Blaschka glass

[themoch]

found this today online, and thought i'd share it:


http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/darwin-centre//live/qt/230404GilesMillerhi.html

its a video about some of the Blaschka glass that was made oh so long ago.

[chayes]

Those guys rocked.

[mer]

best father/son duo ever. kinda makes fishing with my dad seem less significant.

[melt]

you all know about the collection in boston right? Harvard has tons of flowers made by them in the peabody musuem.

[melt]

http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/exhibitions/glassflowers.html

[mellowout]

i was visiting my girlfriend at school in boston last winter and we went to the exibit. It is absolutly incredible. They have hundreds of exact replicas of plants and then to take it a step farther they have magnified cross sections of many flowers. But what really did it for me was there torch and tools. No gtt for them. i have a video of there bench. just dont know how to post it.

[Mr. Wonka]

The Michigan crew makes those guys look like a couple of noobs.

[Spider]

Thanks for posting the photos

[themoch]

Tom,

i don't know why but i burst out laughing when i read your statment about the Michigan crew... not because of their skill, but because it was like, "oh yeah, check this out fool"

so um... yeah...

thanks for the photos, i spent way too much time in boston and never went to go see them.

[Jupiter]

wow thanks for posting! these guys are my ultimate hero's. I am fairly convinced that they were aliens though or superheros cause what they did seems impossible. Its really hard to find much info about them so thanks for the video and photos. I will have to make a pilgrimage to harvard someday just to see the flowers. Someone should research them further and write a book! I have the one that is out there but it is only a couple pages of backgroud on the artists and then biological descriptions of the flora with photos of about 40 the scupltures. I'd love to see more of the sealife, how was that freakin octopus! Jup

[wahoo]

I went to the exhibit a couple of years ago, still have an outstanding parking ticket, now that I think about it. But there was a wall exhibit in the room that had the table with the burner , tools and foot bellow. In the exhibit there was something about a sea animal that actually makes glass and attaches itself to the sea floor with it. Aside from the Blashka's, whom we all idolize, I thought this was so cool. I always wanted to find out more about that creature but never have. Anyone know anything about it, or those of you who have been to Harvard, Do you remember seeing this exhibit?