Rocket Neon NYC

A photo showing 10, 25mm, 8 foot long clear glass tubes lined up next to each other.

A line of 25mm, 8-foot glass tubes: an oddly alluring invitation to a neon tube bender.

Full of potential, they wait to be bent and transformed into energized plasma, radiating life and light.

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A neon clenched fist.

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt," Mahatma Gandhi

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Very nice.

A graph displaying pressure over time along with an explanation of how to blow a bubble in glass.

A favorite visual representation and description of the unique experience of blowing glass.

Bandhu Scott Dunham. Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame, 1997, p. 98.

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Yep, that's a good one.
“Something any child could do…with 30 years practice.”

Large Coca-Cola neon sign in red, white, yellow.

2000 sq/ft Coca-Cola sign Piccadilly Circus (1960s) featured 6,300’ of glass, 173 transformers.

Ruby Red, Jasmine Yellow, Light Green, Magenta, White. The “C” of Cola ~ 174' of glass.

See it: youtu.be/KvMy8G2U7wg?t=6
Photo: Charles W. Cushman, 1961, Indiana Univ. Libraries

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A neon sign with a red word “READ” inside a blue thought bubble.

Custom neon for the marvelous person and publisher, Ellen Adler.
And a friendly reminder of the joys of reading a book.

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It's not well crafted and this is a poorly and unprofessionally installed piece.

Advertisement from magazine FilmIndia that contains hand-drawn art deco style artwork of several tall buildings with neon signs as well as the company’s contact information.

Happy World Art Deco Day!

This advertisement for neon ran in the May 1938 edition of FilmIndia.

Thanks to Atul Kumar of Art Deco Mumbai for this one.
www.artdecomumbai.com

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Thanks, Eve.

Two neon wasps hanging side-by-side in a gallery. One has green wings and a magenta body and the other has magenta wings and a green body.

Congratulations on a great show by the fabulous Rebecca Lawton Flatters including two neon renderings by Rocket Neon, W.A.S.P. I & W.A.S.P. II.

On view @ roosevelt.audubon.org

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Neon sign hanging in window that reads, "ROCKET NEON" in turquoise lettering with purple and red borders. Bright blue sky seen in the background.

Blue skies over Red Hook!

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An array of neon tubes - orange, green and blue - planted in a clay pot on a table top.

Spring comes to Rocket Neon in Brooklyn!

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Glass tubing shaped in the form of a neuron filled with neon gas.

Neon neuron.

Saves a lot of $ on a double-faced sign!

The word, "YAY," in neon.

Sometimes, you just have to shout something positive!

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A series of irregular neon shapes in warm white stacked to look like a cairn.

Turn your Idea into custom neon fit for any setting.

Neon cairn for the marvelous @harlyng.bsky.social‬

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Ketamine eyes.

Graffiti drawn on the pavement spelling out the word, "NEON."

One might believe they’ve chosen the right profession when this graffiti is spotted on the pavement on the way in to the neon shop. Who did this? How did they know? Why?

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Neon rendering of John Lennon's self-portrait.

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it,” John Lennon.

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One before photo showing bright blue and red/orange areas before annealing and an after photo showing clear glass with no bright highlights after annealing.

These photos, captured under a color polariscope, illustrate stress immediately after welding a neon electrode onto a 25mm tube and the changes after annealing

Reddish hues indicate compression, bluish tones highlight tensile stress.

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Yep.

One before photo showing bright blue and red/orange areas before annealing and an after photo showing clear glass with no bright highlights after annealing.

These photos, captured under a color polariscope, illustrate stress immediately after welding a neon electrode onto a 25mm tube and the changes after annealing

Reddish hues indicate compression, bluish tones highlight tensile stress.

#neon #neonartwork #glassart #lampwork #glass

White neon cloud with the number 9 in blue.

One from the archives, Cloud Nine.

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Vintage photo of neon by Fred Lyon outside strip club, Barbary Cost, San Francisco.

Nothing draws in an audience like neon. (And a few sidewalk barkers.) From photographer Fred Lyon.

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Blue neon reading, "WALK, SLIDE, STUMBLE, TRIP, FALL" at various angles to portray the action of each word.

Wordplay, 2013.

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A little light for a dark day.

Ode to Aram Saroyan’s poem “lighght,” 1965.

Also brought to light in the fabulous book, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

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