From "That Art Piece on Your Coffee Table? It’ll Get You High. Cannabis paraphernalia is joining the world of home décor. Here are some of the most interesting new designs and designers" (NYT)(free-access link).
I'm expending one of my 10 gift links on this one because I want you to see some of the godawful pottery the NYT is promoting for artists and empowerers of people of color. I found this article at the top of the NYT home page, right next to "Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike." No pun intended, I'm sure.
I'm old enough to remember the kind of gigantic atrocious ashtray that was regarded as an "art piece on your coffee table," back in the heyday of tobacco smoking.
Smoking paraphernalia "joined the world of home decor" a long time ago.
By the way, did you ever look and look and finally find a place where people helped you feel safe and feel able to create whatever you want without thinking and then you relocated to Mexico?Now, get out there and be creative. Creative for the people. Of color. Perhaps orange. Or avocado....
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What’s going on in those studios where she doesn’t feel comfortable being creative?
Many things can help zhuzh up your coffee table, but what about a tabletop lighter in the shape of a Jell-O dessert mold?
I confess I didn't get much from reading that piece, but now I know how to spell zhuzh and I guess that's something.
Not sure how to feel about this. I hate the idea of weed as an acceptable adult pastime unless you have glaucoma or more treatments coming but making money off pot heads feels appropriately exploitative…
…it won’t take long for that pretty glass stair step pipe to look like the inside of your lungs…
…yes thank you for that! I’ve struggled…
America, more or less, got rid of tobacco smoke but now pot smoke is okay.
While we’re at it, let’s bring back shag carpet and avocado green appliances.
When I read these comments from one of the featured artists, "After starting with a curl pipe, she thought: “What if I made a pretzel?” Then she made the pretzel even tighter, and the knot pipe was born." ...I suddenly thought of Mickey Rooney saying to Judy Garland "Hey, kids, let's put on a show."
That Knot Pipe looks like a white turd.
I made an ashtray out of a piece of copper sheeting using a ball peen hammer in metal shop in high school
You could sell each of those things for $500K if your Dad is VP.
I remember our kids making this stuff (at about the same level of artistry) when their school would take them to a place called Art From Scrap. My kids loved it when I referred to it as Art From Crap. (Their teacher gave me "that look".)
I think I made one for my parents when I was in kindergarten that looked about like that second one.
We had one exactly like the top (orange) one when I was very young, but it was dark green with gold highlights. And my parents didn’t even smoke - it was for neighbors or friends who might drop by who smoked.
Can we sue them for promoting smoking? I hear that was successful in stopping this nonsense the first time.
Useful for inducing flashbacks.
That ashtray still works just as designed, just like the avocado green fridge you put out in the garage four fridges ago. Objections are simply aesthetic, except of the comments re: lungs.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
No lies detected here.
Ashtrays have always been useful,
“In the past, Hillary had thrown books and an ashtray at the president — both hitting their mark."
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2015/Oct/08/hillary-threw-ashtray-at-husband-bill-slapped-him-in-rage-book-826510.html
"...without thinking: Am I going to sell this or is this going to be something that people are going to want in their stores?' "
If she makes a living selling this crap, good for her.
But I knew a LOT of theater and Art majors way back in college. Almost none of them actually asked themselves is, "this going to be something that people are going to want in their stores?", or can I make a living on stage. Not one remained in the "arts" as a profession. Many persisted for years saying things like yeah I sell shoes, but I'm really a sculpter.
Oh wow, man. Have you ever looked at this hookah? I mean really looked at it. Deep.
I'm starting to revise my opinions about the relative harmlessness of weed. Jeez.
People of color? White encompasses the multitude.
The Rainbow is a segregation and destruction of diversity.
I do enjoy cranky style critic Althouse, though. Let 'er rip!
Yes!!!! Although I think it was in first grade that we did ceramics. I don't have the ashtray anymore but I do have the saber tooth tiger from those days. It's amazing to me how fresh and new it still looks with the glaze.
Inside Stoners Den at the Manson caves on the old Spahn ranch someone carved a pipe into a Chatsworth formation sandstone Boulder. Part of the ritual was to smoke your pot in that communal pipe. Of course everyone believed it was Charlie's pipe.
The orange one is bitchin’ but the avocado one illustrates everything wrong with 1970s design.
I really like the orange one. Back before I became a cigarette smoker I had a gorgeous collection of ashtrays, some really stunning pieces. When I started smoking, I couldn't stand to see them used that way so I got rid of them. Now I don't smoke or own ashtrays.
We used to use the purges from plastic extrusion machines.
"Man fears Time, but Time Fears the Pyramids. And Avocado Green appliances."
Gummies are a lot less trouble, and require no paraphernalia.
I'm old enough to remember when the doctor I was waiting to see might show up with a cig dangling from his lips.
Good times.
"I met a lot of people that help me feel safe...."
Seeing the "S" word much lately, wondering why. Why is this person exhibiting weakness? Inadvertently? Intentionally? As a sales strategem?
Yes, weakness. First to mind is the putative Franklin quote: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Does this person want to "feel safe" or to "be safe?" The two need not be co-incident, but divergence of feeling from actual condition is ipso facto rejecting reality.
Oh. And if you want to be safe, nix on the psychoactive drugs.
Ages ago when my father smoked, our family ashtray was the top of a piston from a Corsair engine. About 6" diameter, with little cooling ribs inside which handily trapped the ash. Also a lovely silver and red paint scheme.
I may still have it in my garage...
Some people put decorative ashtrays on their coffee tables and some people put Playboy magazines.
Here's a nice one that seems in tune with the times.
Please use the Althouse Amazon portal for your purchase.
I recently rewatched "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"(1952) with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Everyone chain smokes. There are a lot of scenes where couples are lighting each other's cigarettes. The liquor cabinet is open well before noon. The natives are docile. And when folks aren't smoking, drinking, or committing adultery, they are shooting endangered species just for the fun of it.
A different world.
Now that's living! It can be stressful for me watching old movies now that I neither drink nor smoke.
Making ashtrays was a common art project in elementary school. I recall making one- as directed. Even then- I couldn't stand tobacco smoke with two parents who smoked like chimneys. That era has thankfully gone by the wayside. Used to be smokers were catered to- you were a bad host if you failed to indulge tobacco addicts and allow them to stink up your house. Now you're a bad guest if you ask to do so. That's one of the few societal changes that has occurred in my lifetime that I'm supportive of.
We will never attain a more perfect union as long as the term "people of color" continues to be lavished about.
Same here Fritz, and since my folks didn't smoke mom kept pins and the like in it.
Unsafe for that woman means receiving criticism about her crappy "art". Now she is in a safe place where no one tells her it's crap.
A Democrat VP, that is. Republicans would get investigated or impeached.
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