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One of my favorite parts of old downtown Nashville, the neon Bruton Snuff sign at U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.
"And I got a good job in Nashville
No way they can pay me enough
For grindin’ up tobacco leaves
Making Bruton snuff" - Johnny Cash. (Song: "Southern Comfort," from the album Ragged Old Flag, 1974)
A fake magazine cover I designed for one of my art classes a few years ago. I also took the photo (the fellow's name is Buff Fluff ^_^), and that little pixelated bunny is a creation of mine, too. (I did not take the Domokun photo, although I guess if anyone complains, I do have a Domokun to photograph in its place.)
And yes, I know what snuff films are, haha, but they're also the names of little miniature Snuffles bears, so that's why I chose it. (okay, and the fact that I like the contrast. hahah If you know me, cuteness and murder go hand in hand! hahah :D)
I should also note, this is like, my dream magazine. haha Bears, gravy, violence, television, underwear, crafts. That about sums me up.
Please do not repost without my permission! Thank you. :)
File name: 10_03_001982b
Binder label: Tobacco / Cigarettes
Title: Copenhagen Snuff. [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Men; Dogs; Hand tools; Snuff
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Weyman & Bro.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Caption: "Sniff and Snuff, the Super Fire-Safe Snoopers." Sniff and Snuff were created in the mid 1960s by Hanna-Barbera and the California Division of Forestry for use in a forest fire prevention campaign aimed at children. Signed by artist "Rodriguez" in lower-right corner.
Date: c. 1968
To learn more about the Sniff and Snuff characters, see: Forgotten Characters from Forest History: Sniff and Snuff.
For information on photo use and more, see the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.
The old snuff mill in Cathcart.
Not a lot of it can be seen from the original view point due the the concrete flood wall.
(Project 365 Day 313)
I don't know why people feel the need to make up poorly-evidenced conspiracy theories when there are conspiracies right under our noses with plenty of evidence. According to this AP report, whistleblowers in Iraq get smacked down. When private firms are misusing gov't funds or selling weapons to insurgents, brave individuals occasionally report the abuse. When they do, they get their responsibilities stripped, detained for months by the military they think they're trying to help, and even tortured.
In every case, whistleblowers get their lives destroyed. In the only case where a whistleblower was actually won a case in court, it got overturned by a higher court on the basis that the Coalition Provisional Authority was not part of the US Government.
Silencing the "rats"... That's a classic Mafia tactic, isn't it? Why aren't people more outraged about our gov't doing this?
I read an article a few weeks ago about the power that factory owners now have in China. A New York Times reporter was detained by a factory for trying to report on them, and the cops and even local officials were powerless to intervene. "Man, things sure are messy in China," is what I thought. "I'm glad things aren't like that here." Well, I guess they aren't like that here because there are too many eyes watching. But plop these same Americans in Iraq, away from the prying eyes of journalists and the public, and human nature re-asserts itself.
So depressing. :(
I don't know why I feel so riled up about this, but I do. I mean, I normally feel kinda numb to war and civilian casualties and all that, but not with this. Maybe I've been watching too many action movies? The lone advocate, bucking the system to take on the bad guys! A candle against the darkness! And here he's getting snuffed out. Or maybe it's that I actually do have faith in the system. Our country should be better than this!
Maybe I feel that, for all its flaws, our gov't does have mechanisms to heal itself, to improve itself. And here, all those mechanisms have failed. It's scary to think of our gov't as so actively corrupt. I feel like I lost a little faith in our country today...
(Or maybe I just stayed up too late last night watching the lunar eclipse, and I need to go to bed. Good night.)
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In a follow-up to an image I posted yesterday, this shows the front of the Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. We had attended on of the regular candlelight concerts held there in this wonderful setting, both visually and acoustically. But all good things come to an end and the candles need to be snuffed. Sadly, this type of image depends heavily on the subject matter remaining stationary. People snuffing candles do not fit that pattern well so this has some subject blur. Such is life. - JW
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The base images were taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, exposure bias EV-0.33, 3 auto-bracketed frames at EV+2, 0, -2 around nominal 1 seconds base. HDR processing was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui to produce a version emphasising, detail (Mantiuk model) and a second version emphasising colours (Fattal). PP in GIMP: loaded the Mantiuk version as the bottom layer and the Fattal version as the top layer, set the opacity of the Fattal layer to 33% and created a new working layer from the visible results, duplicated the working layer and set the blend mode to multiply to darken the image and the opacity to 50% to adjust the darkening to a suitable level and created a new working layer from the visible result, adjusted the tone curve to get a more natural and slightly contrastier image, loaded the original EV-2 image as a layer below the HDR layer and using a soft-edged eraser tool revealed the candles below the overly-bright HDR, created a new working layer from the result, loaded the EV+0 image as a layer below the working layer and adjusted the tone curve of the EV+0 to match facial brightness to the working layer man, used a soft-edged eraser tool to remove the man in the working layer and reveal the sharper (less motion blurred) from the lightened EV+0 layer, created a new working layer from the result, slightly darkened and increased contrast overall, slightly boosted saturation, sharpened, added fine black and white frame, added bar and text on left, scaled to 1800 wide for posting.
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Long time no see flickr! n_n
I know, i know.... i've been SUUUUUUPER lazy lately BUT i recently got my selfe a set of lightstands & backdrop! YAY! i'm super exited about that and i planed to use it a lot.
I HAVE NEW TOYS! :D
This photo it's only a test, I only used one light stand cuz' they are huge, and my bedroom is too small, so this is what it came out! n_n
I need some guinea pigs so i can play with my new toys! who's up for it? ;)
No song cover for this but i will recommend you a song that i've been so obsessed with this couple of weeks. It's from the great band SLIPKNOT, the thing is it doesn't sound like them but it is still awesome I_I
As I broke my right wrist at the weekend I wont be able to do these for a while but I was working on this before I fell.
The picture shows the dam which supplied power to the snuff mill in cathcart while in use and as it remains today.
I spent ages lighting and blowing this candle out (I don't get out much ;). Out of all the shots the very first test frame turned out to be the best. Typical...
Prints and hi-res downloads available from iStock
Snuff is a product made from ground or pulverised tobacco leaves. It is an example of smokeless tobacco. It originated in the Americas and was in common use in Europe by the 17th century.
It is generally insufflated (inhaled) or "snuffed" through the nose either directly from the fingers or by using specially made "snuffing" devices. There is a general misconception associated with "the snuff sniff." The nicotine in snuff is absorbed through the mucus membrane, so a pinch of snuff only needs to get into the nose. Most snuffers agree that if the snuff gets into the sinuses, one is inhaling too strongly.
Snuff is usually scented or flavoured. Typical flavours are floral, mentholated (also called 'medicated'), fruit, and spice, either pure or in blends. Other common flavours include camphor, cinnamon, rose and spearmint. Modern flavours include Bourbon, cherry, Cola and whisky.
Snuff comes in a range of texture and moistness, from very fine to coarse, and from toast (very dry) to very moist. Often drier snuffs are ground finer. There are also a range of tobacco-free snuffs, such as Poschl's Weiss, made from glucose powder or herbs. Whilst strictly speaking these are not snuffs because they contain no tobacco, they are an alternative for those who wish to avoid nicotine, or for 'cutting' a strong snuff to an acceptable strength.
Snuff taking by the native peoples of modern-day Haiti was observed by a Spanish monk named Ramon Pane on Columbus' second journey to the Americas from 1493 until 1496.[1]
In 1561 Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal, sent snuff to Catherine de' Medici to treat her son's persistent migraines.[2] Her belief in its curative properties helped to popularise snuff among the elite.[3]
By the 17th century some prominent objectors to snuff taking arose. Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff takers. In Russia in 1643, Tsar Michael instituted the punishment of removing of the nose of those who used snuff. Despite this, use persisted elsewhere; King Louis XIII of France was a devout snufftaker, and by 1638, snuff use had been reported to be spreading in China.
By the 18th century, snuff had become the tobacco product of choice among the elite, prominent users including Napoleon, King George III's wife Queen Charlotte, and Pope Benedict XIII. The taking of snuff helped to distinguish the elite members of society from the common populace, which generally smoked its tobacco.[3] It was also during the 18th century that an English doctor, John Hill, warned of the overuse of snuff, causing vulnerability to nasal cancers. The John Hill report is quoted to this day in some medical reports.[4] Snuff's image as an aristocratic luxury attracted the first U.S. federal tax on tobacco, created in 1794.
In 18th-century Britain, the Gentlewoman's Magazine advised readers with ailing sight to use the correct type of Portuguese snuff, "whereby many eminent people had cured themselves so that they could read without spectacles after having used them for many years."[citation needed]
In certain areas of Africa, snuff reached native Africans before white Europeans did. A fictional representation of this is in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, where the Igbo villagers are regular snuff-takers long before they ever encounter the first British missionaries. In some African countries, such as South Africa and Nigeria, snuff is still popular with the older generation, though its use is slowly declining, with cigarette smoking becoming the dominant form of tobacco use.
In recent years, because of the ban on smoking in pubs in most European Union countries, the practice of snuff taking has increased somewhat.[5]
When snuff taking was fashionable, the manufacture of snuff accessories was a lucrative industry in several cultures. In Europe, snuff boxes ranged from those made in very basic materials, such as horn, to highly ornate designs featuring precious materials made using state of the art techniques. Since prolonged exposure to air causes snuff to dry out and lose its quality, pocket snuff boxes were designed to be airtight containers with strong hinges, generally with enough space for a day's worth of snuff only.[6] Large snuff containers, called mulls (made from a variety of materials, notably including rams horns decorated with silver), were usually kept on the table.
A floral-scented snuff called "English Rose" is provided for members of the British House of Commons at public expense due to smoking in the House being banned since 1693. A famous silver communal snuff box kept at the entrance of the House was destroyed in an air raid during World War II with a replacement being subsequently presented to the House by Winston Churchill. Very few members are said to take snuff nowadays.
In China, snuff bottles were used, usually available in two forms, both made of glass. In one type, glass bottles were decorated on the inside to protect the design. Another type used layered multi-coloured glass; parts of the layers were removed to create a picture.
When sniffed, snuff often causes a sneeze though this is often seen by snufftakers as the sign of a beginner. The tendency to sneeze varies with the person and the particular snuff. Generally, drier snuffs are more likely to do this. For this reason, sellers of snuff often sell handkerchiefs. Slapstick comedy and cartoons have often made use of snuff's sneeze-inducing properties.
Users of smokeless tobacco products, including snuff, face no known cancer risk to the lungs but more of a risk in the oral region than smokers, and have a greater cancer risk than people who do not use any tobacco products.[7] As the primary harm from smoking comes from the smoke itself, snuff has been proposed as a way of reducing harm from tobacco.[8]
An article from the 1981 British Medical Journal examining "Nicotine intake by snuff users"[9]concluded thus:
Unlike tobacco smoke, snuff is free of tar and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Since it cannot be inhaled into the lungs, there is no risk of lung cancer, bronchitis, and emphysema ... Though we are not aware of any direct evidence, prolonged heavy use of dry snuff might well carry a slight risk of nasopharyngeal cancer ... The position with coronary heart disease is not clear. It is not known whether nicotine or carbon monoxide is the major culprit responsible for cigarette-induced coronary heart disease. If it is carbon monoxide a switch to snuff would reduce the risk substantially, but even if nicotine plays a part our results show that the intake from snuff is no greater than from smoking.
In conclusion, the rapid absorption of nicotine from snuff confirms its potential as an acceptable substitute for smoking. Switching from cigarettes to snuff would substantially reduce the risk of lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, and possibly coronary heart disease as well, at the cost of a slight increase in the risk of cancer of the nasopharynx (or oral cavity in the case of wet snuff). Another advantage of snuff is that it does not contaminate the atmosphere for non-users.
[edit]Legal issues
Snuff is readily available over the counter in most European tobacco shops. In Britain, tobacco duty is not charged on snuff, although it is subject to the same limitations as other tobacco products for duty free purposes.
In Poland, the production and sale of products intended for nasal-ingestion was illegal from 1996 to 2000.