Posts Tagged "art and science"

21
Aug

2015 Chesley Award – A Blown Glass Saturn

   Posted by: B.E. Johnson »  in award

Now that the awards ceremony is complete, we can reveal our newest blown glass award, The 2015 Chesley. Bestowed each year to leaders in the genré by the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists, it is a fitting addition to our portfolio of unique and imaginative awards.

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26
Jan

Where On Earth Did All Our Stuff GO!?

   Posted by: BJ Johnson »  in marketing, science

The past couple of years have been fairly busy around the Holiday Season as we thankfully try to keep up. Many of our creations are shipped to clients across the oceans. Prospective customers also ask if we ship to their country. The thought occurred to me one day that it would be good to have a visual representation of where our creations have journeyed across the planet over these many years. Here's how we did it.

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21
Nov

The Blown Glass Space Collection

   Posted by: BJ Johnson »  in blown glass

Give Me Some Space! Many of our friends, colleagues and visitors to our blogs and websites are Space Buffs. Either they work in the space industry as scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists, teachers, space artists, or are just plain crazy about space. We are, too, and we work the space theme into a LOT of our creations. We have developed many different artworks in glass of various types

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22
Jan

A Brush With Greatness – Stephen Hawking and Me?

   Posted by: BJ Johnson »  in blown glass

Sometimes, surprises can be a very good thing. Many times they're not but this one is very welcome and special, indeed. Late Friday afternoon a message arrived from Donna Stevens, our good friend at the Planetary Society, informing us of their surprise.

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5
Mar

When Other Artists Like Your Stuff

   Posted by: BJ Johnson »  in blown glass, sculpture

It's Great! There are few who could be more critical and discerning. Their observations mean a lot because, in one way or another, they've been there.

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2
Dec

An Artist in an Engineer’s Body

   Posted by: BJ Johnson »  in art, engineering

Or is it the other way around? Every so often, I receive queries in my mailbox asking about various topics. Today, I was asked a question about the path that I took and how it affected my life's work:

"I am a freshman at Brigham Young University Idaho, and I've wanted to be an artist all my life. However I've never had any problems with math or science and love problem solving. My brother informed me that I might look into engineering rather than art. I really do like the idea however here is the problem
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Part III of the Making Of series. How we made the Sun and Planets in Blown Glass. Veerrrrrry carefully.

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