Absinthe, I grow fonder....

The Virtual Absinthe Museum is an interesting place indeed, offering history, literature, art and antiques all about - you guessed it - Absinthe.  

From sugar shakers and spoons to herbs, ingredients and recipes, you'll find it here. A special treat for art lovers is the homage to Picasso,  Absinthiana II - The Genesis of Picasso's Verre d'absinthe?...  

however I am fondest of the Absinthe Chromolithographs on Tin. 

Another Jackson Pollock Range Hood

Metallo Arts has been releasing some pretty cool vidz this season (they have their own channel on YouTube) but I'm not sure if Another Jackson Pollock Range Hood is my favourite because I like to see how Plummer makes his pieces, or if it's the awsome music chosen for the video... 

1001 Uses for a Tin Can

Artist Bobby Hansson has worked in photography and in television, but today, he works exclusively in the tin can medium. Hansson creates music and art from tin cans and even wrote a book about it. Independent producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler speak with Hansson from his farm in Rising Sun, Md., about the allure of tin cans his life as an artist. Listen to Bobby's story...

Cans - A Visual History

The Impact of the Can on Culture and Economics for more than 200 Years

THE HISTORY OF THE CAN IS LITERALLY A HISTORY of western civilization, and its innovation an engine of prosperity in the United States. Two centuries ago, the first cans were designed to sustain world powers in their quests around the globe. In boomtown America, the can was key to big business and broader frontiers. Today, can making is a major economic force; the more than 130 billion cans Americans use each year have created an eight billion dollar industry, with 200 manufacturing plants in 38 states, that employ more than 35 thousand employees...  Read more.

TIN TABERNACLES AND OTHER BUILDINGS

I've been fortunate enough to stumble upon a terrific article called Tin Tabernacles and Other Buildings nestled everso gently in another blog, and the photographs were just so stunning I had to mention it here.

Christian Fellowship Chapel, Woodmancote, Gloucestershire

Photography and Introduction by ALASDAIR OGILVIE