lemurgoddess ([info]lemurgoddess) wrote,
@ 2007-03-27 20:41:00
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Current mood: depressed
Entry tags:ideas, learning, me crazy, projects

Stupid Maine...
I adore Maine, but for a restless, eager-to-learn soul, such as myself, it can feel a bit emaciating. For example, I want to learn to sculpt glass... to learn to make pyrex sex toys, I will admit... but where does one go to learn this? I am searching and searching for places that offer lessons in glass sculpting, but I am at a loss. Even MECA doesn't seem to have much to offer. I bet if I travel two hours south I would trip over two dozen places that give lessons... probably half of them SPECIALIZE in pyrex sex toys.

Maybe I am just not looking in the right places... It would likely be easier to find sources of such education if I travelled more in "artistic circles." But I don't. The result of one of my major regrets: not going to art school.

I feel like I am so late in the game. Like I am the retarded kid held back until I'm too old to attend normal classes. I feel lost and left out. I feel so fucking unskilled and ignorant, I make myself sick.

I want to learn to blow glass. I want to learn to work with stainless steel. And I want to learn how to sew, to make corsets, to work with leather... and hell... to even make shoes. I want to know how to create all the freaky awesome, material things I enjoy so much.

I WANT THAT KNOWLEDGE!
To collect it, and pass it onto others.

I'm going to kick Prometheus in the nuts, even if I'm killed in the quest.


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[info]bluemadusa
2007-03-28 01:21 am UTC (link)
I think massachusetts college of art has good glass blowing classes! but thats in boston :(

you are very creative! I understand that art school will teach you how to do some things you dont' know.....but most of the famous artists/creators out there didn't go to school.

Glass blowing is great...I had a friend who used to do it...dangerous though...she had lots of burn scars :(

good luck!

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-28 01:24 am UTC (link)
Thank you so much!! :D

I definately understand that many famous artists didn't go to school. I guess I just like the idea of the efficiency of formal education. A lot of what I already do is all from extensive research and years and years of extensive failure. :\

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[info]artist_starving
2007-03-28 03:22 pm UTC (link)
ummmm, i went to art school- it was great, but--- i said BUT!---now i've just got bills i wish i didn't have and i actually think you're closer to where i want to be with getting your art out there. in fact i just email'd dirk manning over at www.nightmareworld.com (great stuff there on-line horror comic books, not strips- check it out!) and ask'd him what he wants for a submission- my problem is my technology is like neolithic age...so i can't comply as quickly as i need to.
f'd again...
's okay though i've got a plan
- as for your desire to just make clothes- check out Mil Von (of Yungfuktoi and Mother Of London -clothing designer)started out just making clothes to wear out, then started taking on orders for a couple of friends then it grew from there...
you could do that
(yeah i make it sound so easy)

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 12:58 am UTC (link)
Do you have links to any of your work. I don't think I realized your skillzzzzzzzzzzz. And what "plan?" O.O

I'll have to look that name up. Most of my stuff I've made for my own evil uses, but as of late, people have inquired about acquiring some of it for themselves. So maaaaaaaaaaaybeee...

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[info]artist_starving
2007-03-29 10:00 pm UTC (link)
no - no links and that's my problem, no scanner, no digital camera, no web site (not even sure how to fully use livejournal-not stupid, mind you...just dumb)

my stuff's good (with improvement needed of course- but we talked about the headgames we as artists play with ourselves over our own work sucking azzzzz, and rehashing that's not gonna get us anywhere but depressed, soooooooo) but as good as it might be i can't show it send it or sell it...not efficiently anyway.

as for my plan- it WAS to use kinkos, but screw that...i'm just gonna be patient, keep plugging away at this bail bond on my ex, and when that's done i'll buy myself what i need to bust out into the internet and maybe i'll finally get my production co. up and running- i will, it's just a question of when!

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-30 02:07 am UTC (link)
Ahhh... that is a sucky situation. I certainly hope you'll be able to get something together... something online someday. I'd be most interested in checking it out.

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[info]cheshirebunny
2007-03-28 01:31 am UTC (link)
for glassblowing/metal/leathercraft...you should find some ren faire geeks/look for and troll some lj comminities. lots of them know people who know people who can at least give you a start and some names to drop...

i briefly apprenticed at a leathershop. lots of places are willing to take help and teach you in the process if you're willing to basically be their bitch.

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 12:59 am UTC (link)
I'd much prefer to make someone my bitch, then be one myself. Just my preference. ;)

But, yeah... I often rub shoulders with big-time Ren geeks. I had better start inquiring about skills...

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[info]cheshirebunny
2007-03-29 01:31 am UTC (link)
well...i did a lot of dinner-runs/cleaning...but i got to keep some of my "finds" while cleaning (the shop owner's boyfriend owned a 3story antique store and gave her a lot of stuff to sell/use as furniture), and i got to partake in the dinner.

i also got to keep the patterns i made, and got a small percentage of the sale price for things i'd patterned/handmade WITHOUT paying the cost of materials since i was making smaller items that would have been tossed as scrap anyway (neck corsets, wristbands, bracers). so i was basically just hanging around for the free use of tools and learned a bit more about the tools i ought be using, beadwork (i have omgtiny hands so i was useful for her sweat-shop work), and other 'useless' knowladge.

fun fact- the lady i was working for makes the costumes for the ACTUAL 'captain morgan' (the dude they use for commercials and bottle pics).

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:44 am UTC (link)
Wow, that was a pretty sweet deal then! O.O

That's pretty fucking cool about the Captain! :D

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[info]dehuman8
2007-03-28 03:24 am UTC (link)
I know several people who blow glass (none in this area) they all were pretty much self taught to a point then they all had to go out west. they couldn't find anything in the east for good glass sculpting beyond what they were able to teach themselves.

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:00 am UTC (link)
Fucking East coast. :\
Part of the reason I've considering moving to the OTHER Portland.

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[info]rachelkj
2007-03-28 03:44 am UTC (link)
Not even Prometheus was cool enough to bring pyrex sex toys to the masses...

I haven't used them at all, though I'm curious. I've gotten really fond of silicone, but something harder CAN be fun...

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:44 am UTC (link)
Pyrex is absolutely fabulous. I love the stuff. I have three pyrex "tools." They are beautiful and functional art. ;D

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[info]sidhedancer
2007-03-28 08:17 am UTC (link)
I just have to say there is no such thing as "too old to attend normal classes." My friends from college ranged in ages from fourteen to sixty four. If you want that style of learning then do it. Forget that bullshit about chronological age, it has no bearing on your suitability to school.
Aside from that, I think chesirebunny has the ticket. Rennies and S.C.A. people are a great resource; they love to create and they love to share, ask and they will tell.
The other thing is to find shops, museums or galleries that carry works in your medium of choice. Maybe they could even put you in contact with an artist or two from whom you could take lessons.

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:46 am UTC (link)
You make a good point, thank you!
Particularly the "shops/museums" thing... I will have to look into that! :D

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[info]eddiesteddy4711
2007-03-28 10:39 am UTC (link)
You are never too old to do what you want to do, doll, just go out and do it!

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:46 am UTC (link)
DAMN RIGHT!! :D

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[info]krank_kether
2007-03-28 11:09 am UTC (link)
yeah drive two hours south...
I mean, shit.. I can't walk down Mass Av without tripping over pyrex dildos.

sorry.. I worked all night - i'm cynical and snarky





*hugs*

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heeeyyy!
[info]artist_starving
2007-03-28 02:40 pm UTC (link)
-watch where you're stepping, you just tripped over my date.
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no- i'm not drunk

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-29 01:47 am UTC (link)
Hehehehehee.. >:D
BTW: It's not looking likely that I will be able to make it down for the VNV show next month. I have very little PTO at work, and I need to save it for a trip to NYC. My apologies! :(

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[info]kittymink
2007-03-29 02:05 am UTC (link)
well I went back to school and I am old! dont know it was the best choice however, I miss like, working fulltime and actually accumulating money - instead of debt.

I want to learn how to make corsets too!

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[info]cheshirebunny
2007-03-31 04:43 pm UTC (link)
out of curiosity...i put "maine art school" into google...

looks like lots of places offer glassblowing and metalsmithing workshops- you could at least learn some basics/what tools you need and see if you could diy the rest?
here's one:
http://www.meca.edu/course_list.aspx?d=CCE105

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-03-31 06:56 pm UTC (link)
OH! I must have totally skipped over that course when I was going through their website. DUH! Thank you so much! I may look into taking this course.

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[info]apeacefulway
2007-04-01 06:43 am UTC (link)
I randomly bumped into your journal via a friend and I live in Maine. Actually I used to know a guy who was a glassblower....he specialized in sex toys and pipes and stuff. The best way to learn is to find someone to apprentice under...I believe this is how he learned. I dont know how to contact him now, but his name is Todd and they sell his stuff at a store called A-ware in the Old Port. Go ask around there and see what you can find :)

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[info]lemurgoddess
2007-04-01 03:57 pm UTC (link)
OMG! Thank you so much! I'm not sure if A-ware is still around (a Google search brought up a dead page), but I'll have to ask around. Thank you again!

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