The Mad Lab

It took me most of this month to come up with a workable idea using an old paint can. (SEI) Hopefully, a little beginners luck will help me out with this contest, lol. Here is my submission. For want of a better name, I call it the miniature skull fountain. Basically, it is a gallon paint can inside a larger vessel, with a fountain from one of those little fountain things that women love so much. (I call them "Serenity Fountains") I ran a piece of clear plastic tubing from the fountain through a small hole drilled in the bottom of the paint can, then through a hole drilled through a $1.99 styrofoam skull from Wal-mart. After getting the length right, I measured out another 1/2" of tubing and cut it. I pulled the small amount of slack back through the skull until it was flush, and put a small dab of latex caulk around the edge of it, to seal it and keep colored water from seeping back down into the skull. I put water colored with red food coloring in the larger vessel, filling it a little above the edge of the paint can and turned the pump on. Works like a charm!

Finished photo:

Above photo, to show the paint can:

Close up of paint can inside:

Better above photo: (The one I should have submitted)

Ok, well, that's my fountain. I'll try to get a video of it working in the next day or so, so everyone can see how my concept works. Good Luck to my fellow contestants!

Ok, for some reason, my photobucket links showed up as links instead of pictures...? Not sure what went wrong with that. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

odd, i click the link and it says the pics been removed. Love the idea though. can't wait to see it

copy the link and paste in a browser address bar, DD7. That is the only way I could get it to work for me. I'll keep messing with it and try to get the links working.

thats what i did

http://www.themadlab.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=7089094

I put them in a gallery here. I tried to follow the tutorial to add a photo to my post, but it didn't work.

One more try:

oh, i think i know whats wrong. the picture needs to be hosted on photobucket too, and that link used when you paste it in the add image box.

Let's try that. Here we go:

Woo Hoo!

oh that is cool

Thank you!

Very cool.

Thanks, Deanna! I put all of my pics from the build into a gallery on here. I'll probably add them to Hauntspace, too.

Video forthcoming tonight!

The video:

http://s714.photobucket.com/albums/ww148/BioHazardCustoms/?action=view&current=003.flv

great idea!!!

Fixed your pics - hope I did them right.

Nice!

Thanks a lot Dr Jeckyll! Looks great!

Great idea!

Very nice!