More Glassware

[Sabarika]

My last post with this content went a bit off-topic, but here's what I got. First all of these are clean and yes, sold for tobacco use only, I'm not condoning the use of illicit drugs online blah blah. :D

Second I am REALLY wanting to invest in a good lightbox since my DIY skills are NIL. That and I want a ringflash too bad..oh man. Most of these were taken with a few random house lamps pointed at the subject on white paper or were on white paper outside on a sunny day with or without flash. Any and ALL tips or critiques welcome.
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/genielamp2.jpg
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/blackswirl2.jpg[/imh]http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/blackswirl1.jpg
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/bday01.jpg
Aww a Planarian.. :3
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http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/bluespiral01.jpg
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/bluespiral00.jpg

[Sabarika]

Hmm limit time..
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/blackswirl2.jpg
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/blackswirl1.jpg

[mathogre]

You could do a photographic study on each one of these. They're beautiful. I can almost feel the nicotine filling my lungs. Aaaah. (In the 70s, one could purchase tobacco (no, really!) to roll one's own cigarettes and fill one's pipes.)

The operation of #1 is fairly obvious. #2 is not, though it looks really neat. Additional photos would help. #3, uh, we won't go there. ;) Suffice it to say it reminds me of good times in a distant (and fondly recalled) past. Being a mathemagician, #4 hints at a Kline bottle. I normally deal in vector math, but topology is an interesting diversion. #5 reminds me of a mobile model I kept stored in my car for special times.

I'll say that I quit smoking a number of years ago. Mostly I smoked commercially produced cigarettes. For one thing, they were damaging my lungs. For another thing, sometimes I'd just zone and lose motivation. Cool as that might have been, it wasted my time.

[Sabarika]

Thank you! I actually want to either buy or build (my building skills suck so buying makes sense to me) a nice lightbox simply so I can open my opportunities in exploring each glass pipe I (and others) own--they are all beautiful but so difficult to capture. And hey, you can still roll your own cigarettes these days, but seems people would prefer to spent $5+ a pack instead of $5 for two giant bags of tobacco with papers. Go figure, too lazy to roll their own? They make rolling MACHINES now.

#2 is an odd pipe, it was a VERY late birthday gift from my boyfriend's personal collection and the purple spikey part is simply glass--solid, attached to the bottom of the blue. The left side is the mouthpiece and the right is the bowl. More photos of this alien-esque thing:
http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/bday02.jpg
Turned upside-down: http://www.spiralingdreams.com/albums/misc/bday00.jpg
The colors are impossible for me to capture, it's a lavenderish purple and blue glass but I am bad with getting my white balance correct.

#4 is my favorite piece, it was my boyfriends' and he was going to sell it so I bought it for about half what he paid and do not regret it. He said it was a stemless bubbler but I don't care what they call it, I love the swirls and spirals and how it intertwines in itself.

Congrats on quitting, if you feel it is an accomplishment. :) My boyfriend smokes cigarettes and I have grown up surrounded by people who do including family (although myself I hate the smell/taste, gives me headaches). He recently began buying and testing electronic cigarettes, his favorite is one he can refill himself with nicotine/glycerol (I think) that comes in a dropper bottle and lasts forever but is without all the tar he says. Essentially they vaporize the tobacco or nicotine or whatever is in them, I feel dumb for putting it that way but since I don't smoke or use them I'm a bit clueless.

[mathogre]

#2 is an odd pipe, it was a VERY late birthday gift from my boyfriend's personal collection and the purple spikey part is simply glass--solid, attached to the bottom of the blue. The left side is the mouthpiece and the right is the bowl. More photos of this alien-esque thing:

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The colors are impossible for me to capture, it's a lavenderish purple and blue glass but I am bad with getting my white balance correct.


It's definitely cool looking, and I think you did a nice job with it.


Congrats on quitting, if you feel it is an accomplishment. :) My boyfriend smokes cigarettes and I have grown up surrounded by people who do including family (although myself I hate the smell/taste, gives me headaches). He recently began buying and testing electronic cigarettes, his favorite is one he can refill himself with nicotine/glycerol (I think) that comes in a dropper bottle and lasts forever but is without all the tar he says. Essentially they vaporize the tobacco or nicotine or whatever is in them, I feel dumb for putting it that way but since I don't smoke or use them I'm a bit clueless.

Thank you. It was/is an accomplishment of sorts, though I'm not a "born again" type ex-smoker. I enjoyed smoking and have no desire to preach about quitting. I quit many years ago for various reasons, including asthma, though I've smoked a few cigars since "quitting." (I smoked a pack or so of cigarettes a day.) I recently had a checkup and the doctor said I have the lung capacity of a teenager. Ha ha ha!!!!! I'll take that.

[Flo]

Beautiful glass! I have a few pieces..we have some amazing glasskrafters [ how they spell it]here on the island.
Your photos are fabulous.