{"id":1766,"date":"2013-06-13T22:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T06:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:03:31","slug":"delicate-glass-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/delicate-glass-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicate Glass Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always said that if I had any talent whatsoever in sculpting, the medium I would choose to work with would be glass. I just love how really talented artists play with its transparent\/translucent properties, and how it can be melted & made to flow organically.<\/p>\n

\"Chihuly<\/a>

I felt like I should have been wearing a scuba tank, flippers and a BC vest. Which, come to think of it, would not be out of place during the regular Seattle Rain Festival Jan.-Dec. every year. Boom!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"underwater<\/a>

It is very hard not to want to walk through these dioramas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"glass<\/a>

Little kids passing by were imitating the stoner-dude turtles of “Finding Nemo.” I’ll admit it – I kinda was too.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"glass<\/a>

I kept thinking, “Man, if there’s an earthquake, this is going to be messy.” Then I stopped and just appreciated.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"glass<\/a>

I had to hold my camera above my head to see this. Feels like a little special Easter Egg for all us tall folks.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anyway, in Seattle, next to the Space Needle, the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum<\/a> is filled with these amazing creations. Years ago, I saw an amazing documentary about Dale Chihuly, and how he had filled the canals in Venice with these amazing glass sculptures<\/a> for a festival. It’s famous as the first documentary for PBS that was shot in HD, and you can view some of it over on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Snake<\/a>

Snake in the bamboo.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Squidbait.\"<\/a>

Squidbait.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"LIttle<\/a>

LIttle cockleshells, all in a row.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always said that if I had any talent whatsoever in sculpting, the medium I would choose to work with would be glass. I just love how really talented artists play with its transparent\/translucent properties, and how it can be melted & made to flow organically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,499,726,728,729,727,730],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-art-2","tag-chihuly-glass-and-garden","tag-glassblowing","tag-museum","tag-seattle","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}