Wednesday, September 29, 2010

REAl glass?

REAl stands for Rare Earth Aluminum oxide. This is a type of glass made at NASA. It's interesting because they trial the experiment by floating samples in an electrostatic levitator. See floating molten glass!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Lightweight glass?

Now I really got excited about this because it sounded perfect...I mean what casting artist wouldn't want a lighter weight glass? It is however just a smart environmental push to get manufacturers to use less glass in the design of their bottles. Good idea chaps but doesn't help me.

WRAP are the smarts behind this good idea. Read more about their Glassrite campaign

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Mutant magic is driving me crazy

Not because I'm not interested but because I can't settle on something that really suits me