Blowing Glass

Our theme this week: Ira Glass, host and creator of the best program on radio, This American Life. Our article will be presented in three acts. Act 1: I introduce Ira. Act 2: I call him, making a fool of myself over the phone. Act 3: He says great things VALPARAISO | The room can reach temperatures of 120 during the summer. They rely on 2,000-plus degree oven that stays on 24/7. They're doing work that one estimates few people have ever seen done. It's work, but it's art. Welcome to Hot Shop Valpo, the After a $38 million face-lift, the first floor of the Eiffel Tower is now made of glass! Millions of visitors who flock to the landmark each year can look down through the tower’s central void to the ground about 200 feet below. To make things even While you're making a jackline, it's called 'jacking.'" A common phrase overheard in a glass blowing studio? "Paddle my bottom while I jack this." And then insert into glory hole and repeat. During most of July and August, the studio is closed for A program for a group of 13 boys at the Bird Street Community Center in Dorchester marries glass-blowing and business lessons for a unique summer learning experience. This is the sixth year that the BSCC has partnered with Diablo Glass School in Roxbury blowing glass at East Side Glass Creating an ornament from glass blowing. Check out this story on KVUE.com: www.kvue.com/picture-gallery/features/2015/01/26/blowing-glass-at-east-side-glass/22352363/ .

"A Day Made of Glass 2" is a montage of "how highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world," according to Corning. It is mind-blowing to imagine everyday objects suddenly having rich, interactive displays and multiple french designers ronan and erwan bouroullec have announced their first collaboration alongside finnish company iittala for the production of ‘ruutu’, a collection of ten vases available in five sizes and seven different glass colors. when collected and Glass making began more than 4,000 years ago, when people discovered that heating a mixture of sand and soda ash in a very hot furnace produced a liquid that solidified hard and smooth. The art of blowing glass is at least 2,000 years old. Instead of Seven-year-old Isabelle Bevan flashed a wide smile when her grandmother told her the blown-glass ornament she was making was huge. “I holded it in,” Isabelle said proudly about holding her breath before she blew into a tube to create her Christmas .

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blowing glass Glass Candle Lantern | File Size: 320 x 320 · 9 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Fluted wire, metal and glass funnel pendant lamps by Peddlers | File Size: 288 x 448 · 31 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Blue Glass Door Knobs | File Size: 245 x 346 · 15 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Light Bulb Pendant | File Size: 397 x 397 · 13 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass first morning in Venice we all went to Murano to see the glass blowing | File Size: 300 x 400 · 24 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Blown Glass Art | File Size: 400 x 480 · 50 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Glass+wkr+%26+glass+pile. | File Size: 325 x 400 · 47 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Live Cheap & Make Art USA | File Size: 400 x 301 · 41 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Sheep Balloons | File Size: 450 x 440 · 48 kB · jpeg Download

blowing glass Lars Hellsten mould-blown glass vase design for Skruf Glasbruk, Sweden | File Size: 225 x 320 · 30 kB · jpeg Download