1. Wint-o-green Life Savers skull with gummie Life Savers features. Photographed through a red gummie Life Savers candy.

    Inspired by the class visit from Noah Scalin.

    Life Savers skull photographed through a red gummie Life Savers.

     
    2. Dec 13th, 2010    
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  2. skull inspiration

    I really enjoyed having Noah Scalin join our class last week! His skull-a-day project is very inspiring. Here are a few skulls I made with wint-o-green Life Savers candy. The eyes ad mouth are red gummie Life Savers candy.

    skull13

    skull12

     
    3. Dec 13th, 2010    
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  3. [Flash 10 is required to watch video]

    Yeti was very curious about the Life Savers but didn’t care for the way the pep-o-mint Life Savers smelled.

     
    4. Dec 13th, 2010    
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  4. mobile Life Savers photo

    Life Savers

    A Life Saver framed photo of a Life Saver taken with my Samsung Intercept smartphone.

     
    5. Dec 11th, 2010    
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  5. more fun with Life Saver photography

    This is a picture of a letter-pressed lowercase alphabet, taken while holding a green Life Saver gummie in front of the lens of the camera.

    Mind your P's and Q's... and B's and D's.

    Mind your Ps and Qs… and Bs and Ds.

     
    6. Dec 10th, 2010    
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  6. Where’s my Life Savers gummie camera already??

    More Life Savers gummie photography… this time I aimed a bright light at the camera to illuminate the Life Savers gummie I was holding in front of the lens. I didn’t use a flash, just the light from my task lamp aimed towards the lens and the gummie.

    I shot an uppercase letter-pressed alphabet, once with a red LS gummie frame and once with a green LS gummie frame.

    uppercase uppercase

    I think the red LS gummies produce a nice soft framed area, whereas the green gummies produce a bluish white ring in most of my photos.

     
    7. Dec 10th, 2010    
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  7. I made a Life Saver cocktail, garnished with a gummie Life Saver and crushed classic Life Savers on the rim of the glass. Recipe 11 part grenadine5 parts spritesplash cranberry juice Recipe 23 parts Vodka1 part St-Germain elderflower liqueursplash of Pomegranate juice

    I made a Life Saver cocktail, garnished with a gummie Life Saver and crushed classic Life Savers on the rim of the glass.

    Recipe 1
    1 part grenadine
    5 parts sprite
    splash cranberry juice

    Recipe 2
    3 parts Vodka
    1 part St-Germain elderflower liqueur
    splash of Pomegranate juice

     
    8. Dec 10th, 2010    
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  8. Life Savers moves U.S. operations to Canada

    This was shocking to me because I think of Life Savers as being the “all-American” candy. I think it’s sad that a county (and it’s school system!) lost it’s 3rd largest tax-payer because sugar is cheaper in Canada. I understand that companies need to make profit in order to survive. However, I think it’s sad for the families who have loyally served the company for over 20 years. Sigh…

     
    9. Dec 9th, 2010     shock value
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  9. Spreading the curiousness

    Flickr comment on my melted Life Savers gummies…

    sunlight

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    1. TanjaVa (13 hours ago | reply | delete)

      What IS this? *curious*

     
    10. Dec 9th, 2010    
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  10. Life Savers flavor is strong! I was actually trying to build a house with woodless colored pencils and Life Savers gummies. After several attempts, I realized all I could make was a barbell and a train crossing post. (The train crossing post wouldn’t stand up long enough for a photograph.)

    Life Savers flavor is strong! I was actually trying to build a house with woodless colored pencils and Life Savers gummies. After several attempts, I realized all I could make was a barbell and a train crossing post. (The train crossing post wouldn’t stand up long enough for a photograph.)

     
    11. Dec 9th, 2010    
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  11. What happens when you microwave Life Savers?

    Here, let me show you…

    superclose

    The smell really good when they melt, unlike most microwave experiments.

    I think I’d like to try painting with melted Life Savers. If painting doesn’t work, what else could I try?

    More pictures of my microwave experiment… it looks like a fiery cauldron to me!

    sunlight closeup

     
    12. Dec 8th, 2010    
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  12. I think it’s very important for businesses to encourage their employees to volunteer. Giving them paid work time to volunteer seems like a win-win situation to me. In this image, you can see how much of an impact just 600 employees could make! If I have a choice, I definitely prefer to patronize businesses that give back to society and especially those that allow for paid volunteer service hours. I couldn’t find any information on Life Savers corporate volunteer policy, but I did find that they employed almost 600 people in Holland, Michigan before moving their plant to Canada. Although it’s painfully obvious, Life Savers for Life Savers could be a volunteer campaign name.

    I think it’s very important for businesses to encourage their employees to volunteer. Giving them paid work time to volunteer seems like a win-win situation to me. In this image, you can see how much of an impact just 600 employees could make! If I have a choice, I definitely prefer to patronize businesses that give back to society and especially those that allow for paid volunteer service hours. I couldn’t find any information on Life Savers corporate volunteer policy, but I did find that they employed almost 600 people in Holland, Michigan before moving their plant to Canada.

    Although it’s painfully obvious, Life Savers for Life Savers could be a volunteer campaign name.

     
    13. Dec 7th, 2010     social issues
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  13. Life Savers Photography

    Life Savers gummie candies make great flash filters! I think a Life Savers camera would be a lot of fun. A gummie holder in front of the flash and in front of the lens would be perfect. The outside of the camera could look like a box of Life Savers gummies.

    Here are a few more gummie camera photos I’ve taken:

    Green gummie lens ring

    Life Savers candy

    Green gummie flash filter

    Life Savers candy

    Red gummie lens ring

    Life Savers candy

    Red gummie flash filter

    Life Savers candy

     
    14. Dec 7th, 2010    
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  14. This is a watermelon-bellied unicorn. The watermelon juice comes from the utters of the watermelon-bellied unicorn. (I painted this with watercolor.) Here is one of my original sketches of the idea: Here is another watermelon-bellied unicorn I painted: Where did you think watermelon-flavored Life Savers came from??

    This is a watermelon-bellied unicorn. The watermelon juice comes from the utters of the watermelon-bellied unicorn. (I painted this with watercolor.)

    Here is one of my original sketches of the idea:

    Watermelon bellied unicorn

    Here is another watermelon-bellied unicorn I painted:

    Watermelon bellied unicorn

    Where did you think watermelon-flavored Life Savers came from??

     
    15. Dec 7th, 2010     flavorno directive
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  15. Gummie Flash. I’ve been experimenting with different photography techniques while photographing Life Savers. I used the Life Savers gummies as flash filters and as a type of framing device for my photos. In this photo from my apartment, the left picture was taken while holding a red Life Saver gummie to the lens; the right picture was taken while holding a red Life Saver gummie in front of the flash. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of it, but I think it looks really interesting. I’ll definitely try this again to see what happens. (Framed print “Miss Futura” by inkfingerSutter.)

    Gummie Flash. I’ve been experimenting with different photography techniques while photographing Life Savers. I used the Life Savers gummies as flash filters and as a type of framing device for my photos. In this photo from my apartment, the left picture was taken while holding a red Life Saver gummie to the lens; the right picture was taken while holding a red Life Saver gummie in front of the flash. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of it, but I think it looks really interesting. I’ll definitely try this again to see what happens. (Framed print “Miss Futura” by inkfingerSutter.)

     
    16. Dec 7th, 2010     no directive
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