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2007-12-18 Rev. 2008-08-23, -09-08
Esque shop in
Portland discussion of making & philosophy
Glassblower.info website with images and
videos
In recent years internet has provided an extensive collection of videos available with a high speed connection. When viewing videos on YouTube, look at the choices offered as related down the right edge.
Making a mold blown glass violin, including playing it. Video also shows modern high speed coffee pot making. At one point they are filling the violin mold with glass, but rather than casting, they are heating the metal mold to reduce chill marks. The video is linked from the home site of the company http://www.javys.com/hario/newproduct/violin.htm# and will come up in a small window or this link to the video will open the same image in your standard browser window http://www.javys.com/hario/video/violin_production_popup.htm 2008-09-08
Remarkable Palestinian glassblower using short pipe and about 6 marver spots
to make a vase, posted June 27, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ts7-nNYzkU&feature=related
Detailed view of making a rollup style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NExm3lhNaYk&feature=related
Here are some suggestions courtesy of Paul Thompson 2006-12-28 or look at YouTube search results
"I don't know if you can link directly to You-Tube, but they now have some pretty good videos. Here's some of the once I've seen recently."
Thomas Chapman (2 parts)
pt 1 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxEP4escKI
Good explaination of basics
pt 2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6490VdSo98
East Falls Glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mabncCIZtZQ
Dawson Kellog (4 parts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogtp5xDx1vU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yThfjb-oZRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6GcngRyUxM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogq5ZJ1xSb0
Lino (11 parts)
Here's the first. The rest should show up as related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HFr97FvTro
The Great Goblet toss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S4eBLg6sU
Music video style, but good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gO1dJ3cOY
At CMOG are some pages describing the creation of Josh Simpson's 100 lb
Megaplanet "paperweight". It required 16 attempts. The final one spent 2 months
in the annealing oven.
http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.aspx?id=1622 2008-06-23
CMOG site changes id numbers occasionally, breaking links or referring to wrong
video.
This project was also filmed (in HD) and has been broadcast by WGBY (public TV
in New England) - the title is "Defying Gravity".
http://www.wgby.org/localprograms/pages/defyinggravity.html
A DVD is available for anyone making a $75 pledge to WGBY (as of 2006-12 this is
the ONLY way to get the video). Find the section that says "Please select a
"Thank-you" gift in the amount of your contribution:" and scroll the listbox to
"$75 - Defying Gravity DVD"
https://www153.safesecureweb.com/ip60153/secure/pledgeform/
From Hot Glass Bits 2006
This video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdnNizjlTzQ&search=glass%20blowing seems
pretty normal, until he breaks off the piece, turns it over and tacks the bottom
onto the pipe.
How to make goblets and how not to get them off the pipe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S4eBLg6sU
Chihuly
Working with Lino Tagliapietra
Chihuly in Action
Portland Press www.portlandpress.net
Length: 27 minutes $25
Dallas Public Library 730.92 C534YC 1999 VCAS
I got these two half hour video tapes from the collection of the
Dallas Public Library after running into them during a catalog
search. For a glassworker, Working is a much more interesting
video than Action, which has mostly to do with Chihuly and a
program that took kids off the street. The latter includes a lot
of Dale painting. The former shows Lino working, but even more it
shows the team working (and playing and eating) and everybody
talking about working with Chihuly and with Lino. I think it is
certainly worth seeing and is almost worth the $25 cost if it is
not in one of your library systems.
Great balls of fire
Kellee Monahan
v12 Omni March 90 p58
Brookhaven
If you want videotape of a good glassblower working solo, Glass Axis [P.O.Box 2485,
Columbus OH 43216 $45.00] is offering a 150 minute tape of Bill
Gudenrath. The taping was done in April 1992 during a
demonstration at the Columbus College of Art and Design. The tape
includes 57 minutes of a goblet and a vase being made, followed
by 50 minutes of making a dragon stem goblet he is famous for and
that is followed by 39 minutes of chalk talk and question and
answer. I have seen part of the tape and it is well made and
shows details nicely. HB#13
The video of Bill Gudenrath that I mentioned in HB#13 is
also available from Whitehouse Books for the same $45 price, according to an ad
in Glass magazine. They are also pushing a $60 book,
GLASS 5,000
Years Edited by Hugh Tait as having a step-by-step section by
Gudenrath on techniques. "Whitehouse Books maintains the
world's largest selection of glass reference books." 7/18/93 HB#14