Blade
12-31-2009, 04:10 PM
How exciting it is to be part of an industry at a time when it is changing and growing at such a ferocious speed, yet small enough that any one of us has the potential to be a crucial element in where it all goes.
2009 was HUGE for this small niche industry in so many ways.
People and Events.
Personally, I meet more new amazing glass workers this year alone than any other year.
Wil Menzies was the most influential of 2009 personally when he set up that small gig in vegas. . . then a string of new, and successful events, in 2009:
-The Colorado Project
-Degenerate Flame-off
-G.L.A.S
-not to mention the existing lineup of flameworking projects
Material and tool innovation.
- American Made colored tubing, both solid and lined
- Home studio color batching and boro crucibles
- Glowstuff(thatworks(kindof))
- bigger badder more efficient graphite tools
Techniques, some of which have carved out Entire new sub genres of piping
- Eyeballs
- Extreme Carving
- Inlines
- Eyeballs
- Large scale pieces being the new norm
- Inlines
- Eyeballs
- Serious presentation
- Double Layered reversals
All of this amid an obviously turbulent economic era.
2009 was game changing, and personally, I believe that 2010 may be the biggest year in functional glass art since Snodgrass hit the lot!
Happy new year to everyone and lets make 2010 so epic, that Bandhu is forced to dedicate vol. 4 to next year alone.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on what I may have missed from 2009, and your predictions for 2010
Flame-On!!
:mj:
2009 was HUGE for this small niche industry in so many ways.
People and Events.
Personally, I meet more new amazing glass workers this year alone than any other year.
Wil Menzies was the most influential of 2009 personally when he set up that small gig in vegas. . . then a string of new, and successful events, in 2009:
-The Colorado Project
-Degenerate Flame-off
-G.L.A.S
-not to mention the existing lineup of flameworking projects
Material and tool innovation.
- American Made colored tubing, both solid and lined
- Home studio color batching and boro crucibles
- Glowstuff(thatworks(kindof))
- bigger badder more efficient graphite tools
Techniques, some of which have carved out Entire new sub genres of piping
- Eyeballs
- Extreme Carving
- Inlines
- Eyeballs
- Large scale pieces being the new norm
- Inlines
- Eyeballs
- Serious presentation
- Double Layered reversals
All of this amid an obviously turbulent economic era.
2009 was game changing, and personally, I believe that 2010 may be the biggest year in functional glass art since Snodgrass hit the lot!
Happy new year to everyone and lets make 2010 so epic, that Bandhu is forced to dedicate vol. 4 to next year alone.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on what I may have missed from 2009, and your predictions for 2010
Flame-On!!
:mj: