Ask A Genius 559 – Micromosaics and Surveillance
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020/06/25
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your deal around micromosaics and surveillance?
Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about it. My wife likes micromosaics, which are these very small mosaic pieces, mostly jewellery where the sliver of glass can be less than a millimetre in length and width.
We’ve collected quite a few of these little things. I’ll buy broken ones and fix them. It ties in with my natural ability, or my ability to see super up close. I am nearsighted enough that I don’t need magnifying lenses to do super close work. I was thinking.
My wife likes micromosaics. I should see if there are any other mosaics that aren’t shitty, and larger. I usually don’t find shitty ones. Most full-size mosaics, anything over a few inches on a side; most are amateurish and crappy.
I was poking around on Etsy. I found some from St. Petersburg, Russia, that were professional and gorgeous and achieving the effects of water in a clear container with refraction, just really nice.
I ended up got Google Translate to send a couple emails to Russia to inquire into buying these. It turns out. The guy never completed his Etsy store. I was trying to track him down. I don’t know if the U.S. government is paying attention to Russian web addresses/email addresses in Russia.
They may have a dossier on me. Although, they may have one on me, after all the angry tweets about how terrible Trump is. For what it is worth, the difference between an average to shitty mosaic and a really good one is the tightness of he joints.
There should be barely any space between the pieces. People think that since it is a mosaic there should be a space or some grout, but the best pieces have almost no grout and have almost no space. It makes for a much more legible image and abetter looking image.
That’s all I got about it. We’ll see what it is like to do business with Russia if that is even possible. I feel like it might be possible to get a decent deal on this stuff depending on what I would expect is that it is not the exchange rate; it is the cost of stuff in Russia.
I am expecting Russia is economically depressed enough that the necessities of life are cheaper there than here, which means the luxury of life may also be cheaper. Where I wouldn’t be able to get these pieces if they were made by Americans, this may be the case in Russia.
That’s about it.
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