Well, about time I joined the 20th cent I guess! Everyone is on facebook (or should that be faceache? I really can't get my head around to all those daft attachments and quizes) and even my old mate Scot has a blog! Doubtless the rules are short three lines of drivel- but I am sure I will break that rule with long rambling nonsense!
All quite exciting at the moment, my glass work is coming along really well now, plus have bit the bullet and got a dual fuel set up, so much faster and cheaper to run than the canisters I was using. Only thing is I'm now making beads faster than I am getting around to anealing them (a toughing process that stops them exploding from internal stresses). Not able to do much this week as have got an infected eye which is giving me grief.
Bizarre the chain of events....... if the hotel next to my office had allowed them to put air conditioner fans on the back of our building I wouldn't have a sore eye now, as the builders would have installed it correctly the aircon wouldn't be in a cupboard overheating, and they'd have put the vents in the right place! Then the office would be cool, so I wouldn't have been climbing around moving and poking vents! Thus no grit in eye that rubbed sore and caused me to be waffling on here instead of glass working!
About Me
- SteamPunkGlass
- I use a technique called 'lampworking' which involves directly heating rods of premium glass in a super-hot flame of propane and oxygen. Once it's glowing and in a jam/treacle like consistency I then wind, push, prod, roll and generally play around with the hot glass. Once I've finished sculpturing it into shape it's popped into a microprocessor controlled kiln where they anneal to reduce the internal stresses that toughens the bead (a lot of cheap mass produced beads don't always do this). I live in the countryside bit of Essex (just above London for those from outside the UK), in a village that's been here since saxon times, surrounded by plenty of natural inspiration from the old village cottages to the open fields. I am also a self-representing artist, all the glass I make is my own work, and am a proud to be a member of a group of like-minded glass artists - more can be found here; Member #G84 www.self-representing-artist.com/ My main website is www.SteamPunkGlass.com
2 comments:
Actually, I have several (which is one reason why I don't post much to LJ anymore).
"Doubtless the rules are short three lines of drivel"
Only on microblogs like twitter and identi.ca.
Here you can write as much as you like.
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