I got this idea a while ago. Not very unique, but I didn't want it to disappear into the "wouldn't it be funny if we got around to..." files.
Making pictures you wind up with tons of frames. Some are leftovers from exhibits, and some are just items people abandon with you because you might have a use for them. I have this problem with rows and clusters of all sorts of things. I actually bought an enlarger once, and within weeks, it told all its friends that it was okay to have enlargers in my place. The news spread, and I have quite a collection now. They just seem to hop off the train and join the gaggle. On occasion, I even help the problem. Once in a while I cannot resist a crazy gilded frame at a yard sale. There are a few dozen really cool old picture frames piled up in the other room, and they have absolutely no business being there.
A digression from a digression.
I have an old MultiSync 15" display, and it isn't pretty enough. Not even widescreen. ... which is actually a good thing, but that's another story. Certainly not pretty. Actually, it isn't ugly enough either. It's just in between. Not much pisses me off more than half dones and in betweens, and so the mini-adventure begins.
None of the frames laying about were the right size, so for the last week I have been walking about with a specially sized sheet of paper in my back pocket. You should see the looks as I held the paper against all sorts of ugly crap at the Goodwill stores. Just the conversations have been totally worth it.
So, maybe poster putty would be able to stick a really disgustingly wacky frame to the display, and make it frikkin sweet.
Perhaps people don't use this stuff anymore, because it took forever for the convenience store folks to help me find it.
After many disappointments, I score a sweet gaudy gilded masterpiece at some crusty used crap shop. Didn't have the magic measuring paper, but it seemed right, and three bucks? ...hey.
Looks good!
It came with what was left of a black piece of matte board, and no glass. There were no golden cherubs or anything, but I'm not going to look all over the place to get cherubs. Yes, this is maximum stupid. Yes, I already realize this. No, I am not going to stop.
Pulling the points
The victim... I mean, decoratable item..
By the way, Alan Helton should know that his old pencil sharpener has been put to good use.
Alan Helton http://www.alanhelton.com/ A talented guy who appears to either has no use for a pencil sharpener, or secretly has a more glorious one hidden somewhere.
Amazingly, the frame fits exactly over the display! It just locks on perfectly. Weird. A bit tall though, and I sawed off a bit of the black mat board to cover the bottom. This will make the picture appropriately "high in the frame." Yeah, that's a stretch. The board was white edged, so in the spirit of archivability, I painted the edge black with a sharpie.
Strange freedom and shoddy workmanship.
It was kind of liberating to do horrible things like sharpie the edge, which you would never subject a real mat to. Kind of shows the monastic side of fine art framing that I never paid much attention to.
Safety lock mechanism.
Hahahahaha! HAHAHAHA! -cough- Yeah, back to work.
