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Hi, my name is Ed Donovan I'm here at DC GlassWorks. You can find us at dcglassworks.com. We are
a public access glass blowing facility, we also do metal and metal-casting and welding.
We are primarily a teaching facility. We want to share with people the magic of glass blowing.
It is an amazing substance and today I'm gonna be talking to you about glass-blowing. So
do you need to go to class or glass-blowing school in order to be a glass blower? Yeah,
kind of. Um, there's not a lot of common sources of information for glass and it's certainly
not a natural material to work with. It's blazing hot. Um, it takes, uh, a little bit
of information to get to know the material. You want some tricks. You want some tips,
um, from an instructor. Regardless of whether it's a university or a more informal setting
like we provide here at DC GlassWorks, uh, you don't have to spend a lot of money learning
how to blow glass, uh, but you definitely want somebody sharing with you the ideas that
make glass blowing the very basic understood - the basic understandings you want to get
from somebody. Uh, trying to figure it out on your own would be really prohibitively
expensive. Um, it would take you quite a bit of time and I think you would get very frustrated,
uh, not having any idea of what you're supposed to be doing. Uh, so just even just a six-week
basic course or, uh, we offer weekend workshops, in which we teach you the basics. After that,
you can come in and experiment; have fun with it. It's an amazing material. Um, you don't
have to learn a whole lot from a university or a structured course, but it's really important
to get the very basics so you have an understanding of how to use the tools; how to use the glory
hole; how to use all of the varying things that make glass blowing possible. Um, I think
without that basic knowledge you'd be kinda lost.