautiful short four -lined poem to reflect where I am at this season of life (and it resonates with me, especially at this time of the year). If you had asked me my favorite poem when my children were small, it could have been Suess or Silverstein or a poetry book called "If I were in charge of the World" or if you had asked me in my teens, it would have been entirely different. But today, this little verse, fills my mind with thoughts of beauty, to pause in the moment and see passed beyond what is visible.
The task at hand was to create a poetry-inspired jewelry piece. Poetry has been a wonderful friend to me through the years and it is a great inspiration starter as images come to mind as well as the emotions one has while reading. When I am in my Art Studio or at the kitchen table, the same emotions are present when I create from the heart.
The "Sands of Time" Necklace encompasses many techniques from ICE RESIN® Sand glass bottles to wire shell dangles to paper beads. The sand glass bottles are my favorite element of this necklace. While most people fill the bottle with sand, I wanted to see grains of sand. By using ICE RESIN® as the adhesive and pouring the sand over the bottle (shaking off the excess), the effect is ethereal and delicate and individual grains of sand are seen. The sand will not come off over time, and the piece will stay true to it's original color. The contrast of the sand in the bezel and the sand on the bottle shows the two opposites of wet and dry sand creating color contrast with the same element. I've created two versions of the necklace one with a broken shell as the main piece with crocheting the beads, the bottle and dangles in place. And the second one is with the hobnail bezel, metal elements and a brass circle chain to complete the necklace.
Here are a few tips for you as you begin to gather and create this necklace.
- I did use actual sand from the beach— no worries if you aren't near the beach. You can use play sand and add bits of German glass glitter or purchase a bag of shells in the craft department of your local craft store and crush some to put in the play sand.
- For the sand filled- bezels, I just used ICE RESIN® as the adhesive on the bottom. If you would like a glass like finish, once the sand has been poured and dries 6-8 hours, you could then mix another batch of ICE RESIN® and fill the bezel.
- The paper beads are created with wildflower paper that has the look of watercolor art. They are sealed with ICE RESIN® and sprinkled with sand on the ICE RESIN® while it is wet.
- If you do not wish to make paper beads, you may substitute other glass or focal beads to use with the pearls.
"If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent and it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked and it would be like living the moment all over again." Daphne Du Maurier
As I write this to you, I am on the beach, listening to the waves crash on the sand and the shore, I am gently reminded to see the beauty in the moment and the possibilities in the tiniest of things… Now with the world and infinity in our hand, let's get started and make a memory…
Disposable cups, brush and stirrer
Plastic mat or trash bag
Sand *see tip above
Metal bezels 1 large (if this is the center) and 1 small
1 small metal connector – if the metal bezel is chosen for the center
10 glass pearl beads
Wildflower paper
Paper bead roller
Glue stick, your choice
7 head pins
1 eye pin
1 large shell for center
2-4 shells
4 seed or bugle beads
Glass bottles * I used Tim Holtz glass bottles as they are more unique in shape
Wire – thin gauge 22-24 (wire wrapping the bottles)
Round nose pliers, flush cutters
Jump rings
Hemp or cotton yarn, size F crochet hook, 1 button- crochet finish
1 metal chain – for metal bezel as the center
- Prepare your work surface with the plastic mat/trash bag. Gather the bezels and the bottle and the paper beads.
- Mix ICE RESIN® using equal parts of A & B. Gently stir for 2 minutes and then let rest for 5 minutes.
- For the bezels, pour a small amount to cover the base of the bezel and then pour the sand into the bezel, tapping the sand down. Let dry for 6 – 8 hours and then shake off the excess.
- For the bottles, using a brush, brush a thin coat of ICE RESIN® onto the main part of the bottle, gently pour the sand over the bottle and then set it standing up. Drip a little ICE RESIN® around and onto the top of the bottle and then using a spoon, pour sand, shaking off excess. Allow to dry 8 hours.
- To create paper beads, using a paper bead roller, cut strips of paper (varying the widths and lengths of the strips), roll a tight bead and then using the glue stick, adhere the end of the paper strip to the bead. Slide the bead off and continue to make the desired number needed.
- Using a brush, coat the beads with ICE RESIN®. If you would like, sprinkle a little sand onto the wet bead and let dry.
To wire wrap the bottle- once the bottle is dry, cut a long length of thin gauge wire and fold the wire in half. Create a loop by twisting the wires either using round nose pliers or your hands. Then begin to wrap around the bottle, once it is wrapped to your liking, snip the excess wire and tuck your ends to the back of the bottle. Attach to metal bezel with a jump ring.
To create the shell bead dangles and paper beads:
*On a wire head pin, thread one seed/bugle bead, then the shell and then one more seed/bugle bead. Using round nose pliers, create a loop and then with the remaining wire, wrap around just below the loop. Make 2
* On a wire head pin, thread one pearl, then one paper bead (after it has dried), then one pearl. Wire wrap as for the shell dangles. Make 4
*For the center paper bead, using an eye pin, thread one pearl, paper bead and then one pearl, wire wrap as above. Using pliers attach the metal bezel/bottle to the other end.
Putting it all together:
Choice 1 – Crochet the chain and the beads.
*String all shell beads and dangles on to the yarn,
*Using crochet hook, going through the center of the shell from the back, crochet 9 single crochets, turn.
*Chain 1, bring the first bead up to the hook, sc into first stitch. Repeat for the other beads, sc in each stitch. Turn
*Chain 1, sc in each stitch. Fasten off. Weave in ends
For necklace, lengths will vary.
Chain desired number for first half of necklace, when you are at the middle, chain through the shell center and continue to chain the 2nd half of necklace. When you reach equal lengths on both sides, chain a few more stitches to create the loop for the button. Slip stich back into the chain and now sc in each chain until the end. Fasten off. Leave a long tail as you can use this to thread the button on to the necklace. Using adhesive or ICE RESIN®, adhere the flat shell to the center of the shell and onto the crocheted middle.
Choice 2 – Attach chain to metal bezel with jump ring.
Chantal Johnson lives in Rowlett, Texas and is married to Scott. They have three children, 3 dogs and 6 sweet little hens. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, Somerset Home, Sew Somerset, Apronology, Haute Handbags, Belle Armoire and Green Craft. She is currently on the ICE Resin® 2015 Design Team. For teaching engagements, you may contact her directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit her blog at chantaljohnson.blogspot.com or become her friend on Facebook to see her latest inspirations and see the joy in daily living.
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Use ICE Resin to add sand to a glass bottle
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Frozen in the Summer
Posted on | June 24, 2015 | No Comments
When I was tasked with making a piece inspired by a blockbuster movie, I was stumped. I'm not big on blockbuster movies. I'm more of a Indy film kind of gal. My 5 year old granddaughter on the other hand….well she knows the HOT movies! If you have a young girl in your home, or you have just been out of your house in the last year, then you know what a phenomenon Disneys Frozen movie is. I was at Disneyland a few weeks ago and every girl under the age of 20 (well maybe a few over) were dressed like Elsa. I decided that ICE Resin was the perfect medium to create a Frozen inspired piece!
Ice resin, mixing cup and mixing sticks
Shattered Opal inclusions
Blue nail polish
pre-made plastic mold
Packing tape
Frozen images (not hard to find) I used packaging from my granddaughters shoes and lip gloss.
Mixed bezels- 4 small oval, 2 med. round filigree and 1 large rectangle hobnob
chain, wire, round nose pliers, ribbon and jumprings
I started by painting my bezels with blue nail polish. once they were dry, I dry brushed them with white nail polish.
While they were drying, I mixed 1 OZ Ice resin, per package instructions. I separated the resin in to 2 cups. In one cup I added a small amount of shattered opal and a few drops of metallic blue nail polish
I poured the blue resin into the large hobnob bezel until it was 1/2 full. I left this to dry overnight
I poured the rest of the blue resin into multiple shapes of a pre-made plastic mold
I mixed a little shattered opal in with the remaining clear resin and pored it into the 4 oval bezels and let them cure overnight.
After they were dry, I mixed another OZ of ICE resin. I painted a small amount of resin on the top of the 4 oval bezels, then dipped them into the shattered opal inclusions.
Once it dries, it creates an ICY texture perfect for this project.
I cut out several Frozen images from packaging. I sealed the images in clear packing tape
I laid one of the images into the large hobnob bezel and filled it the remaining way with clear resin.
I used 2 smaller images in the filigree bezels and filled with clear resin.
I took out all the pieces from the pre-made mold. I drilled a hole in the top of each piece. I used a small piece of wire to create a bail. I secured the wire with a drop of resin and allowed them to dry.
Once all the resin was dry, I used jump rings to connect the components to the chain
I finished it off with some blue ribbon and Viola…A Necklace fit for a Princess!!
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Mad Max fan? Watch how much fun Susan Walls has creating this necklace
Posted on | June 23, 2015 | No Comments
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Elsa and Anna get frozen under ICE Resin in this necklace
Posted on | June 17, 2015 | No Comments
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