OFFICINA

Soon to open glass studio in the heart of Europe. Check it out

http://berlinglas.org/home/

NOVANTA

90 Years of Venini. I shall be heading over to Murano next week to investigate further…

http://www.venini.it/eng/home.htm

PELLICOLA

 http://vimeo.com/20349285

Just received this pre-porduction link from film maker and experimentalist Mat Fleming whom I had the pleasure of working with on the Workforce glass film project back in January of last year. Hopefully seeing an extended project of this over the next year. Wonderful

http://vimeo.com/12201584

CASA MIA

EPLE

Apples latest flagship store at Covent Garden London. Fantastic

GRAZIE

BOUGAINVILLEA

An afternoon at Aaronson Noon, Adam Aaronson’ s glass blowing studion with Eddie King and Renato proved fruitful. They were busy at work making blown glass lamp bases whilst within striding distance was Adam’ s latest conquest, a 38 piece exhibition featuring his latest works. Pictured here is my favourite entitled Bougainvillea II.

COMPETITION

Yesterday was the last day for entries for this years 2010 UK Glass Biennale and the International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge. The dates this year are Friday 27 August – Monday 30 August.

British Glass Biennale 2010

http://www.biennale.org.uk/2010-biennale/call-for-entries.php

International festival of glass

http://www.ifg.org.uk/

Also running a series of ten masterclasses featuring:

http://www.ifg.org.uk/masterclasseslist.html

See you there

FORTNUM AND MASON

News from Stewart Hearn. Fortnum and Mason Piccadily’ s the 300 year old food hamper experts and window display extrordinaires are having an exhibition of Handmade British Craft featuring glass works by Bi-me, Gilliesjones, Glasstorm, Helen Millard, Katharine Coleman, Michael Ruh, Nancy Sutcliffe, Phil Atrill, Sam Sweet, Sheldon:Cooney, Stewart Hearn. The exhibition started 21 April and runs until 20 June.

http://www.fortnumandmason.com/events/britishhandmade.aspx

http://www.fortnumandmason.com/

VULCAN

A first and so definitely worth a mention is the recent (yesterdays) closed British aerospace. It’s looking like movement is going to be put on ice  for the next few days at least due to this awesome volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Dr David Rothery, a vulcanologist at the Open University, explained the problem posed by ash to aircraft. “If volcanic ash particles are ingested into a jet engine, they accumulate and clog the engines with molten glass,” he told the BBC.

He explained that the standard procedure for a pilot faced with an ash cloud is to immediately reduce power and drop below the cloud, where the inrush of cold, clean air into the engines should shatter the volcanic glass.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62209,news-comment,news-politics,video-airport-chaos-volcanic-cloud-ash-sweeps-in-from-iceland-eyjafjallajoekull-glacier#ixzz0lG7TiWyv

Here are a few clips of the beast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxvtV7aNMT0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8CHSThR-Mo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENbABd306Nw&feature=related

Here is a glimpse of what volcanic glass looks like