Dale Chihuly exhibit at the De Young museum.

You need to go see it.  Yes, you.



It's interesting... I was trying to understand why the colors and shapes of the glass pieces felt so organic.  I eventually realized that the way that glass is blown and worked has some resemblance to the biological process of cell differentiation that occurs as an organism grows.  When the glass/organism is compact, color textures are created.  Then, as the glass/organism expands, these textures expand unevenly, creating the lovely organic patterns and striations you see on the final forms of the glass/organism. 

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You can visit them all in Flickrtown.

Ironic sign of the day

Things are not looking so good for the snowy plover.