Best of the Week Ending 7÷27÷2008

It must be too hot to play with glass in many locales, because the blog post­ing has picked up. After all, it IS usu­ally cooler sit­ting in front of a com­puter screen than in front of a torch!

The Carter Seibels fea­ture arti­cle in Belle Armoire Jewelry’s Sum­mer issue con­tin­ues to gen­er­ate reac­tion among the lampworkers:

• Susan Lam­bert takes offense at the char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of middle-​aged lam­p­work­ers and points out that the arti­cle was a put down of a very sig­nif­i­cant demo­graphic among BAJ’s readership;
• Andrea’s schol­arly analy­sis shows the flaws in the rea­son­ing behind the ageist comments;
• I’m grum­bling that it’s the hands, not the tools, that make the artist.

In other postings:

• Lori Green­berg has not only been busy inter­view­ing Sarah Moran of Z-​Beads, she’s been con­duct­ing more exper­i­ments of her own for Watch Me Create.
• Rachel of Inferno Glass Beads jumps into the blo­gos­phere to try and explain the cost of artist-​made lam­p­work beads to the rest of the world.
• Luann Udell is also blog­ging about the rise in prices of art along with every­thing else.
• At the Art Bead Scene, Jen­nifer Stumpf intro­duces us to Canary Islands artist Lina Khan.
• An anony­mous Etsy Bitch reader shares why, in his opin­ion, hav­ing a sale in your Etsy shop is a Bad Idea (gasp!).
• Even com­plete flakes need to get things done. Sonia Simone has some ideas on how to make it hap­pen for you.