[Lab] What are you making for Valentines?

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

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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