A Real Life Secret Egg by JJason Recognition
January 15th, 2008 9:51 AM / Location: 44.955930,-93.16904
First: A trip to Axeman Surplus. At our local surplus store, I purchase a syringe, an eyedropper, and a metal, scratchy, tool thingy. I don't actually know what it's intended purpose is. I also went in search of glitter, but that wasn't sucessful.
Second: Draining the egg. Having never done this before, this was a learning experience. I found that the initial holes were suprisingly easy to make - just apply steady pressure with the point of the metal and you'd get a hole no problem. But getting the egg out of the hole proved more difficult, so I ended up widening one of the holes large enough for me to stick the end of my syringe into it. Getting the hole wider was a bit more difficult - there was a real risk of breaking the egg here. I used the syringe first remove as much yolk as I could and then to add water to the egg to clean out the inside. I added and removed water twice with the syringe before putting the egg aside to allow it to dry. I emptied out two eggs in this fashion and left them on top of my refrigerator for later use.
I had scrambled eggs for dinner that night.
Second and the Half: The next day I set out to Art Scraps, an art supply/surplus store nearby where I successfully bought the glitter I was looking for. At quite a good price too, only 25 cents. With my glitter in hand I returned home to attempt the next step.
Third: Filling The Egg. I used a folded piece of paper and a half teaspoon measure to fill the eggs with glitter. I'd spoon some glitter into the fold of the paper then slowly pour it into the hole of the egg. Once I'd judged the egg was sufficiently filled with glitter, I taped over the hole and decorated the egg shell with a sharpie marker. The first egg I made was a test egg - after filling it with glitter I went outside and threw it at a wall to see how the entire process worked out. I was surprised by how resiliant the egg turned out too be - although the shell crumpled, it stayed together in one piece. I resolved too put more glitter in the next one.
I also put my first secret in the second one, which took the form of a thin piece of paper with the words "IT WON"T HAPPEN," which is a secret given the correct context. The paper was then rolled up into a tight spiral and inserted into the egg, along with the glitter. After taping the hole closed and decorating the egg, I resolved to make drain three more eggs for the final product. Unfortunately, I dropped on the eggs so it looked like I'd only end up with three eggs. Which was ok - if three eggs was good enough for the man in the lab coat, it'd be good enough for me.
The left over egg yolk went into fried rice that night. It was tasty. While eating the rice, I added secrets and glitter to the two remaining eggs before decorating them. I left them in the refrigerator, in the egg carton with my regular eggs.
The next morning I indeed went out and hid my eggs. It was very cold that day (like it had been the day before and like it will probably be the day after), but I nonetheless searched out locations to hide my eggs. Well, not so much hide, more place in plain sight. I want people to find these after all. So the first one went in the snow outside the front of my apartment, the second one on a pile of bricks on the back of the building, and the third one on a windowsill in a nearby alley. Then I went back inside.
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amazing. well done, sir.
i had actually been thoroughly confused by the man in the lab coat.
FYI, when i was a child we blew eggs for decorating, and if you're not averse to making 2 holes that have to be filled, it's a potentially easier method than the syringe. You tap out a hole on each end then put your mouth on one end and gently blow out the guts.
I had considered putting the eggs in a grocery store carton, but then I imagined somebody breaking an egg open over their pancake mix or whatever and getting only glitter. Then they'd have to throw away their pancakes! That'd be tragic! But the offer of a super vote does degrade my moral objections...
I Love Axeman.
Was just looking at the magnet on my fridge wishing I could go their and get something weird! Excuse me I need 10,000 industrial strength magnets and 15 specimen jars. It's like tasking supply warehouse.
JJason: okay then, disguise the egg by weighting it down with quarters or sacagewea dollars, enough money to replace the eggs and/or some other volume of ...
shit, i'm just going to go do this task
Hooray for secrets, and good on you for keeping them.
:) The combination of glitter and secret message is brilliant.
That metal tool definitely looks like a dental pick to me.
i would like to point out I made the suggestion of weighting down the egg with coins completely without regard to how I'd get those coins in there. I mean, I'm sure it'd be easy enough to either use a plastic egg or punch a bigger hole. But frankly I don't know what I was thinking.
But, Senator, Sacagawea dollars would make it too heavy. What's needed is a little bit of birdseed, or some silly putty.
Or, I suppose, just a whole lot of glitter. I bet you could fit two dollars in there without too much difficulty. Especially if you used a two dollar bill. Now that'd be nifty.
Anyways, I don't think I'll be doing any more eggs anytime soon mostly because I don't feel like eating anymore eggs right now. And I couldn't waste perfectly good egg yolks.
By the way Burn Unit, how big did you make the holes? I made two holes, each the size of around needles for starters but I couldn't get any yolk out that way so I switched to the syringe.
This is great, I love the secret messages and the way the eggs look nestled outdoors in the snow.
The egg emptying trick that Burn Unit is talking about involve poking a tiny hole in the top and bottom of the egg. About the size of a needle for one side, and the size of a toothpick in the other. Then you stick a toothpick in to break up the yolk a bit, and blow in the side with the smaller hole. However, these holes might be too small for funneling in glitter. (Guess you could make one of them a bit larger)
Update: The egg I left on the windowsill disappeared later that day, but the other two eggs are exactly where I left them, in the exact same state as I left them. I'm particularly puzzled by the fact that nobodies taken the egg I left outside my apartment, given that tons of people must walk by it everyday
I signed up to do this one, but my idea was pathetic compared to yours.
This is ingenious.
I think the message "You will know what to do." was meant for you.
Yeah, I know the thing about "Don't ever think you can't do a task good just because someone else did really great" or whatever, but seriously.
Some people deserve all the votes.
Lovely. Glitter is awesome, but messy... I'd have gotten it everywhere but the egg! I'm going to try this task, as soon as I figure out what I can do that doesn't cost money...
"The thing about glitter is once you get it on you be prepared to have it on you forever, cause glitter doesn't go away.... Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies" -Demetri Martin
I spilled a lot of glitter. That's why the egg was in a bowl when I was filling them with glitter.
On second thought, I am going to do this task. But it will not be as good as yours, so don't worry. :)
I have to say I adore how much work and thought you put into this. It's hilarious and unique. Wish I had enough creativity to come up with something this awesome.
Really, bravo.
=D
Something that would help is putting only a tiny amount of tape to cover the hole or use putty. then freeze the eggs so that they are brittle, that way they'll shatter. OH and if you are going to do what comment numero uno said, then only put a hole on the bottom so no one will notice. cheers.
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If you make a fourth egg, and hide it in a carton at the grocery store, I will give you a super vote. You'd probably have to weight it to get people to buy into the illusion. But can you imagine makin some pancakes and tapping out the egg into a bowl and "poof" glitter? I can imagine.