By the time the concert in Kenosha was over last night, it was super foggy and the neon sign was crazily lighting everything red. Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.... "KENNY!!!!!"

They work they do is mysterious and important.

A refurbished old channel neon sign reading “Murray’s STURGEON SHOP” - the Murray’s is filled with yellow tubes in a script font. the sign is mounted on a white board. Below the sign is a small shop with a display window and a roll down gate.

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a bundle of small, green glowing, glass tubes, arranged in 6 bunches and wrapped in bubble wrap. There are random packing peanuts and a brown cardboard box next to the packet of tubes. On the bottom left is the edge of a UV flashlight and a purple glow coming out from the front.

What am I going to do with 8lbs of uranium glass tubes?

I have no idea.

That's a problem for future me.

I'm guessing I got the hard kind. It wasn't labeled on ebay. The good news is that I can make it stick to borosilicate - I just needs to buy some appropriate electrodes.

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I don’t know enough of the basics here, but I think it’s probably “thermal broadening”, where the silicon dioxide molecules, when hot, now block a broader range of the normal room-temperature bandwidth. It still looks transparent to us since we can’t see in the affected wavelengths.

Good find. Thanks for sharing.

I ran in to the same AI problem :-/

The other prevalent metal element in the the glass I *think* is boron but I purchased this on eBay with no technical specifications.

Apparently it was made by Corning but I can't seem to find any spec sheet.

A think green-ish tube of glass with a neon electrode on the end. The background is a shop floor with some plumbing below a table. There is a chair in the background. On the right hand side it a metal pipe with a few flexible gas lines leading up to a torch which is not in the photo.

Me: Will it stick?

Narrator: It would not stick. No matter how many times he tried. The difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion was too great between the glasses and he didn't bother to google it before trying.

Yes, actually. This is actually a pretty forgiving glass to work with. It doesn't expand/contract as much as soda lime so it's less likely to crack when you heat it.

Subjectively, it felt more fluid than the same diameter soda-lime glass. But it's also only 5mm OD.

A picture a cluttered model train repair workshop. A man with white hair, beard, and glasses, wearing a blue shirt and apron, sits at a workbench working on a small locomotive. Above him, a large, glowing red neon sign reads "ELECTRIC TRAINS." The walls are packed with Lionel Train memorabilia, including vintage signs, diagrams, and shelves filled with miniature train cars and parts. To the right of the man, a large monitor displays a high-definition, top-down view of the delicate components he is repairing. A small sign hanging near the center is titled "The Train Doctor," inviting observers to watch him at work. The atmosphere is warm and filled with organized chaos.

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026)
The Doctor is in and the prognosis is full steam ahead.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense

1) Yea, I need to proofread.

2) If anyone can point me to an explanation of the chemistry of why this happens, I'd love to learn more.

A thin glass tube in front of a black beanbag and on top of a dirty workbench. The tube is hit with UV light and most of the tube is glowing green - except for one dark spot in the middle of the tube.

Weird discovery about uranium glass today - when you heat it, it looses it's ability to fluoresce. The dark spot in the tube was held in a flame for just a second.

After the tube cools, the bent portion glows the same as the unbent glass.

Does not adhere to soda-lime glass. Does to boro.

A night photograph of a neon sign for the now-shuttered Paramount Theatre in Kelowna, BC jutting diagonally across the frame

chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent

#Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC, #Nikon #D5500

#nightphotography #citylights #businessnights #neon #theatre #Kelowna #BC #Canada

Regarded as one of the most innovative artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has produced an oeuvre of stunning diversity, encompassing works of film, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. He creates profoundly aesthetic experiences that are often aimed at disrupting viewers’ habits of perception. In the mid-1960s the artist adopted the medium of flashing neon in order to critically examine the role of language in visual art. Inspired by its hypnotic aura and non-art aesthetic, Nauman began using this quintessentially commercial medium in an ironic way, as a vehicle for wordplay, puns, and jokes. The artist created this neon sign for an invitational sculpture exhibition held in Chicago in 1985. Three pairs of words, antithetical in their connotations, line the six-foot circumference: life and death, love and hate, and pleasure and pain. In the center, human, animal, and nature are repeated in stacked sets of two. Each word blinks independently, ordered so that over several minutes all possible permutations are displayed. Juxtapositions of colors produce optical illusions that create a jarring, visceral effect. This work ultimately insists on language’s inability to deliver a fixed or stable set of meanings, conveying a deep suspicion about what constitutes truth, especially in the public realm. Acquired from City of Chicago Public Art Program Collection, through prior gifts of Florence S. McCormick and Emily Crane Chadbourne

Human Nature/Life Death https://www.artic.edu/artworks/147513/

Nighttime view of a restaurant. A vertical neon sign says “Felix’s Bar”. Next to it another sign, left-to-right, says “Felix’s Restaurant Oysters”. There is a streetlight next to the first sign. In the background, blurred, is another neon sign that says “Felix’s Sea Foods”.

Felix’s

More neon from the French Quarter. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

Every time I get a blueberry muffin I think of this movie

A picture of a neon sign, saying "Town Topic Hamburgers" at night, illuminated in red, giving off a soft blooming glow. The building the sight is attached to is grey, with a rounded triangle protrusion acting as a pylon.

I love this photo. One of my best, so far, I think.

Love this thread.

Thanks @highway62.bsky.social

We have some exciting news:
NEON DEUTSCHLAND, the book, is coming soon.

Published by Prestel Verlag, the book contains over 350 images of neon signs from some 45 cities throughout Germany. It is available for pre-order now, and should be in bookshops by mid-April.
www.penguin.de/buecher/jess...

Bradbury Building in period type

A sign reading Arcade in front of a columned facade

Roxie Theater marquee and facade. No it's no longer a movie theater.

Ghost Sando Shop neon sign

Downtown signage

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 7 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Everett Motel, which included a smoke shop, closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2015. The site is now a vacant lot, and only this broken neon sign remains.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

New Haven, CT A neon sign lettered in green called Claire’s Cirner Copia. cute pan by Claire in the middle of the letters is a cornucopia in yellow with a orange carrot and I think some apples the sign is transparent so you can see through to the inside of the store

#GreenSat
#neon
#streetphotography

Neon signs are my weakness!

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 5 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Totem Family Dining, since 1953. The sign, painted to resemble a carved totem pole, alternately lights the two "TOTEM" words; these are composite photos to show both lit together. The message below changes often.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

a red neon sign that says the owl. an owl is perching on the upper left of the "o" in owl. Also an owl pictured on a poster that says cucamonga owl brand.

A friend is on vacation in Austin, TX and sent me this. I'm gonna need one of those neon signs for sure.

Kingman sign

The Heart, Route 66
(2026.02.15 | Kingman, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton)
#route66 #kingmanaz #photography #neon #neonsign #roadsign #roadside #roadtrip #americanwest #leica #voigtlander

Thank you!

A bundle of thing glass tubes in bubble wrap sitting in a counter. They are being illuminated with UV light and glowing bright green.

It’s a little on the thin side - but let me see if I can attach electrodes to this uranium glass tube. (I only have soda lime electrodes - may need to order some borosilicate ones.)

The Safari Inn neon sign, lit in red and blue.

Photo thread from LA. I'll try to keep it all in one place.

If I miss an alt text, please don't yell. I'm tired.