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the glass initiative: June 2009
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Thursday, June 4, 2009. Art: hobby or business? I started working with glass as a hobby, but during the few years I was studying and researching, I felt more and more that I wanted to develop this into a proper business. What do they say: if you turn your hobby into your job, you never have to work again, because you enjoy it so much it doesn't feel like work. I'm not yet there, but I need to ask myself the question: Is it a still a hobby? Or am I already getting myself into a business state of mind?
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the glass initiative: Art: hobby or business?
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Thursday, June 4, 2009. Art: hobby or business? I started working with glass as a hobby, but during the few years I was studying and researching, I felt more and more that I wanted to develop this into a proper business. What do they say: if you turn your hobby into your job, you never have to work again, because you enjoy it so much it doesn't feel like work. I'm not yet there, but I need to ask myself the question: Is it a still a hobby? Or am I already getting myself into a business state of mind?
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the glass initiative: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Although my initial starting point to get involved with glass has shifted from beads to other methods of working with warm glass, I have kept an interest in beads, as I can see their use in combination with other glass techniques. I've also had an interest towards sustainabitity and was (and still am) always looking for projects that could be developed into community based job creation projects. Are made in the typical West Africa tradition. For the people in these communities, t...
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the glass initiative: Red Carpet alias Welcome Carpet
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Sunday, May 22, 2011. Red Carpet alias Welcome Carpet. Yes, during the process of the installation, the colour became a topic of conversation and the client re-baptised it Welcome Carpet instead of Red Carpet. ). What I did learn in the period between commencement and finish of the project was that, working with a whole team in discussion and implementation stages, one has to make compromises to fit the public art sphere. It's quite different from creating in an environment of a private studio. But I gre...
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the glass initiative: July 2009
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Friday, July 10, 2009. Say Bollywood and immediately we've got visions of bright and hot colours, sparkling jewels, gold, silver, bling bling, . . That same spirit of luxury indulgence is now captured in the newest and hottest thing to hit the glass art and craft world : dichroic glass. Since its development for the aerospace industry, artists have started using this glass to create unique items for public, art, home and personal use. Dichroic glass before use in various fused applications. Bombay sapphi...
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the glass initiative: January 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009. Glass jewellery - flameworking and fusing. While experimenting with the diverse warm glass techniques in the glass art studio of NMMU in that first year, I also had the opportunity to attend a 2 day bead making course with Ingrid de Haast in Cape Town. Http:/ www.glassbeads.co.za/blog/. You can bet your bottom dollar, I’ll never forget that word ever again and what it stands for! Back at the NMMU Glass studio I also tried my hand on “fused glass jewellery” and tested...Left: blu...
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the glass initiative: May 2011
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Sunday, May 22, 2011. Red Carpet alias Welcome Carpet. Yes, during the process of the installation, the colour became a topic of conversation and the client re-baptised it Welcome Carpet instead of Red Carpet. ). What I did learn in the period between commencement and finish of the project was that, working with a whole team in discussion and implementation stages, one has to make compromises to fit the public art sphere. It's quite different from creating in an environment of a private studio. But I gre...
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the glass initiative: Anyone for beads?
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Monday, May 11, 2009. Be it that I have moved into other fields of working with warm glass, bead making is still fascinating as it can truly be regarded as a "homebusiness"and has been (and still is) done by many cultures and communities in the traditional way. The technology for glass beadmaking is among the oldest human arts, dating back 30,000 years Perhaps the earliest glass-like beads were Egyptian faience beads, a form of clay bead with a self-forming vitreous coating. The drawing of glass. Modern ...
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the glass initiative: October 2009
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Sunday, October 4, 2009. Roland Create to the Max. A long hiatus (computervirus) . but I'm back . to tell about a great experience! Just this past weekend hubbie and I flew to Joburg to attend the. I had surfed the web and stumbled on this Roland. Competition a while ago. I used to work with a Roland machine when I was still in the signmaking industry and use it now for the sandblasting and acid etch parts of my glass designs, so I decided to give it a go. So here we were! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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