Moss Graffiti

Oct 16, 2014 3:45 AM

AntTrapHouse

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3 cups of moss (washed clean of soil)

2 cups buttermilk OR 2 cups of yogurt (should be plain yogurt)

2 cups of water or beer

1/2 tsp of sugar

corn syrup (optional)

A blender that you probably won’t want to use other than for this.

Collect about 3 cups of moss. You can sometimes buy this at a nursery but you may be able to find it right in your yard as well.

Once you collect the moss, rinse it as much as possible to get rid of the soil.

Break up the pieces as much as possible and put them in a blender.

Add yogurt OR buttermilk, water OR beer, and sugar. Blend until this is completely smooth and has a paint like consistency.

If the mixture is too runny, then add corn syrup. You don’t want this dripping all over, so add corn syrup a little bit at a time.

Pour mixture into a bucket.

Use a paintbrush to make the design that you’d like with your moss graffiti.

Once you are done with the painting, you’ll want to check on it regularly. If you live in a very dry climate, use a spray bottle to keep the paint moist and to help promote moss growth. You can also paint over the design you did to encourage the moss growth if you do not have a spray bottle available.

Be patient! Depending on your climate, it may take a little while for your moss to grow. Check out some of these great designs below:

Source: http://topinfopost.com/2014/10/12/what-this-guy-did-might-be-the-coolest-but-possibly-most-illegal-diy-project-ever-the-end-result-brilliant

I've tried this numerous times and never got it to work

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

that tag though

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You know the rules! What is it?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think I read far enough, because I just had one of the worst smoothies ever.

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Tried it. Doesn't work.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait...were we not supposed to drink it? I don't think I read all the directions right...

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Prepare your moss hole

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My boyfriend made this stuff and poured the leftovers down the drain. He is not a smart man.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Doesn't work, this is faked. Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfwen84Wmo

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Peat gang rules

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Attention all Imgurians. please go out and make art and post it back here

12 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

I plan to....................

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Right after I swipe a few more times.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tip: Do not store mixture in communal refrigerator.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can't wait to make a dickbutt moss graffiti

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

favorited to draw giant dicks on campus

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I may be drunk, but im kinda sure you're painting grass in some of those

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Only one of those shots is actually from the process described.

12 years ago | Likes 130 Dislikes 1

That's important to know! Which one?

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

#10

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

...Seriously? The one that SHOWS the entire process.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

I reckon it's the one that says Green.

12 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Im 90% sure thats just a textured brush in photoshop...

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not gonna argue that. I just know the other ones are confirmed fakes.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm gonna paint my car.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I may be drunk.

12 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Ch-ch-ch-chia!

11 years ago | Likes 91 Dislikes 0

I think I saw this on Bill Nye when I was a kid. Neat.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

BRB, painting a dickbutt on my dorm.

12 years ago | Likes 370 Dislikes 12

This post makes me think i have lost my unique individuality. Now I have imgurian hive mind.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We are holding you to this now

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You cannot suggest a dickbutt and not prove the dickbutt

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please do this and post a picture

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Already beat you to it !

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Please, please deliver!

12 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

it doesnt work, this is fake

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Make it a big one!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my name is relevant!

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Pica or it didn't happen!

12 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

Pica Consult a doctor if you have a medical concern. Pica is a pattern of eating non-food materials, such as dirt or paper.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

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http://imgur.com/zSTiiy6

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

I lol'd

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Come on, OP. Let's see it.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Here you go:

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This doesn't work--according to this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfwen84Wmo

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Fine Print: Do not paint on a rolling stone.

12 years ago | Likes 1185 Dislikes 9

so, no paint on papa?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

The BOULDER confirms. Wait for said stone to stop moving, then apply directly to forehead.

12 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 5

HEADON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEADON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.

12 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

So I can't douse my papa in this?

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Not if wherever he lays his hat is his home.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But I want to paint it black.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Especially not Keef.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not? It's Only Rock and Roll

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I now want someone to paint a Rolling Stones graffiti with moss paint.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so painting on papa is out of the question

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ch ch ch chia

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just to be clear, are you referring to the rock, or to the singer?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Mythbusters was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this :)

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Have they tried this?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What if that rolling stone was your papa?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

But I thought moss grows fat on a rolling stone.

12 years ago | Likes 132 Dislikes 1

All contributors to this were up voted by me

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But that's not how it used to be

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

But that's not how it used to be.

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Well that's not how it used to be

12 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 0

That was just The Jester playing tricks after he sang for the King and Queen

12 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

If water works fine, why the hell would I waste good beer?

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Light beer is basically water...

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It doesn't mention light beer, but if I paid for it I'd probably rather it be consumed.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the picture shows light beer. and I have no idea why beer might be better. maybe for the yeast? no clue

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Light beer won't have yeast in it.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

im starting to see things on here that i run into from other websites, this place has lost all its oc

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

-1 for old, repost fake

12 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

...but many of our fellow imgurians may not have seen it yet. Me included.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So minus one for an old repost fake that you haven't seen yet.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I can get that.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

=D

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But it's still a fake. Weeks ago someone posted here how he tried this reciept.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I never doubted that part :P

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm pretty sure almost all of those photos were proven to be fake and were some kind of art thing, not grown

12 years ago | Likes 604 Dislikes 9

http://youtu.be/yMfwen84Wmo - Man Vs Pin!!!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually, the guy who "proved" it wrong used craft store moss, which has no spores and can't grow. It does in fact work.

12 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Whether the photos are fake or not, the moss recipe really works! Sauce: I dun it.

12 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

People need to stop upvoting nonsense to the front page.

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 12

Yup. This process described above doesn't work. At all.

12 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 5

aww i woulda painted my wall with it.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've done this and it worked... I only used buttermilk and moss though...

12 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Considering the handwriting (font?) of the before and after don't match.. luuulz.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

The word "Green" does match the before and after.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

a) Rounded b) the middle line is extended on one of the e's, not so on finished product

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rounding can be attributed to the moss growing. You spray it with water so some areas would expand while others get washed away/don't grow.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

While I see what you mean, I feel like water causing that would also drip so there'd be evidence below the line yanno?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not saying the rest of this post isn't fake, just that the one issue you called out needs more information to be discredited.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The pics are from an artist who developed a technique to grow sheets of moss, which she then cuts and glues onto walls.

12 years ago | Likes 225 Dislikes 1

So basically, all the milk and sugar and beer and shit amalgam is pointless. You just find some goddamn moss and stick it to the wall?

12 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 0

It's the new macaroni and glitter.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I bet this is just viral marketing for the buttermilk industry.

12 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Buttermilk-ish = 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Take that, buttermilk industry!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yup. Also, it's not used as vandalism. It's art.

12 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Yes I know vandalism is a form of art. I mean that people pay for the artist to do it.

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

This method works. Slowly. And not on sunny walls. But it works.

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

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12 years ago (deleted Oct 16, 2014 5:36 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

It's the spores you want, not the plant.

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Well if Sponges can survive being blended...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Link to a video trying this out, and (near the end) showing all the bullshit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfwen84Wmo

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

firstly, he didn't wash the excess soil off and after skipping to near the end, he says his neighbour washed it off.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

but he also shows how there's tons of lies and stuff!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did it look like it was going anywhere the day before his neighbour washed it off? No. And why would excess soil be bad thing?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dirt isn't moss, and dilutes the additives.

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