The toilet paper challenge

How well can you photograph a roll of toilet paper?

 

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Models may be hard to find.

 

In the 1930's, folks in the boondocks used old Sears catalogs. They're gone now, but we still have the Sunday New York Times. The content hardly changes the second time around ;)

In the 1930's, folks in the boondocks used old Sears catalogs. They're gone now, but we still have the Sunday New York Times. The content hardly changes the second time around

 

Yeah. I miss Sears too, not for that reason.

Just popped into my mind - Link mummenschanz toilet paper - Google Search

Unrolled - of course. The day after high school homecoming game at the house of a cheerleader/

 

I almost forgot about the old Iowa tradition.

 

The picture SCL posted brought back a memory. A bit of good humor might be useful. Back when my daughter was in High School, around zero dark 30 in the morning, one of the dogs barked. I looked out the window, and there it was - had to be near half a case of toilet paper festooning the tree on our front lawn. The way this sort of thing works, or did then, was that the perpetrators had to show off their work to friends and so would return. I decided to spoil their fun. I threw on boots and jeans, the first prescription glasses I could put my hand on (sunglasses) grabbed a 12 foot stock whip (I used to do cowboy rope and whip tricks) in ten or fifteen minutes, cut most of the visible paper out of the tree, bagged it and got it out of sight. Don't know what was funniest - my wife at the window cracking up watching me, when the cars of kids drove by and found nothing, or when the newspaper delivery man stopped while I was at it, got out of the car with my newspaper held at arms length and hesitantly approached to give it to me.

In today's "hoarding" climate, the returning kids would be strung up by a bunch of ticked off Wal-mart customers.

The biggest toilet paper challenge is finding a store with any left in stock.

Old RIT exercise was to photograph a white egg on a white background with various different lighting schemes so no edges blended together and the background was light and dark. Can do the same with TP, if you have any. Good way to learn lighting.

Back then, our new kitty's antics were considered hilarious. Today - sacrilege.

I put a plastic Jack ‘O Lantern on the front porch last night.

Worked perfectly....

I stocked up on paper at a sale long before the present problem. If that should run out will do like the Indians, clean water and LEFT hand followed by a GOOD hand washing. The photo is what you find on an Indian train, careful you don't loose your wallet down the hole while pants are down. ;-)

 

I almost forgot about the old Iowa tradition.

 

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Er, minus the kernels, Ed.

the old phrase, "Rough as a cob". :eek:

Heard that phrase a lot when I was young, as well as its provenance. Never had the honor myself.

posted time before

I have learned from sources close to the political center that the toilet paper shortage, and the resultant use of coarse toilet paper, is a Socialist plot:

 

In the end, even your ass will be red.

 

Warum war das Klopapier in der DDR so rauh? Damit auch der letzte Arsch rot wurde...

Toilettenpapeir aus VEB Papierfabriken Heiligenstadt, Kombinat Zellstoff und Papier ...

If you can't find toilet paper, and don't have a bidet, then you can go back to the old standard in the "outhouse days".

As a small child, i went to a farm for a couple of weeks in many summers. There, ancient and mystical technological secrets were taught me.

 

 

 

The trick with book pages or other paper is to prepare the paper while you are engaged in the primary task. You have to wad up and crinkle the paper repeatedly to make it soft and absorbent.

Now, don't say you haven't learned anything today if this was new to you.

 

Probably you can find modern books that would serve you for this purpose. I have found Ann Coulter's works tempting, for example.

 

Here is a picture of the admirable artistic craft capability of the Shaker community, who shared pretty much everything.

I have found Ann Coulter's works tempting, for example.

Ann Coulter’s work would not provide the paper you need. It’s actually what you’d need the paper to clean up!

I did this as a study in "How White is 'White'?"

Interesting how many different shades of grey or cream can still be seen and thought of as 'white'.

 

And who's Ann Coulter?

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Here is a picture of the admirable artistic craft capability of the Shaker community, who shared pretty much everything.

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Okay, this is one reason that I would never join a 'community', no matter how good the people are. I'm sure it's clean - some Christian groups are very, very particular about that, which I admire. But it isn't exactly inviting.

 

Interesting how many different shades of grey or cream can still be seen and thought of as 'white'.

True - I learned that while comparing automotive paint. Oils ain't oils, and paint ain't paint. (And why are caucasians called 'white'? Did that come from the days when the upper classes were afraid of getting sun tans?).