[HN Gopher] Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus ...
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Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition
(2021)
Author : dredmorbius
Score : 84 points
Date : 2024-06-01 21:26 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (chemistry.berkeley.edu)
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Nice to see the high end still in action; at the cheap-and-
| cheerful end I read a survey chemistry lab book by someone
| teaching at a small liberal arts college in which he claims many
| civilisationally-useful reactions can be run in 2L drink bottles.
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| https://www.cavemanchemistry.com
|
| EDIT: I was once surprised to learn that a glass artist friend
| knew a great deal about borosilicate, until I figured out that
| while he was proud of his art glass, he was paying his bills via
| the craft of glass products intended for consumption of tobacco
| and legal herbs only.
| defrost wrote:
| It's either that, lumpy shapes for bodily orifices, or develop
| some real talent: https://linotagliapietra.com/artwork
|
| Frankly pipes and bongs are much easier and don't have the same
| health and safety liabilities as bad dragon glasswares.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| La Madrina: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/anne-
| gould-hauberg...
|
| (the link being by way of Chihuly/Pilchuck; her father spent
| 5 years at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_de_Paris
| which probably didn't hurt...)
|
| EDIT: https://linotagliapietra.com/artwork/tasmania is an
| excellent material shadow of Hesse's glass bead game. The
| reticello uses cane laid down upon independent axes, a wedge
| product of canes if you will, and then this work layers those
| in the remaining spatial dimension --alongside the bubble as
| neutral element? or dreamtime?-- to produce an aesthetic
| effect evoking its namesake.
|
| If we were playing the gbg with textual quotations instead of
| murrine, one might almost imagine this work as proceeding in
| a Hegelian manner: the first axis of cane as thesis, the
| second axis as antithesis, and the perpendicular excursion as
| synthesis?
| gtsnexp wrote:
| The size of his glassblowing lathe suggests the potential
| complexity of the artifacts produced in his workshop. What a
| truly remarkable art.
| jumploops wrote:
| I once had the pleasure of working with my university's glass
| blowing department --- I was building a digital hydrometer for an
| undergraduate embedded systems class and needed a custom glass
| housing.
|
| I remember my first visit fondly, as the glass blower helped
| narrow in on a more simple design using mostly "standard" tubes,
| and then eagerly agreed to build the one custom piece. I came
| back a day or two later and the result was perfect.
|
| This was at UMich circa ~2012.
| beng-nl wrote:
| I loved this video. Highlight at the end "kids these days...
| they're gonna save the world."
|
| A while ago I watched a longer, more in depth video on the same
| topic (spoiler for video title) by Angela Collier. Can recommend,
| she has a pleasant style and goes really in depth.
|
| https://youtu.be/1eUI38MpiYo?si=6DAme9STHi6f6NDk
| dtgriscom wrote:
| I visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History once, and saw
| their collection of glass plant models. I wasn't very impressed,
| until I realized I was understanding them as a dusty collection
| of plants. Once I really got into my head that they were actually
| glass, it was amazing. Totally realistic.
|
| https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
| mrbluecoat wrote:
| > They grab a stool at a tabletop he calls his "altar of ideas."
|
| That's beautiful.
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| So true.
|
| If you're going to do science like art it's good to have a
| blank canvas standing by at all times in addition to whatever
| pieces may already be present in the studio, whether unfinished
| or undergoing restoration.
|
| The more unique and diverse the pallette of materials you have
| at your fingertips, and the more you sharpen your skills at
| utilizing them, the more likely the outcome will be something
| worthwhile never seen before.
|
| So any time you get a wild idea, you have a place to at least
| give it a little try, or when others who are needy declare an
| art emergency, you've got a place where you can step right up
| to the plate and hit it out of the park.
|
| In the chemical instrumentation lab, some invention needs to be
| done from time to time anyway, might as well make it easier on
| yourself by having an "invention bench" standing by. Eventually
| when you have experienced the occasional cool thing coming off
| the bench, you don't even need an idea. Just belly up to that
| bench, and you come up with more ideas than you could ever
| execute in a lifetime. Mostly beyond your immediate pallette of
| resources or single-handed ability, but it really can only take
| seconds to mentally go down that list until you hit the things
| that don't tick those two boxes.
|
| Then something interesting starts to appear on that blank
| canvas.
|
| Go ahead and make it look easy, Bob Ross would be proud :)
| devilbunny wrote:
| My chairman in undergrad did scientific glassblowing as a hobby.
| He offered it my senior year as an elective. It filled within
| seconds.
| dhosek wrote:
| When I was last at alumni weekend at Harvey Mudd, there was a
| corner of one chem lab filled with broken glass. One of the
| students was doing an independent study learning scientific
| glassblowing.
| rinzxc wrote:
| Idelvan santos pinhero
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