Glassy

[Stephi_B]

Glas is an amorphous solid - or a supercooled liquid, that's a matter of perspective.
Glass is made from SiO2 (silica sand), often Na2CO3 (soda), calcium-, magnesium- and/or aluminium-oxide are added to make it durable / easier to process.
By adding various metal(-oxides) one can make it coloured, smokey.
Obsidian is naturally formed glass.
Acrylic glass (Plexiglas) isn't real glass, but a transparent plastic (polymethyl methacrylate PMMA), but it looks like glass - and isn't as easy to smash. (edit: You ain't eejits, just means you can toast plexiglas or whatever glass not by definition 'glass')

Glass: fragile - enduring, smooth - rough, clear - obscuring, reflecting, refracting, taking on so many forms...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Swan_of_Glass.jpg/450px-Swan_of_Glass.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42932000/jpg/_42932805_front_416x300.jpg


http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/75/68/22426875.jpg

http://www.allthepages.org/images/blog/ura-dessert.jpguranium glass dessert bowl

[zero]

..(Plexiglas) isn't real glass, but a transparent plastic... but it looks like glass - and isn't as easy to smash.

if you were to look at us through a sheet of it would you be able to see that WE'RE NOT TOTAL EEJITS?

[Stephi_B]

^Huh?!

[auntie aubrey]

http://www.chihuly.com/gr_hits/L_0098B.jpg

http://www.chihuly.com/installations/abg/Art/CdABG_Img0043_XB.jpg

http://www.chihuly.com/installations/genre/reeds/Art/Almost3_Img0056_B.jpg

[brightpearl]

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[auntie aubrey]

^ there were no guidelines regarding instances of blondie in the original post.

[brightpearl]

listen (http://www.philipglass.com/audioplayer/audioplayer.html)

[brightpearl]

^ there were no guidelines regarding instances of blondie in the original post.


I like to live on the edge.
http://www.kk.org/streetuse/glassjags1.jpg
(glass home security system)

[lukkucairi]

http://www.ministryoftech.com/images/lumigram.jpg

ok ok it's fiber optics, probably not glass per se, but when was the last time you saw a glowing camisole?

[Stephi_B]

^yeah what I meant, can look/behave like glass somehow, but doesn't need to be glass


http://srnl.doe.gov/images/pour.jpg http://www.sweb.cz/davsoncerny/07.jpg

(in practical, the glassblowers from the technical dept. once let us try to blow our own flasks, was hard, but funny)

[brightpearl]

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[Angry Kid Hoyt]

http://www.blavish.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/halo-stained-glass-window-11-13-2006.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

http://www.sgocity.com/pix/klein_bottle.jpg

[Stephi_B]

^cool :)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Painted_Indian_Glassy_Fish.jpg/800px-Painted_Indian_Glassy_Fish.jpg

[zero]

.

http://www.vvork.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/image006.jpg

[brightpearl]

^*swooon*

Here's a necklace I made out of milk glass. I like to call it my space necklace, so maybe I should call it Mik glass.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/509635027_2453ace29b.jpg

I feel milk glass is at its best in the form of a depression-era chicken butter dish.
http://www.dargate.com/249_auction/249_images/3251.jpg

[Stephi_B]

http://bp1.blogger.com/_ChkU5LhcJ4U/RkFyfhdst2I/AAAAAAAAAco/h46Drnzt_Ig/s400/halbzeit.jpg

[lukkucairi]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2138194545/" title="majik0 by lukku cairi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/2138194545_af77c94e11.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="majik0" /></a>

[Earthling]

Known as;
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/Blazed420life/Bong.jpg
'Happy Glass':)

[Earthling]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/xuxux/glasshouse1.jpg
FOR RENT *stone throwers need not apply*

[Mik]

I do so love that necklace :D
and
mik glass _is_ always what my eyes see when I read that. ;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2178493600_d07535c3ff.jpg
*scar sold separately

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/618/dscn1162ht9.jpg

[Earthling]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b241/unadesaintluc/PENNSIC%2034/PW34-GLASSFIGURES2.jpg
I couldn't find the title of this work of art, but I have sooooo many ideas that I will keep to myself.:cool:

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

http://www.bennettauctions.com/2005/121305_portsmouth/spare7/Large-glass-balls.jpg
:D

[Earthling]

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c189/symboitespyder/shotglasschess.jpg
"Shot Glass Chess"

[Stephi_B]

^bring that over to the bra later ;)


http://www.sahajayoga.at/blog/uploaded_images/Glaskugel-784394.jpg

[Stephi_B]

http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/bilder/75504/80/0/0/adf0e225/01.jpg

[brightpearl]

http://unadorned.org/images/dandruff/trouvaille_20050914.jpg

[brightpearl]

Don't look, Frieda!

http://www.norbeary.co.uk/nueyes.jpg
creepy doll eyes
Looking at this photograph makes me think of how many hammers there are in the world.

[Stephi_B]

^Brrr... creepy!

Applying nazar boncuğu NOW against the evil look:

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/395/evileyebeadfurnace6os0ce6.jpg

;)

[Veruki]

http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~vtroitsky/pct/2003-summer/england/looking-glass.jpg

[β cyg]

the teardrops explode (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519644.100-why-do-teardrops-explode.html)


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[Stephi_B]

http://www.rna.ca/digital_art/art/brokenglass_b.jpg

[brightpearl]

http://sunsite.utk.edu/lewis/lew10.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.bacsoanna.com/images/uveg/01.jpg

[Anna]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/87/20070715104657!Standing_Glass_Fish-Minneapolis_Sculpture_Garden.jpg

[Stephi_B]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01LXaqjf8da5X/610x.jpg

More pictures of the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple (http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Temple-created-over-million-bottles/ss/events/lf/102108templebottles#photoViewer=/081021/photos_ts/2008_10_21t033948_450x305_us_thailand_temple)