James Akers<p>A video of Mark from the MIT glass band playing a 15mm neon tube "Racket" I made for him. The basic premise is a bunch of stacked loop D loops with a bell on one end and some sort of reed or vibratey bit at the other. Then you pop with fire or drill out finger holes. </p><p>I can make em pretty quick- so when I broke one trying to modify it I just made another. I gotta get myself one of those bagpipe bamboo reeds- they look fun to play with.</p><p>It was fun acting as a glass luthier :). Vitreous sonic vistas!</p><p>I wanna make a color light sensitive oscillator for neon playing.</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/racket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racket</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/instrument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instrument</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/reeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reeds</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/craft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>craft</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pnw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/brooklyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brooklyn</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/instrument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instrument</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/baritone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>baritone</span></a></p>
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James Akers<p>One of my Galen assistant moments- </p><p>Crafting a wire mounted airbrush hanging system so we could airbrush on red over the black "blockout" paint. Also good to show the students the filtering effect that paint can have on the glass and how it might differ from just using colored glass. </p><p>I really like how bouncy and minimal the wire hanging is.... It could be fun to do this again.... but deeper in the woods. Maybe next year or another time back east :)</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/slumlord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slumlord</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/airbrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airbrush</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/bounce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bounce</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pnw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>A little video of Galen's finished "Slumlord" sign. I bent the neon for him, and some of his sign painter buddies helped with the paint design. </p><p>Galen wears the "Slumlord" badge with pride- refusing to raise rent on his property in the rapidly gentrifying Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. The piece is inspired by another landlord with a coin operated gas meter on the stove (quarters for cooking time). </p><p>We love the clickity clackety of the mechanical incandescent bulb flasher in there- Galen mounted it so the whole metal "can" acts as an "amplifier". Galen loves anything mechanical. It was way fun being his Teachers Assistant for the class.</p><p>The ruby red glass in this came from Chihuly "Studio 1" in Tacoma (long since moved to Seattle)</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Tacoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tacoma</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/hilltop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hilltop</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/blinky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blinky</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/lightbulbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lightbulbs</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/incandescent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incandescent</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/landlord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landlord</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/mechanical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mechanical</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/airplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airplane</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>Two days ago my friend Dani Kaes stopped by to give a pumping demo and a "stuffed tube" demo to the students. Basically Dani cuts a bunch of 10 and 12mm tubes up, cleans them with acetone or other solvent and then stuffs the little tube pieces inside another clear 15mm tube. <br>She processes them a little differently, using argon on the bombarder to gently heat the inner tubes, without getting the outer one too hot too quick and cracking things. </p><p>Its really neat shaking the stuffed tubes- their fill tubes rainbow jostle and jingle back an forth :)</p><p>Already seeing students scavenging for fancy color scraps to cut them into tiny pieces for stuffing :)</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/visitingartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visitingartist</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demo</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/rainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rainbow</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pnw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/friends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>friends</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>A little clip of our opening night "finale" after the MIT glass band played their horns. I bent "charms" for each of the class's instructors and got them done in half a day- in time for the opening night demo. 5 classes and neon red light with a high voltage animator- so naturally we went with a pentagram. A glassy high voltage pentagram of knowledge!</p><p>Also, the wifi is now "better" on campus thanks to some fiber ran into the woods. A few months ago I set up a Nextcloud server running at home that my photos back up to from my phone. I just realized that I can upload videos from Pilchuck to Mastodon straight from my home server! No need to clog the limited Pilchuck bandwidth</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/highvoltage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highvoltage</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pny</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/event" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>event</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/openingnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openingnight</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/wild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wild</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>party</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/charms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>charms</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/flasher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flasher</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/blink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blink</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/homeserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homeserver</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextcloud</span></a></p>
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