Sunday, February 5, 2012

Glassblowing

Had a fantastic time glassblowing today-

Something I had wanted to do forever, and finally had the opportunity to do it! I did a 6-hour one-day workshop at Public Glass in SF.  It was an intimate group of 3 students with one instructor.  I actually blew bubbles into molten glass to make a tumbler and a papeweight!  the activity was quite a bit more athletic than I had anticipated- lots of lifting hot glass on a stick (leverage!), working against gravity, walking quickly from one work station to another, and standing close to furnaces burning at thousands of degrees. 

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