#pilchuck — Public Fediverse posts

A little video of Galen's finished "Slumlord" sign. I bent the neon for him, and some of his sign painter buddies helped with the paint design.

Galen wears the "Slumlord" badge with pride- refusing to raise rent on his property in the rapidly gentrifying Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. The piece is inspired by another landlord with a coin operated gas meter on the stove (quarters for cooking time).

We love the clickity clackety of the mechanical incandescent bulb flasher in there- Galen mounted it so the whole metal "can" acts as an "amplifier". Galen loves anything mechanical. It was way fun being his Teachers Assistant for the class.

The ruby red glass in this came from Chihuly "Studio 1" in Tacoma (long since moved to Seattle)

#glassschool #Seattle #Tacoma #hilltop #pilchuck #neon #blinky #lightbulbs #incandescent #sign #landlord #glass #handmade #sculpture #gentrification #mechanical #airplane

A little clip of our opening night "finale" after the MIT glass band played their horns. I bent "charms" for each of the class's instructors and got them done in half a day- in time for the opening night demo. 5 classes and neon red light with a high voltage animator- so naturally we went with a pentagram. A glassy high voltage pentagram of knowledge!

Also, the wifi is now "better" on campus thanks to some fiber ran into the woods. A few months ago I set up a Nextcloud server running at home that my photos back up to from my phone. I just realized that I can upload videos from Pilchuck to Mastodon straight from my home server! No need to clog the limited Pilchuck bandwidth

#pilchuck #glassschool #neon #performance #highvoltage #seattle #pny #sculpture #event #openingnight #wild #party #charms #flasher #blink #glass #homeserver #nextcloud

The class I helped teach was about making beer signs- I never had made the metal frames before and I liked the idea of a "murdered out" #beersign . #Steel is for real! The hand pulled black tubing is fun and funky- would love to rebend it with 8mm effetre #blacklight perfection!
The Dis Mis Mal Information Arrow... it's also kind of an #information #rocketship with animating flames when placed upright.

#neon #neonsign #misinformation #sculpture #art #pilchuck #murderedout #allblack #lightart

We pulled some iris "silvery" Bernstein "amber" tubing and I phosphoric acid dust coated one of them with 4500 white phosphor to make this #hydration #halo ! I'm after the elusive and paradoxical #brown #light #neon the halo certainly helped with water chugs- we got 26 late night #partiers to simultaneously chug a glass of #water ! Success! My coating is getting not too bad- still a little speckly, but even enough on this one.
#pilchuck #glass #circle #school #seattle #pilchuck #diycolor #coated

A video of some electric diamond shears I just made at Pilchuck Glass School. Diamond shears are used to cut bits of glass without deforming them. Usually they are steel, but these are electric. One time use! Watch the exposed wires on this one- this video is made pre- insulators and fancy high voltage wires.

Yes it runs on a battery powered transformer✨⚡

#neon #sculpture #wearable #itselectric #performance #glassblowing #tool #handmade #urbancraft #wildone #pilchuck #lightart