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Passion Post Week 8
The next scene depicted in the 2012 olympics was the hospital scene in which hundreds of doctors and nurses wheel sick children in on their hospital beds. – quite disturbing to say the least. Oddly...
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Passion Post Week 11
I’m so glad this week’s passion post was optional, because I just watched one of the two best films of my entire life this week and I cannot wait to tell everyone about them! The first, which many of...
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Passion Post Week 1 – Lampworking
Lampworking, aka Glassblowing, is a type of glass work that I’ve always wanted to learn, but unfortunately they no longer offer classes here at Penn State. It’s a profession that’s not easy to get...
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Passion Post Week 2 – Lampworking
Lampworking has been done all over the world and the reason that it is actually called “lamp working” is because it used to be done with the flame of an oil lamp! Now that we have more modern...
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Passion Post Week 3 – Lampworking “Bob Snodgrass”
As I discussed in my last post, Bob Snodgrass is widely known and respected in the glassblowing industry for his works. In the United States, he is regarded as the “Godfather of artistic hard glass.”...
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Passion Post Week 4 – Glassblowing “Degenerate Art”
As I touched upon the works of the “Godfather” of hard glass in the United States, this week, I really wanted to point out a documentary in which he, and many other underground artist alike, are...
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Many people view the art of glass blowing as a hobby rather than as a science. While it is true that the scientific glassblowing community is relatively small, amounting to approximately 650 members...
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Passion Post Week 9
For my passion post this week, I wanted to highlight a glassblower that is considered to have given the technique a new reputation in the community as “fine art.” Dale Chihuly, born in the state of...
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Passion Post Week 10
Okay so I know that the topic for Passion posts this week didn’t change, but as I was getting ready to type up a post on something related to glass art, a friend of mine sent me this article and told...
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Passion Post Week 11
This week I wanted to highlight another glass artist that takes a different approach on his work. David Bennett can be considered a “jack of all trades” as he is on his 3rd career! He was first a...
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