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Last year while in Prague, we walked into this Absinthe shop where they sold absinthe-flavored ice cream. It was actually pretty good!
In a cafe, a fashionable meeting place, a man and a woman, although sitting side-by-side, are locked in silent isolation, their eyes empty and sad, with drooping features and a general air of desolation. The painting, entitled 'In a Cafe" (and also called "Absinthe") by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), can be seen as a denunciation of the dangers of absinthe, a violent, harmful liquor which was later prohibited. The realistic dimension is flagrant: the cafe is "La Nouvelle Athènes", in Place Pigalle, a meeting place for modern artists and a hotbed of intellectual bohemians. The framing gives the impression of a snapshot taken by an onlooker at a nearby table. But this impression is deceptive because, in fact, the real life effect is carefully contrived. The picture was painted in the studio and not in the cafe.
Degas asked people he knew to pose for the figures: Ellen André was an actress, and an artist's model; Marcellin Desboutin was an engraver and artist. The painting cast a slur on their reputations and Degas had to state publicly that they were not alcoholics.
This is a photograph of the original Degas painting 'In a Cafe" (painted in 1873) currently on display at the Orsay Museum (Musee d'Orsay) in Paris, France.
Absinthe originated in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It achieved great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. Due in part to its association with bohemian culture, absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists. Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Alfred Jarry were all notorious 'bad men' of that day who were (or were thought to be) devotees of the Green Fairy. (source)
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and a thank you to romling for a place to start
www.flickr.com/photos/romling/3345763225/in/pool-textures...
TFA Absinthe 2 is Water Soluble concentrate flavouring from The Perfumers Apprentice. Made in USA by The Flavor Apprentice ( The Perfumers Apprentice) and rebottled in the UK by Vapour Depot Limited.
When I entered the room sun was shining through the windows and Absinthe from Dominic Miller was playing.
Felt comfortable.
Absinthe Ad, Privat Livemont, Brussels 1896, from Art Nouveau, 20 Beautiful Color Postcards, Bloomsbury Books 1993
Shot at the 4th Edition of Emporium Vernesque a Steampunk gathering in Arnhem, Netherlands, November 2015
(super fast sketch) ink brush pen & Paper
She said "Why did you drink it again, remember what happened last time?"
I was carefully trying to handle my Stravinsky record which had been reduced to the size of a game board piece. I pretended not to hear her but it was no good, I could feel her staring at me. I shrugged my shoulders.
"How much did you have?"
Before I could, she answered her own question.
"Obviously more, a lot more as you are even bigger than last time,,,,"
I told her I was going out, being careful not to step on the cat whose cries occurred at the same times every day making him a sort of neighborhood clock,
(WWolfson)
this is a replica of an absinthe fountain from 1900, recently aquired from france for the pourhouse.
Looks like a Steampunk insect on display, but it is actually a reproduction Absinthe dripper with patented see-saw action. Very clever and beautiful design
We were having a bbq because it's such nice weather here for once. Peter was making us an absinthe and so I thought it was the perfect time to have a few try outs with a new camera. :)