It started last Christmas. My friends Troy and Katie sent us an epoxy resin starter kit from Amazon EU* that included a couple of bottles of A/B mix, some mica powder colors, and some mixing tools. When I called to thank them, Troy explained that there was more coming.
“Great,” I responded. Then we waited for the next package to arrive. When it did, it contained the final thing we needed to actually play with the resin kit: a silicon mold. See, the way this works is you mix up the liquid resin, add in some color or glitter or what have you, and then pour the whole thing into a mold. Without the mold, you’re not really making anything, instead, just doing a lot of mixing. It’s like mixing up the cake batter but then just leaving it in the bowl.
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Photography has changed quite a bit since I was a kid, so the exploration of today’s question, about the best photograph I’ve ever taken, feels like it’s going to be a bit roundabout and circumspect. I mean, first off, we have to talk about the word “best” don’t we? What does that even mean? “Best” according to whom? 
Growing up, my passion for film, filmmaking, and science fiction was spurred, pretty much, by one magazine – Starlog. I used to get it all the time, especially if the cover was about a film/TV show I was either desperate to see or one I had seen and was obsessing over.
For some reason, maybe it’s because I miss being visually creative or because I wanted to see some of these things in the world, who knows? But what’s happened is that I’ve come up with some products, thanks to some amazing designers, and made a 
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