Project
09-26-2011, 03:45 AM
Hey all,
This is one of those slightly awkward hellos, like when that guy who has been stalking you all night at a party from room to room comes over and says hi. I've been on this forum now for about 4 years. Time really does fly. During that time I have been on this forum at a minimum of every week, if not daily. I really am that creepy stalker guy it seems lol.
I haven't really felt that my input would shed any new light on anything, and I didn't want to be one of those people told to 'use the search function' on anything I might not have understood. So over the past few years I have gleaned as much learning off of this site and you people as I have been able to. I have been here during some epic times as well. I was updating the forum many times a day during the epic sandwich thread and it's 2nd version(that shit was killer, don't judge me). I've watched some people progress wildly in there threads (crip, you've been slaying it man), and from all of this, even though I haven't said anything and you didn't know I existed, I felt part of something.
You see, to talk about me for a minute, I have wanted to get into glass since high school. I intended to go to ACAD (alberta college of art and design) when i got out of school since they had a small glass course. You couldn't touch glass till year three though, and any other schools were well outside of my budget. Turns out that ACAD was out of my budget as well. I took a couple years off to make money, and low and behold I was 30. I had some pretty killer times in my 20's, but never got around to school or getting to glass.
That whole time I held to the belief that I really needed to go to a school, or have a teacher. It was my 30th birthday when i said screw it. I quit my job, and suck holed my parents to let me set up a shop in their garage and move back to their town. I spent my savings on supplies, and buried my head into contempory lampworking, assorted videos and this forum. Absolutely 100% of my lampworking experience has been homegrown. I have not to this day blown glass with anyone else, or taken a course from anyone. This will change hopefully with the salt webinar, but I digress.
Without this website, I honestly doubt I could have been able to do what I have done to this day. Honestly, without this website I doubt I would have tried. The wealth of information that is sitting right here is quite amazing. I thank all of you who have put into this for the time you have spent doing so.
Moving away from smoke up your asses, and back to me...lol. Like I said, I am from Alberta, Canada. I spent my 20's heavily entrenched in the Alberta electronic music scene, and still have deep roots here. Primarily I find myself in alberta's psytrance scene atm. We (more my friends than me) throw a couple of outdoor 3-5 day festivals up here every year. Bangin good times, which I actually vend glass at as well. I have a huge love for dark psychedelic music, actually anything psychedelic tbh. That's really all that ever plays in my shop or in my car.
As for my shop, I started out on a redmax and with a beading kiln with no digital controller. I have since moved on to a mirage and a f-130 kiln. I live in a small oil town, where there are a huge amount of welders. Up until a few months ago I have been paying 80 bucks for a k tank. They viewed me more as an annoyance than anything else, and figured I should pay what the welders pay. I have recently gotten it down to 40ish a tank (simply because of my volume) which i know is high by some standards, but that's decent for me. To get liquid out here is quite a story, and concentrators are completely out of my budget.
The only thing left to talk about would be my name. Project:Glass is what I run my glass through. For years I have gamed very seriously, I spent 6 years in WoW running a server first guild, only recently quitting due to the direction the game is headed. I like some of you nerds played magic the gathering, quitting after my 5th pro tour qualifier without qualifying(many years ago). I've spent many a day sitting around playing mario golf and the like at an [8]. Every time I play some game I use the name Project. Originally taking this name with another, echylon. Project echelon is the name of the states big brother project. It still exists today and it is scary what it actually does. I thought it was a neat little nod to the man, a kind of I'm watching you watch me thing, coulda been the [8]. Either way, It stuck and here we are today. I have been a home dj for 8 years, and I think it's a name that works there as well. I intend to get into some other things besides glass, I have visions for metals and such. With project: I can toss anything behind it and it works. Needless to say, I 'm pretty pleased with the name. The funny part is I've been playing under the name for 10 years on x-box etc. I only put glass behind it 3 months ago.
anyway, this is much more than anyone who doesn't know me should care to read about me. I know you have probably skipped down to here, so if you did you should really go back and skim for the story about the hooker in mexico, the rest you can ignore lol.
It's been a pleasure the last few years guys, sorry it's taken this long to say hi.
TLDR:
hi melting pot, i'm wordy.
This is one of those slightly awkward hellos, like when that guy who has been stalking you all night at a party from room to room comes over and says hi. I've been on this forum now for about 4 years. Time really does fly. During that time I have been on this forum at a minimum of every week, if not daily. I really am that creepy stalker guy it seems lol.
I haven't really felt that my input would shed any new light on anything, and I didn't want to be one of those people told to 'use the search function' on anything I might not have understood. So over the past few years I have gleaned as much learning off of this site and you people as I have been able to. I have been here during some epic times as well. I was updating the forum many times a day during the epic sandwich thread and it's 2nd version(that shit was killer, don't judge me). I've watched some people progress wildly in there threads (crip, you've been slaying it man), and from all of this, even though I haven't said anything and you didn't know I existed, I felt part of something.
You see, to talk about me for a minute, I have wanted to get into glass since high school. I intended to go to ACAD (alberta college of art and design) when i got out of school since they had a small glass course. You couldn't touch glass till year three though, and any other schools were well outside of my budget. Turns out that ACAD was out of my budget as well. I took a couple years off to make money, and low and behold I was 30. I had some pretty killer times in my 20's, but never got around to school or getting to glass.
That whole time I held to the belief that I really needed to go to a school, or have a teacher. It was my 30th birthday when i said screw it. I quit my job, and suck holed my parents to let me set up a shop in their garage and move back to their town. I spent my savings on supplies, and buried my head into contempory lampworking, assorted videos and this forum. Absolutely 100% of my lampworking experience has been homegrown. I have not to this day blown glass with anyone else, or taken a course from anyone. This will change hopefully with the salt webinar, but I digress.
Without this website, I honestly doubt I could have been able to do what I have done to this day. Honestly, without this website I doubt I would have tried. The wealth of information that is sitting right here is quite amazing. I thank all of you who have put into this for the time you have spent doing so.
Moving away from smoke up your asses, and back to me...lol. Like I said, I am from Alberta, Canada. I spent my 20's heavily entrenched in the Alberta electronic music scene, and still have deep roots here. Primarily I find myself in alberta's psytrance scene atm. We (more my friends than me) throw a couple of outdoor 3-5 day festivals up here every year. Bangin good times, which I actually vend glass at as well. I have a huge love for dark psychedelic music, actually anything psychedelic tbh. That's really all that ever plays in my shop or in my car.
As for my shop, I started out on a redmax and with a beading kiln with no digital controller. I have since moved on to a mirage and a f-130 kiln. I live in a small oil town, where there are a huge amount of welders. Up until a few months ago I have been paying 80 bucks for a k tank. They viewed me more as an annoyance than anything else, and figured I should pay what the welders pay. I have recently gotten it down to 40ish a tank (simply because of my volume) which i know is high by some standards, but that's decent for me. To get liquid out here is quite a story, and concentrators are completely out of my budget.
The only thing left to talk about would be my name. Project:Glass is what I run my glass through. For years I have gamed very seriously, I spent 6 years in WoW running a server first guild, only recently quitting due to the direction the game is headed. I like some of you nerds played magic the gathering, quitting after my 5th pro tour qualifier without qualifying(many years ago). I've spent many a day sitting around playing mario golf and the like at an [8]. Every time I play some game I use the name Project. Originally taking this name with another, echylon. Project echelon is the name of the states big brother project. It still exists today and it is scary what it actually does. I thought it was a neat little nod to the man, a kind of I'm watching you watch me thing, coulda been the [8]. Either way, It stuck and here we are today. I have been a home dj for 8 years, and I think it's a name that works there as well. I intend to get into some other things besides glass, I have visions for metals and such. With project: I can toss anything behind it and it works. Needless to say, I 'm pretty pleased with the name. The funny part is I've been playing under the name for 10 years on x-box etc. I only put glass behind it 3 months ago.
anyway, this is much more than anyone who doesn't know me should care to read about me. I know you have probably skipped down to here, so if you did you should really go back and skim for the story about the hooker in mexico, the rest you can ignore lol.
It's been a pleasure the last few years guys, sorry it's taken this long to say hi.
TLDR:
hi melting pot, i'm wordy.