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Half Full Glass – $11.95
Is your glass half full or half empty? Well, pessimists and optimists alike will surely agree that the Half Full Glass from the NeatoShop is definitely neat-o! Except if they’re engineers. Then, the glass is simply twice as big as it needs to be.
Link | More Fun and Unusual Glasswares and Drinkwares
Port-A-Pint Beer Glass – $7.95
This summer, don’t be caught short without a glass at a BYOB OMGBBQFTW party! Always bring your own portable beer glass – it sure beats drinking from those disposable cups any day. The Port-A-Pint Beer Glass from the NeatoShop opens with just a flick of your wrist: Link | More fun Glassware and Drinkware
Babushkups – $17.45
This one is just so danged cute! My favorite new item from the NeatoShop doesn’t flash, dance or jingle, but it’s actually quite neat: the Babushkups is a set of 3 glasses or tumblers that save shelf space by nesting. Each is painted with a folklorish homage to a babushka doll or Russian nesting doll.
See also: M-Cups Matryoshka Russian Nesting Doll Measuring Cups
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Is your loved one a self-righteous guy? Here's the perfect gift for him: BottleHood's Sublimely Self-Righteous Tumbler, made from Stone Brewery Co.'s limited run beer bottles: Link
Now, if he's a self-righteous and arrogant bastard, we've got that covered too!
Check out more BottleHood beer bottle tumblers from the NeatoShop: Link
Murrine glass is an art form using glass that is formed by layering colors and stretching the hot glass into a cane. Then the cane is cut into cross sections, exposing the colors and patterns inside. Robert Wiener is revolutionizing Murrine glass art. Using a spectrum of layered glass and a artistic mind, he creates some of the most innovative and inspirational pieces.
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This glass chandelier — which looks to me like a big ball of fur — was made by glass artist Robert Kaindl. At the link, you can see some simply amazing glasswork.
We don’t know whether Eva Milinkovic of Tsunami Glassworks was inspired by Blondie’s Heart Of Glass
Link – via Carrie Leber
Weaving glass? It seems impossible until you think of it backwards from the finished product. In this piece, the glass warp is formed in the finished shape before it is woven to the weft. Here you’ll find instructions for doing it yourself. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
It always bugs me when I see someone press on the glass portion of a door to open it (this is probably due to years in a job that required my cleaning such doors), so this footage from sometime in the 20th century is like justice. via YepYep
From The Fun Theory, a project by Volkswagen and the ones who brought us the piano staircase, comes bottle bank arcade. Again the question is posed, “If we make it fun, will people start doing it?” Yes, they will.
Thanks, Luna!
Listen to French artist Thomas Bloch demonstrating a glass harmonica, or armonica, at the Paris Music Museum. From Wikipedia:
Benjamin Franklin invented a radically new arrangement of the glasses in 1761 after seeing water-filled wine glasses played by Edmund Delaval at Cambridge in England in 1758.[6] Franklin, who called his invention the “armonica” after the Italian word for harmony, worked with London glassblower Charles James to build one, and it had its world premiere in early 1762, played by Marianne Davies.
In Franklin’s treadle operated version 37 bowls were mounted horizontally on an iron spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal. The sound was produced by touching the rims of the bowls with moistened fingers.
Winestein – $19.95
Is that an elegant wine glass or a manly beer stein? Actually, it’s both! Behold the Winestein, a double-walled beer mug with an internal cavity shaped just like an elegant wine stem.
You’ve only got a few more days till the end of Oktoberfest … but if you think about it, every day can be just like Oktoberfest if you have this puppy! From the Neatorama Shop: Link
Dale Chihuly makes some fascinating sculptures out of glass, as well as employing other odd methods, like painting with a common broom. He’s truly a talented artist, and worth a look-see.
Link (Also, today’s his birthday!)
SARS Corona Virus by Luke Jerram
Artist Luke Jarram has created glass sculptures of some of the deadliest diseases known to man including HIV, E. Coli and Small Pox. The incredibly intrincate sculptures challenge both the state of the art in glass sculpting and the ability of scientists to visualize these diseases. For instance scientists are unable to describe to Jarram how RNA is situated in the Capsid.
Jarram’s website includes a video showing how he uses glass blowing techniques to create the sculptures. The video shows him working on the HIV sculpture.
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Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolf came from a long line of talented glassmakers. As a hobby, Leopold began making glass flowers from illustrations in natural history books. So beautiful, accurate and delicate were these models, a buzz began to generate in his hometown in Germany, and a local aristocrat commissioned 100 glass orchids. Leopold’s son, Rudolf joined him in the painstakingly intricate work. Thus began a prolific career in natural history glassmaking, ending in the largest commission of their lives; an order from Harvard college for over 3000 plant and flower models for their botany students. Leopold didn’t live to see the completion of the project, but Rudolf continued on without him, working alone from 1895 – 1936, three years before his own death.
Link to story. Link to more photographs at Flickr.
(image credit: Curious Expeditions)
Other people have made guitar sculptures out of glass before, but glasscutter by day, rock drummer by night Brian Chivers of BC Glass Studio went one step further: he actually created a glass guitar (yes, all glass, except for the strings) that can actually be played.
It took Brian 15 years to figure out how to make it (and about 725 hours to actually make one) … and get this: he doesn’t even know how to play a guitar!
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Smash your Tiffany lamp, destroy your colored glass bottles and arrange them to create an amazing mosaic.
Yet another brilliant way of blending sustainability with style, these recycled glass countertops do more than simply reuse materials (being composed of 85% glass) – they also tell the story of their origins, from beer bottles to safety glass. The results are always unique one-of-a-kind designs.
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For only $26,150, you too can own a G-1 Glass pool table by Nottage Design.
It almost looks like you’re playing pool in mid air. By replacing the long traditional, tried-and-true felt and slate table top for some slippery glass, the game might not feel quite normal, but it will look stunning.
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Made in the early thirties, here’s a video clip of a man with a rifle testing an early version of the bulletproof glass … by having his wife hold the glass to her face while he shot at her!
No matter how good a shot I am, I don’t know if my wife would ever agree to such an experiment!
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