{"id":2435,"date":"2020-03-16T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:55:39","slug":"tube-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Tube Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I originally wanted to make a sort of &#8216;flame&#8217; in the tubes but in playing with the fluorescent and silicone I stumbled on a nice floral aesthetic and made these stands to light them. These are lit from the top with one RGB LED and from the bottom with one UV LED. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tube Garden\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WpO4N91aWCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fixtruresIMG_20200316_114440385-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fixtruresIMG_20200316_114440385-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fixtruresIMG_20200316_114440385-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/fixtruresIMG_20200316_114440385-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;stems&#8217; are created by cooling the silicone and injecting warm gelatin\\highlighter fluid with 16-18g dispensing needles. The cold silicone makes the gel set up quickly and gives the stems a bit of a texture. The &#8216;dirt\\sand&#8217; is coffee\\grits. I thought I needed to leave a hole in the middle to allow the UV LED through so I used straws to leave a hole, but turns out it looks better with the UV on the tube edge so next time I won&#8217;t bother with the hole. The &#8216;flower&#8217; tops didn&#8217;t turn out well this round- I let the silicone cure too much so I couldn&#8217;t get the &#8216;ribbons&#8217; that I had in other tests but the next batch should turn out better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a the tests leading up to the first flower tubes. The bottom One of these tests was the inspiration for the tubes, it just started to look like a flower so I jammed some coffee into the bottom to look like dirt and I figured it looked good enough to try a few more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/siliconetests-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/siliconetests-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/siliconetests-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/siliconetests-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here are the first batch of intentional &#8216;flower&#8217; tubes. Lots of mistakes but learned a lot and a few of them came out well enough to justify the LEDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tubesIMG_20200308_100043910-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tubesIMG_20200308_100043910-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tubesIMG_20200308_100043910-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tubesIMG_20200308_100043910-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally wanted to make a sort of &#8216;flame&#8217; in the tubes but in playing with the fluorescent and silicone I stumbled on a nice floral aesthetic and made these stands to light them. 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