Travis Weber. Human?

[Big Jay]

seriously is he? human that is? bored today and looking over his mibs. I am beyond floored. sick sick sick.

http://www.glassartists.org/Gal13631_Weber_s_Gallery.asp

this gallery has me going crazy trying to figure out the how
http://www.glassartists.org/Gal24253_2._Glass_Marbles_2007.asp

[Sol]

i know what you mean man, i met him at phil and friends in frisco 4 years or so ago and i was BEYOND impressed....i told him about glasspipes and artists.org and he got on there soon afterward.thank god.

[Icarus]

Man, that is humbling. I guess that's the only way I can describe it. I can only hope to someday make work close to that (in quality, not necessarily content).

[Zed]

I'm not trying to take away from the great work Travis is doing, but these marbles really aren't that hard. Anyone who started making pipes pre ISO era will recognize these patterns, which he lensed up and backed. If you've ever made a surface colored fumework spoon and put a huge marble on the front, your half way there on making these.

Again, not trying to hate. I really like Travis marbles, but alot of the patterns he's doing were very common on pre ISO pipes, and were known by lots of people. A+ on a clean execution though.

[Big Jay]

I agree with what your saying, but the execution is flawless. The vorcello is insane. I can't make a vortex any where that clean to begin with but to back it up with that pattern and not loose any of the integrety anywhere is nuts. What do I know as only an apprentice but those mibs are the best I have seen yet.
hows it go "I may not know much , but I know what I like.".

[Ben Burton Glass]

I'd have to go with Cyborg. Half human, half machine. All his marbles are sick, they're clean and perfectly executed, nice and precise.

His work is very unique whether you think it's pre ISO pipes or not. NOBODY out there is doing the same thing that Travis is. Or at least I haven't seen anything close.

Out of a group of 100 marbles, I bet you could pick his out from the rest, and go "Oh, that's a Travis Weber!"

His style is tight, and like you said before, the execution is flawless!!! (did anyone see the surface work pee-wee's he's making?? they're about 1/2 inch to 3/4 and fully tweaked out in his surface style. As many rakes and pinwheels as he gets in the bigger mibs, only these are tiny!!!)

Aloha!

[Zed]

I made some of these style marbles a few weeks ago to prove to myself that I could, but with less lines then he uses. If I repeated the process with 38 mill standard wall I could get them just as tight I think. I got the effect right on the first try. I'm on the fence with this process, as I've known the patterns for at least 10 years but I may never have put them into marbles if I hadn't seen Travis do it first.

I think I'm going to figure out my own spin on the technique, as I don't want a bunch of people jumping on my nuts for biting Travis. I disc flipped the last one prior to lensing it which yielded a unique look and cool looking vortex. I'll probably make more of these.

[Loïc]

Half human / Half Chuck Norris

[Cosmo]

He's human, and he's a pretty good guy too. I met him at Wheaton last year.

He's a lot shorter in person than I thought though....

:D