{"id":3242,"date":"2010-06-04T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2010-06-04T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:22:47","slug":"duck-tape-supports-dangerous-curves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/duck-tape-supports-dangerous-curves","title":{"rendered":"Duck tape supports dangerous curves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/06\/curves.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/06\/curves-287x700.png\" alt=\"Dangerous Curves\" title=\"Dangerous Curves\"  style=\"float:left;margin-right: 8px; border:none;\"width=\"287\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"font-size: 1.2em;font-style: italic;color:#E23F36\">Issue masked in red tape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Angles and curves, made from paper, have a habit of straightening themselves out, which makes me wonder sometimes if an accurate representation of the absolute entropy of everything might be a straight line.  <em>One&#8217;s mind wanders far whilst rolling newspaper bones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In any case, you can prevent your dragons&#8217; tails from unrolling, and crooked zombie arms from uncrooking with a bit of strategic duck-tapery.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color:#A9C3F3;margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 4px;list-style-position: inside;\">\n<li>Attach one side of a piece of duck tape to the piece.<\/li>\n<li>Bend\/bow\/hook the piece to the desired angle.<\/li>\n<li>Attach the other side to form a bridge.<\/li>\n<li>Apply a second piece of duck tape to the center of the bridge.  This will draw the ends a bit closer and make the angle more pronounced; more or less, depending on the placement and length of the bridge.<\/li>\n<li>Secure the rest of the bridge with more tape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is especially useful in cases where a wire armature is impractical, but you need to maintain a shape while the 8 coats of glue dry into a hard, crusty shell.  Like that stuff you put on ice cream to make a &#8220;Brown Derby&#8221;.  Mmm.<br \/>\n<br style='clear:left'\/><!-- [gallery] --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue masked in red tape Angles and curves, made from paper, have a habit of straightening themselves out, which makes me wonder sometimes if an accurate representation of the absolute entropy of everything might be a straight line. One&#8217;s mind wanders far whilst rolling newspaper bones. In any case, you can prevent your dragons&#8217; tails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}