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This is my absinthe water fountain that I got for my birthday.
Taken using a Hasselblad 500c/m with an 80mm Zeiss Planar lens to an Aptus 22 digital back.
French absinthe served 'Czech' style: first the absinthe is poured over a sugar cube resting on an absinthe spoon, then the cube is set alight after which water is poured over the caramelized sugar cube. If you don't caramelize the sugar apparently it won't mix very well with the water and alcohol...
I wanted to capture the sign promoting the mysterious beverage on this side street off the market in Antibes. Once banned in the United States and much of Europe, absinthe "la fée verte" (the green fairy) was the drink of choice for many artists of the day - van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Hemingway among them. Pause and observe the variety of retaurants and shops on just this small street.
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Another evening, another amateur cocktail. This one is called a Dead Ringer, which to my eyes is a complicated Negroni: 1oz St. George Dry Rye Reposado gin, 1oz St. George Terroir gin, 3/4oz Cocchi vermouth, 3/4oz Campari, and 13 drops of Wigle orange bitters, strained and served in a St. George absinthe-rinsed rocks glass. Squeeze a lemon rind over it.
I'm an amateur with no strainer, but the ice cube works out fine.
I found the recipe on the St. George website, and it actually specifies Junipero gin, made by a nearby competitor, but what I have on hand is St. George gin (and absinthe). Junipero is an excellent gin, and I'm lucky to have both distillers in the Bay Area.
The dry rye gin in particular makes this markedly different from the Negroni, an interesting variant.
11"x 14" original watercolor with inkline. Ah, to live a life of debauchery...
Part of a "Vice" series.
This original artwork is copyright Ramona Szczerba 2000. Image cannot be reproduced without my express written permission. Thanks!
We were surprised to find this in one of the bars inside the ramen museum. I am not totally sure it was real absinthe, but they did at least serve it in the proper way. Real absinthe is kind of clear until pour over a sugar cube - when the liquor mixes with the sugar it turns green. Which is what we have here. Also of note - this bar also serves children. It was odd to sit there drinking absinthe with a 5 year old propped up at the bar with his parents. LOVE Japan!
Green glass bottle, with broken bits of cork inside, which originally contained Pernod absinthe. The label is almost completely gone, but reads along the bottom, "Nous garantissons que cette absinthe a … / France en 1913 et provient du stock entre…" Maker's mark in glass. Cork at the top.
According to the donor, the bottle was part of the tray of ingredients which FDR has used to mix drinks, and that FDR had always added a bit of this liqueur when mixing his famous martinis.
Photographer: JK Potter
Model: Katzen
Make-Up: Katzen
Accessories: Art of Adornment ~ Victorian Gothic Jewelry & Accessories
Quote from the wikipedia entry for Absinthe:
"Today it is known that absinthe does not cause hallucinations, especially those described in the old studies. Thujone, the supposed active chemical in absinthe, is a GABA antagonist and while it can produce muscle spasms in large doses there is no evidence it causes hallucinations."
"The effects of absinthe have been described by artists as mind opening and even hallucinogenic and by prohibitionists as turning "good people" "mad and desolate". Sometimes called 'secondary effects', the most commonly reported experience is a 'clear-headed' feeling of inebriation - a 'lucid drunkenness', said to be caused by the thujone and other compounds. Some, such as chemist/absinthe historian Ted Breaux, say that these effects may be caused by the fact that some of the compounds act as stimulants, others as sedatives, overall creating a neutral effect.[29] Most others feel that the placebo effect and individual reaction to the herbs make these secondary effects subjective and minor compared to the psychoactive effects of alcohol."
"A study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol[30] concluded that a high concentration of thujone in alcohol has negative effects on attention performance. It slowed down reaction time, and subjects concentrated their attention in the central field of vision. Medium doses did not produce an effect noticeably different from plain alcohol. The high dose of thujone in this study was larger than what one can get from current beyond-EU-regulation 'high thujone' absinthe before becoming too drunk to notice."
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In other words, clever marketing and artwork.
That box art is really really cool. It is by Ron English
In preparation for my birthday Chö brought two bottles of Absinthe and we prepared to see the
In preparation for my birthday Chö brought two bottles of Absinthe and we prepared to see the Green Fairy.
Vieux Pontelier Absinthe 65 ($14)
... prepared by dripping ice cold water via a vintage absinthe fountain over a sugar cube that Alexandra Albert sourced.
Bartender Michael Mooney walks us through the process.
Absinthe C'est La Mort Microscope Slide Pendant features an image of a skeletal waiter pouring absinthe from an anti-absinthe poster from the early part of the 19th century when abolitionists were trying to get absinthe banned.
The back of the pendant features a picture of another anti-absinthe poster from the same time period. This one is of a skull and reads C'est La Mort. Translated to English it means "Absinthe is death".
My two sided pendants make versatile accessories and look great no matter which side you choose to wear. The image on each side is protected by a glass microscope slide.
Microcope slide pendant measures 3 inches tall by 1 inch wide and is enclosed by a black patina flip frame.
Pendant has been embellished with a lead free pewter skeleton key charm and a vintage pocket watch gear.
"Picasso cast six bronze copies of Glass of Absinthe from a plaster original and decorated each of them uniquely. Here he broke new ground by incorporating an existing object into his sculpture: a real absinthe spoon nestles between the modeled bronze sugar cube and glass. (Absinthe is prepared by pouring the brilliant green liquid through a sugar cube resting on a slotted spoon like the one seen here.) Picasso spoke of his desire to explore different modes of representation: "I was interested in the relation between the real spoon and the modeled glass. In the way they clashed with each other."
In 1914, with France on the brink of war, absinthe was a subject of fierce debate. It was prohibited in early 1915 as a threat to French health and moral vigor. Picasso's sculpture can be seen as a tiny monument to a disappearing bohemian culture. "
from: www.moma.org