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BOOKS — Make a bong, get it on |
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Written by Howie Rumberg, asap
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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 Smokers around the world have been using pipes, bongs and hookahs for centuries. And all those centuries of smoking have produced some pretty devices.
Now you can get in on it, too. Randy Stratton’s “Build This Bong: Instructions and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes and Hookahs” provides the how-to.
Here at asap, we appreciate these designs not for their function, but for their form. We swear! Here are our favorites:
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DRYER HOSE SUCTION BONG. It looks like a graceful Polka band horn with its flexible white dryer hose -- wire coil spiraling through the plastic -- held together by sleek metallic hose clamps. The PVC threaded cap and cut nozzle juts out of the cylindrical body like a trumpet mouthpiece.
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PISTOL GRIP BONG. Talk about modern art. This sleek minimalist tube with a 45-degree bend is made of acrylic tubing. It recalls Roy Lichtenstein’s “Modern Sculpture with Black Shaft.”
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RUBBER DUCK HOOKAH. Claes Oldenburg step aside. OK the hookah isn’t as big an Oldenburg sculpture, but using the iconic yellow rubber duck as a container is as whimsical a comment on everyday life as any pop artist’s work. The hose twisting out of the back of its head, and bowl and stem through the forehead gives the duck a Borgish appearance.
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SIMPLE APPLE PIPES. Ms. Crabtree would be very pleased to have been given this apple. Not only could it come in handy, say, while on a picnic, it shows a level of ingenuity and simplicity that helped elevate some of the great works of industrial design to the level of art -- for example, Apple’s iPod.
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