harlanglass

Flamework Glass Beads & Pendants Artisanal Glass Jewelry, Design & Production History of Glass Talks & Live Demos Rants on Art, Technology & Civilization Oakland Studio One Workshops 510.597.5027 Summer Workshops - Generally 3rd week in June, Sunday-Sunday, in QUINCY, but skipping 2016. Find me here again in June 2017! http://featherriverartcamp.com/glassbeadmaking.php MENDOCINO March 2-4, 2016 go to jewelry workshop listing at http://www.mendocinoartcenter.org Bay Area Festival Showings - see my fb page for postings web = handmadeglassbeads.com fb page = /http/www.facebook.com/harlanglass contact = [email protected] Oakland, CA "Glass, New & Improving Since 2,500 BCE"

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PAST AS PROLOGUE

1972 Industrial Artist of Year

Millikan Jr High School

LA Unified School District

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Flamework Fun this Summer!

Explore glass. How it is made. How to do it yourself. Imagine! You, glass, summer time. This summer.

Indeed, indulge your curiosity. Play with hot glass. Make glass beads! Do it with a torch. Engage in this 3500 year old art form. Beginners and experimenters welcome and wanted!

Check out my 2024 glass Beadmaking flamework workshop at Feather River Art Camp this June 1 to June 8.

Sleepover adult art camp

Tent cabin accommodations

3 meals of delicious camp fare a day

Click below

Flamework Glass Beadmaking

Flamework Glass Beadmaking  ~  with Harlan Simon Experience the Lure of Hot Glass! Using small, clean burning, and environmentally efficie

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ALL THINGS GLASS

- Richard Brautigan , 1969

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3/3 … and early influences pushing me along the glass path …

The murano glass “aquarium” brick started it all … a gift from my mother’s Italy trip when I was 5 or 6. Notably, this beautiful chunk of glass virtuosity survived multiple Southern California earthquakes. I “found” it hiding behind a bookcase later when I was in college.

The blue and green resin orbs I made in plastics shop during jr high school using a two part resin with drops of pearlescent luster mixed in, cast in breakable thin glass molds. During shop class we typically made stick shift knobs this way too. The stick shift knobs would often have embedded items, like the next pictured object - a resistor in clear resin, inspired by electronics class, where we made stuff out of resistors, diodes, capacitors, transistors, and potentiometers. Long live shop class! The resistor embedment involved a layering technique, bottom poured first, partially setting, and top clear layer then poured in to the paper cup mold (with some kind of non-stick mold release applied to the inside of the cup before hand).

And yes, that’s a Harlan design beautiful sterling silver/clear-capped green dichroic cabochon ring on my finger holding the resistor object. Present meets Past. What was that Jesuit saying at the end of Michael Apted’s marvelous documentary “28 Up”?

“Give me the boy till he’s seven, and I’ll show you the man.”

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2/3 …

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ALL THINGS GLASS

from the photo roll … 1/3

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Glass Bead Making: Flamework for Beginners : Glassblowing History

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Of Great and Continuing Moment: THE AGE OF GLASS

From the electronic archive ... situated historically in the stunningly important and impactful AGE of GLASS, which dates from about 2,500 BCE to the ongoing present.  Glass is not just for:

beer and wine bottles, test tubes and Petri dishes, microscope and telescope lenses, cameras, the early production eye glasses (now they're mostly plastic, for example, polycarbonate), windshields and windows, watch faces, electric light bulbs, glass thermometers, early day glass radio tubes, television tubes (including cathode ray displays), then silicon semiconductors (the chemical formula for glass is SiO2 (silicon dioxide)), transistors to integrated circuits to micro chips, displays on our digital devices( such as iPhones (late 2007), and as well, all the way to optic fiber (of glass!) forming the backbone of our information super highways.  

And of course there's always flamework glass beads, and various blown work - vases, cups, and so on.

and now for the catchy jingles ....

Play with fire (safely)! Become mesmerized by the lure of the melt. Hot Glass: Get into and be beguiled by the flow.

"Glass: New & Improving since 2,500 BCE"

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Glass: Where would beer be without it?

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This American Life’s Ira Glass: ‘We do stories where we think: that seems messed up’

As he prepares to bring his new live show to the UK, Ira Glass – host of the hit radio series This American Life – talks about fairness, ‘po

ALL THINGS GLASS …

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Sacramento Convention Center

(Downtown)

STITCHES WEST

West 2022

West 2022

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Mechanism of Highly Concentrated Oxygen Generator with zeolite material

Start at 2:30 to see how the zeolite functions as a molecular sieve, straining nitrogen out of ambient air 

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how oxygen concentrators work (to provide O2 for medical use, but also to run a torch for glass work)

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Flamework Glass Beadmaking Five Day Workshop Next Summer

June 4-11 2022 • QUINCY CA

at beautiful, historic, Sierra Foothill FEATHER RIVER ART CAMP

All Welcome, including/especially, Beginners!

• 3 meals/day

• tent cabin accommodations

• fun & educational

• make glass beads the ancient way, one at a time, using clean burning and efficient oxygen & propane torches

• experience the lure of hot glass

• learn the history of the invention and use of this most amazing, beautiful and world transforming material substance

• finally, play with molten glass (safely) yourself and make beautiful small, quasi-eternal objects [BEADS!!]

https://www.featherriverartcamp.com/glass-beadmaking

Flame On!

for questions/more info, please message or email me:

[email protected]

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Vacuum flask - Wikipedia

Vacuum flask - Wikipedia

ALL THINGS GLASS

The history of the thermos vacuum flask

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ALL THINGS GLASS

Philip Glass

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Koyaanisqatsi, an independent film by Francis Ford Coppola, Godfrey Reggio, The Institute for Regional Education, with a film score by Phili

ALL THINGS GLASS

~ QATSI TRIO