Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
All right Birdie, if that's how yer gonna be about it...
Harvard Gazette: Care for Glass Flowers branches out
IMHO this is THE most spectacular collection in any museum I have ever been to. The fruit is so delicate and realistic, showing diseases and pests in perfectly executed GLASS.
You gotta come up to the Bean.
I do have to come to Beantown. I really need to live there, to be honest. I think I'd love that whole community. Everything except the winters, that is. Maybe I'll put Massachusetts down as one of my choices for a residency match when that time arrives.

I had no idea there existed the types of glass flowers in that Harvard Gazette article. I was referring to Chihuly's big bowl-shaped "flowers" because I had no other term to refer to them by. Now I wonder if he has done delicate, scientifically intricate work like that. I rather doubt it, but who knows? I'd give my right coronary artery to watch someone make botanical lookalikes out of glass. Just amazing! I can already tell I need a large, fruiting glass-botanic specimen climbing a trellis in my marble "pretties" room. Thanks to you, this just gets better and better!
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Glassblowing so Ive been taking a glass blowing class for about 3 weeks now, 3 hours a week and Im actualyl gettting pretty good at it. it's a lot harder than I thought it would be but I've really been loving it. I want to take a private class once I get better at it, proably by the end of the 8 week course, do you think they would let me make pipes/bongs????? anyone do this b4? thanks Rating: 5