http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/ en-us 2010-03-18T15:58:33-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001954.html As a preview of my epic, long-in-the-making-but-not-posted-yet blogpost on copyright issues, I give a fun preview of the concept of the "copyleftist" - a 'minute meme' from questioncopyright.org. All Creative Work is Derivative - Read about the process and ideas... Not Strictly About Stained Glass Tom 2010-03-18T15:58:33-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001955.html A recent blog post from P.M. Doolan's ThinkShop about Sigmar Polke's Stained Glass Windows, with several images. I'd heard of these windows from the 2008 New Yorker article Many-Colored Glass, but the windows were not complete at that time. This... Tom 2010-03-17T10:21:53-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001953.html An interview with Mississipi based stained glass artist Andy Young. Andy and I were both in a group gallery show called "The Glass Canvas", in Boston, way back in 1993, before either of us had any grey hair. 13:30 long... Stained Glass Artists Tom 2010-03-12T11:10:09-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001948.html The entire run of Popular Science is now available for viewing through Google books. Not much on stained glass, but there is this article. How it is Done: Stained Glass Making, October 1942 Unfortunately, the article does not name any... Tom 2010-03-08T22:21:03-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001946.html If you've been wondering why I've not been doing as much blogging recently, this is the reason. The first issue of AGGnews, the new Quarterly eNewsletter for the American Glass Guild. I did all the design and layout, with some... Tom 2010-03-07T21:05:00-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001949.html This is short, less than 2 minutes, but interesting. I'd never seen an interview with Brian Clarke before and so it's interesting to see him and hear his words. Brian Clarke is one of those big name stained glass artists... Stained Glass Artists Tom 2010-03-06T10:45:08-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001951.html Contemporary Bottle House Creator, said to have 6 million bottles involved?! The stained glassy shots don't start until about 1:35 into the 2:39 video.... bottle walls Tom 2010-03-05T17:21:16-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001899.html Since my most popular blog post remains the one on the Alice Windows in Daresbury, and there is a big new movie version of Alice in Wonderland coming out tomorrow, I'd thought I'd look at some comparative takes on the... Ripe for Translation Tom 2010-03-04T21:02:03-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001943.html I'm not what you would call a fan of big explosion action movies, so the last thing I expected would be to post an image on this blog from "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen". But, a few weeks ago,... bottle walls Tom 2010-02-27T21:06:12-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001945.html In the world of glassblowing, the making of rondels is often referred as "spinning plates", which is similar to the way of making window glass in large rondels called crown glass. Recently, it occurred to me to search for the... SG Technical info Tom 2010-02-25T11:18:20-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001942.html The documentary filmmaker John Bishop just posted excerpts of his documentary on the last days of the Connick Studio, filmed in Boston in 1986. The film is called The Last Window, and it documents the making of the Henry Pepper... Stained Glass Studios Tom 2010-02-15T12:32:56-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001940.html This from flickrite "Library Development @ Washington State Library", an image of the Stained glass @ The Evergreen State College Library - Olympia WA, by Cappy Thompson. Click on the link or image to see a high resolution 'Zoomified' version... New Directions in SG Tom 2010-02-13T17:02:47-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001939.html A little unexpected personal backstory. This is a video with my old friend Geoff talking about screenprinting. Geoff was one of my roommates in the 80's, and we became good friends. We used to talk about screenprinting back then and... TK Vitreobiography Tom 2010-02-06T22:55:16-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001938.html Talking about tinkering, here is another video with the Kinetic artist Arthur Ganson. I had posted his brief TED talk in 2008. This is a more recent talk and a much longer one, for the LongNow Foundation. Wait for a... Not Strictly About Stained Glass Tom 2010-02-05T15:59:20-05:00 http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001935.html Thanks to all for the wonderfully positive response to the Watching Eyes Hidden Cat panel and blog post. I was surprised by the number of responses and Gwyneth was touched and a little perplexed by it all. The project was... Tom 2010-02-04T16:12:11-05:00