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.
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