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Casa Naranja
February 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes you want to be treated like a king (or even better, like Lady Gaga). Sometimes you just want a quick burger. And sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
Casa Naranja is like that, even if they don’t know your name.
Glass
Cutting remarks (cutting glass with a tile saw)
February 13, 2012 · 2 Comments
It’s all in the way you slice it. And the way you slice it is, apparently, profoundly affected by a good blade.
Check any glassmaker’s forum and you’ll probably find someone with glass cutting issues, usually stemming from a tile saw that’s more like a Cuisinart than a slicer. I don’t claim any special expertise at this stuff, but I do have a decades-old, cheap, badly made, out-of-true tilesaw that reliably cuts amazingly thin murrini cane* slices.
I do this a lot. So I must be doing something right…right?
TechBiz
My dozen best iPad business apps
December 30, 2011 · 3 Comments
Izzy the ‘Pad is the first computing device I’ve ever slept with.
Literally. I hate to say it, but she’s pretty much changed the way I do stuff. That red leather thing growing out of my left arm? That’s Izzy, in her snazzy red case. Apple’s made an excellent chameleon out of the iPad 2; find the right app(s), download them for a nominal fee, and Izzy changes roles in a heartbeat.
So…let’s start with business, i.e., USEFUL iPad apps. These are my favorites right now, not necessarily in order of importance, and they’re all available in the iPad App Store.
Food
Casa Naranja
February 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Sometimes you want to be treated like a king (or even better, like Lady Gaga). Sometimes you just want a quick burger. And sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
Casa Naranja is like that, even if they don’t know your name.
Art
Influentiality
February 4, 2012 · 4 Comments
“WOW!” we said, almost simultaneously, “I didn’t know he had work in Traver Gallery!”
My friend Becky and I were up in Tacoma, visiting the (what else) glass museum and as usual stopped into Traver for a peek. We saw the work of a good friend in the window and, tickled, went inside to check it out.
Surprise! It was actually the work of another respected glass artist.
Photography
Byron Dazey, people photographer
November 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
OK, this is a man whose work I need to sculpt. I purely love this guy’s photography.
I don’t know much about Byron Dazey, but I do know that–like me–he treasures strangers. I write about them, Byron photographs them. His ability to capture personality with a lens is remarkable; I find myself telling the stories behind his candids and portraits without ever meeting the subjects.
That’s pretty powerful skill.
Observations from life
Influentiality
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Tech and biz
My dozen best iPad business apps
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Glass projects
Cutting remarks (cutting glass with a tile saw)
It’s all in the way you slice it. And the way you slice it is, apparently, profoundly affected by a good blade. Check any glassmaker’s forum... [Read more]
Favorable (glass) reactions
If you mix frit colors–as all pate de verre and frit painting artists do with abandon–you quickly learn about reactivity between colored glasses.... [Read more]
Pate de verre in a hurry, Part I
How do you give non-casters a taste of pate de verre-making..in less than four hours? That was the assignment, anyway. It was the Portland chapter’s... [Read more]
Coldworking Glass without Machines (book)
Lemme borrow a writer’s proverb for a sec: I hate coldworking. I love having coldworked. More particularly, I love having coldworked by hand.* I’ve... [Read more]
Fusathon 2011
We came, we fused, we laughed. That pretty much sums up this year’s Fusathon which, when you think about it, means a pretty good time was had by... [Read more]
Touchable glass
Glass may be one of the most untouchable of artforms–its strong relationship with light and color makes it extremely visual anyway, and its fragility... [Read more]