<br> Sorry for the wait on answers, I was away from my desk all day.<br> Flo have awesome beginner and advanced workshops, and once you've trained sufficiently you can book time at the studio for your own projects.<br>
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.<br>
<a href="http://lunarbovine.com/projects/?/projects/Glassblowing/">http://lunarbovine.com/projects/?/projects/Glassblowing/</a><br><br> 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. :)<br>
<br> 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!<br> The URL again is: <a href="http://floglassblowing.ca/">http://floglassblowing.ca/</a><br>
<br> -Jason Cobill<br> (Sorry if this sounded like an ad - I don't actually work for Flo! Just a very satisfied student.) <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" target="_blank">andrew@plumb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Looks like they give classes and everything! See <a href="http://floglassblowing.ca/" target="_blank">http://floglassblowing.ca/</a><div>
<br></div><div>I've often wondered what would be involved in making functional, artistic vacuum tubes...</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.<br><div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On 2013-02-13, at 11:36 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">That is really cool. How would one go about doing that. Do they show you how?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br>Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>---<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br> Made this in rented time at the glassblowing studio at Flo Glassblowing. <br> <a href="http://www.lunarbovine.com/showandtell/BlueVase.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.lunarbovine.com/showandtell/BlueVase.jpg</a><br>
<br> It'll look better filled with flowers. :)<br>
<br> -Jason Cobill<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com" target="_blank">darcy@siteware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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