The Year Two Thousand; A History
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At the turn of the millennium, we were warned that all our computers would crash and that the world would descend into chaos. Some bought software to guard against this. Nothing happened.
On a more minor note, we experimented with a new fad for decorating brooches, emanating from a prestigious London school. A printed image was fixed to a metal backing with adhesive and passed through the rolling mill. I could not see the logic of this, but saw it as some kind of ritual to make it acceptable as jewellery.
Here is my class project from that year: a brooch with three interchangeable images, all in a presentation box made by me, as were the brass catch and hinges. It is a testimony to urethane spray lacquer, that the brass is still fairly bright.
This has now been superseded by Lazertran http://www.lazertran.com/products/la...s_original.htm, a system for transferring any photographic image directly onto almost any surface and fixing it in a domestic oven. But when I was asked recently, whether I would like to take part in this new project, I politely declined. Been there, done that, more or less. Dennis.
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