DIY - Recycle your old 35mm slides into this - Unbelievable

The next time you have no more use of your old 35 mm slides, think twice before disposing them. Scott Sherwood has come up with this revolutionary new technique, wherein you can convert your redundant 35 mm film slides into majestically colorful curtains, which are sure to infuse new vigor to the décor of your abode. He spent four painstaking months, in which he meticulously linked together 1152 35 mm slides with his own hand. However, the end result was well worth the effort when he produced a set of gorgeous hand crafted curtains, the likes that have never been seen before.

Scott Sherwood arranged the slides into horizontal strips by their color variations, thus forming a subtle rainbow like design from top to bottom. When these curtains are shut, light from outside comes into the room as multiple colorful streaks. With his method, you can put those antiquated 35 mm slides, which you thought were up until now superfluous, to colorful, functional, and creative usage. What you'll end up with is a stunning creation that aptly handles all the practical needs of a curtain, perhaps even better than a normal curtain itself. Along with providing prodigious shade and privacy, you also get to indulge in reveries and slip into the memories of all your old images, some of which might have faded away. Plus, you get some unbelievable aesthetic additions such as the conglomerate of colorful patterns that these film slide curtains refract onto the walls.

However, if you wish to undertake this endeavor, be prepared to dedicate months of your time and loads of nerve-wracking efforts towards the task. It's no simple job by any stretch of the imagination. Every single slide has to be placed in a regular white colored plastic slots, after which eight holes need to drilled into these plastic slots so that they are just the right size to accommodate miniscule sized metallic rings, which will connect each slot to the other, thus giving you a formation that's akin to a chain mail.

Following Sherwood's methodology, you'll also need to separate slides according to their dominant colors, which will in turn give your curtain, patterns of a highly consistent nature. For instance, pink slides should be positioned right at the top, and then the subsequent slides should be placed as per the color spectrum in descending order. In other words, if you have pink at the top, it must be followed by red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and finally purple at the bottom. This will provide you with the right kind of subtle light patterns and refractions on the walls as discussed earlier.

This is undoubtedly a great and innovative method to reuse those old 35 mm slides, which you would have disposed without much thought otherwise.

Photo Credits - Scott Sherwood

Via - Laughing Squid