| Watch out you might get what you're after Cool baby strange but not a stranger I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight wait 'til the party's over Hold tight we're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the house |
This weekend I helped Emma with her 8th grade science investigation project. She was able to pick any project she wanted and decided that burning down houses would make a fun project.
Her study was to compare black and silver heat resistant paint against a control of no paint. She built 9 different popsicle stick houses, painted them, and then we burned them to see which one would last the longest.
She also needed photos for her project board and with fire involved I was very happy to give her a hand.
In the photo above you can see the glue bubbling on the corner of the house.
For those that are curious, the silver heat resistant paint lasted the longest by almost a minute. The black heat resistant paint didn't do much better than the unpainted houses.
The project made for some interesting photos and I can potentially see myself doing some more controlled burns of stuff in the future to get some abstract photos using my 180mm macro lens.
