Not sure where life is taking me but I decided that I will NOT live in Fear! I will not settle and just stay in comfort zones.. I am excited to see what life throws at me everyday. Always meeting new people, new friends. I had a job opportunity to run a Sonic here in Shawnee, but it was the lowest profit Sonic and I decided it was not what I wanted. Not that store. I want something more. If I was offered my own store, then I would have jumped on it! HAHA But still think that I am planning on Moving to Eufaula in May! Get to be with my Dad & my Bro Steve. Gonna kill me being farther away from Mom.. But she is gonna have to get away on Weekends.. atleast every other weekend. We got ALOT of art and craft ideas to do!! I am hoping when I move to Eufaula and start working for dad, I will then have the time and money to start doing what I love the most! My ART!!! My mom is all in about helping me and I am just so excited about it! I am ready to start living the life I want! Start taking control again like it use to be. There are still a few things that kinda get me down from time to time.. but It will all come in time I hope :)
HOPE FAITH & LOVE!!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Heart of Glass
I LOVE THIS GUYS WORK!! ITS AMAZING!!!
Chihuly: Glass Artist by Margaret Haberman
Daryl Smith, 39, blows and twirls a glob of glowing glass at the end of a long stainless steel pipe, rolling the molten mass on a table to fashion an orange-red icicle shape at the Seattle studio of American glass master Dale Chihuly. Using an array of torches, files, crimps, tweezers and shears, Smith curls, imprints and cuts the fiery shape—moving it in and out of a 2,150-degree furnace to keep the material pliable —before a fellow craftsman places the glass in a cooling oven.
The finished object is one of 1,800 pieces being used to create a massive sculpture for Chihuly’s most ambitious project to date—the 1½-acre Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit opening later this year in Seattle. The venture’s hallmark glass house will feature a massive installation 100 feet long and 25 feet high.
“People are going to see it and go, ‘Whoa!’” says Chihuly, 70. One of America’s most prominent and prolific living artists, Chihuly is credited with elevating the craft of glassmaking to a fine art. His inventive sculptures—abstract baskets, colorful sea forms, lavish towers and effusive chandeliers—appear in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums worldwide and countless private collections.
Chihuly himself is a striking figure, with a barrel chest, a patch covering his blind left eye and a crown of curly hair. He offers a simple explanation for his success in recasting glass as a popular artistic movement.
“I think people like to look at something they’ve never seen before,” he says. “And that’s what I try to do.”
The charismatic artist and his team create Chihuly’s glassworks in a studio along Seattle’s waterfront housed in a former racing shell factory that he dubbed the Boathouse. Inside the “hot shop” before a row of furnaces, Smith wears sunglasses and works as the gaffer, or head glassblower, using heat and motion to stretch glass into various forms. For the icicle shape, he gyrates the superheated glass bubble attached to his pipe until it sags and droops—a signature technique of his boss.
“Glass has a mind of its own, and the way I work is using fire and centrifugal force and gravity,” Chihuly explains.
His work has become a source of pride in his native Tacoma, thanks in part to the artist and many public displays of his sculptures in the city’s cultural district. The most famous is the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, a 500-foot-long pedestrian walkway that was built in 2002.
Daryl Smith, 39, blows and twirls a glob of glowing glass at the end of a long stainless steel pipe, rolling the molten mass on a table to fashion an orange-red icicle shape at the Seattle studio of American glass master Dale Chihuly. Using an array of torches, files, crimps, tweezers and shears, Smith curls, imprints and cuts the fiery shape—moving it in and out of a 2,150-degree furnace to keep the material pliable —before a fellow craftsman places the glass in a cooling oven.
The finished object is one of 1,800 pieces being used to create a massive sculpture for Chihuly’s most ambitious project to date—the 1½-acre Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit opening later this year in Seattle. The venture’s hallmark glass house will feature a massive installation 100 feet long and 25 feet high.
“People are going to see it and go, ‘Whoa!’” says Chihuly, 70. One of America’s most prominent and prolific living artists, Chihuly is credited with elevating the craft of glassmaking to a fine art. His inventive sculptures—abstract baskets, colorful sea forms, lavish towers and effusive chandeliers—appear in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums worldwide and countless private collections.
Chihuly himself is a striking figure, with a barrel chest, a patch covering his blind left eye and a crown of curly hair. He offers a simple explanation for his success in recasting glass as a popular artistic movement.
“I think people like to look at something they’ve never seen before,” he says. “And that’s what I try to do.”
The charismatic artist and his team create Chihuly’s glassworks in a studio along Seattle’s waterfront housed in a former racing shell factory that he dubbed the Boathouse. Inside the “hot shop” before a row of furnaces, Smith wears sunglasses and works as the gaffer, or head glassblower, using heat and motion to stretch glass into various forms. For the icicle shape, he gyrates the superheated glass bubble attached to his pipe until it sags and droops—a signature technique of his boss.
“Glass has a mind of its own, and the way I work is using fire and centrifugal force and gravity,” Chihuly explains.
His work has become a source of pride in his native Tacoma, thanks in part to the artist and many public displays of his sculptures in the city’s cultural district. The most famous is the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, a 500-foot-long pedestrian walkway that was built in 2002.
1st yr of my life in moms planner
My Mom drove a '86 Cadillac. We lived in Hobart where I was born. I was born Dec on Fri 22nd 1989, 7lbs 15 1/2oz. Arrived home Sat Dec 30th the next week. Jan 9th had a dr apt, weighed 8lbs 7oz. Went to my Grandma Bakers on the 12th cause my bro Steve had a Conference Tournament that next day. I would stay with my Grandparents the Bakers during the wrestling matches. Feb 11th my cousin Michael was born 7lb 1/2 oz 19". My oldest Brother turned 18 Feb 16th. Dad turned 39 that March 13th. Gma & Gpa Kneisel had been together for 35yrs March 29th. She has written down all the tournaments for the boys and the proms and all the school stuff. My mom was so awesome. She was always on top of everything and never missed a single things of any of our school lives or sports or anything. Having me a new born and still attending all the school and active in the sports and all. She was busy busy, but always there. John graduated Thursday May 17th from Hobart. My grandparents the Bakers had been married 41 yrs on May 29th. My bro Steve turned 16 on May 31st.
Part that makes me laugh... June 4th we had Swiss steak for dinner that mon, tues BBQ chicken, Wed ate out, Fri Meatloaf, Sat roast, sun porkchops... haha Went to Grandma Bakers family reunion July 1st.. of course I don't remember any of that haha. Ummm.. Stephen wreck the Cadillac July 18th.. shame shame.. August 2nd I was rolling over and setting up on my own. We traveled a lot to Lawton, and Weatherford, Texas, Shawnee.. Always going to families houses. Seems like every other weekend I was going somewhere or people were coming up to stay. Wish things like that didn't change. One I was old enough to start remembering things everyone else was living out on their own and now its impossible to get family together or go visit. August 6th I saw Train at Ada lol. It says Brandy was 5 August 21.... The Chow Brandy??? hehe She was our guard dog.. No one could come near me besides close family. She was extra protective over me :) September 6th was Monico turned 16.. RIP... The 8th I got to see and pet my 1st horse, It was Steve's girlfriend Kristi's horse :) I loved going to her parents house and see the horsies!! My Aunt Kee & uncle Richard had been married 20 yrs by Sept 19th, 1990. My 1st tooth Sept 27th lol.. What the heck!! Nov 15th... "Pics of Kristin in tub with spaghetti on face & in Minnie mouse suit".... Really?? HAHA!!! Dec 17th Barty sarted working my Lawton. 22nd was my 1st BDAY!! 23rd had Christmas at the Bakers, 24th at home then at the Harris's, then 25th Christmas at the Kneisel's.. sounds about right.. That's how Christmas was just about every year growing up. Some years I have even more Christmas's HAHA.
Part that makes me laugh... June 4th we had Swiss steak for dinner that mon, tues BBQ chicken, Wed ate out, Fri Meatloaf, Sat roast, sun porkchops... haha Went to Grandma Bakers family reunion July 1st.. of course I don't remember any of that haha. Ummm.. Stephen wreck the Cadillac July 18th.. shame shame.. August 2nd I was rolling over and setting up on my own. We traveled a lot to Lawton, and Weatherford, Texas, Shawnee.. Always going to families houses. Seems like every other weekend I was going somewhere or people were coming up to stay. Wish things like that didn't change. One I was old enough to start remembering things everyone else was living out on their own and now its impossible to get family together or go visit. August 6th I saw Train at Ada lol. It says Brandy was 5 August 21.... The Chow Brandy??? hehe She was our guard dog.. No one could come near me besides close family. She was extra protective over me :) September 6th was Monico turned 16.. RIP... The 8th I got to see and pet my 1st horse, It was Steve's girlfriend Kristi's horse :) I loved going to her parents house and see the horsies!! My Aunt Kee & uncle Richard had been married 20 yrs by Sept 19th, 1990. My 1st tooth Sept 27th lol.. What the heck!! Nov 15th... "Pics of Kristin in tub with spaghetti on face & in Minnie mouse suit".... Really?? HAHA!!! Dec 17th Barty sarted working my Lawton. 22nd was my 1st BDAY!! 23rd had Christmas at the Bakers, 24th at home then at the Harris's, then 25th Christmas at the Kneisel's.. sounds about right.. That's how Christmas was just about every year growing up. Some years I have even more Christmas's HAHA.
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