[Lab] What are you making for Valentines?

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

Congrats Lynne Bruning for making the instructable new letter with your
hello kitty.


Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for all the info.  A while ago I been curious about trying it every
> since I saw it on making stuff (kids version of how it's made that my
> daughter watches).  Never thought it would be this easy to get started.
>
> thanks for all the info!
>
>
> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>    Sorry for the wait on answers, I was away from my desk all day.
>>    Flo have awesome beginner and advanced workshops, and once you've
>> trained sufficiently you can book time at the studio for your own projects.
>>    It's awesome to go just to see the setup - it's an extremely technical
>> art, really satisfying to create form and structure out of liquid, and the
>> high temperatures involved make it pretty exciting. :) My work is still
>> really simple, but I can't get over the richness and purity of the colours
>> and luminosity in glass.
>>    http://lunarbovine.com/projects/?/projects/Glassblowing/
>>
>>    As Nigel pointed out, you'd want a rigorous scientific glassblowing
>> background to make electronics components, but there's lots of interesting
>> ways to incorporate electronics into artistic glass projects (if not into
>> the glass itself, necessarily). Nigel's experimented with building homebrew
>> tungsten lightbulbs, and I've been messing around with base-lighting my
>> sculptures with LEDs. LED flood lights and coloured glass lenses make a
>> pretty amazing pair. :)
>>
>>    If you're looking for a maker-y Valentine's Day activity, they do
>> really fun day workshops where you get to make a paperweight or a blown
>> glass ornament. It'd be a memorable date!
>>    The URL again is: http://floglassblowing.ca/
>>
>>    -Jason Cobill
>>     (Sorry if this sounded like an ad - I don't actually work for Flo!
>> Just a very satisfied student.)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like they give classes and everything!  See
>>> http://floglassblowing.ca/
>>>
>>> I've often wondered what would be involved in making functional,
>>> artistic vacuum tubes...
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>>>
>>> On 2013-02-13, at 11:36 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:
>>>
>>> That is really cool. How would one go about doing that.  Do they show
>>> you how?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Made this in rented time at the glassblowing studio at Flo
>>>> Glassblowing.
>>>>    http://www.lunarbovine.com/showandtell/BlueVase.jpg
>>>>
>>>>    It'll look better filled with flowers. :)
>>>>
>>>>    -Jason Cobill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://inventorartist.com/tag/cards/
>>>>>
>>>>>
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