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Boothmaker, boothmaker, make me a booth (kinda)

March 15, 2012 · 1 Comment 

One nice thing about a glass art blog is that it’s read by…(drumroll) …artists. Especially artists who sell their work at artfairs and such.

And that’s just who I want to talk to now. If you’ve designed a good booth for selling arts and crafts: I need your advice. Please?

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Glass

Coldworking small castings, Part I

February 22, 2012 · 8 Comments 

Q: Is there a better (faster, cheaper) way to coldwork small glass sculptures?

A: Yep

A BeCon or two ago, Richard Whiteley, head of the Canberra glass school, said that glasswork fresh from the kiln was only half finished; coldwork was necessary to take it the rest of the way.

Ouch.

I happen to agree with him, but as much as I love HAVING coldworked, I hate DOING coldwork and seem to be on a neverending quest to avoid it. Right now I’m testing a bunch of machines to see if they can automate the finishing process for small cast glass sculptures, like pendants.

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TechBiz

My dozen best iPad business apps

December 30, 2011 · 3 Comments 

Izzy the ‘Pad is the first computing device I’ve ever slept with.

Literally. I hate to say it, but she’s pretty much changed the way I do stuff. That red leather thing growing out of my left arm? That’s Izzy, in her snazzy red case. Apple’s made an excellent chameleon out of the iPad 2; find the right app(s), download them for a nominal fee, and Izzy changes roles in a heartbeat.

So…let’s start with business, i.e., USEFUL iPad apps. These are my favorites right now, not necessarily in order of importance, and they’re all available in the iPad App Store.

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Food

CT Viet + Thai Bistro (Asian food)

February 29, 2012 · 4 Comments 

So tonight I found our I really DON’T need to look any further than my own back yard. A few blocks down the road there’s a typical suburban strip mall with a little Vietnamese place that does eggrolls. Beautiful eggrolls and salad rolls and stuff I can’t possibly pronounce.

It’s called CT Viet + Thai Bistro, and my friend Sharon and I had dinner there tonight, almost by accident.

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Art

Influentiality

February 4, 2012 · 5 Comments 

“WOW!” we said, almost simultaneously, “I didn’t know he had work in Traver Gallery!”

My friend Becky and I were up in Tacoma, visiting the (what else) glass museum and as usual stopped into Traver for a peek. We saw the work of a good friend in the window and, tickled, went inside to check it out.

Surprise! It was actually the work of another respected glass artist.

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Photography

Byron Dazey, people photographer

November 30, 2010 · 2 Comments 

OK, this is a man whose work I need to sculpt. I purely love this guy’s photography.

I don’t know much about Byron Dazey, but I do know that–like me–he treasures strangers. I write about them, Byron photographs them. His ability to capture personality with a lens is remarkable; I find myself telling the stories behind his candids and portraits without ever meeting the subjects.

That’s pretty powerful skill.

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