Ceramic ray guns

Muddy Mountain Pottery's Raku Ray Guns are made from ceramic, and named for golden age science fiction authors and personalities ("Tiptree Trilobite," "D.E.L. Ray," "Gerns-Backfire"). Beautiful and contradictory, made from heavy ceramic instead of futuristic materials. Link (via Neatorama)

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STEAMPUNK!
magoon

Cory, thanks for the post! Also, I’m glad to know the Rotwang Retrovivifier will be going to a good home. Happy vivifying!
LogrusZed

So this is designed to defeat airport security in order to allow terrorists from the planet Mongo to hijack planes?
License Farm

I’m reminded of the gun constructed of the bones of the “special” in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. There’s also something Burroughsian about some of them in their organics. I don’t know if the artist was going for something vaguely unsettling, but I hope he wouldn’t take it as a negative.
buddy66

Looks like the ray gun from the early Buck Rogers comic strip. Wasn’t that the first ray gun in pop culture? I remember the painted tin models. Some of them even threw sparks.
echolocate chocolate

Hmm…. Claypunk? Kilnpunk?
looli

Reminds me of Jeff Burnette’s glass work, which I’ve loved since forever.

http://www.joeblowglassworks.com/12.html
Art

Nicely rendered. Beautiful glazes and colors. Great job.

(kind of reminds me of the ancient steampunk found here:http://americanfederationofficticiousarch.blogspot.com/
primalchaos

The organic rough feel of the ceramic reminds me of the Red Lectroid technology from Buckaroo Banzai.