More Songs About Roumania

[rain_gryphon]

Colour photographs of Soviet street scenes in the early 1950s. As always, this sort of thing fascinates me.

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I never knew that we once tried making coins out of glass.

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Android app identifies birds from photos.

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[mejeep.livejournal.com]

the glass coins are fascinating.
I <3 glass. I have a small glass collection and totally geeked out about glass at the Corning Museum.

"Steam Victorian" was a glorious 2 issue 'zine about steampunk anthropomorphics. I wanted to write a series of stories about a glassblower who worked with all the famous scientists of the day, and the way he almost invented things on his own. "Professor Almost" was the working title.

YouTube celebrates glassworkers of all kinds, even folks still hand-making neon and nixie display tubes!

The Soviet photos are amazing for showing everyday life and the humble every-man. Too bad the descriptions are full of click-bait exaggerated titles.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I've been to the Corning Museum- absolutely loved it. My family saw the Chiluly exhibit in Boston a few years back, but I missed it.

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

http://www.chihuly.com/
I never knew Dale Chihuly did neon!
PBS had a series, each show about one glass-artist.
Dale was in his tentacle-monster-glass phase, installing one above canals in Venice, visiting glass-makers around the world for glass-blowing collaborations. "no reheats! no reheats!"

The Corning Museum has temporary exhibits. I'd love to visit for a weekend but it's too far for a day trip :-(

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I saw Chiluly when he exhibited here some years back at the Franklin Conservatory. Very organic works, that fit in well with the tropical plants that are the raison d'etre of the place. When Findra took me to see the jellyfish at Monterey Aquarium a few years later, they had an exhibit of Chiluly glass there also, in forms reminiscent of deep sea life.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! I think I still have my copies of Steam Victorian :) I picked up practical skills in blowing and shaping borosilicate glass as part of my chemistry training, but never did anything fancy.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

The photos look like the ones from my 6th grade history books, considered current in 1966- sadly these are the images my mind conjures up when I think of the Soviet Union.

Glass coins? Fascinating! So much metal went to the War effort. I used to have a dog license tag from 1943 that was steel like the pennies.