Retro robots done in glass

Eric Bailey, an Oregon glass-blower, is making these robot-shaped "scent-bottles" for fun and profit: "Last year, it began to enter my mind that it might be interesting to make a robot in glass, something I haven't seen done before. I am also currently working on three designs for rocketships."

e.b. glassworks, flameworked glass art by eric bailey - glass:

Glass Robot Invasion From Oregon

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Working hard ?
jungletek

Pakoh gets no respect. He’s been doing these for years. Here is one of his first:
http://www.glassaficionado.com/forums/showthread.php?s=9e7c49a1ea35bc34b85b808945d18e34&t=563

And here are examples from my brother’s flickr stream, taken at the Easy Street Gallery in Brooklyn. Notice how he’s refined the design, and added more details:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicknice/4086431213/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicknice/4086428541/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicknice/4087182178/sizes/l/

Now, I’m not accusing Eric Bailey of being ‘inspired’ by Pakoh. Pakoh’s work has been blatantly ripped-off before, several times, and the guy is basically too nice to make a fuss about it.
PakohSux

yeah looks like you guys need to keep up with whats on ThatAintArt.com!!!

Been posting my Functional Glass Robots there for a more then 2 years now. (Boing Boing picked up my brothers trailer on glass pipe art there too- “Degenerate Art”).

my favorites are the ones i did this past year where i made my own packaging and accessories. you can see them here:

http://www.thataintart.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=27&g2_itemId=33992

one of them even comes with his own iPhone and iPod! and they are shrink wrapped up as well.

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Thanks for the props JungleTek, but i’d say it is entirely possible for someone else to have a similar idea with out knowing what else is out there…
Anonymous

now if only i could smoke out of it…
Anonymous

how is it possible to be that good at your craft?
flatfive

“Scent-bottles?” That’s gotta be code for something.
niftyknits

so wonderfully unexpected.
Boba Fett Diop

His work reminds me a little of Roman “lachrymals”- glass bottles that women would keep to collect the tears they shed for absent lovers.
Gloria

“Scent” is just an old-fashioned, slightly more reserved term for “perfume.” No need for quotations around “scent-bottle.”
Anonymous

It looks like it’s made out of ribbon candy. Utterly delicious-looking…