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sandcarved. made early November, 2006.
day of the dead skull and flower designs by Bonnie Dobbin.
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i used to let my pants sag, not givin a f*!#, baby boy now im all grown up....
hah. i actually made the body of this piece in June of 2004. put it aside and finally made it a finished piece Nov 2006.
Just over 11 inches high.
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sandblasted. graal technique. 2006.
special thanx to R.A.M.
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Jan. 2008.
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may 2006.
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shout out to Yishai, Tomoko, Kouhei, Mami, Nikko(coco), Koichi, Gomi, Miho, Toyo, Nobu, Hasu, Makoto, Daisuke, Bishopu, Yoshi, Jun, Sasaki, Aquarius, Rose Roads, Gen, Boojil, Keith Bryan, Yamato(RIP),,,,,
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2008.
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dry. may 2006.
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SLINGER/JP FUCK YOUR CREW COLLABo'S 1,2,3.
Hate on haters. FYC again and again and again.
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Bazooka Tooth. April 2006.
blown. sandblasted. oil painted.
dk garnet. silver fume. oil paint.
thanx to Micah Evans and Robert Mickelson.
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simple. classy. contrast. bubbler. holla.
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goth bub #3. march 2007.
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he dreamt of artistic freedom.
sidecar shlamed out diffused bubbler. blue moon combs, blasted star white, wings.
2007.
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first chamber is 9and1/2" tall
from bottom of piece to mouthpiece 14"tall
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it's complex.
collaborations with {s}NIC.
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John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt. march 2007.
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mini hammers. i think ill be making more of these, they are the size of the average spoon but a lil sportyier, with more vroom under the hood. for the modern smoker, on the go...
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this is a pretty big bub. can is 10" long.
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Banjo, Mouse, Shad, Chaz, Drew, Jared Sandifer, and Tristan came together down in Arcata, California to create a collaborative sculptural pipe of epic proportions. These guys blew my mind with this piece, and Kris Gardner was there with me to capture it on film. Special thanx to Mouse for the place to stay, Banjo for the warm hospitality, the whole crew in the shop, Tony, Rich, Cody, Annie, Matty, Jared Delong, Dan Benway, and Robert Mickelson and all the other Arcata folk for making us feel at home.
165 photos of this piece being made posted at www.thataintart.com
photos by Kris Gardner.
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check out my website thataintart(dot)com for updates on my documentary on glass pipe art and culture.
been on the road shooting for 5 weeks and still lots of people to interview and glass to photograph.
thank you to everyone for their support. big ups to my seattle crew, my peeps in eugene, bob and marie, chris carlson, jason and dale, special thanx to marcel and deveron, eusheen and shen dog, the crew that killed it in arcata, special thanx to banjo, mouse, robert mickelson, dan benway, jared delong, and to everyone im yet to meet on this journey to document our scene...
i just put up some pics from my first interview with bob snodgrass a couple weeks ago, more pics coming in the next few days...
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chunky dry pipe w/ penetration, skull skulpture, sig marble, etc....
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piece i made recently for a friend
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Everybody Knows Jesus Saves And Marbleslinger Withdraws.
this is one of the last pieces involving the dollar bill/religion discourse. 2007.
Inline gadget bubbler. diamond cut diffusor.
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I never be like Jason Lee and make a crazy reversal bubbler can/ or rock a female stemless like JAG and Banjo can/ so let me know if you feel it man/ cuz everything im not, made me everything i am/ ok fair enough/ the glass scene is flarin' up/ 'cuz they want goblets, and i dont make enough/ avoglios, cups, filligranos/ can i add that he do spaz out on his bowls/ so say goodbye to the Corning Museum award/ say goodbye to the Pilchuck mainstream award/ they wanna give me the hippie please award/ but i'll just take the i smoke alot of trees award.
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yo i just want to take a moment to give thanks to all the glass pipers out there sweating over their work, honing their skills, puttin in the long hours, sharing their pics, feeding their families, raising the bar, being original, and keepin it fun and stylin'.....
whoever thought this shit would come this far???
heres to the future y'all. lets keep this culture alive no matter what "they" say....
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well i got a burst of inspiration and decided to step outside the comfort zone.... it all started when a young pipemaker from quebec city stopped by my shop last friday, his skill and excitement made me feel like i had to step it up, thanx galen, he made a few windows on this piece..... the idea for the weird lil triple seal chamber on the bottom comes directly from Steve Hops and Ease, and i have to give Fro and Shad props for inspiration as well..... with this piece i was kinda just freestyling and didnt really have too much of a plan while building it, lots of stuff ill do different next time, the one major flaw is that it wasnt til i was done with the piece that i realized i wish i had reversed the way i sealed on the triple seal chamber, if it was sealed the opposite way then the piece would perc how i intended.... the way it works now is more like a force perc, its weird actually, if you blow into the mouthpiece it makes the lil bottom chamber gurgle like a reg bub....
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FYC?!SLINGER collabo>>>#5
FYCfycFYCfycF... put alot of time into designing the adobe artwork and im very happy with how clean i was able to blast the piece. I recently spent some time with the TORO/FYC crew in their laboratory, and i want to give a special big ups to JP for being not only an amazing glass artist, but incredibly skilled on the lathe. I really developed a whole new appreciation for his tubes being in the shop while he put them together. Also big ups to WAK for everything she does behind the scenes and all the generous hospitality.
24" tall.
3 arm tree perc.
ice notches.
sandblasted logo and sig.
slinger art section.
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she don't believe in shooting stars/ but she believes in pipes with carbs.
Slinger, Bearclaw, Eli, Ease, Dosher.
can is 12"tall. from mouthpiece to bottom of can 14". 2006-2007
This piece is the third and final installment in a collaboration series between Slinger, Bearclaw, Dosher, Eli, and Ease. It was started in the summer of 2006 in Seattle. Cut and Flip sections by Dosher. Cobalt/Yellow/Green/White reversals by Eli. Blow out sections by Slinger and Claw. Dichro reversals by Ease. Fillacello disc by Bearclaw. Anti-Marbles by Slinger. The can was shaped by Ease. The Stem was shaped by Slinger and Claw. I picked up the piece in Seattle this summer and brought it back to Philly in two pieces and put it together. I did the main seal, the downstem seal, sit, carb, anti-mibs and sandblasting. I blasted 5 skulls around the rim of the bowl to symbolize the five souls that came together on this. Big ups to Hops and Snic for assistance on some manuevers, it's big!!
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taste the rainbow.
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I made this piece for my homie PROB, local philly artist who lives in my hood. I took photos of his paintings, sketchbook, and himself, and montaged them in photoshop into a piece that is a remixed portrait of the artist and his work, mimicking his wild drippy street style. Lot's of symbolism and detail in there, we were both really happy with the final piece. Props to the FYC crew for superior craftsmanship!
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JP and SLiNG--->
again and again.
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Nickelbag of Funk.
19.5" tall.
50 x 5mm.
Ice pinches.
SLiNG linework/stencilwork section.
SECTION IN THE BASE!!!
matching 14mm slide.
lathe work JP
section/blasting SLING
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This piece is a part of my body of work relating graffiti and glass pipes.
Lathe work by JP>Section by SLING.
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the second one was an experiment which i kept for myself. I sandblasted and painted on some copper suspended in resin. Interesting stuff, it is actually copper, but the resin didnt seem to ever dry 100%, and its rubbing off now. I bought a varnish but havent tried it yet. I also pretty much f-d up the shape of the stem and the cane in the blaster so im just gonna keep experimenting with this piece. anyway....
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i used 46x4.8 tubing to make this.
the main can was made out of 1ft of 46x4.8.
main can stands @ 10 inches.
moutpiece is 12.5inches off the ground.
base of main can is 3.5inches.
12mm downstems.
all downstems diffused.(standard)
18mm ground glass joint.
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"Missy Aggravation, some sacred questions, you stroke my locks...."
Music is my favorite medium and the Pixies are one of my all time favorite bands. Since their break-up in 1992, i literally dreamed of the surreal shows i was lucky enough to catch in the early nineties. When they announced 12 years later in 2004 they were reuniting, i freaked out! I went on ebay and bought tickets to their first scheduled performance in Winnipeg Manitoba with no plans other than i had to be there. To make a long story short, i ended up on a solo mission in the middle of Canada to see the Pixies, and after that show, i had to go to the next one, and the next one, and well, i sorta "toured" with them, and ended up seeing them 15 times in 2004. While i was on "Pixies Tour" i met two other dudes that were as obsessed as i was, maybe even more obsessed. We ended up traveling together and enjoying some of the best times of my life, and one of them commissioned me to make them a pixies tribute piece. Well about 3 years later, I FINALLY got it done... enjoy Johnny,
"rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers..."
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some triple donut hammers from '05.
(finally got a camera!)
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"tribal" style hammer bubbler,
12 full color reverse balls
orange honeycomb marble
"marbleslinger" signature marble,
funky stem shaping
marbleslinger@sh...
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there's a war going on outside no man is safe from...
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honeycomb cluster
a series in progress
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made in 2004.
my homie who owns it dropped by so i snapped a few pics... still tons of older work i wish i had pics of.....
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may 2006.
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just brushin' some dirt off my shoulder
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sculpture of an American $100 bill. lampworked borosilicate glass. sandblasted. april 2007. almost to scale. the first in a series of sculptures of money. what can i say, i love making money!!!!
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"What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
-- Andy Warhol
"I like boring things."
-- Andy Warhol
November 2006. Lampworked. Sandblasted.
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My mind's playin' tricks on me. A couple of hammer bubblers, a dry sherlock and a dry hammer. May 2007.
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lampworked borosilicate. sandblasted. graal technique. 1&13/16". 2006.
this is the first graal marble i have ever made, and im excited to explore this technique in more marbles and other pieces of glass art.
special thanx to R.A. Mickelson.
**** i found this marble very challenging to photograph, the pics below are taken on two different cameras, flash and no flash, thanx hippo for the photo help....
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Jason Lee. Marbleslinger. Sherlock Tribute collaboration series. Was too good of an idea to make just one, so Jason and i agreed on a limited series of five pieces, here is #2,3,4, and 5. I made the prep work and Jason shaped the pieces. I designed and sandblasted the images. Im really happy with how these came out, very clean. Jason is a true guru of the sherlock shape, i thank him once again for adding his magic. Thanx to my shopmate Hops for hooking up his new blaster, it works like butter....
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sherlock bub, blasted w/ honeycombs. jan 2007. peace to Philly, special thanx to JAG, JOP, $NiC, HOPS, and the crew and family in philly. city of brotherly luv....
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O.N.E.
#1 in a series based on images from American currency. The idea behind this series is to explore the connotations of images within U.S. money and their discourse on religion, politics, economics and society. This series is meant to ask questions and stimulate conversation.
This particular piece is exploring the relationship between "church" and "state". Are these entities separate or co-existent? What is the relationship of economics and "god"? Which "god" do "we trust in"?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
ONE dollar or ONE "Creator"?
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inspired by a line of skateboards by the company Skull Skates out of Vancouver BC.
R.I.P. 2Pac, Kurt, and Elvis.
Hallelujah Hollaback.
Inline gadget bubbler series. diamond cut diffusor.
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think about it.
FYC. 2008. JP>SLING.
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sickamore style.
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It's All About The Benjamins. #1 2007
Inline gadget bubler, diamond cut diffusor.
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mary had it going on. march 2007. sherlock bubbler. gothic bub #2.
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simple style. more is less.
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stands approximately 18" tall. Lampworked. Sandblasted. June 2007
my work is inspired by graffiti art and Andy Warhol. props to my homies Josh Opdenaker and Nate Purcell for influencing me in other directions....
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hugh heflock. may2007.
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some lines. april 2007.
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lil jammer layback bub. april/2006.
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heres a few from 2004 and 2005, and some old school lil 1998 jammer... the double bub might even be from 03 i truly dont remember....
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dry sidecar from 2003 that a friend dropped by, thanx ted.
hammer bub from 2005 that i kept in my personal inventory.
thanx for looking.
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Sling blew the glass, D Wreck did the design work and blasting. oh and its a bubbler.
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just anotha slinga....
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"dont call it a comeback, i've been here for years."
ive been cutting and painting stencils for a couple years, doing lil street art pieces, i always liked working from photographs, particularly film stills. I look for stills that have alot of emotion and drama, something that tells a whole story with one expression. I made a stencil of this Sofia Loren photo in 2005 and made a few stickers and painted it here and there in Vancouver BC. You can see that painting stencils led me right into doing the sandblast imagery that ive been concentrating on in my glass heavily for the past year; It was a smooth transition. I really enjoy bringing the photographic desgin elements into my glasswork. These pieces celebrate this transition in my work, from film and photography to street to glass... thanx for looking, sling.
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marble 1/04
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marble i made dec/2003
gift to wil menzies and his family...
wil is a champion!!!
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uncased crayon yellow y'all....the owner of this piece named it the batman bubbler....
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Jason Lee and Marbleslinger.
no 1 of 8 made in august 2002 in Burlington, VT.
Jason did the green wig wag and i filled in the center window. We each kept one marble out of the series and this one is in my personal collection. Been meaning to take some photos of it forever. Each mib had a matching wig wag window and then different elements added to that. These were really fun to make, and i've been meaning to expand on this idea since then.
Mad props to the GURU Mr Jason LEE, one of my biggest personal influences to challenge myself in this medium. Never ending thanx Jason, i might have given this glass thing up along time ago if it wasnt for your positive energy and friendship.
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chris carlson made a vector image of a bowtie he did and i ganked it off the net and put it on a hammer.
word life.
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..haters pissed cuz my toilet paper thick... torchwork Biggles; coldwork Slinger.
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bearclaw/slinger expedition to find the source... another specimen has been discovered... looks ancient, but not of this world... linguists are now analyzing the markings which seem curiously similar to ancient sumerian tablets and hieroglyphs...
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me. 2007.
#2 in a series.
hammer bubbler.
...and the truth shall set you free...
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july, 2008.
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collab dry sherlock with Shen. I did the prep and Shen shaped the piece at his shop in Grants Pass, OR. I brought the piece back to Philly and blasted it up, i love the colours on this one... ive been making alot of traditional dry sherlys lately, heres a couple i had lying around at the moment....sling.
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ONE.
HOPS!SLING!
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dry. may 2006.
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I had a bunch of random pics on my camera from traveling around this year and figured id share them. Big ups to everyone who offered up there homes, couches, kitchens, floors, spare rooms, trampolines, backyards and glass shops to weary glassblower travelers. Word up to the glass family...
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portrait #1. 10" x 5.5". may 2007. im slowly working on a series of portraits that hang on the wall like paintings. stencil is from a photograph i took, i expect to expand this idea alot....
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form meets function.
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sandblasted. Nov, 2006.
this is actually the first "stemless" i've ever made.
inspired and influenced by Bearclaw, Shad, and Banjo.
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Lil saxophone dry collabo. Glass by SlING. Art by PROB!.
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high contrast hand piece for the modern smoker.
i like the elegance of a simple piece, sometimes its all about restraint,
negative space
its all about the patterns that arent there
once they have disolved into darkness
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Here it is QTS, part deux.
I made one just like this last month and it was broken to pieces in the mail, first time ive had that happen. Finally re made it, thanx for your patience QTS.
QTS has the bowl from the first one so its not pictured here.
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being that im yet to own my own digi cam, i rely on random shots of my work for documentation..heres a couple circa feb-april'03
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i made this hammer bubbler in the fall of 2001 in Seattle, WA. I gave it to a very good friend, and last time i visited her i snapped some pics on her windowsill. It is made of 6 disc flips and coil pots of NS Yellow. Big ups to my ol' homie, Pedro Smiley for putting me on the disc flip vibe back in the day. Man i wish i had a digi cam back in the 90's and early 2g's to capture all the work me and my friends were making....big ups to everyone ive ever shared a shop with, yall are my family.
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"When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Aug 27, 2006.
Pakoh and Slinger "performance art" piece made during EGS Flame Off.
Birth. Death. Re-Birth.
The power of a form to channel energy.
There is a reason people of all different cultures have been creating decorative pipes for centuries....
Past. Present. Future.
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"Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner ..."
BIG set. Inline and Jar.
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this first red one i made a few weeks ago for someone who was giving it to the band "Fear Factory"......
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six chamber bubbler. each downstem is 12mm and the main downstem is 15mm so it actually draws pretty well; no pattern, pure function!! i was just fucking sournd when i made this and my friend bought it and took some pics.....
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made at my buddies shop in freezing rural manitoba
jade, forrest, mint, obtainium, plum kush
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Well this piece is almost a year in the making. I created the stencil in March of 2006. In July i was kicking it with Jason Lee and presented the concept to him. Being the sherlock master that he is, i was honored for him to agree to make the piece. But it was only partly done until i got it sent to me out on the east coast last week and finally, it's a wrap. Jason made the piece and I did the prep for the black violet tubing sections and did the blasting and design.
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