Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cirque du Verre

I should have gone to this at Wheaton Village and I didn't.

The last set of incoming fellows put together a glass circus, and posted to youtube.



Blowing glass in the dark is hard. I trip over things. But pretty.



This seems like a bad idea . . .

More awesome things on the internet

The Pulp Shakespeare Project is a wiki dedicated to the wholesale rewriting of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in iambic pentameter.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Glassmaking

I drove to the Corning Museum of Glass last weekend, and got hired for the summer as a workshop teacher. They hire about thirty glassblower to make ornaments and flowers from Memorial Day until Labor Day. I'm moving to Corning.

I'm going to be unemployed and homeless in September, but in the meantime, I'm boarding in a vacation spot all summer, gathering glass everyday, and looking forward to the quiet otherwise.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

First day in a new studio

I taught a couple of experience workshops at East Falls Glassworks this weekend, and, for the first time ever, had a student completely abandon the idea of glassworking as soon as the furnace door was open. She kept it together enough to attempt to take a gather, but threw it away and refused to stay, even when I offered to make her something to take home. I should have known she had no idea what she was looking at when she saw the massive dragon the advanced sculpture class had previously made as a team project, and asked for me to make her that.