by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jul 2, 2022 | blog
BOOK REVIEW LABORATORY SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWING – Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing’s Place in History by Paul Le Pinnet MBE. ISBN 978-981-124-787-3 I found this book quite hard to review. This was for several reasons not least I only received it a day before the...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jun 27, 2022 | blog
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWERS Introduction: the following text formed part of my Editorial for the current issue of the BSSG Journal. If you don’t know “BSSG” stands for British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, and I have been its Editor for over...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Mar 6, 2022 | blog
WAKE UP TO MAKE UP Nope, not talking about apply mascara but applying my creative spirit based on waking up to fine weather. For photographing glass in the open air then for me “fine weather” means no wind. This in Caithness is difficult to guarantee all the time so...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Feb 15, 2022 | blog
EMBRACING THE WRONG WAY? When I was staring to be a scientific glassblower, that’s a person making scientific glassware for scientists to use in experiments in their laboratories, then I was always told to “stick to the drawing”. Tolerances were typically plus or...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jan 28, 2022 | blog
Zoom rhymes with boom (and doom of course but more on that later!). So, zoom, zoom rhymes with boom boom and just lately I have felt like a demented foxy puppet whose main occupation annoys anyone and everyone who comes within five miles radius! I know its vital for...
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