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Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection
In the eighteenth century, Chinese emperors and other elites began collecting snuff bottles, which they valued both as precious objects and as containers for powdered tobacco (snuff). They first used cylindrical medicine bottles to hold this new "medicine"—introduced from Japan in the late-seventeenth century—and then experimented with new bottle shapes and added stoppers with ivory spoons attached. The Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1736–1795) was particularly fond of these miniature containers, favoring the carved glass bottles made in the Imperial Glassworks that his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, had established in 1696. With the encouragement of the Qianlong ruler, snuff bottle production reached new aesthetic and technological heights, and their popularity continued through the late nineteenth century.
www.philamuseum.org/galleryhighlights/112.html
Taken at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
To all my smoking friends (you know who you are) NO this does not mean I am condoning it....I still hope one day you will all stop : )
Looming large in the small town of Helmetta is the now abandoned Helme Snuff Mill. The factory began producing snuff in the 1883, and by 1925 it was the largest of it's kind in the world, employing more than 400 people. In 1993, it was purchased by Swisher International, who closed down the mill, and moved operations to Wheeling, West Virginia. It has remained inactive ever since. The G. W. Helme Snuff Mill District is a classic example of a late 1800's mill town. The district consists of the George Washington Helme snuff mill, housing for employees, accessory buildings, St. George Episcopal Church, Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and Helmetta Pond, which at one time served as a source of power for the mill. About 115 buildings were originally in the district, which was named to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on February 1, 1980, and to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, New Jersey on August 15, 1980. It's been slated to be torn down, and replaced with new condos for many years now. You would think there would be at least one developer without shit for brains, that could see the potential of the mill as living space.
(Xylaria hypoxylon) Sometimes also called the Stags Horn Fungus. Although it looks very delicate, it's quite a strong and rubbery fungus which bends without breaking. It's black at the base, grey in the middle and white at the tips. Just like a snuffed candle wick - hence the common name!
ODC Old
I dug up this antique jar in an old homestead dump on Manitoulin Island in Canada. There were a lot of them in the dump and quite a few of us walked away with one.
George Weyman opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh in 1822. He was the inventor of “Copenhagen” snuff. The company became Weyman & Bros. in 1870, so this jar was probably made before then. There were several changes in name and ownership until it became the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. in 2001. That company is still in business. Your Weyman’s Snuff jar is worth about $25.
The eternal flame in the Peace Garden has been allowed to die while the pavilion has been fenced off in the Nathan Phillips Square Peace Garden, just in advance of the Aug. 6 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The original flame was transported as embers from Hiroshima in 1984 then lit by Pope John Paul II.
Lots of this fungus around at the moment - hope to get out and about this week looking for other types too - a week off I can't wait....
Yashica D TLR (1971)
Yashinon 80mm f3.5
Kodak Ektar 100
f11 @ 1/125sec
Nashville, TN. USA
Oct 29, 2014
Developed in Jobo press kit
chemistry @ normal times and temps.
Scanned on Epson V600
Cropped, color corrected, and
vignette added in Adobe PhotoShop
Elements 12 for Mac.
Lindsay House (1863) Snuff Mill Road, pre-dates most Glasgow tenements.Cathcart Mill and the Old Bridge (also known as Snuff Mill Bridge)over the White Cart Water .The date of the bridge's construction is uncertain but it was probably erected in the 18th century using masonry from an earlier one. A few yards south of the bridge stood a corn and wheat mill and next to it stood Millholm Mill. Originally built as a paper mill, Millholm was converted into a snuff mill at the height of the tobacco trade. When the tobacco boom years were over Millholm reverted to its former use and by 1835 was once more a paper mill. The bridge has a datestone of 1624 incorporated in 18th-century reconstruction.
Snuff Mill Lane, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield.
Mural by Phlegm, 2016.
Phlegm was invited to Sheffield along with 15 other local and international artists as part of the Feature Walls mural event.
Incredible Street Art Illustrations by Phlegm.
Another fantastic wall mural by Phlegm. This one is just off Ecclesall Road on Snuff Mill Lane and was painted in October 2016 for Feature Walls.
Phlegm has cleverly integrated the original street art by Bubba 2000 that could originally be found on this wall into his mural. Bubba’s jumping boy can be seen caged in one of the towers towards the centre of the wall. The security alarms on the wall have also been incorporated into his artwork.
streetartsheffield.com/gallery/phlegms-feature-walls
Born in North Wales and now residing in Sheffield, UK, cartoonist and illustrator Phlegm is well known for his self-published comics and amazing graffiti/street art. Many of the larger-than-life characters that adorn the walls he spray paints originate from his comics.
Much of his artwork is illustration-based, thus his lack of true graffiti-style lettering may lead some to describe his murals/walls as more cartoon-based art. Regardless of what you may categorize his work as, it is unique and intriguing.
I strongly suggest you visit his site and blog for maximum awesome sauce.
twistedsifter.com/2010/07/street-art-illustrations-by-phl...
I bought this glass ball from a snuff box painter (they used to paint stuff like this for snuff boxes). These extremely skilled painters take a glass ball that's hollow and paint it from the inside. The painter is adding my name and my girlfriend's name (translated into Chinese) to the base of the painting.
The snuff bottle is carved inside the citrine and painted from inside. An extremely difficult art form.
For the Art Goes Bowling show in Pittsburgh on the 25th, bowling pin art.
pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/2009/05/zombo-may-2009-u...
I know it's a bit sick, in fact don't know if it's legal to do this to a bowling pin in PA, but it's for a good cause- 100% of the proceeds goes to the artist!
Bury all your secrets in my skin.
Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins.
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again...
So if you love me, let me go.
And run away before I know.
My heart is just too dark to care.
I can't destroy what isn't there.
Deliver me into my Fate -
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you...
Ooh, my smile was taken long ago,
If I can change I hope I never know.
I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss.
I couldn't face a life without your light,
But all of that was ripped apart, when you refused to fight.
So save your breath, I will not care.
I think I made it very clear.
You couldn't hate enough to love.
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend.
Then I could hurt you in the end.
I never claimed to be a Saint...
Ooh, my own was banished long ago,
It took the Death of Hope to let you go
So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul.
You never needed any help...
You sold me out to save yourself...
And I won't listen to your shame.
You ran away, you're all the same.
Angels lie to keep control...
Ooh, my love was punished long ago,
If you still care, don't ever let me know...