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Jay Thurber Show

Back in 2015, I had the privilege of interviewing workers at the Pyrex plant in Charleroi, Washington County. Here's my interview, recorded 10 years ago:

almanac.tubecityonline.com/pod

Today, the plant is closing for the last time, another victim of corporate greed and private equity. Foreign countries aren't destroying American manufacturing — American investors are.

A photo of Pyrex measuring cups going down an assembly line at a factory in Charleroi, Pa.
#solidarity#glass#steelworkers
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Colin Purrington

Found a nice vitricolous lichen yesterday in New York. I'm assuming it's some sort of rock shield (Xanthoparmelia) but not sure which one. Per Harris (2004) there are 15 different species in the state. #lichen #glass #nature #fungi #algae #inaturalist inaturalist.org/observations/2

iNaturalistrock shield lichens (Genus Xanthoparmelia)rock shield lichens from Putnam Valley, NY, USA on April 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM by Colin Purrington. On glass.
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James Akers

I am so excited for this Mind Benders neon class I am gonna start teaching tomorrow. Running till Sunday, students of all levels will get to learn neon bending, inkscape pattern (neon template) design, and a few programming things to make the neon blink (using microcontrollers).

Also trilled for the Embracing Fallibility exhibition going along with it. Mostly about human "error"- and loving the errors. April 11th it opens, and its up through July 19th. Here are a few install shots. Every piece is interactive- by physically pressing buttons, or by joining a wifi network that the pieces emanate, or by visiting

sticks.weblink.ooo/

from anywhere in the world. Okay, that last one is a little buggy- I programmed em all myself with some ai (mostly run locally) help. The LLMs are a a crutch, but I am learning more about #programming with them.

Here are some install shots of the show, and me connecting the sticks chandelier to the studio wifi.

A zoomed out view of the show, half stantioned off. All the work isn't too giant- everything is small in the white wall gallery- all my wires made into non tripping hazards. Bright lights all over the gallery.
A computer monitor balanced on top of a ladder with an HDMI cord, keyboard, and mouse running down from the single board computer aboard the stick chandelier piece.The mouse is atop the computer monitor and keyboard is on the top step of the ladder.
The view from atop the ladder. Yeah, I caved in an got the mouse out- the mouse is on a junk computer monitor from the office, dim, linux desktop on the screen, cords running down from the chandelier above. Empty paint drying pedestals seen below. Photo taken looking down standing on the ladder.
Soldering up three more weblink backpacks on the kitchen table at the airBNB. It was the perfect thing to do as the marinade cooled for my chicken that I just made- delicious. Three white rectangle PCBs with ESP 32 seeed Xiao boards on them. Orange weller soldering iron in the forground with brass sponge. Fancy orange cheddar cheese AC-DC rectifiers in the background along with a bunch of digikey bags on a sorta crappy but very functional AirbNb table.
#MNastodon#neon#sculpture
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James Akers

Visited with students and gave slide talks two days ago- and pulled tubes with some very talented students yesterday. Gonna give another demo for UW glassblowing students today.

It's like my birthday came early with the tubes. Gonna make a video at some point to share the glassblowing fun- but Amber Mans an Skye Xollo were SO helpful, with Amber having blown glass since they were very young, and learning to pull tubes from my favorite tube puller in Tacoma.

I saw wonderful undergrad and graduate student work, seen here are Amber's "two truths and a lie" tubes covered in black glass powder and resist sandblasted through (I pulled some of that black/ brown). A studio visit with Morgan, a third year grad student was very neat- their ceramic and neon sculptures playing with texture, dementia, memory, and structure- integrating the neon and clay quite nicely.

Blue, purple, brown, green, orange striped tubes laid out on a wooden table. Hot pink lathe and sandblaster in the background
Skye at the other end of the post while Amber nods in approval at my rusty hot shop bubble stretching skills
Two truths and a lie piece by Amber. The black glass powder on the outside gave the tubes an interesting brown filter with the neon fill, as well as an interesting texture. Their handwriting, Rayzisted sandblasted onto the tube, allows the bright, unfiltered neon through
A ceramic, glass and Argon sculpture by the third year grad, Morgan. A ghostly purple whisp of glass encircles a dark blue glazed ceramic piece held up by a dripping terracotta mixed with clear glass oozing tripod on a white pedestal
#visitingartist#glassblowing#art
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