well, i been down so gawd damn long...

howdy y'all, yeah thats a line from a doors song, its pretty awesome... anyway, i've been so busy with school studying for tests and other stuff. as i am sure that everyone who reads my blog knows i got a pretty bad burn a couple weeks ago. anyway, it was a second degree burn i'm sure and i wish i had a picture of when it was all swollen and blistered- gross!

But this weekend is vintage days at fresno state! YAY! for anyone who has the opportunity to come to fresno state this weekened, come by the glass shop on the south side of the conely art building and see what glassblowing is like for yourself! and don't forget to buy something- we actually ran out of glass so our teacher had make a special trip to richmond, ca to get some more glass. nevertheless there will be people working this weekend and will be happy to show you how it goes down, or at least let you watch them make something!

March Birthdays

This month has a few birthdays that I would like to get out of the way. First of all There is aunt Lisa on the 4th, and then there is brother bandit on the 14th, followed up by Uncle Roberto on the 24th, I believe. I remember one time having a birthday for all of these harguinde-guys at my house when i was relatively little. It blew my mind that they were all on 4 days.

On another note, I never really got adding machines. Why not just use a big calculator or something?

On yet another note, Jesus must have been a great guy. I mean why wouldn't anyone like a guy with a beard like his? I mean look at ZZ-Top, everyone loves those guys.

Everything

Hey everyone, I'm pretty sure that it isn't quite springtime yet, but all of the most beautiful flowers are in blume!

This is the tree that made me want a camera in the first place. It has the prettiest flowers on campus and it only stay in blume for a couple of weeks. I was so upset when I had to walk by it everyday last year and I couldn't take a picture.

I just recently noticed these flowers I don't know what kind they are, but they are really nice

These birds of paradise are no longer this nice looking, because I took this one a few weeks ago. They are all kinda grimy now. anyway these are very beautiful angiosperms (that is the kind of family of plant that all flowering species belong to).

This is a little plot next to the Science II building they remind me of my grandpas garden in the front of his house during easter. I hope that isn't a plastic bag in the bottom right corner...

On a another note, I have quite a bit more glass done now and I actually have a picture...

These are all solid peices with the exception of the second from the right, which was a mistake. I tried to pull four arms up and the twist them together, but it fell apart on me so i just made the best of the situation. The one on the farthest right has redused copper wire in it. You cant se eit but it is a really beautiful magenta color. The one on the fourth from the left is pretty cool. it looks kinda like a horse and i did it pretty much by just puling threads of glass of and playing around with it. and speaking of glass there are a couple more tools that I want to show you...

This gal here is named sophie. sophie comes in reall helpful when you need to blow out a lip on a blown peice. someetimes the lip is kinda thick and sophie helps to even it out.

This is the break off station. When you break a peice off, you put some water in the jack line and then you hit the punty and break it off. The fiberglass helps when you when you need to put something like christmas ornaments away or something solid.

These are optic molds and they are used for making what we call zippers, or pleated bowls or cups. They don't have that big of a role but yo do need them for some pieces. These are all of the tools that we use in the glass shop so now you know everything that I talk about when I talk about glass