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Oh, Pittsburgh. You and your industrial materials.
Pittsburgh, thanks to the wonderful Pittsburgh Glass Center (where I was fortunate enough to take my classes), is hosting the GAS Conference this year. In fact, my teacher, Fig, is selling his wares and doing demos at the Chihuly exhibit at Phipps Conservatory. $500 a ticket. Amazing.
There's all kinds of shit going on all summer, gallery crawls, exhibits at the Carnegie, Phillip Glass's opera at the Warhol (the set, apparently, is entirely made of glass), some stuff coinciding with the Three Rivers Arts Festival...If you're going to be anywhere near here this summer, check it out.
http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/ <- There's an awesome video on the homepage about the conference and the center.
Yes, I'm telling you all of this just so I can finally show you the pictures of the shit I made during my class.
I don't know where the hell my borosilicate heart pendant went, though.
I apologize for the crappy photography. I think Dad bought the suckiest digital camera he could find.
tube beads (clockwise from top: lime green and pale blue; white surrounded by cobalt; black with shimmery blue; white with clear red-orange; black with pale blue and shimmery blue.)
round beads (one pendant...The one shrouded in darkness is black with a pale blue design; the blindingly bright one is white with cobalt designs)
Little beads (Yellow, orange, and pale blue; clear and black at the top left)
Marbles (The one you can't see is light green with blue. Looks like Earth.)
(blurry) Implosion technique marbles...Yeah, they've got flowers in 'em. I really don't have the patience or the heat tolerance to make more.
I call them swizzles. We made them for practice, or to put stripes around marbles (which I failed at, miserably.)
More of the same. I actually succeeded in making the green one into its own marble, which I cannot find the picture of. Figures, really. It was my best one.
Aaand finally, the woman I burned the tip of my left index finger off for...(no, seriously)..!
Hopefully you can't tell that she's missing an arm :D
Not the best pictures, and I apologize, but you get the idea. I'll probably take some better ones later to put up on DeviantArt.
Back to the piles and piles of schoolwork I have. Mmph.
Pittsburgh, thanks to the wonderful Pittsburgh Glass Center (where I was fortunate enough to take my classes), is hosting the GAS Conference this year. In fact, my teacher, Fig, is selling his wares and doing demos at the Chihuly exhibit at Phipps Conservatory. $500 a ticket. Amazing.
There's all kinds of shit going on all summer, gallery crawls, exhibits at the Carnegie, Phillip Glass's opera at the Warhol (the set, apparently, is entirely made of glass), some stuff coinciding with the Three Rivers Arts Festival...If you're going to be anywhere near here this summer, check it out.
http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/ <- There's an awesome video on the homepage about the conference and the center.
Yes, I'm telling you all of this just so I can finally show you the pictures of the shit I made during my class.
I don't know where the hell my borosilicate heart pendant went, though.
I apologize for the crappy photography. I think Dad bought the suckiest digital camera he could find.
tube beads (clockwise from top: lime green and pale blue; white surrounded by cobalt; black with shimmery blue; white with clear red-orange; black with pale blue and shimmery blue.)
round beads (one pendant...The one shrouded in darkness is black with a pale blue design; the blindingly bright one is white with cobalt designs)
Little beads (Yellow, orange, and pale blue; clear and black at the top left)
Marbles (The one you can't see is light green with blue. Looks like Earth.)
(blurry) Implosion technique marbles...Yeah, they've got flowers in 'em. I really don't have the patience or the heat tolerance to make more.
I call them swizzles. We made them for practice, or to put stripes around marbles (which I failed at, miserably.)
More of the same. I actually succeeded in making the green one into its own marble, which I cannot find the picture of. Figures, really. It was my best one.
Aaand finally, the woman I burned the tip of my left index finger off for...(no, seriously)..!
Hopefully you can't tell that she's missing an arm :D
Not the best pictures, and I apologize, but you get the idea. I'll probably take some better ones later to put up on DeviantArt.
Back to the piles and piles of schoolwork I have. Mmph.