If watching paint dry sounds too exhilarating, you could take a leaf out of Helen Southall's book.

如果说看着油漆干似乎还有点意思，你可以扯下海伦伦·索撒尔的一页书看看。

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This one gleams with fresh white paint and gold leaf.

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For example, Atlanta's Sto Corp. created a self-cleaning paint that repels dirt whenever it gets wet, just like the lotus leaf does.

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Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.

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