I had an hour to kill last night while waiting to collect my wife from Glasgow Central Station. It was raining heavily and the Christmas neon was lighting the streets. Be rude not to, eh?
#photography #neon #reflections #AbstractPhotography
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I had an hour to kill last night while waiting to collect my wife from Glasgow Central Station. It was raining heavily and the Christmas neon was lighting the streets. Be rude not to, eh?
#photography #neon #reflections #AbstractPhotography
I had an hour to kill last night while waiting to collect my wife from Glasgow Central Station. It was raining heavily and the Christmas neon was lighting the streets. Be rude not to, eh?
#photography #neon #reflections #AbstractPhotography
Three friends an I are going to see Chappel Roan later this week in Queens. I like her pink pony club, and have been making a variety of pink ponies lately.
I decided to make some tiny pink "pony"s that the four of us could wear as necklaces to the concert. They also could be clipped onto hats. I got the tiniest 6mm blue phosphor glass I could get my hands on and filled them to just 8 torr neon (normally 18torr at this size) so they are nice an conductive an the battery lasts longer. Pure neon fill- so I can fix em if they break.
I do have to double check the rules of forest hills. I guess I could lie an say they are LEDs :). One of my friends requested a heart tiara (I think the tour has hearts in its theme) so I made two lil ones filled for battery life :).
I sure hope we can dance with the neon as a pink pony club :)
#glass #jewelry #pendant #neon #pony #chappelroan #pinkpony #pinkponyclub #cursive #script #nyc #brooklyn #art #handmade #electric #batterypowered #tiny #smallart
Three friends an I are going to see Chappel Roan later this week in Queens. I like her pink pony club, and have been making a variety of pink ponies lately.
I decided to make some tiny pink "pony"s that the four of us could wear as necklaces to the concert. They also could be clipped onto hats. I got the tiniest 6mm blue phosphor glass I could get my hands on and filled them to just 8 torr neon (normally 18torr at this size) so they are nice an conductive an the battery lasts longer. Pure neon fill- so I can fix em if they break.
I do have to double check the rules of forest hills. I guess I could lie an say they are LEDs :). One of my friends requested a heart tiara (I think the tour has hearts in its theme) so I made two lil ones filled for battery life :).
I sure hope we can dance with the neon as a pink pony club :)
#glass #jewelry #pendant #neon #pony #chappelroan #pinkpony #pinkponyclub #cursive #script #nyc #brooklyn #art #handmade #electric #batterypowered #tiny #smallart
Earlier this month I helped one of NYC's most iconic neon shops move from their longtime Tribeca home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The company has a new owner Dave, who I like, an while its bittersweet to see them move out of Manhattan, Brooklyn is way better for artists at this point anyways.
Its been way fun and sort of a dream come true for me to bend for them for the month while their main bender, Jimmy is on vacation. Definitely feels good and validating to hear their designers tell me my bending looks pretty. They have lots of fun designs for me to make, and as per usual- the neat commercial work is feeding my art ideas- leading to a flurry of new art sketches partially inspired by some of the bending projects they are giving me.
Was fun loading that ol truck up with the bombarder an tables an way over a ton of tubing an whatnot. I hope they have some fun parties once they get more moved into the Brooklyn space.
#neon #work #dreamjob #nyc #manhattan #change #fabrication #glass
Earlier this month I helped one of NYC's most iconic neon shops move from their longtime Tribeca home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The company has a new owner Dave, who I like, an while its bittersweet to see them move out of Manhattan, Brooklyn is way better for artists at this point anyways.
Its been way fun and sort of a dream come true for me to bend for them for the month while their main bender, Jimmy is on vacation. Definitely feels good and validating to hear their designers tell me my bending looks pretty. They have lots of fun designs for me to make, and as per usual- the neat commercial work is feeding my art ideas- leading to a flurry of new art sketches partially inspired by some of the bending projects they are giving me.
Was fun loading that ol truck up with the bombarder an tables an way over a ton of tubing an whatnot. I hope they have some fun parties once they get more moved into the Brooklyn space.
#neon #work #dreamjob #nyc #manhattan #change #fabrication #glass
I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.
One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)
#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education
I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.
One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)
#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education
I decided to share my Arm NEON optimizations for the FFmpeg Cinepak encoder. On Apple Silicon / RPI / NEON 32/64-bit, it gets a 250-300% speedup for encoding:
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