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TL;DR: Aluminum sucks lol
If you're interested in the full commentary, you can check out the YouTube video below. To make this footage unique I actually instead used preservation footage from an entirely different batch of art than what I show in the longform video.
I would love to hear if you're interested in learning more about my process, as well as if you're interested in watching more longform yappy content from me! Because I have a secret for all of you: I sure love to talk - *especially* about Etch A Sketch.
https://youtu.be/Ihti4aUGpWo?si=uPQRtsOg58L9Fl2o
Oh yeah also, if you're curious about how much my art costs, you can snoop my webstore! I try to price the fun stuff at like ~$100ish, but commissions tend to cost between $250-$1,500.
https://princessetch.bigcartel.com/
Munchman347
Draws image on Etch with Fine Point Sharpie. 'Well, saved $1500!'... (I'm sure it's a lot of work, and even fun, but it ranks up there with 'NFT art' to me...)😴
TheFastpaws
You stay safe! Your health is not worth anyone's preserved picture!
zeacorzeppelin10
you're worth it.
DrunkGermanGuy
When you were opening up one of these in the first few seconds, I was hoping you'd be wearing some serious mask. Glad to see your PPE is up to the task
rbudrick
Obligatory whenever I see pikajane, cuz we all love pikajane.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Great video, just one thing: it's ALUMINIUM, BABEEEEEYYYY
InitHello
There are reasons I don't use alyoomininium cookware. The potential health effect is one of them.
Jonson71
I loved this thank you
Kevinbfree
How did I not know you had a YouTube channel?!?! Definitely subscribed now.
pikajane
aw yay welcome to my YouTube!
Moistvagina
she's an Etch-A-Skextchpert... an expertch-a-sketch..
erithr
know your worth no notes
nintendolunchbox
Every dollar well spent in my personal experience
mrleemur
Why didn’t you give us some clues you liked talking about etch-a-sketch?? We’d have given you some encouragement if we knew!!
parsonf
this app is so fucking broken i swear
Efreeti
Isn't there a good replacement for E6000 yet? I know it was widely used in cosplay, is it still as widely used?
pikajane
There are other glues out there but E6000 is fantastic at bonding plastic to plastic in a way that most other glues I've experimented with have failed. Others that have worked well tend to be equally if not more toxic, heh.
mijour1
Make yourself a fume hood
pikajane
I'd love to - I wanna get those fumes out of my house!
harmsebamse
Good to hear that you are taking care to preserve yourself.
And that people are buying your stuff :)
Keep preserving yourself, so that when people pick an etch-a-sketch artist in the future, they can still pick a Jane.
pikajane
This comment has me feeling all wholesome and appreciated - thank you! <3
harmsebamse
Im glad to hear that, also; the Edgemoticon is great!
bitemark
Aluminum is bad enough, but E6000 too? I love the stuff, but it smells like all kinds of wrong
pikajane
Dear god yes. Gasses me outta half the house! Can't stand the smell but hot dang does it do its job of bonding plastic to plastic
bitemark
I swear by that for when I need to glue something that needs to be flexible, and crazy glue for when the materials are rigid (also works well with baking soda to "sculpt" broken plastic)
HandoB4Javert
pikajane
I am equally fascinated and confused
HandoB4Javert
Sfingks
That's neat, I didn't know people did permanent etch a sketch images like that. Nice strawberries!
pikajane
Thank you! I really like wearing strawberries, as evidenced by my immense enthusiasm in this photo lol
Sfingks
You should watch the new series Four Seasons. There's a character who falls into a pattern of getting too many Strawberry-themed gifts because that's all anyone knows about her.
pikajane
Hahaha I love that so much, especially because I just remarked to a friend the other day about how I have intentionally kept my love of strawberries strictly to apparel lest it bleed into tchotchkes in other categories. I already am chock full of tchotchkes in other categories!
Sfingks
Yes this character succumbed to the tchotchke stage
sindail
JerBearington
I always thought she was very cute, meme implications aside lol
pikajane
OhIfIMust
Powdered aluminum is great for fireworks 'n' thermite 'n' stuff!!
And power to you for knowing your worth and pricing your services accordingly!
Boatsntoes
It’s great for explosives as well.
b00sk0r
Rockafella83
Yakeshinu
"How to get placed on multiple watch lists with one easy order!"
Boatsntoes
Best way is buying cold packs for the oxidizer.
Yakeshinu
Or some scrap iron, a bowl of water, and a little DC.
Sorrontis
And here I am working with kilograms of pyrophoric nanomaterials... etch-a-sketch aluminium is pretty safe unless you try to make it not so.
SocoFox
Aluminum dust has been linked to Alzheimer's so best to be careful either way.
Sorrontis
@OP if you're worried about safety. Get a proper set of working gloves, don't wear a hat inside the goggles, Send me a DM if you need advice
pikajane
The longform video goes more into changes I made since the footage seen here - probably should have specified that in the description! I have since upgraded the gloves and will make sure the hat is outside the goggles going forward. Much appreciated!
Sorrontis
Take care and keep being awesome!
pikajane
I do my best to mitigate silver boogers haha but otherwise I figure anything I can do to keep it outta my lungs is in my best interest! Those E6000 vapors are gnarly though. What do you use pyrophoric nanomaterials for? I can only assume mad science!
Sorrontis
I'm a materials scientist in the battery industry. I used to work with aluminium powders for a while, and then sodium silicide.
cuddleskunk
You won't be seeing the Sandman anymore...poor bastard committed silicide.
HandoB4Javert
Sorrontis
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CommunCreator
NaSi. Apparently it reacts with water to make H2.
Noevilgifs
Oooo thats a cursed compound if I've ever heard of one
It sounds like it doesnt want to exsist at all
Sorrontis
it's pretty darn stable actually... until you turn it into powder. I have lost eye brows
Noevilgifs
Does it react with the water in the air? It seems like it would
Silicon and sodium dont like eachother THAT much
Im a biochemist not a inorganics chemist but it seems like theyd want to
Yknow
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