Exploring the Art of Glass Through History and Around the World

Treasures: Galle vase? This lacks glass artist’s mastery

Or, he or she can place the hot glass on a metal table called a marver to shape the form by rolling it back and forth. Watching an expert glassblower is an exciting experience. The artist moves as quickly and as gracefully as a dancer. A 1982 work by Dale Chihuly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington BARBARA KLEIN: In thirteenth century Italy, the government ordered glassblowers in Venice to move to the island of Murano. The aim was to reduce the threat of fires from the glassmakers furnaces. It was also useful for the glassmakers to be together so that they could control the secrets of their trade.

For the first time, a sizable number of artists are working in glass in Japan. Americans Dominate Show Last year the two National Museums of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto put on a first exhibition here of contemporary art works in glass, gathering 551 pieces by 86 artists from Europe and Japan. The scope of the latest exhibition – with 158 pieces from Australia, Canada, the United States and Japan – is far wider. Inevitably, the Americans, with their great experience and advanced technology, dominate the show. The lavishly illustrated 158-page catalogue, with color plates throughout and photos of the artists with biographical notes, carries on the front cover a work by California-based Michael E.

Russian art, glass art exhibits; St. George Art Museum

Zecchin opposed the decoration of glass. As Mr. Ricke writes: ”Venini’s fundamental decision, which proved extremely hard to impose on the island’s proud master craftsmen, was undoubtedly the renunciation of all those decorative curlicues and filigree-glass fripperies.” Venini and Zecchin persuaded the blowers to produce vessels with the clean lines and the classic proportions of Renaissance and ancient Roman glass. Instead of pastels, Zecchin chose sober, monochromatic hues. These vessels, far from being delicate, had solidity and monumentality. It did not take long for the work to gain popularity, beginning an in 1923 at the first International Exhibition of Decorative Arts at Monza, Italy. Artists often designed for different houses.

2013 Glass Art Society conference in Boston canceled

3, the Seattle-based organization of 2,400 artists, students, collectors, and gallery owners in 54 countries canceled its 2013 conference, scheduled for Boston in June. Wait till next year, members were told. What happened, organizers say, was a combination of permit problems, logistical issues, escalating costs, and one gigantic puzzle piece: where to park a 28-foot-long, 17-ton, glass-melting furnace strapped to the back of a tractor-trailer. Capable of reaching temperatures of 2,100 degrees, this hot shop unit requires a 60-hour fire-up period plus a 60-hour cool-down, copious amounts of electricity and natural gas (piped in from city gas lines or propane tanks), and plenty of adjacent space. Its used to demonstrate glass-sculpting techniques for large audiences, often hundreds of onlookers at a time. It is, in short, a piece of convention equipment conspicuously more cumbersome, and potentially more dangerous, than your basic helium-balloon station or banquet ice sculpture.

ART: THE NEW JAPANESE FASCINATION WITH GLASS

This is called “acid cutback.” The name “cameo glass” comes from cameo jewelry, which is made by carving through the different-colored layers of a shell or, in some cases, stone (such as agate) to create a decorative image in relief. This technique has been known and utilized since ancient times. But in the late 19th century, this idea was applied to making glass in such places as France, Bohemia, England and the United States. Emile Galle was born in 1846 in Nancy, France, to a maker of faience pottery and furniture. Right after the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the well-educated and artistically talented Galle came to work in his father’s factory, where he excelled at making glass. He started getting recognition for his work when it was praised at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and by the Paris Exposition of 1889, his work had achieved international fame. Galle was a leading proponent of the French Art Nouveau movement, and his pieces tended to feature naturalistic themes and sensuously curving lines like those found in nature.

ANTIQUES; The Art Glass Of Murano, Modern Style

George Art Museum, other participating museums in Utah include the Ogden Treehouse Childrens Museum, the Heritage Museum in Orem, the CEUs Prehistoric Museum in Price, the Fort Douglas Military Museum and Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City. The St. George Art Museum is open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at 47 East 200 North in St. George. The city-owned and operated facility exists to educate through quality exhibitions from all periods, cultures and media and to collect, conserve, inventory, exhibit and interpret art and artifacts from Utah and the West. For more information, the museum can be reached at 435-627-4525.

Broken glass, dented frying pan, busted lamp found near body of Marcel Hill, allegedly beaten, stabbed to death by girlfriend

Book World: ‘Light of the World’ by James Lee Burke

A charge against Gamet was eventually dismissed because Hill was not being cooperative with police or prosecutors. Hills family said Gamet was abusive and neighbors reported frequent fighting at the apartment on Lansing Avenue, near Steward Avenue. Olmstead said she heard a little arguing and slamming doors. When Schuette interviewed her, Gamet denied living with Hill. She said he was not her boyfriend, Schuette testified.

Lights 4 Living Respond to Infinity Chandelier

Our patented LED lights contain a diffused optic to counter this reflection and create a smooth lighting. At LED Neon Flex, we have the latest and best technology available for any neon lighting needs.a LED Neon Flex offers its revolutionary neon light technology for a wide variety of lighting purposes including architectural lighting, border lighting, LED backlighting, LED signage, and, of course, accent and cove lighting. These many uses for their patented technology have gained LED Neon Flex such prominent customers as Lavi Industries, NBC, Universal Studios Orlando, Bonanza Casino, and many more. About LED Neon Flex In 2006, LED Neon Flex set about revolutionizing the neon lighting industry with their first generation of LED neon flex lights. Since then, the revolution has only gained momentum as the energy-saving durable lights continue to improve and attract more customers. Unlike many past attempts to sell a neon light alternative, LED Neon Flex has designed a light that functions as a true replacement.

On the heels of the near-lethal events recounted in The Glass Rainbow and Creole Belle, Robicheaux has retreated to the mountainous region near Missoula, Mont., accompanied by his wife, Molly, his adopted daughter, Alafair, and his former homicide partner, Clete Purcel, whose personal demons may outnumber Robicheauxs. Joining them is Cletes recently discovered daughter, a former contract killer hoping to create a new life as a documentary filmmaker. They have come to Montana in search of solitude, peace and a place to heal. They are not going to find what theyre looking for. As the story begins, Alafair is jogging along a mountain path when an unknown assailant nearly kills her with an arrow.

It’s done: With rugs, window treatments and lighting, a room becomes a home

I chose to go with a neutral. My off-white area rug is 4 feet by 6 feet and was $44 at Target. It adds dimension to my room and ties together my color scheme of black, white and turquoise. Lighting Lighting is important for small spaces and can serve different purposes. Sinead Kelly of Dulux Magazine says there are four basic types: General lighting fills a space with overall illumination and includes overhead lights. This type is good for everyday tasks. Accent or feature lighting, such as up lights, is directed at a specific area.

LED Neon Flex Discusses Their LED Technological Breakthroughs

(PRWEB UK) 18 July 2013 An American designer has designed a chandelier sculpture comprised of thirty to thirty five hand-blown sculpted glass orbs encased within a two way mirrored enclosure reports Pursuitist on July 17 with its article Impressive Blown Glass Chandelier by John Pomp Studios. The chandelier was created by the lighting and furniture designer, John Pomp, who was raised in a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. He was raised by a carpenter and taught the venetian art of glassblowing by an Italian maestros. The chandelier is an alternative take of chandelier design and because of its two way mirrored enclosures, seems to go on forever, hence its name The Infinity Chandelier. A spokesperson from Lights 4 Living said: This chandelier is a beautiful and interesting take on traditional chandelier design and combines both optical illumination and beautiful hand blow glass design. As experts in lighting design, Lights 4 Living are frequently keeping up with the latest developments in the design industry and observing how these ideas will filter into home lighting. Lights 4 Living are a leading lighting company based in Bath that stock a wide and ever-growing range of home lighting. With over thirty-five years in the lighting industry, Lights 4 Living have a great relationship with many lighting manufacturers so can offer unbeatable competitive prices on ceiling lights, picture lights, wall lights and more. For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10942153.htm Comment on this Post

Stained glass redo to restore Capitol gleam

That includes notes, photographs, rubbings and detailed maps of the panels to ensure it’s reassembled correctly. It’s the type of information they wished they had, instead of the “forensic medicine” they are currently practicing, and will be useful going into the future. “So if restorers come behind us, they can see what we did,” he said. Once documentation is completed, the studio will strip away the lead cames, either repair or replace individual pieces of glass, and then rebuild the panels. They will also install steel frames to make it easier to remove the panels in the future and alleviate further buckling issues. The reinstallation is a mammoth project, even for Conrad Schmitt, which has worked on other state capitol buildings, basilicas and court houses. Grabowski said it will take all of the studio’s craftsmen, which can range between 10 and 16 depending on the project, to finish the estimated 35,000 man-hour project.

Salsa recall: Glass found inside jars

Canada’s first Google Glass hackathon this weekend in Toronto

Among them is Sourcebits, a San Francisco design and development firm that recently picked up a couple of Google Glass devices and was not impressed by the design. “We thought it was too futuristic and didn’t have a mainstream appeal,” said Rahul Nihalani, the product director at Sourcebits. “We thought we could do a better job.” Related PHOTOS: Top smartphones of 2013 Nihalani and his team created rendered images of what they think Google Glass should look like. Sourcebits’ design resembles the black, thick-frame glasses that are popular these days. The design would allow users to take advantage of Google Glass’ features without having to look like a geek. For now, Nihalani said it might be tricky for Google to fit all the components of Glass into his team’s slim design, but he said that as hardware gets smaller, he fully expects Glass to one day be able to camouflage as a normal pair of glasses.

Google Glass Gets Facial Recognition

Olam Tomato Processors says there have been no reports of injuries from the recalled salsa. By Associated Press / July 25, 2013 Olam Tomato Processors Inc. announced a salsa recall Tuesday, which involves lots of its Mild Chunky Salsa with best-by dates of June 2015 and October 2015, as well as its Medium Chunky Salsa with a best-by date of July 2015. Courtesy of US Food and Drug Administration/File Enlarge FRESNO, Calif. The maker ofsalsassold at Dollar Tree and Deals, Dollar Express and Dollar Bills stores nationwide is recalling the product after large glass pieces were found in some jars. The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition Olam Tomato Processors Inc.

Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch

Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to the users hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that it would soon release its so-called Glass Development Kit (GDK), which would let them build Android-based apps for Glass that can run directly on the device. So far, however, Google hasnt launched the GDK. Instead, Google today encouraged developers who are waiting for the GDK to start working on Android apps for Glass using the standard Android SDK (API Level 15) to try out their ideas. As Google notes , developers can use the SDK to access low-level hardware to render OpenGL and use stock Android UI widgets, for example. Developers can also access the accelerometer of Glass through the SDK. Glass, after all, runs Android 4.0.4, so its a pretty well-known platform for many developers. To help newcomers get started, though, the company also released a number of sample apps (a stopwatch, compass and level)today that highlight some of the things developers can do with Android on Glass.

Google Glass re-imagined as fashionable pair of frames [Photos]

So she organized Torontos first-ever Google Glass Hackathon, a weekend-long workshop where software developers and designers collaborate on applications for the brand-new glasses. With four teams working with four pairs of Glass, Kuang hopes to produce four new Glass apps by Sunday. The apps will greatly differ from those currently found on iPhone or Android, as the Glass screen measures 0.375 square inches and appear less than an inch from the users eye. One app that Kuang says she will work on will be a language learning app. In this app, users are able to scan text with their Google Glass, or talk to Google Glass to get it translated into different languages, she says. We can use the results to build a test to help people enlarge their vocabulary in other languages. The three other teams will be conceiving of apps starting Friday night and will work to develop the applications by Sunday. There have been many concerns raised around the wearing of technology like Glass, from privacy issues to the growing dependence on both technology in general and on Google as company.

It is also not the first time Google has received complaints about one of its serives invading privacy. One such example is about Gogoles Maps Streetview feature: the company received complaints from Germany about the service, some residents even requesting their houses to be blurred on Google Maps Streetview. It was probably due to all these privacy complaints that made Google avoid such features as facial recognition for its mobile Operating System, Android. However, the camera centric Google Glass will probably have this feature implemented one way or another, so it is a much more delicate subject for Google than a smartphone. While Google has made its position regarding facial recognition very clear, as the company opposes the feature, the controversy will probably continue. Googles head mounted computer got the attention of US Congress lawmakers. They even sent Larry Page (Googles chief executive) a letter in which they expressed their concerns regarding the device, asking Google how they could stop unintentional data harvesting and protect the privacy of those exposed to Google Glass line of sight.

Student wins design award for her glass lights

Google Glass Testers Have Clear Mission

Emily Phillips, 21, who studies decorative arts in the school of art and design, beat hundreds of other graduates from across the UK to win the Pulse Award at prominent exhibition New Designers. 1 The New Designers Pulse Award, Emily Phillips, Nottingham Trent University credit to James Champion The award recognises product innovation and commercial viability from emerging designers. The lights, which resemble the shape of a spinning top, comprise of two connecting glass pieces. These have been created in a variety of jewel-toned colours. 10% OFF FINAL BILL WHEN YOU SPEND OVER 10 10% OFF FINAL BILL WHEN YOU SPEND OVER 10 Contact: 0115 8962300 Valid until: Wednesday, July 31 2013 As part of her prize, Emily has been given 1,000 towards set up and design costs as well as a stand at the Pulse trade show at Earls Court next year. The Pulse Show is a platform for design-focused brands, which will give Emily the chance to present her work to thousands of buyers and suppliers. Emily said: I was surprised to have won.

Sensory, Light-Up Skin and the Dawn of Touchy-Feely Robots

Using the Hubble space telescope, Nasa has determined that the colour of the hostile planet is blue. The turbulent alien world orbits its star at a distance of just 2.9 million miles – one fiftieth of the distance that the earth is from the sun. The proximity has created an incredible hostile environment, Nasa says. The planet, known as a “hot Jupiter” is gravitationally locked to the sun – meaning that one, scorched, side of the planet remains facing the star. The daytime temperature on the planet is around 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the fact that one side is considerably hotter than the other (by around 260 degrees celsius) means the surface of the planet is blasted by howling winds of 4,500 miles per hour.

Energy-saving light-control film automatically controls sunlight transmission

Press harder and those lights get brighter, scaling up proportionately as you apply pressure. Its all the work of engineers at UC Berkeley, led by associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences Ali Javey, whove designed what theyre calling electronic skin, or e-skin: a 16-by-16-pixel gridlike mesh, each pixel harboring a transistor, organic LED and pressure sensor. We are not just making devices, we are building systems, said Javey, speaking to UC Berkeleys NewsCenter . With the interactive e-skin, we have demonstrated an elegant system on plastic that can be wrapped around different objects to enable a new form of human-machine interfacing. Robots with tactile sensor systems arent news, of course, nor is synthetic skin, which weve been experimenting with since at least the 1970s, when Dr. John F. Burke created a material made from plastics, cow tissue and shark cartilage that approximated human skin well enough to be used to treat severe-burn victims. But artificial e-skin with pressure sensitivity is a more recent development.

Then come back here and refresh the page. Google Glass, the tech giant’s high tech glasses, are already being spotted on testers across the country with expectations it will hit the market by the end of the year. NY1’s Adam Balkin filed the following report. Perhaps they’re the most talked about pair of glasses in history but do you actually know what Google Glass high-tech glasses actually do? Well, you’re about to find out. There’s a camera up top, bone conducting speakers by the ears, accelerometer inside, a touch sensitive panel on the side for controlling certain functions, and of course a microphone for controlling some others since Glass is almost entirely driven via your voice.

Glass a clear favorite in décor

We call that upcycling creating a new product from a product that otherwise would be at the end of its life cycle. Scott Zeeb, a builder with Dennis Spidel Custom Homes in Angola, installed a glass-inlay kitchen countertop at his own home in Angola. A winemaker who grows his own grapes, Zeeb says he thought it appropriate to incorporate green and blue wine bottles into the kitchen. The surfaces can be heavy and labor-intensive. But they hold up, he says. Mike Brumbaugh, a 77-year-old blown-glass artist from Bryan, Ohio, says people often collect his pieces for decor. He sells items during the Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival and also is featured at the art museum shop. He says art glass items now are typically conceived and executed by a single artist working independently in a studio, instead of in a factory ruled by division of labor and mass production. The (art) glass movement didnt get started until the 1960s, so its a relatively new form and thats interesting to people, he says.

Weather: hot with a chance of glass (62 light years away)

4, a multi-step light-control film with similar total reflection characteristics can be made by shortening the vertical length of the step and providing more steps. If the length L of one step is 10 cm, the width W can be 1 cm. If L is 1 cm, W can be 1 mm. A light-control film with such dimensions can be attached to window glass to achieve similar total reflection characteristics to a single-step film. If the angle of the bottom of a step from the vertical is less than 42, the light in the horizontal direction passes through and the view looks the same as with transparent glass.

Google Invests in Chipmaker, Glass Supplier Himax

Breaking the Glass Ceiling at the Federal Reserve

At this point, Himax Technologies owns 81.5 percent of HDI; other investors include KPCB Holdings, Khosla Ventures, and Intel Capital Corporation. Funds from Google will be used to make production upgrades so that HDI can roll out more LCOS chips and modules used in head-mounted displays like Google Glass, heads-up displays (HUD), and pico-projector products. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY “Google is a preeminent global technology leader. We are delighted to receive this investment and to form a strategic partnership with Google,” Jordan Wu, president and CEO of Himax, said in a statement . “Beginning the second quarter of this year, we had already begun expanding capacity to meet demand for our LCOS product line. This investment from Google further validates our commitment to developing breakthrough technologies and state-of-the-art production facilities. We look forward to leveraging this investment and our collective expertise with Google to create unique and transformational LCOS technologies for many years ahead.” Glass is still in beta, and only available to a handful of developers who paid $1,500 at 2012’s I/O developer conference.

Lost in the Woods With Glass

I wrote about Yellen’s stellar performance for the Huffington Post back in February. Yellen deserves to be Fed chair purely on the merits. It pains me to write that if she gets the job, one other major contrast with Summers will weigh in her favor. She is female. There has never been a woman chair of the Fed, and President Obama loves to break glass ceilings. Summers, by contrast, has an unfortunate history of being dismissive of women.

My coworkers gave me one tool. Not a compass or a map;it was Google Glass. Google gave us a prototype of Glass, the smartphone designed to be worn like a pair of eyeglasses. By now the features are well documented. A small piece of glass in front of my right eye displayed what Id normally see on a phone screen: time, maps, websites. I controlled it with my voice, telling it to do things like take a picture and asking it to find out what poison ivy looks like. These things, which make you look like a Star Trek character or just a nerd, are already starting to appear in San Francisco, New York and other big cities. Perhaps one day theyll be everywhere like the Yellowstone National Park, the Appalachian Trail or the gorgeous, creepily empty woods where my coworkers ditched me.

Wearable Computers Create New Security Vulnerabilities

Glass & Lamps Shine At Julia’s Two-Day Auction

The company has tasked these developers with discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities in Glass so Google can address them. And many of these issues are entirely new. For instance, one of the latest problems to be addressed, discovered by Lookout Mobile Security , involves how Glass interprets QR codes when it snaps a picture. QR codes themselves are a fairly new development, and only recently have mobile devices had enough processing power to be able to automatically execute QR code commands in a photograph. Thus for the first time, this has provided malicious folks with the opportunity to gain access to your device through these machine-readable blobs of black and white blocks.

Student wins design award for her glass lights

My first reaction was I wanted to see a show with stained glass in these windows. My dream has come true with Warren and Jerilees stained glass hanging artwork, she said. These pieces are beautiful with the light that streams through the gallery. Cairns believes that the stained glass pieces will make viewers recall other beautiful art of a similar nature. Warrens work reminds me of Tiffany glass that is so loved by most people, she said. The exhibit also features works by Nancy Moldofsky, an adjunct fine arts instructor at Montgomery County Community College (MCCC). Cairns enjoys her work as well. Nancy Moldofskys artwork is very feminine and pleasing to the eye, she said. All of her pieces are meticulous. Continued…

FAIRFIELD, MAINE Delighted with a fresh selection of merchandise, bidders at James D. Julias two-day sale of fine glass and lamps on June 19 and 20 were treated to an exciting and at times unpredictable ride. The auction saw bidding battles that resulted in strong prices while also gratifying the bargain attentive with an occasional great deal. One of the highlights was Julias discovery of a rare Pairpoint Puffy lamp depicting a three-dimensional figural owl. Only the eighth example known, and perhaps one of the finest, the lamp consists of a blown glass shade in the form of an owls head with piercing yellow eyes with large pupils. The shade rests upon an equally detailed bronze, full-bodied owl figural base, and it went out at $77,025, A lovely Pairpoint Puffy apple tree on its tree trunk base sold for $23,700, while a rare Pairpoint Puffy grape lamp done with tremendous realism and resting on its original matching grape cluster base went out at $13,035. Fine Tiffany leaded glass lamps included a Tiffany Studios curtain border hanging lamp in a palette of fiery orange, yellow and amber geometric panels.

True Colour of Exoplanet is Blue, Light Scattered from Droplets of Liquid Glass

1 The New Designers Pulse Award, Emily Phillips, Nottingham Trent University credit to James Champion The award recognises product innovation and commercial viability from emerging designers. The lights, which resemble the shape of a spinning top, comprise of two connecting glass pieces. These have been created in a variety of jewel-toned colours. Business Cards From Only 10.95 Delivered http://www.myprint-247.co.uk Print voucher Our heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000’s of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork.

5D Optical Memory uses Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring in Glass

This technology could theoretically record and securely store the lastevidence of our present civilisation for over a million years. In principle, the self-assembled nanostructures change the way light travelsthrough glass, modifying the polarisation of light, which then can be read using a combination of an optical microscope and a polariser. In experiments, 300 kilobyte of digital data in form of text in PDF were successfully recorded in 5-D using an ultrafast laser that produces extremely short and intense pulses oflight. The file, which could be the first document created to likely survive the human race, is written in three layers of nanostructured dotsseparated by five micrometres. The groundbreaking research could soon revolutionise digital technologies in that it could provide real possible high-capacity memory for cloud computing, the Internet and communication systems, says Jingyu Zhang from Southamptons Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), who led the research. We successfully recorded something that might last longer than the whole human race, he enthuses.

Custom Glass Bowl Vanities accentuate kitchens and baths.

(Archive News Story – Products mentioned in this Archive News Story may or may not be available from the manufacturer.) Original Press Release USA Meyda Custom Lighting Introduces Fused Glass Vanity/Bowl Combination for Kitchens and Baths Yorkville, NY— Driving innovation for kitchen and bath products today, Meyda Custom Lighting introduces Custom Fused Glass Bowl and Vanity Combinations, for residential, retail, hospitality and commercial environments. Meyda Custom Lighting is a Meyda Tiffany Company, America’s leading manufacturer and designer of custom lighting solutions and decorative accessories. Meyda Fused Glass Vanity Bowls feature a broad range of colors and designs. Contemporary, fun, transitional, elegant and creative, Meyda showcases a stunning, innovative art piece featuring “Marina” (115433) kiln-fired, fused glass in colors of Amber, Beige, Smoke and Clear Iridescent. The Marina Fused Glass Sink/Vanity Combo stands 35 inches tall.

Stained glass and photos distinguish ‘On and Off the Wall’ at MCCC

Silicates condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red light.” It’s a difficult observation because the light of the sun far overwhelms the light from the planet. So you need to check for minute changes in the total light from the star when the planet moves across or behind it. In future though, we may be able to observe planets directly and detect their colour. To do that you need to hide the light from the parent star, if you can do that then you could photograph the planet on its own. We might be able to observe distant exoplanets as a single dot of colour, are, similar to the Voyager 1 observation of the Earth as a pale blue dot. Remarkably, if you could take continuous observations of an exoplanet, as a single dot, integrated light of the entire planet, you can also build up maps of the planet, with its continents, its snow cover and its cloud cover. To do that you need to observe it through half of it’s “year”, using a technique of Spin Orbit Tomography .

La Habra Heights man shares colored glass creations at Whittier Gallery

Branford artist’s work catches the eye of anglers as well as art lovers (videos)

“Color Vibe” features an array of dichroic and colored glass creations. Dichroic glass is an ultrathin coating of metal oxides and quartz crystal grown as a structure directly onto glass. This “art glass” form features a combination of transmitted and reflective color. Originally, dichroic glass, a costly product, was created for use by the aerospace industry. But it was warm glass artists, like Phillips, who recognized its beauty and sought to find ways to create it as art. Practicing his craft for more than 10 years, Phillips is a recognized name in the glass art world. At this year’s Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts in Whittier, his piece, “Calypso Man O War”took first place honors while two additional pieces received honorable mentions.

West Indy 5 things to know include glass art event, Avon pool party

Activities will continue from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 13 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 14 at Hot Blown Glass. Pelo, a former florist and art supply store manager, talked about the event and her passion for creating glass art: Q: What will visitors experience during Art on Fire? A: Both furnace work and flame-working are exciting to watch. In the hot shop with the glass at 2,100 degrees (Fahrenheit) coming out of the furnace, people are spellbound by us being able to be that close and work with it, control it and turn it into a piece of art glass.

I became obsessed with this newfound medium. And it happened in a month and a half. One February I was outside in the studio welding a dining room table, and then I was at my desk with a loupe, and tweezers creating. But recipes are made to be improved and made ones own, and thats what has really fascinated Kropiwnicki. He looks to the ground for original materials, pointing to a fly which has the red glass from a police car light bar, another using the plastic tips from eyeglass stems and one using pieces of an old wallet of his dads. Another for breast cancer awareness.

Deep Blue Alien World that Rains Glass is Nothing Like Planet Earth

Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass

The planet was first discovered in 2005, but it wasn’t until recently that scientists made further discoveries about its atmosphere. Called HD 189733b, the planet is tidally locked with its parent star, which means that one of its sides is always light and one is always dark. Located only 2.9 million miles from its sun, the blue world can reach extreme temperatures. Like Us on Facebook Earth appears blue from space due to the reflection of its water. The ocean absorbs red and green wavelengths more strongly than blue light and the shorter blue wavelengths in Earth’s sky are selectively scattered by atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen molecules in a process known as Rayleigh scattering. Yet this new planet is blue for an entirely different reason.

Posted Tuesday, the FAQ addresses a slew of questions apparently sent to Google by people curious about the eyeware. Divided into four sections, it first addresses such basic questions as what exactly is Glass, what does Glass do, and when will Glass be available to all consumers. The second section dives into more details by explaining the look of the screen, the technical specs, the storage capacity, and the options for people who wear prescription glasses. 1-2 of 27 Scroll Left Scroll Right The third section discusses the sensitive topic of privacy, an item that has triggered fears among congressional leaders . Google has attempted to waylay such worries by saying that Glass users have control over the information they share with the company. The FAQ also explains how non-Glass wearers can tell if their picture is being taken by a Glass user.

Kopp Glass Releases First Article in Expert Perspective Series on Aerospace Lighting Trends

In this first article, Kopp discusses performance and total cost of ownership of materials used in exterior aircraft lighting applications. PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania – Over the last several years there has been growing confusion about how and when glass lenses should be used in exterior aircraft lighting applications. While weight reduction efforts save jet fuel, lightweight polymers require incessant, costly maintenance and replacement far more often than glass lenses in order to maintain proper light transmittance and ensure safety. When it comes to exterior aircraft lenses, polymers are lighter weight than glass – but that is only one dimension of performance. The costs associated with properly maintaining lighting systems that use polymer lenses is yet another dimension of performance that must also be considered.

Google sheds light on Glass in new FAQ

“From this, we can gather that the planet is blue, because the signal remained constant at the other colors we measured.” The planet is only 2.9 million miles from its parent star, so close that it is gravitationally locked, NASA says. One side always faces the star and the other side is always dark. By contrast, Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system to the sun, is 29 million miles away from the sun at its closest. In 2007, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope measured the infrared light, or heat, from the HD 189733b. It showed day side and night side temperatures differ by about 500 degrees Fahrenheit, which should cause fierce winds to roar from the day side to the night side, NASA said. The atmosphere, the space agencies say, is changeable and exotic.

Stained glass and photos distinguish ‘On and Off the Wall’ at MCCC

When the gallery was first built, it was built with large beautiful windows that allow a lot of natural light. My first reaction was I wanted to see a show with stained glass in these windows. My dream has come true with Warren and Jerilees stained glass hanging artwork, she said. These pieces are beautiful with the light that streams through the gallery. Cairns believes that the stained glass pieces will make viewers recall other beautiful art of a similar nature. Warrens work reminds me of Tiffany glass that is so loved by most people, she said. The exhibit also features works by Nancy Moldofsky, an adjunct fine arts instructor at Montgomery County Community College (MCCC). Cairns enjoys her work as well.

Mac Pro 2013 glass case concept is impractical but lustworthy

The Glass on Your Phone Is Actually Shrinking Before Your Very Eyes

Designer and 3D artist Martin Hajek thought so, and so cooked up some renders of the Mac Pro 2013 with its metal casing replaced, not only with glass and reminiscent of the G4 Cube Steve Wozniak is so enamored with but with perforated aluminum and even some sleek metallic finishes. The new Mac Pro isnt a stranger to tubular glass casings: after all, Apple used them to show off the pre-production hardware at WWDC 2013. In Hajeks concepts, however, the glass sleeve is a lot more form-fitting, effectively replacing the glossy aluminum casing that Apple has designed. Glass, of course, isnt going to do much for the Mac Pro 2013s cooling requirements. Apple has outfitted the new workstation with a single, large fan, that spins horizontally on top of the circular housing. That pulls cool air up, from the bottom of the Mac, and across the triangular cooling stack in the center, against which the two graphics cards and the mainboard are all fixed. However, where aluminum would allow some of the heat to radiate out from the new Mac Pro, a glass case would act more like a thermos flask, trapping it inside. Given there are already questions from some quarters about whether the single fan will be enough to cool the Xenon E processor and dual-GPUs, its probably too much to ask for an effective aftermarket glass casing.

How Google Glass Is Changing Medical Education

The third section of the FAQ page discusses the most sensitive topic about Glass privacy and security issues. Google has tried to eliminate the fears of its customers regarding security. It ensures that customers will have control over the information they share with Google. And while taking pictures and recording a video the Glasss screen will be illuminated. Also, Glass requires a command or an explicit action to make it work. Therefore, a non Glass owner can be informed if their picture is being taken by someone using a Glass.

No, neither did scientists, until now. Researchers have observed glass actually behaving like a liquid for the first time. You see, glass maybe a rigid, solid substance at room temperature, but its optical properties are given to it by the random nature of the assortment of silicon atoms within its matrix an amorphous solid as its known. Essentially, on the atomic scale, it looks like liquid despite being a solid. Now scientists have discovered that the potassium and sodium ions added into the Gorilla Glass mix to boost its durability, actually move after the glass is set. Immediately after the glass is spat out off the production line, the ions embedded in the glass exist in energetically unfavourable positions within the random array of silicon atoms. As energy levels always tend towards their lowest supported configuration it results in their slow shift into less energetic, more stable positions within your screen.

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Introductory comments from Dr. Grossmann. Clinical evaluation and inserting the chest tube. Students remotely observing the procedure. A remote consultation with a cardiologist. Its clear that change iscoming to medicine and Digital health is part of the confluence of change that willre-imaginehealthcare from patient empowerment to educational tools. Todays medical students and others in training have the unique experience of having grown up with technology thatincludesthe PC, gaming and the smart phone. The extension of this to clinicalpracticewill not be arevolutionaryjump (as is for an older generation) but will be a natural evolution of the technology that has become second nature. And this technological convergence is just a few short years away as students are graduated and become the teachers. The role of Google Glass and other devices will become commonplace across the healthcare continuumand provide an essential clinical toolfrom the paramedic on location to advanced care and consultations. Google Glass changes our vision of healthcare and shortens this distance between the patient andcaregiver And its in that shortened distance andimmediacyof response that awaits the potentialopportunity to vastlyimprovecare, and in the final analysis, save lives.

Google Glass XE7 update hands-on: web browsing activated

Google Glass gains web browser and expanded voice commands

Glass XE7 Web Browsing demo mirrored to Samsung Galaxy S 4. Glass webpage browsing works best or perhaps just most uniquely with two fingers held down against the touchpad at the users temple, moving ones head around to pan left and right, up and down. The number of contacts a user can work with is no longer limited to 10, open instead to the full cross-section of Gmail contacts the user has and that can be a lot. With this expanded list, the ability to share media with voice commands is made all the more exciting OK Glass, share with Alice. You can now send messages with voice commands as well as have text messages read aloud by Glass, responding to these texts with voice commands too. Search is also updated with a bit more conversational a set of features if you ask Google a question about a person, then follow up with a simple where were they born, your question will be answered (as it makes sense.) This is just the newest in a series of monthly software updates pushed to Glass by the Project Glass team part of the promise made by the team earlier this year at Google I/O 2013. For more insight on Glass, have a peek at our Google Glass Fireside Chat series from the same Google developer event.

Apple Invents New System to Strengthen Thin Glass for iDevices

When that phone receives a text message, Glass is able to display it on its miniature screen above your right eye, and now (if you ask nicely), the device will read this message aloud. You can also now ask Glass to reply to this text message with a message you dictate or answer a telephone call and chat from the headset. Users will now also be able to take a photo with Glass built-in camera and share it with friends with the command OK Glass, share with John. This functionality ties in with an expanded set of contacts any of the users entire collection of Gmail My Contacts through Glass send a message to button in its main menu. This update allows Glass to see the web in a more traditional way than it was allowed before, here with a View website button appearing after one does a search for a term of their choice. Glass allows the user to view a webpage in any of several ways: Scrolling, Clicking, Looking around, and Zooming. Each of these abilities works with Glass touchpad (at the users temple): Scroll Slide your finger forward on the touchpad to scroll down.

Google Glass updated with web browsing, new voice commands, & more

“Google Glass has the potential to change the way people communicate and interact. When new technology like this is introduced that could change societal norms, I believe it is important that people’s rights be protected and vital that privacy is built into the device. I look forward to continuing a working relationship with Google as Google Glass develops.” In May, members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus – including Barton – penned a letter to Google CEO Larry Page , asking for more details on the privacy implications of the futuristic specs. Google responded on June 7, and the committee today released the letter publicly. In that letter – which appears to answer all eight of the caucus’s questions – Susan Molinari, Google’s vice president for public policy and government relations, wrote that “protecting the security and privacy of our users is one of our top priorities.” VIEW ALL PHOTOS IN GALLERY Glass, however, is still in development; only those who paid $1,500 for an Explorer Edition at last year’s Google I/O conference currently have the futuristic specs.

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I use my iPhone so much that I can’t afford not to have it protected by a case, and while AppleCare+ is amazing (and a must purchase with an iPhone), the inconvenience of getting an iPhone repaired is as bad (or worse) as the expense. For the above reasons, I almost always keep my iPhone in a protective case. In fact, I rotate my cases depending on what I’m doing with my iPhone and where I’m taking it. It’s been my experience that the summer months are the most dangerous for my iPhone because I use it outside more, I take more road trips, and I have less pockets to store it in (think shorts and t-shirts). And then there’s the water.

Zoom: Slide two fingers forward or backward to zoom. Look around: With two fingers down on the touchpad, move your head around to pan. Click: As you look around, you can tap to select anything in the center of the screen. Check out the screenshot below to see what browsing a site like Cool Hunting looks like on Glass. Google Google Glass web browsing Next, Google has added new voice commands that are designed to make the experience smoother.

Forget films; add an extra layer of Gorilla Glass to your iPhone

The iPhone 5’s Thinner Glass with Integrated Touch In September 2012 Apple introduced new In-Cell iPhone glass technology that Phil Schiller referred to as ” Integrated touch .” Schiller added that their engineering team had “done some breakthrough work and have integrated touch sensors right into the display itself,” to make it 30% thinner than the iPhone 4S, making it “truly the world’s most advanced display.” Apple Develops a New System to Strengthen iDevice Glass A new patent application that Patently Apple has discovered in Europe focuses on strengthening iPhone and other iDevice glass. Whether Apple used the new glass strengthening process for the iPhone 5 and then patented the process or filed the patent later with the intention of using it in future products is unknown at this time. Yet it’s clear that while one engineering team focused on making the glass process thinner for “Integrated touch,” another team was assigned the task of strengthening the new thinner glass. As Apple’s patent filing frames it “the thinner the glass the more susceptible the glass is to damage when the portable electronic device is stressed or placed under a significant force. There is a continuing need to provide improved ways to strengthen glass, namely, thin glass.” Apple’s new invention generally relates to increasing the strength of glass by using a new monitored ion exchange bath process which is illustrated below in patent FIG 1. The apparatus, systems and method for improving strength of thin glass are especially suitable for cover class or LCD displays, particularly those assembled in small form factors such as the iPhone, iPod touch and so forth. The glass can be thin in these small form factor embodiments, such as those between 0.3mm and 2.5mm. Apple additionally confirms that the process could be used in respect to larger display as well, including the iPad, MacBooks and televisions, such as those less than 5mm.