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A video of Mark from the MIT glass band playing a 15mm neon tube "Racket" I made for him. The basic premise is a bunch of stacked loop D loops with a bell on one end and some sort of reed or vibratey bit at the other. Then you pop with fire or drill out finger holes.

I can make em pretty quick- so when I broke one trying to modify it I just made another. I gotta get myself one of those bagpipe bamboo reeds- they look fun to play with.

It was fun acting as a glass luthier :). Vitreous sonic vistas!

I wanna make a color light sensitive oscillator for neon playing.

#glassschool #racket #instrument #reeds #craft #glass #handmade #pilchuck #seattle #pnw #MIT #brooklyn #instrument #music #baritone

A video of Mark from the MIT glass band playing a 15mm neon tube "Racket" I made for him. The basic premise is a bunch of stacked loop D loops with a bell on one end and some sort of reed or vibratey bit at the other. Then you pop with fire or drill out finger holes.

I can make em pretty quick- so when I broke one trying to modify it I just made another. I gotta get myself one of those bagpipe bamboo reeds- they look fun to play with.

It was fun acting as a glass luthier :). Vitreous sonic vistas!

I wanna make a color light sensitive oscillator for neon playing.

#glassschool #racket #instrument #reeds #craft #glass #handmade #pilchuck #seattle #pnw #MIT #brooklyn #instrument #music #baritone

One of my Galen assistant moments-

Crafting a wire mounted airbrush hanging system so we could airbrush on red over the black "blockout" paint. Also good to show the students the filtering effect that paint can have on the glass and how it might differ from just using colored glass.

I really like how bouncy and minimal the wire hanging is.... It could be fun to do this again.... but deeper in the woods. Maybe next year or another time back east :)

#slumlord #neon #handmade #airbrush #bounce #sign #sculpture #painting #glassschool #seattle #pilchuck #pnw #trees #forest #glass

One of my Galen assistant moments-

Crafting a wire mounted airbrush hanging system so we could airbrush on red over the black "blockout" paint. Also good to show the students the filtering effect that paint can have on the glass and how it might differ from just using colored glass.

I really like how bouncy and minimal the wire hanging is.... It could be fun to do this again.... but deeper in the woods. Maybe next year or another time back east :)

#slumlord #neon #handmade #airbrush #bounce #sign #sculpture #painting #glassschool #seattle #pilchuck #pnw #trees #forest #glass

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 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

Two days ago my friend Dani Kaes stopped by to give a pumping demo and a "stuffed tube" demo to the students. Basically Dani cuts a bunch of 10 and 12mm tubes up, cleans them with acetone or other solvent and then stuffs the little tube pieces inside another clear 15mm tube.
She processes them a little differently, using argon on the bombarder to gently heat the inner tubes, without getting the outer one too hot too quick and cracking things.

Its really neat shaking the stuffed tubes- their fill tubes rainbow jostle and jingle back an forth :)

Already seeing students scavenging for fancy color scraps to cut them into tiny pieces for stuffing :)

#glassschool #pilchuck #neon #glass #handmade #visitingartist #demo #rainbow #glass #sculpture #seattle #pnw #friends

Two days ago my friend Dani Kaes stopped by to give a pumping demo and a "stuffed tube" demo to the students. Basically Dani cuts a bunch of 10 and 12mm tubes up, cleans them with acetone or other solvent and then stuffs the little tube pieces inside another clear 15mm tube.
She processes them a little differently, using argon on the bombarder to gently heat the inner tubes, without getting the outer one too hot too quick and cracking things.

Its really neat shaking the stuffed tubes- their fill tubes rainbow jostle and jingle back an forth :)

Already seeing students scavenging for fancy color scraps to cut them into tiny pieces for stuffing :)

#glassschool #pilchuck #neon #glass #handmade #visitingartist #demo #rainbow #glass #sculpture #seattle #pnw #friends

We had a "Glown Away Soiree" last night at Glass School. Organized by a bunch of us teachers assistants. Lots of neon on frames around the fire pit- a bar, snacks and music.
I forgot to get photos of the neon frames and the nice glow they casted everywhere, but I DID get photos of my overserve prevention light- a pair of articulating- to scale diamond shears that I made two or so years ago here.

We are Soiree ing responsibly by setting the high voltage diamond shears in a puddle of water :). That bartender better see those tequila shot pours.

I keep making these party lights here thinking they will break on their first use- but most of them actually end up sticking around campus forever. Someone even dropped these on the concrete ground last night and they STILL didn't break!

#glassschool #pilchuck #soiree #glownaway #neon #tool #glassblowing #diamondshears #handmade #seattle #bartender #highvoltage #water #safety #glass

We had a "Glown Away Soiree" last night at Glass School. Organized by a bunch of us teachers assistants. Lots of neon on frames around the fire pit- a bar, snacks and music.
I forgot to get photos of the neon frames and the nice glow they casted everywhere, but I DID get photos of my overserve prevention light- a pair of articulating- to scale diamond shears that I made two or so years ago here.

We are Soiree ing responsibly by setting the high voltage diamond shears in a puddle of water :). That bartender better see those tequila shot pours.

I keep making these party lights here thinking they will break on their first use- but most of them actually end up sticking around campus forever. Someone even dropped these on the concrete ground last night and they STILL didn't break!

#glassschool #pilchuck #soiree #glownaway #neon #tool #glassblowing #diamondshears #handmade #seattle #bartender #highvoltage #water #safety #glass

A glass "racket" I made for Mark in the MIT glass band. I was going for Bari Racket and I sure achieved it- 15mm glass at about 8 feet of tubing coiled up.

Next I wanna make a tenor racket- maybe 10mm and 5 feet of tubing. A reed or mouthpiece is attached with some rubber tubing and fingers can play the finger holes. It's a neat instrument.

I am learning to be a glass luthier :)

#glasscamp #pilchuck #music #glass #instument #handmade #tester #fabrication #seattle #wind #sound #sculpture #luthier

A glass "racket" I made for Mark in the MIT glass band. I was going for Bari Racket and I sure achieved it- 15mm glass at about 8 feet of tubing coiled up.

Next I wanna make a tenor racket- maybe 10mm and 5 feet of tubing. A reed or mouthpiece is attached with some rubber tubing and fingers can play the finger holes. It's a neat instrument.

I am learning to be a glass luthier :)

#glasscamp #pilchuck #music #glass #instument #handmade #tester #fabrication #seattle #wind #sound #sculpture #luthier

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

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

While at #Pilchuck I was able to play with a 12 pound "color pot" of #glass for pulling tubes. Usually we put a thin veneer of color in 2 layers of clear but gosh the density of straight #color is nice! It's also nice to be able to just charge the bits of the tube pull that didn't go so well right back into the #furnace Here we are melting a copper ruby to emulate Corning oxblood ruby- the holy grail of #neon reds.
#bloodred #sculpture #light #glassblowing #red #ruby #tubes #dragonsblood #pnw

While at #Pilchuck I was able to play with a 12 pound "color pot" of #glass for pulling tubes. Usually we put a thin veneer of color in 2 layers of clear but gosh the density of straight #color is nice! It's also nice to be able to just charge the bits of the tube pull that didn't go so well right back into the #furnace Here we are melting a copper ruby to emulate Corning oxblood ruby- the holy grail of #neon reds.
#bloodred #sculpture #light #glassblowing #red #ruby #tubes #dragonsblood #pnw

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

Some photos of this #neon #handbag Jacob Willcox and I created for the #Pilchuck neon symposium #fashion show.
I had been wanting to make a Michael Flechtner style handbag for a bit and Jacob happened to have an LV bag for his neon kit that provided the rough dimensions. I thought it would be funny to bend a thank you convenience store bag for the other side so its "Come Again" in that font because we want symposium guests to return.
#glass #sculpture #collaboration #art #3d #lightart #wearable

A little clip of a collaborative bubble tube between Jeremy Bert, Jacob Willcox and I with some cane tubing from Jen Elek. This one was filled with a #krypton based cocktail of gases to give it that little wave. It's a nice wavey thread of light on that neon pro transformer. About 60-80 torr of gas in there (about 755 torr is atmospheric pressure).
The bubbles are fun and Jeremy is certainly good at blowing them up!

#sculpture #neon #art #glass #pilchuck #glassblowing #plasma #PacificNorthwest

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

Been having a proper action packed blast of a time back at #Pilchuck #Glass School. With my buddy Jacob Wilcox we are assisting Jen Elek and Jeremy Bert teach a #class making neon #beer signs. Here are some photos from the opening night demo- the hearts and #LOVE bent and pumped in half a day. Jeremy is teaching the neon and wiring while Jen covers the #steel frame #fabrication and pattern drawing.
#neon #school #pnw #sign #learning #wearable #art #sculpture #teaching #washington #forest #zipzap

Made it back to my buddy Galen's place in #Tacoma and his GFTS studio to finish up this #sculpture and help him with a thing or two. Plenty of wires! It's now in a good state of done, double boxed and headed to a show at the Nicolayson Museum in Casper, #Wyoming . I gotta get some #travel plans together and go to the opening in September!
Always fun seeing and hanging with Galen and other Seattle/ Tacoma #friends . #Pilchuck here I come! #glass #art #Seattle #neon #wires #shipping #lightart #nyc

One dream that came true this time at #Pilchuck for me was to have a fruit party! I just started eating fruit this month and it's a whole new world! I also love the idea of making craft appliances that can act as functional sculptures.

This one is for parties- designed to mix fruit, people and ideas, it would be neat to make a big one with a weed whacker!
Smoothies only poured in #handmade cups!
#sculpture #glass #fruit #party #art #seattle #electric #appliances #glassart #blender #idea

One dream that came true this time at #Pilchuck for me was to have a fruit party! I just started eating fruit this month and it's a whole new world! I also love the idea of making craft appliances that can act as functional sculptures.

This one is for parties- designed to mix fruit, people and ideas, it would be neat to make a big one with a weed whacker!
Smoothies only poured in #handmade cups!
#sculpture #glass #fruit #party #art #seattle #electric #appliances #glassart #blender #idea

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

I escaped NYC to assist Michael Flechtner teach a 3D neon animation class at #Pilchuck Glass School. It's still early in the class- we are at the moment before students start putting on electrodes and making the tubes light up.

I snuck something in before the tidal wave of incoming student tubes to fill- A Blue and Yellow Side Striped Coily Wrap Wall Sconce Doo Doo Pile! Been wanting to make one of these for awhile.

Yes, that is it's full title :)

#neon #doodle #sculpture #lightart #glass