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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: 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: March 2011

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011. An interesting glass year. To say the least . .I just updated my website when linking to my blog I suddenly realised that it's been almost 18 months since my last entry. But I've got all the excuses in the world as it has been a fascinating year for me if nothing else. Sometimes Murphy's Law works FOR you instead of against you and that eventually resulted in an incredible experience in 2010. I didn't make the prizes in the first round, but at least got (together with the scouts ...

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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: An interesting glass year

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011. An interesting glass year. To say the least . .I just updated my website when linking to my blog I suddenly realised that it's been almost 18 months since my last entry. But I've got all the excuses in the world as it has been a fascinating year for me if nothing else. Sometimes Murphy's Law works FOR you instead of against you and that eventually resulted in an incredible experience in 2010. I didn't make the prizes in the first round, but at least got (together with the scouts ...