Yes… it’s a “Flying Lady” Art Deco hood ornament, designed in the 1930s by Heinrich Hoffman, who was sometimes accused of copying Lalique.
But this is made of genuine “vaseline” uranium glass, a material said not to be used by Lalique. It contains small amounts of actual uranium, and, as shown here, glows under black light.
The caption I found for this particular piece said it was cast in Bohemia from original 1930s molds…. but it didn’t say when.
It might be considered a reproduction, but probably a fairly old one, because not many glassworks still make uranium glass.
It’s not illegal, but getting uranium is expensive and difficult, requiring government permits, and too much paperwork… and you need a secure way to handle it, though it’s only a teeny tiny bit. I used to know a glassblower who wanted to do it but she gave up.
I have well over a dozen pieces, maybe more, of uranium glass in my living room. Most of them are Fenton, in their matte lime green or custard color, and others in the more traditional translucent green. So each of my curio cabinets have the bottom section under black light…neat green glow everywhere. (The lights are on automatic timers – they turn on in the morning and off at bedtime. What sense is it to have the collection if I’m not showing it off?)
Looks like it was cast and not blown. I’ve done a little casting, and it is definitely a medium worth learning. We made clay models, covered them in casting plaster, and when the plaster was set, removed the clay. While still damp we added glass frit, set it to dry, then fired it. Great fun.
Um… yes, I described it as cast, referring to the original caption.
You can’t blow a shape like that, only fairly soft forms, unless it’s blown into a mold. But mold blown glass is at least somewhat hollow inside, so it’s used for bottles, vases and the like. Colonial glassware, too..
It can also look a bit wobbly, if it’s taken out of the mold hot, which is necessary to keep using the mold for the next piece… Or to purposely get that look.
A solid, detailed figurine would generally be cast.
I’d love to have been in that class!
I wished my friend… acquaintance, actually… could teach me glassblowing, but she lived too far away, and didn’t have time for teaching, anyway.
On his website, he sells his work as prints on canvas, which made me suspect AI, as did the fact that there’s no “About the artist” section.
But there’s a photo of someone I presume to be him, painting one of the pictures, with a paintbrush, so they could be real paintings. If that’s really him, and not an AI image. I hope so cos the prints are priced at several thousand dollars each.
Description from his website: “This painting reconstructs the human brain where the border between consciousness and unconsciousness floats at sea level. Above the sea, glowing with lights, is the smaller but brighter part of our conscious – the visible portion of our brain “iceberg.” The larger section of the “iceberg” is sunk in the depths of subliminal and instinctive feelings…”
Ah yes…back in the 1920’s when they first wrote Coca Cola phonetically in Chinese script, it was done so badly that it came out as “Bite The Wax Tadpole”.
A lot of people told that story, and attributed it to Charlie himself.
His son write a book years later and said his father told him he’d come in 3rd.
However… when Chaplin was asked in an interview, he said there were dozens of contests, but he never entered one. He said he was too busy working to bother.
However, I heard Dolly Parton tell in a video that she’d once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest… and the winner was a drag queen!
She thought it was hysterically funny.
Well, “11” is strict left-to-right: 20/4=5; 5-3=2; 2*2=4; 4+7=11.
And while I don’t remember them now, when I was in school (not quite the dark ages), there were rules about which was done first. I believe one rule was multiplication before addition, stuff like that. Those rules would determine a “correct” answer, correct meaning more like “consistent”, perhaps.
Most of us are using that rule, first parentheses (which would have made the puzzle solvable, not argumentative), then multiplication, then division, then addition, then subtraction. PMDAS.
20/4=5 and 3×2=6, so you have 5 – 6 +7, or -1+7, =6
There was a video a couple of years ago of a puzzle where the arguments went viral, because some children were being taught to take operations in order, ignoring PMDAS. It created an uproar. Most of us were taught that was incorrect.
I tried to track down this ad… and the path was a zig-zag.
I figured it was a modern spoof, but prints of it are available all over the place, and nobody mentioned a joke or spoof.
Then I found a couple of sites… one a Facebook group about cars, one a site about this artist, Sanford Tousey (1883-1961)
He was a well-known and successful illustrator from Indiana, who did advertising and magazine covers… But he was also a cartoonist, and both sites said it was a joke or a cartoon when it was made.
So… I was all ready to post my findings, when I realized I hadn’t googled the Bock Auto Bar company… And guess what!
I found several sites saying it and this ad were genuine… They really did try to market a car beer dispenser, with short, flat, wooden barrels under the dashboard.
So…. believe what you will. As the old saying goes… ya pays yer money an ya takes yer choice.
Too bad nobody’s paying me, though. That’s an hour I’ll never get back.
Why do I do it? Good question.
Just forever curious, I suppose.
I understand curious. Constantly reading. Always thinking of questions. I used to say Google is my best friend, but now that Google AI is there, I’m not calling it my best friend anymore – someone might think I was weird. (They’re right, but not allowed to say so…)
.
“Are you really gonna throw the ball this time, or are you just messing with my head again?”
.
Is he suspended in some way from overhead cables?
Looks like he’s head over heels for her.
She’s an absolute doll – I’d flip for her too!
Hmmm…it looks like her lipstick is a little bit smeared. It could have been such a good kiss that he’s doing a backflip.
..
…
A Fawn with horns?!
Must be the hormones in the water.
Hornmones?
It’s a chital from India. Also called spotted deer.
Thank you!
“You keep watch in that direction, and I’ll keep watch over here.”
….
Lalique, surely.
Looks like a hood ornament.
Yes… it’s a “Flying Lady” Art Deco hood ornament, designed in the 1930s by Heinrich Hoffman, who was sometimes accused of copying Lalique.
But this is made of genuine “vaseline” uranium glass, a material said not to be used by Lalique. It contains small amounts of actual uranium, and, as shown here, glows under black light.
The caption I found for this particular piece said it was cast in Bohemia from original 1930s molds…. but it didn’t say when.
It might be considered a reproduction, but probably a fairly old one, because not many glassworks still make uranium glass.
It’s not illegal, but getting uranium is expensive and difficult, requiring government permits, and too much paperwork… and you need a secure way to handle it, though it’s only a teeny tiny bit. I used to know a glassblower who wanted to do it but she gave up.
I have well over a dozen pieces, maybe more, of uranium glass in my living room. Most of them are Fenton, in their matte lime green or custard color, and others in the more traditional translucent green. So each of my curio cabinets have the bottom section under black light…neat green glow everywhere. (The lights are on automatic timers – they turn on in the morning and off at bedtime. What sense is it to have the collection if I’m not showing it off?)
As long as you don’t have a basement full of radon gas…
Looks like it was cast and not blown. I’ve done a little casting, and it is definitely a medium worth learning. We made clay models, covered them in casting plaster, and when the plaster was set, removed the clay. While still damp we added glass frit, set it to dry, then fired it. Great fun.
Um… yes, I described it as cast, referring to the original caption.
You can’t blow a shape like that, only fairly soft forms, unless it’s blown into a mold. But mold blown glass is at least somewhat hollow inside, so it’s used for bottles, vases and the like. Colonial glassware, too..
It can also look a bit wobbly, if it’s taken out of the mold hot, which is necessary to keep using the mold for the next piece… Or to purposely get that look.
A solid, detailed figurine would generally be cast.
I’d love to have been in that class!
I wished my friend… acquaintance, actually… could teach me glassblowing, but she lived too far away, and didn’t have time for teaching, anyway.
..,
Surely the “Listening Monks” of Discworld. “They’re just trying to make out what the Creator said (whoever he was) to make the universe.”
Biggest darn conch shell I’ve ever seen. And what’s with all the faces on the mountains?
“Above the Sea Level” by Vladimir Kush.
On his website, he sells his work as prints on canvas, which made me suspect AI, as did the fact that there’s no “About the artist” section.
But there’s a photo of someone I presume to be him, painting one of the pictures, with a paintbrush, so they could be real paintings. If that’s really him, and not an AI image. I hope so cos the prints are priced at several thousand dollars each.
Description from his website: “This painting reconstructs the human brain where the border between consciousness and unconsciousness floats at sea level. Above the sea, glowing with lights, is the smaller but brighter part of our conscious – the visible portion of our brain “iceberg.” The larger section of the “iceberg” is sunk in the depths of subliminal and instinctive feelings…”
Okay.
If somebody in that town even farts, the whole countryside hears about it.
,,
Ah yes…back in the 1920’s when they first wrote Coca Cola phonetically in Chinese script, it was done so badly that it came out as “Bite The Wax Tadpole”.
😅
I hate those damn wax tadpoles.
,,
I think the two birds are simply pointing down at the cat between them as a potential food source.
,.,
A lot of people told that story, and attributed it to Charlie himself.
His son write a book years later and said his father told him he’d come in 3rd.
However… when Chaplin was asked in an interview, he said there were dozens of contests, but he never entered one. He said he was too busy working to bother.
However, I heard Dolly Parton tell in a video that she’d once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest… and the winner was a drag queen!
She thought it was hysterically funny.
,..,
Scotland should be there; they drank the bars dry in Boston during FIFA!
Part of the U.K. contingent.
No Canada???
I was surprised too.
But both here and in the Wikipedia rankings, which are totally different, Canada comes out lower than the US in per capita beer consumption.
In the latter, so do Mexico and the UK.
I refuse to believe it!
.
I gotta go pee!
,.,
Okay, I’ve solved it five different ways and don’t get either of those two answers!
Well, “11” is strict left-to-right: 20/4=5; 5-3=2; 2*2=4; 4+7=11.
And while I don’t remember them now, when I was in school (not quite the dark ages), there were rules about which was done first. I believe one rule was multiplication before addition, stuff like that. Those rules would determine a “correct” answer, correct meaning more like “consistent”, perhaps.
Most of us are using that rule, first parentheses (which would have made the puzzle solvable, not argumentative), then multiplication, then division, then addition, then subtraction. PMDAS.
20/4=5 and 3×2=6, so you have 5 – 6 +7, or -1+7, =6
There was a video a couple of years ago of a puzzle where the arguments went viral, because some children were being taught to take operations in order, ignoring PMDAS. It created an uproar. Most of us were taught that was incorrect.
That’s one of my five!
“No! That’s what they’d want you to think…”
That’s the number I got.
I can only think this puzzle is a joke, or possibly rage bait, just created to drive comments wherever it was originally posted.
I agree with your result.
,..,
That break will come out of her salary.
She has to make it before she can break it
,
What could possibly go wrong?
Wrong? Well, it looks like the beer in those barrels would get warm and go skunky before you could finish it.
Not if it’s English beer…
{echo}
Did you hear that?
I tried to track down this ad… and the path was a zig-zag.
I figured it was a modern spoof, but prints of it are available all over the place, and nobody mentioned a joke or spoof.
Then I found a couple of sites… one a Facebook group about cars, one a site about this artist, Sanford Tousey (1883-1961)
He was a well-known and successful illustrator from Indiana, who did advertising and magazine covers… But he was also a cartoonist, and both sites said it was a joke or a cartoon when it was made.
So… I was all ready to post my findings, when I realized I hadn’t googled the Bock Auto Bar company… And guess what!
I found several sites saying it and this ad were genuine… They really did try to market a car beer dispenser, with short, flat, wooden barrels under the dashboard.
So…. believe what you will. As the old saying goes… ya pays yer money an ya takes yer choice.
Too bad nobody’s paying me, though. That’s an hour I’ll never get back.
Why do I do it? Good question.
Just forever curious, I suppose.
I understand curious. Constantly reading. Always thinking of questions. I used to say Google is my best friend, but now that Google AI is there, I’m not calling it my best friend anymore – someone might think I was weird. (They’re right, but not allowed to say so…)
I used to say “I am one with The Google.”
But yeah, not with any &#@$ AI.
😮
You ARE the hound.
So release me/her!
♪ You ain’t nothing but a hound dog. ♫
I hope y’all have been building up your immunity to cyclospora
Hey… I saw an ad for a car beer dispenser….
“You can’t park there!”
I wonder how many times they had to try that to get it just right?
It’s a rally stage, so I’m guessing just the once, but I’m thinking the manoeuvre was inadvertently ‘practiced’ several times on various corners….
And how are they gonna drive out?
They’ll either drag it, or bounce it if there’s enough spectators about.
Ooh – that’d be fun!
Painted Stork.
I for one sure hope they find the SOB who’s been chasing after storks with palette & brush.
I’m losing it… Gotta get to bed.
It reached 100°F (≈38°C) here this afternoon. Cool now, but the damage is done.
Yesterday was hotter than expected too, but “only” 95°, and tomorrow is predicted to be in the 90s again.
Yeah, we don’t need air conditioning, we tell each other. Then again, it’s true that its usually only a few days a year, and the nights are cool.
But I don’t like those days.
Aaaand a naughty spectra is sent to prism. It’s a light sentence, but it gives him time to reflect.
I think upon reflection he finally saw the light.
Sometimes life throws guys like him a curve, but he seems pretty upright. He knows he can’t spend his life just hanging around.
“I’ve been on a light bender for years!” Bung, The Wizard of Id.