A little late maybe, but a Happy New Year to you and I hope it is a healthy and happy one for you. This is the first post of the year and of the decade. Hopefully we will be here for the next decade and a few more after it.
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It’s all New: The year, decade, ideas and optimism.
January 9, 2010 – 9:21 pm
Santa’s 7 seasonal secrets
December 13, 2009 – 11:44 pm
Believe it or not, we at Made In Hollywood are privy to the inner workings of Santa Claus in his North Pole hideaway. We are asked to create snowflakes, igloos and snowmen to help Santa out before his busiest day of the year. Polystyrene is the perfect material for creating those wintry wonderlands as well [...]
Snowman vs. Foam-man?
December 6, 2009 – 2:38 pm
We might be lucky to get snow this year here in Ireland. I did see a slight dusting recently on one cold morning, on the Cooley mountains. Our workshop has a view of the mountains and when covered in snow they can look very picturesque, but it is still very early in the year to [...]
Driving on solid… styrofoam?
December 3, 2009 – 7:12 pm
You take it for granted that, while you are travelling along a road, you are on solid ground. In most cases, you are, but what do the road engineers do when they have to build a road on soft or boggy ground?
In years gone by, they may have attempted to dig out the soft ground [...]
Rising above the flood waters
November 26, 2009 – 10:51 pm
Ireland is renowned for green countryside with it’s ‘forty shades of green’. This is because we get a lot of precipitation. Whether it be a ’soft day’ or ‘raining stair rods’, we get every type of rain.
However, November 2009 has been one of the wettest on record, with unprecedented rainfall levels which has resulted in [...]
Keeping your eye on the ball.
September 20, 2009 – 10:11 pm
Early in the year, I wrote a post about the 3R’s, talking about the words “recession”, “redundancy” and “receivership”, and the fact that we were constantly hearing them from all sections of the media. Unfortunately, they are still words that are relevant today, but now there is a new “R” word on people’s lips: “Recovery”.
I [...]
Nevermind Transformers, the Styrobots are here!
June 16, 2009 – 5:31 pm
The launch of the second Transformers film ‘Revenge of the fallen’ is upon us, starring Shia Lebeouf (Sam Witwicky) and Megan Fox (Mikaela Banes) and featuring a cast of computer-generated Autobots and Decepticons, which are giant transforming robots / machines.
The Decepticons did attempt, in the original film, to take control of the earth but the [...]
Expanded polystyrene video on “How it’s made”
May 1, 2009 – 7:16 am
In an earlier post, many readers commented that they would like to see a video on how polystyrene is produced. Here we have insight into the whole process.
I welcome any comments you may have after seeing the video.
One of my first impressions, years ago, was surprise by the size of the moulded blocks and the [...]
