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Which pipes.... do you think were monumental in the glass community???
The ones that symbolize, and represent glass pipe culture as a whole....Which pipes were revolutionary for their time?, or pushed the limits of what we thought could be done with glass????????? list or pm your top pipes and glass pipe makers ?? or even 3-5 or your all time favorite pipes that represents the glass pipe community or culture.............. thanks for any opinions in advance all welcome.....
Fuming I still have people asking me about simple fumed spoons. Will it change color? They ask.
Personally for me when I saw what Matt, Steve, and Bronx were doing back in the late 90's with old school I/O line tube and reversals. I still love the look of that tech. The depth is just different.
Monumental pieces of functional art I think RAM is setting the bar for fine art pipes. But there are so many outstanding phenomenal artists in this community, and they are all so different.
Eusheen moved in with me about a year into my glassblowing career. While there, he made his first big-ass bub beerl steez. It's not the sickest piece ever nowadays (compared to his recent work), but have been amazed at what you can do with glass ever sense then. Big ups to Eushy!!
http://www.glasspipes.org/Gal17443__BuRL_sTeeZ_.asp
These days I have feel in LOVE with mickleson's work.
Deppe's orange skull and Jake c's glove are super sick too.
snodgrass skull pipes.
deppes early rainbow pieces.
jps giant super thin reversal pieces. circa 02'-03'
eases giant turtle piece at the 1st bonnaroo. i think eases memory maybe faulty.
banjos reversal work.
clintons sculptural pieces.
slingers blasted work.
Marcel's Godess
Alot of Ivan Barrow's work
Snodgrass's top hat dude, of course. Deppe's rainbow piece with the chains was significant. There's really been all sorts of amazing things in so many directions since then... it's hard to say. I'd have to think about it...
The outsourcing of production to China and India is pretty significant; it forces everyone else to step up their game a bit, and it gives us a good reason to educate the customers and distributors on what makes glass "good." There will always be folks who can't help but push the envelope, but I wonder how many of us would be resting on our laurels pushing out crappy wrap-n'-rakes or i/o spoons if the overseas market hadn't taken that away from us.
Another thing to consider is the advancements in "raw" materials made by color companies. From basic stuff like adventurine, striking colors, and dichro to recent developments like custom lined tubing, layered crucible tubing, and glow glass, these materials change the way we approach glasswork in general. It is a hand-in-hand relationship between the manufacturers coming up with an idea, the artist experimenting with new techniques, the manufacturers refining the idea based on artist feedback, and so on.
Robert Mickelson's AK-47.
deppe has the precision
eush is just amazing at the reversal and diasc thing
banjo for his great imagination and ability to build it
freek is one of my personal favs as well as ghost
salt what can i say luken has pushed the sculpting medium and the work keeps getting nicer and fresher
hamm for the amazing functional aspect that so many have come to copy and admire
laceface is one of the best and so happens a hot chick to boot. her work is pushing alot of boundries
Ya Lowly I hadn't even thought about that aspect. Realy the raw material and tool availability is equally as important as anything.
Cameron's 1st drop stem bub, way back early 90's.
Bubbler
Brian and Yvonne Padilla's fumed montage, mid-late 90's
Brfian Padilla collab
Yvonne Padilla
Yvonne Padilla
ivan and deppe's eye of the flame was the first one that did it for me
check some of the dates on these pieces!
http://www.tokecity.com/forums/showthread.php4?t=41139
(i was just wondering what happened to/with yvonne)
this was the one for me... thanks, brandon martin!
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Suprised no one has mentioned Jason Lee yet, The coolest piece I have seen in person was Adam G and Deppe's skull. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=3&theater
It has a tetrahedron inside it that spins when you blow on it
I had the postcard for the Jason Lee "war on art" pipe in my studio for years. It was made after operation pipe dreams and really sent a message. That was an important pipe for our movement.
Also all those old marcel peices with the dolphins and dichroic back around 2001 that really showed what was possible with this media, and pushed people to take it further.
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I'm sure we've all seen this video but I can never get tired of Jason Lees' works of art. And if you've never seen this here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6sR...e_gdata_player
wow thanks for all the response's reps being added un mystic Morgan you pretty much hit the nail on the head for me...... but love the fucking sicccc old school dotbox some of my fav boxfan i have heard of those glassblowers before......eugene????right?????????
keep it coming guys..... all info is appreciated loltags
the first pipe i saw for sale on dead tour changed my life.
it was a bob and i bough it from him in 92.
the clinton and darby tubes from 96 that they made the "crush" poster out of were the first multisectional heady tubes that i had ever seen.
the darby dichro vac stacked tubing was YEARS ahead of everybody.
the coolest pieces that i ever saw were drew's. so much work in those.
then there was t&m distrubutors, who were probably the first heady distros in the mid 90's and
H franklin gets big ups in my book by creating a vision that created huge distro companies (whether you like them or not)
and of course jason harris
For me, it was the Deppe rainbow piece with the aliens. I saw it at one of the Condie's hemp fests at least 10 years ago right outside of Eugene. These hemp fests were a great showcase of the glass movement at that time with a lot of the best artists bringing their stuff to showcase. They had a few glass competitions which I think might have been some of the first organized comps with glass. They were not flame offs people just brought in their finished work.
Anyway, the point is there was a lot of people pushing the limits then, (the limits were a lot smaller then) but when I saw that deppe piece it was obvious that dude was waaaaaay ahead of the curve. It was huge and clean and had copious amounts of crayon colors when they first hit the scene. Probably one of the first if not the first pipe to command five figures.
Another good story from these shows is about a piece Matt of Eugene Rain made. It was this ridiculously HUGE sidecar/bubbler/jar piece all double layer outside work. The stem was probably 2 1/2 or 3 feet long and the can was equally large. Human lathe shit for sure. Think he entered it in one of the comps actually. I was learning glass from him at the time and hooked him up with a friend of mine who bought the piece for $500. (Actually not sure if the deal went south or not, I think I remember matt telling me the dude still owes him some money for the piece) So, my friend and I were walking around the fest with the piece when another buddy of mine -who has no respect for the value of a dollar- walks up, grabs it and throws it HIGH up into the air. It must have flipped at least twice before it came back down and was caught perfectly by him right at the stem. My friend and I just looked at him with our jaws wide open not believing that he would actually risk $500 for such a silly stunt.
Wow, that must have been my longest post ever. But yeah, def the deppe piece for me.
for me living in bc, redbead glass has changed the glas world here setting the industry standard in my books and the time i first saw a nice glass pipe made by teh guy who made it who started me blowing glass. this forum has changed the glass game so much. same with the internet in general.
cheers
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