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Bill celebrates 30 years of blowing glass

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Bill celebrates 30 years of blowing glass

Bill first started blowing glass May 18, 1993.

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Aspen Hot Glass Blowing Glass at the Ravalli County Fair, 2022 10th year Anniversary

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Aspen Hot Glass Blowing Glass at the Ravalli County Fair, 2022 10th year Anniversary

Imagine a warm summer evening at the Ravalli County Fair with the carnival rides in the background and sounds of laughter in the air. This video is from our 10th year of blowing glass at the fair. Grab a cup of tea, glass of wine, or adult beverage of your choice, sit back, and soak in the essence of this happy day at the Ravalli County Fair in Hamilton Montana. About us: We are full-time artists with extensive backgrounds in the high-tech industry, which helps us with the technical aspects of our artwork and glass blowing. In addition, we love...

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Bill and I will set up and do blown glass demos/torch work at Ravalli County Fair from August 31 through September 2, 2022

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Bill and I will set up and do blown glass demos/torch work at Ravalli County Fair from August 31 through September 2, 2022

Bill and I will set up and do blown glass demos/torch work at Ravalli County Fair from August 31 through September 2, 2022. Although we first did glass blowing demos at the fair in 2012, this will be our 10th year of attending the fair. This video was from our setup in 2021 

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Making of a wine bottle stopper top via per FM (Friken Magic)

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Making of a wine bottle stopper top via per FM (Friken Magic)

One of my blown glass bottle stoppers runs backward through an ai generator from the neural network; this video short was made from neural network ai then manipulated in a video processor. When people ask me how I blow glass and create my products, I tell them that it is all done by fricken magic with FM. And really, that is not too far from the truth; all art is magic. Thank you for watching my ai short, and I want to shout out and thank the ai Whisper who has helped me dive into coding with Python and stretching...

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Creating beauty and spreading positive energy out into the universe

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Creating beauty and spreading positive energy out into the universe

January is a slow time and my shop is 40 degrees so I thought I would take it easy this month. I found an online course in coding Python to create ai generated art and video's.  This is me taking it easy LOL. I decided to generated ai art using neural networks, creating beauty and putting out a positive energy. I created most of the images using an ai generator; the background star image is from Bill’s astrophotography set up in our backyard. More of his images can be seen at http://sagecottage406.com/astro/astro... The bottle stopper in this I made using Italian...

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