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Creating a hand-cut gobo

Creating a hand-cut gobo

- Now Rich, it kind of looks like we went to the arts and crafts store, right? - We did actually go to the arts and crafts store. - That's what I did. I got a pen, I got an X-acto knife, I got some foam board, a bigger piece of foam board. And what's going on here? - Well this actually makes a pattern and when you shine a light through it it's pretty cool. It creates things. Now this is kind of just an organic one, a bunch of pedals and leaves. What were you going for there? - Well I was starting, as you can see here, was some really kind of, I almost used the word organic, some bad circles, but that doesn't really matter. I was going for a little bit more of a porthole kind of effect. And this is an easy thing to do. All you have to do is find a piece of common foam board like this. - I'm going to take this out of your hands. - Okay, that's probably a good idea. Design or draw whatever pattern that you want. Now here's the thing is that this doesn't have to be art. You can draw…

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