Comments by "Steven Gill" (@stevengill1736) on "Commodity Culture" channel.

  1. When I was a kid, I did some platinotype, which is a contact printing method that utilizes platinum chemistry instead of silver. It takes ultraviolet light since it's pretty insensitive, but the prints are essentially grainless. It produces beautiful prints itself, but can be mixed with palladium, silver and other metals to produce different densities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_print#:~:text=Platinum%20prints%2C%20also%20called%20platinotypes,monochrome%20printing%20process%20involving%20platinum.&text=Platinum%20tones%20range%20from%20warm,are%20unobtainable%20in%20silver%20prints.
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  2. Well, the prices of platinum group metals probably aren't going down real soon, unless someone finds an asteroid full of it & manages to haul it to Earth...
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