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June 7, 2011

Bottles from Dead Horse Bay

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For your uncapped-landfill viewing pleasure: here are the bottles, jars and one glass syringe that I selected from Sunday’s trip to the beach. Mud washed out but still with a patina of algae. And a few barnacles.

We’ll take a closer look at a few of these during the next few days. (It’s curated Dead Horse Bay bottle week on box vox!)

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

One Response to “Bottles from Dead Horse Bay”

  1. Daniel says:
    July 6, 2011 at 12:57 am

    When I was a child, we were taught that glass was especially bad in that it would take a billion years for a glass bottle to utterly revert to things no longer discernibly artificial. I don’t know whence came the billion year figure, and the notion that being discernibly artificial was in-and-of-itself bad is dubious.
    As you actually noted, “beach” glass is not merely generally benign, but typically actually æsthetically pleasing. One can imagine extraterrestial archæologists coming to earth in 900 million years, finding nothing left of us but our glass, and seeing a sad beauty in it.