Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/17/clay-mugs-that-look-like-old-c.html
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Back in my youth, we got our hands on a Polaroid camera. While the image was developing, you could use a popsicle stick on the back to moosh the colors around. Sometimes the results were hilarious, sometimes creepy and haunting.
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We used to pee on them.
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…but that didn’t affect the colours at all. It was just really satisfying, for some reason…
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No… peeing didn’t work. But we did use to torture the hell out of developing Polaroids back in art school. Some things worked, some didn’t.
Lucas Samaras did a lot of work in this area with a large format version.
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Looks like something you’d find on my desk. I say that with pride too.
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I have ceramic version of disposable paper coffee cups and they’re pretty cool, they look like the real thing but sadly they have no handles and they’re 8 oz which is not enough for me to get going in the morning.
Found it, it’s this one 
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I remember seeing some ceramic Chinese food containers at a ceramics factory/store in Burlington, VT, ages ago (Burlington Pottery, I guess). But much more delicate than this:
I saw some ceramic likenesses of half-crushed styrofoam cups at the Euro store the other day. If my cupboard weren’t already overflowing with novelty cups, I probably would’ve bought one. Plus they also had the “no handle” issue
New Yorkers of a certain age will recognize these.
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