MetaFilter posts tagged with bottles

beer bottle band - holiday song

TMezz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:32:56 -0800

cementing the link between beer and creativity cementing the link between beer and creativity, a group of actual grown-ups manage to make music together utilizing only their breath and beer bottles.

miniature interiors

nickyskye — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:32:54 -0800

Carving a snuff bottle for painting. Types of snuff bottle painting: slide show. Step by step process of painting inside. A painting in its cultural setting. Some contemporary images: Tornado on the highway l aurora. With a special 90-degree-angle paintbrush used to paint inside glass or crystal objects, artists can achieve exquisitely unique paintings.Some of the painting tools used: the bamboo pen l writing brush l lily magnolia. A few masters who paint the interiors of snuff bottles. "Hengshui, a county in Hebei Province, is known as the home of interior painting, an art form that is very special to China. As a result of its superlative craftsmanship, interior painting has been praised as a peculiar and magnificent treasure for collectors." The history of inside-painted snuff bottles. Hengshui Inner-bottle Painting Wang Xisan, Painting inside Crystal Snuff Bottles

Got a crafting urge all bottled up?

orange swan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:20:52 -0800

Even though you recycle the plastic you discard, you sometimes feel guilty about how much you throw out and worry about where it's going. Would you like to be a little more hands on and proactive and recycle some of your plastics yourself? If so, I've got some ideas for you. Do those used plastic gift cards always seem too pretty to just throw away? You can make guitar picks or jewelry from them. You can make beads out of plastic and make even more jewelry. If you'd like to make some home furnishing and décor items, you can make lamps from milk jugs or water bottles. If you'd prefer a pendant light, that's an option too. If you've got the ceiling height and live near an ocean, you can make a “Tide Chandelier” like artist Stuart Haygarth, who made this chandelier from mostly plastic objects he found on the beach. If you've been ordering in a lot lately, you might make a chandelier like this one out of your plastic spoons. You could also make some interesting candlesticks and containers from plastic bottles, or a dish out of plastic bottles and aluminum cans. If you want extra green points, you could grow your own food in this self-watering plastic bottle planter. Or you could just make some plastic flowers that don't need watering at all. Your children might enjoy making butterflies or a bottle bank, making and racing “robottles”, or some of the plastic bottle top games and crafts listed on ehow. If you like to fish perhaps you could use a minnow bottle. More ideas for recycling plastic containers can be found here, and you can also check out this list of 12 practical ways to recycle plastic lids. If you're more of an artist than a crafter, you could take your cue from Heath Nash's plastic bottle designs or sculptures, or Aurora Robson's gallery of plastic bottle sculptures, or Kosuke Tsumura's “Bottle Armor” or “Bustle Style” works. And whatever recycled plastic craft or art project you undertake, rest assured that you're not at all likely to run out of supplies.

Trying to put the genie back in the bottle

grouse — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:11:49 -0800

Chicago adds a 5-cent-per-bottle tax on bottled water. Will this reduce bottled water consumption?

pretty bottles

nickyskye — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:40:16 -0800

The art of perfume and snuff bottles: Chinese snuff bottles and more, a variety of types, painted inside and about that technique. About snuff and its use in China. Images on Flickr, at Christie's. Perfume bottles, the history of perfume bottles and perfume. Beautiful glass bottles painted inside by disabled Burmese artist, U Nyo Lay.

What was this bottle for?

Tablecrumbs — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:12:46 -0800

Find an old bottle? I've found them at garage sales, buried in the garden, in basements and attics. I always thought it would be cool to know what they contained and how old they were. Now I can.

I'll Send An SOS To The World

amyms — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:57:31 -0800

Message In A Bottle. For ten years, Stuart Conway, who calls himself a "postman for emotions," has been providing a unique service. He "mails" other people's messages, collected via his website, by placing them in bottles and tossing them into the waters off Brighton Pier on the south coast of England. He's sent over 4000 missives so far, and helped launch other message-in-a-bottle services all over the world. Now his town council wants him to cease and desist. Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath.

Old Glass Bottles, or YAMO (Yet Another Magnificant Obsession)

monju_bosatsu — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:55:31 -0800

Historic Glass Bottles. Bill Lindsey of the BLM created a tremendous resource to assist you in identifying and dating most utilitarian glass bottles and jars produced in the United States and Canada between the early 1800s and 1950s. Check out information on glassmaking, bottle dating, and bottle types. Of particular interest to me are the pages on liquor, wine, and beer bottles.

Punts

IndigoJones — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:33:59 -0800

How deep is your love? Experts may claim that size is meaningless; science now proves that friendship can be measured in millimeters

They make my head hurt.

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 22 May 2004 13:48:33 -0800

Impossible Objects
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It's A Small World

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:32:50 -0800

Nice Whisk(e)y: Shame About The Size! Behold a wonderful, almost infinitely explorable repository of miniature bottles of whisk(e)y; a Japanese one-guy Smithsonian that's quite probably the only resort for those looking for labels of ancient and/or abandoned delights. American straight whiskey fanatics (like me) will be specially surprised. Worth exploring, though exploration isn't easy: it's full of unexpected riches, but never easily had. [Previously offered in the course of a classic languagehat post.]

40ozmaltliquor.com

hama7 — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:44:02 -0800

40 Ounce Malt Liquor.com

Stubby

monkeymike — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:08:45 -0800

Back when beer was good. "The stubby beer bottle was used by the Canadian breweries between 1961 and 1986, replacing the old long neck beer bottle. The stubby was a very sturdy bottle and could be refilled numerous times. In 1983 Carling O'Keefe Breweries began bottling Miller in a US style private mould bottle and soon after the other breweries also switched over to their own private mould bottles. Most of these bottles were then discontinued after a few years because of the cost and replaced with a common long neck beer bottle, but the stubby was abandoned."

Beer in US and UK

Carlos Quevedo — Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:47:35 -0800

Is Bottled Beer Taking Over The World? This Oxford-based search machine has got to be the most international and complete on the web. But only a few years ago, in most styles of beer, it was considered a poor alternative to draught and cask-conditioned ales. Now it looks like globalization and the boho culture are bringing the bottle (and the can) back. Or perhaps there's not that much of a difference? It's only beer, after all. [Sunday flash supplement: Al Yankovic's beer song and something called "Titties and Beer".]

Slithy_Tove — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 22:34:03 -0800

Match the label to the beer bottle.