Who doesn't love slow motion Prince Rupert's Drops?

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AGG Member: Debora Coombs videos

This gives the appearance of a perfect day when everything goes right but I'm guessing it was slightly more work than it looks! Enjoy these elegant & inspirational videos from Deborah Coombs website:

Making Menfolk Part 1: stained glass by Debora Coombs from Debora Coombs Criddle on Vimeo.

Making Menfolk Part II : stained glass by Debora Coombs from Debora Coombs Criddle on Vimeo.

Cool, Hip, Fresh: The Bagavagabonds do Stained Glass

Thanks to Looking at Glass for this cool post!


BAGAVAGABONDS AND SPACECRAFT, PORTLAND OR. from BRILLIANT IMAGES on Vimeo.

Who are they? Meet the Bagavagabonds here: http://www.bagavagabonds.com/roll-call/

What do Jackson Pollock and Mel Howse have in common?

Today I stumbled upon this film of Jackson Pollock painting on glass from the 1950's. Some of his tools look remarkably like the metal screens promoted by Bullseye for "painting with light" using glass frits.

My friend Mel Howse laid pasta and dried beans on glass before spraying it with silver stain in her large commission for Sainsbury's Supermarket CMK which I saw her fabricating at Derix Glasstudios.

Steal Like an Artist

Here's my rift on Creativity. I've been thinking about it. How do we teach; it how do we learn it.
First a talk by Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age


From the Blog: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/27/steal-like-an-artist-austin-kleon/

Window Wonderland

Here's a Golden Oldie from our friends at Looking at Glass:

VIDEO: The Effect of Color

Watch The Effect of Color | OFF BOOK on PBS. See more from Off Book.

Corning Video: A Day Made of Glass 2

Corning "unpacks' the technology promised in their popular video "A Day Made of Glass". Here's another example that makes me question why my school teaching Spanish to my children rather than teaching them to speak English with a "British" accent. Corning vision: "Brilliant"

Good hand lettering

Watch the video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/49556689

From the website description:
IF YOU WANNA SEE ALL THE PAGES AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE PROCESS VISIT
http://www.leandrosenna.com/72810/766869/work/bob-dylans-hand-lettering-experience

I´ve been thinking for a lot of time on doing a personal project where I could get out of the computer for a little bit, and have pleasure doing something handmade. Getting back to the basics.

Inspired by Bob Dylan´s Subterranean Homesick Blues video, where he flips cards with the lyrics as the song plays, I decided to recreate those cards with handmade type. I ended up doing all the lyrics, and not just some of the words, as Dylan did.

There are 66 cards done in one month during my spare time using only pencil, black tint pens and brushes. The challenge was not to use the computer, no retouching was allowed. Getting a letter wrong meant starting the page over.

I had a lot of fun doing this project, researching, practicing and getting deeper on typography.

There are some intentional misspellings and puns on the original song video, so I tried to keep that in a certain way.

You can watch the original movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfrjk6suAQ

Get in touch with some of my work visiting www.leandrosenna.com

New Video from our friends at Williams & Byrne

The Master & the Beast – a new Documentary about Kiln-Fired Stained Glass Painting
Two full-length demonstrations of the ‘single-firing’ method

The ‘single-firing’ method: you’ll save time and money. And your glass will also look much better …

‘What will I learn?’ In this documentary, you’ll learn about undercoating, tracing, strengthening and shaping, shading, flooding, highlights and softened highlights, painting on the back of your glass, plus – using oil and propylene glycol. All in just one firing – this looks much better, and it also saves you time and money

‘All that in just one firing?’ Yes – including all your shading, which is amazing

‘What exactly will I see?’ You will see two full-length demonstrations from start to finish
Details HERE: http://www.realglasspainting.com/

Electronically tintable dynamic glass

http://sageglass.com/sageglass/

Artful Intelligence: How "Smart Windows" and "Dynamic Glass" Can Save Energy

BY DAVID ZAX

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A manufacturer of auto-tinting windows just nabbed another $10 million in financing. Is this the future of glass?

In the future, those glass windows on your office building might also be able to beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy. That's how smart glass is getting. 

Soladigm, manufacturers of auto-tinting "smart glass," nabbed $10 million in equity financing, building off a recent $30 million round in December.

The notion of "smart glass" might at first seem a bit excessive. We demand intelligence from our partners, our friends, our colleagues, and lately our phones, but windows are not an entity that seem to necessitate smartness.

There's a simple reason why smart, or "dynamic," glass matters, though. It saves energy. When normal old "dumb" windows welcome in the noonday sun, buildings bake. But Soladigm's electrochromics glass automatically adjusts its tint, helping regulate the temperature of a building and thereby reducing cooling (or heating) costs. The company claims its windows can reduce heating and cooling usage by a quarter. That's one reason why the company was named a winner of GE's Ecomagination challenge last year.

Soladigm has competitors, including the Saint-Gobain-backed Sage. And we recently looked at a company, Peer+, that manufactures a different kind of "smart glass"--windows thatdouble as solar panels, generating electricity themselves. Imagine, then, if the two joined forces to make "genius glass" that both saves energy and generates it.

Video: Ed Carpenter

Site/Light from Ed Carpenter on Vimeo.

Ed Carpenter's Website: http://www.edcarpenter.net/home/home.html

Video: Wholeo Dome

Wholeo Dome 2012 with Grandkids from Caroling Wholeo on Vimeo.

More: http://wholeo.net/wholeodome.htm

TED TALK: Paula Scher on Serious Design

You can never learn enough about good design - in fact sometimes it's hard to know where to go learn anything about design. Here is an inspiring TED TALK by the designer Paula Scher:
http://www.ted.com/talks/paula_scher_gets_serious.html

Light Installations

Photo: Brian Mosley  http://gotnikonwilltravel.com/

In 2008 Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter projected images onto the National Cathedral

This seems simple by comparison to today's sophisticated 3D Video Mapping installations like these:

KraftWork from seeper on Vimeo.

Watch more videos here http://www.thecoolist.com/when-buildings-come-alive-10-unreal-urban-projection-videos/

Amazing LCD Glass Installation

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.

Video: Debra Coombs paints "Menfolk"

Enjoy this 6 minute video of AGG member Deb Coombs painting in her tranquil Vermont studio.

Visit Debra website: http://coombscriddle.com/home.html

Glass at MIT: Beauty and Utility

February 10 – July 2012

This exhibition explores glass making as revealed in glassware from MIT laboratories, blown glass from the MIT Glass Lab, and stunning stained glass windows from the Libraries’ Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation Collection. Tools, early photographs, and selections from rare books demonstrate the combination of artistry and engineering that goes into the creation of glass.

Live small

Interesting exercise. It's a 7 minute video, so get a snack first.