A great mini-Ted talk by Derek Sivers:
Assumptions we didn’t even know we had…
January 29th, 2010 § 1
Beautiful glass works
January 14th, 2010 § 0
From Danish tool maker Steffen Dam.
From Cool Hunter:
The process for making the panels begins by using the traditional glassmaking method for solid objects. Dam then covers each solid block of clear glass, employing a welding torch with “either colored glass powder, a thread of black glass, layers of metal foil or thin layers of carbon.” Once all of the applications have been added, the object is covered in several more layers of clear glass and each one is fused together to make one Specimen Panel—an otherworldly biology lab usually consisting of 25 or more individual glass blocks.
another one for #thingsIcovet
