Timothy Morton

The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.

English Philosopher

Michelle Paver

To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.

British Novelist

Chris Pine

I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.

American Actor

Jonathan Ive

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

English Designer

Ivanka Trump

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.

American Businesswoman

Reem Acra

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.

Lebanese Designer

Resin often refers to organic substances from plants, particularly trees.

Natural Origin

Resin is typically sticky, glossy, and can harden, making it useful in art and crafts.

Visual Descriptor

Amber, a type of fossilized tree resin, is often mentioned in history, jewelry, and mining.

Cultural Reference

In modern contexts, resin usually refers to a synthetic substance used in manufacturing.

Industrial Material

Synthetic resins are versatile: they're used in everything from electronics to textiles.

Variety of Uses

Though often liquid for processing, resins can be solids or semi-solids once set.

Not Always Liquid

 and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

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 the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump

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 at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. And we used to imagine that someday, they would actually come to life and they would crawl out of the resin, and, if they could, they would fly away.

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 their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from, but then there's only a hundred major resin producers, big petrochemical plants,

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 it was better than anything that I could achieve or obtain out in the world. But there was a problem. And the problem was I wanted the entirety of the object, I wanted the weight behind the object. This thing was made of resin and it was too light.

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 five different things solvent resin pigment release agent and wax and the wax we can ignore for now because it's kind of a wild card the resin and the pigment you can think of as one thing the point of the resin is to help the pigment evenly spread

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 in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb

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 and aged the works by applying synthetic resin and baking them to dry and crack the paint. A forensic test could have detected the synthetic resin. But at the time, such tests were neither advanced nor widespread,

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 terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me

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 very brutally cold climate this is hopefully gonna keep me limber enough to keep my lifestyle going pour it in here then I'm gonna take oil all of the resins those little clippings have I

Resin

A sticky substance that comes from trees.

Often appears as...

A chemical used in plastic and production of other materials.

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