<![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying in the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home.

-Neil Young

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> These are mighty awesome, and I have friends who blow glass, so I can say I appreciate the skill it takes to make these.

Tiwa

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> I like.
I want.
I can't afford.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> Josh's stuff is more affordable (at least his smaller planets) because he has other artists make them in his studio, they're basically production stuff. His larger one of a kind pieces are very expensive.

Josh does get the space geek nod though, His wife, Katy, is an astronaut!

Handmade, one of a kind blown glass should be expensive, it's not easy to do and it's not cheap to run a studio. When we used to blow glass in our own studio (in the '90s) we would burn $1000-1500 of propane a month, imagine what that translates to now. that was just to keep the glass hot and workable (it's gotta be hot 24/7 during your season, no downtime for the furnace).

eakolb, you should say that you're a collector of lower priced glass art, that's fine and dandy. Everybody has to start somewhere, don't devalue his art simply because you can't afford it.

BobbyMike

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> @eakolb: Oh, very nice! I like his glass planets. I've always thought that's what Krypton or the planets in Star Trek should look like.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> His pricing is rather absurd. I'm a collector of glass art, but I'm not affluent enough to be able to drop $3600 to $25000 on a whim. I was honestly anticipating several hundred dollars.

If you're looking for space-inspired glass art that's considerably more affordable, check out Josh Simpson's Megaplanets. You'll not be disappointed.

eakolb

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> They are beautiful!

Fagatron

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> Ahah! My Google Fu is strong! Blown glass ray guns.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars]]> I love this sort of stuff! A few years back there was an artist who did blown glass ray guns. Gorgeous stuff. I'd like to find some picture sof those, now that I think about...

Gyrus

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