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Glass
Nov 4, 2012 19:59:38 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2012 19:59:38 GMT
Baddety-baddety BOOM, Mossie! ;D
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Glass
Jan 21, 2013 16:54:51 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2013 16:54:51 GMT
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Glass
Jan 21, 2013 19:44:39 GMT
Post by lugg on Jan 21, 2013 19:44:39 GMT
What a lovely photo Bixa , I love how the light is reflected through the glass
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Glass
Feb 12, 2013 21:25:39 GMT
Post by rikita on Feb 12, 2013 21:25:39 GMT
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 3:13:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2013 3:13:59 GMT
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 3:24:14 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2013 3:24:14 GMT
Ohhhhhhh! Is that what you're bringing me from your trip? Beautiful photo!
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 3:31:58 GMT
Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 3:31:58 GMT
I want that!
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 3:45:03 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2013 3:45:03 GMT
I dibbsed it first!
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 3:46:05 GMT
Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 3:46:05 GMT
I'm closer.
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 4:49:55 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2013 4:49:55 GMT
Brat!
It is just the most tremendously cool thing!
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 4:54:45 GMT
Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 4:54:45 GMT
Yes, it is. I'd like to know the size. Maybe we could share. Six months for you, and six for me.
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Glass
Apr 6, 2013 17:57:10 GMT
Post by htmb on Apr 6, 2013 17:57:10 GMT
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Glass
Apr 7, 2013 1:25:33 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 1:25:33 GMT
Ohhhhhhh! Is that what you're bringing me from your trip? Beautiful photo! It's just the light fixture at the entrance of the Treasure Bay Casino in Biloxi.
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Glass
Apr 7, 2013 1:26:51 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 1:26:51 GMT
Yes, it is. I'd like to know the size. It's about as big as a car.
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Glass
Apr 7, 2013 1:29:52 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2013 1:29:52 GMT
And just think, coincidentally you know someone who's looking for a nice new large lamp.
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Glass
Apr 13, 2013 16:09:46 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 13, 2013 16:09:46 GMT
A Chihuly lamp will set you back at least $25,000, bixa. Still want one?
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Glass
Apr 13, 2013 16:17:06 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 13, 2013 16:17:06 GMT
My Dad blew glass for over 65 years, and this is one of the only photos I have of him doing it. :-( The shop was in our basement, and I guess I took it for granted....
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Glass
Apr 13, 2013 19:28:12 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2013 19:28:12 GMT
Glass blowing is well, mind blowing! Great pic, Kimby. Did you ever have a desire to learn glass blowing? A Chihuly lamp will set you back at least $25,000, bixa. Still want one? It's worth it!
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Glass
Apr 13, 2013 20:53:34 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 13, 2013 20:53:34 GMT
Bixa, all 3 daughters did some simple glassblowing to earn spending money while in school. I was not a fan. I hated the noises the torches made, especially when they popped loudly as they were wont to do, and I was always burning myself because scientific glass (Pyrex) looks cold when it's hot.
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Glass
Apr 14, 2013 1:32:28 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2013 1:32:28 GMT
Gad! I really admire you for trying -- it seems really scary.
Does this mean you're not making me an art glass lamp?
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Glass
Apr 14, 2013 1:43:42 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 14, 2013 1:43:42 GMT
Bixa, I'd probably burn my mother's house down if I tried, without Dad there to supervise!
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Glass
Jul 31, 2013 15:35:11 GMT
Post by htmb on Jul 31, 2013 15:35:11 GMT
I think that, of all the image bank threads, glass is one of my favorites. Per post #46, I have a pair of shoes just like that, only red. I've had them for years and now I can't find them, though I have been looking ever since I saw that post
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Glass
Aug 4, 2013 20:27:17 GMT
Post by rikita on Aug 4, 2013 20:27:17 GMT
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Glass
Aug 13, 2013 6:07:42 GMT
Post by Kimby on Aug 13, 2013 6:07:42 GMT
A piece of scientific glassware, made by my Dad. This was shown to me by a neighbor who had been a biochemist and he liked it so much that he saved it when he retired. He was proud to show it off to me (didn't offer to GIVE it to me though!) and explain what it was for and how it was designed collaboratively by the scientists and Dad. It is a "manifold for washing pipettes". Pipettes are thin, tapered glass tubes used for extracting solutions by capillary action. (Dad - and actually his 3 daughters -made them, too.) The manifold was connected to a vacuum pump that pulled cleaning solution through the pipettes which would be connected to all those nipples by hoses. I had never seen this particular creation of my Dad's. So much of what he did was custom work and sometimes one of a kind, but fairly often his creations caught on and were ordered by other professors and scientists. Several of the scientists he worked with won Nobel Prizes, and he and his glassblowing are mentioned in many scholarly papers.
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Glass
Aug 13, 2013 6:08:31 GMT
Post by Kimby on Aug 13, 2013 6:08:31 GMT
(I'm very sorry about the poor focus. Probably disqualifies it from this Image Bank thread.)
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Glass
Aug 13, 2013 22:03:25 GMT
Post by htmb on Aug 13, 2013 22:03:25 GMT
Fascinating, Kimby. I love hearing your stories behind some of your glass pictures.
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Glass
Aug 13, 2013 23:50:09 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2013 23:50:09 GMT
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Glass
Aug 15, 2013 8:01:12 GMT
Post by mossie on Aug 15, 2013 8:01:12 GMT
Those glass drops are doing just what they should do. Super effect.
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Glass
Aug 16, 2013 16:33:23 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2013 16:33:23 GMT
Thank you, Mossie. We'd gone into that church to check out the flowers & were sprawled in the front pew grousing about the poor light when someone turned on the electric lights. My friend said that it would ruin any chance for a decent photo. I, however, was excited by the glare, not having realized previously that there was sparkly glass on the vases. Before & after:
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Glass
Aug 16, 2013 16:51:48 GMT
Post by tod2 on Aug 16, 2013 16:51:48 GMT
Bixa - You have done one heck of photo job on 1) Those close-ups on the chandeliers and flowers....SUPERB! And 2) the flowers en mass against the bright chandeliers in the background- just wonderful! You are definitely a pro in my book.
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