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Ok, this is a REALLY HUGE picspam. If you are on dial up or a slow connection or whatever, you can go see the pictures at pb right here, but I wanted to do some explanations of the pictures too.
We'll start with the glass baskets.
They were displayed with some of Chihuly's collection of Navajo baskets.
I loved the contrast, and while it's hard to find something I like more than glass, I was hard pressed to choose between them.
This delighted me ALL out of proportion to its awesomeness.
There was a HUGE wall of these, but my camera doesn't like taking pictures without a flash so it's all totally out of focus.
I could have stayed in this room for hours, but so could everyone else, so it was really crowded.
There was a video and watching them make these, perfect round cups and then they'd wiggle them and they'd go all wibbly. They're bigger than they look: about 4 feet across at the top.
unfortunately, none of the other pictures of this type of thing came out. I was crazy in love with them.
Chihuly doesn't blow the glass by himself, he has a whole studio of artists he works with, but he does do the designs. There was a wall of some of them.
These are incredible. They are made by rolling a hot glass cylinder over glass threads and then continuing with the blowing process.
The amazingness of how this looked from underneath with the light shining through it cannot be captured on film. Sadly. This was the best attempt.
This is the same piece from the top.
The room with a glass ceiling filled with pieces of blown glass was extremely popular. I got anxious about the crowds long before I got tired of looking at the glass.
When we looked at my brother's pictures after he went, mom and I both thought these were tabletop size. Like life-sized candles. Oh, no. Those are tree trunks they are in, not branches. The 'candles' are about 10 feet tall.
These are actual boats, so also, not so much with the table-top size!
I could not decide which I liked better, the globes or the crazy flower things.
On a macro level it was amazing, but when you looked at each individual piece in the boat, it was even more so.
This isn't a great picture, but it kind of shows the size of the thing. That's my mom in front of it. all 5' 6" of her.
This display was basically a seascape, about 30-40 feet long (I'm bad with guestimating). There were seaweeds, and sea lions and all sorts of wonderful imaginative things.
Like this.
And these.
I loved how there was even a bubble of lava on the ocean floor. Or at least that was my interpretation!
I wanted this to have for my very own forever and ever. Though it would have been a shame to separate it from it's environment.
Mom had a big thing for the green spikes. She must have asked six times if I had a good picture of them.
I wish I could have done justice to the scope of the piece.
The reflections in the black perspex upon which they were displayed was as beautiful as the objects themselves.
The little seals in the middle were an absolute delight. We kept going back to them.
We'll start with the glass baskets.
They were displayed with some of Chihuly's collection of Navajo baskets.
I loved the contrast, and while it's hard to find something I like more than glass, I was hard pressed to choose between them.
This delighted me ALL out of proportion to its awesomeness.
There was a HUGE wall of these, but my camera doesn't like taking pictures without a flash so it's all totally out of focus.
I could have stayed in this room for hours, but so could everyone else, so it was really crowded.
There was a video and watching them make these, perfect round cups and then they'd wiggle them and they'd go all wibbly. They're bigger than they look: about 4 feet across at the top.
unfortunately, none of the other pictures of this type of thing came out. I was crazy in love with them.
Chihuly doesn't blow the glass by himself, he has a whole studio of artists he works with, but he does do the designs. There was a wall of some of them.
These are incredible. They are made by rolling a hot glass cylinder over glass threads and then continuing with the blowing process.
The amazingness of how this looked from underneath with the light shining through it cannot be captured on film. Sadly. This was the best attempt.
This is the same piece from the top.
The room with a glass ceiling filled with pieces of blown glass was extremely popular. I got anxious about the crowds long before I got tired of looking at the glass.
When we looked at my brother's pictures after he went, mom and I both thought these were tabletop size. Like life-sized candles. Oh, no. Those are tree trunks they are in, not branches. The 'candles' are about 10 feet tall.
These are actual boats, so also, not so much with the table-top size!
I could not decide which I liked better, the globes or the crazy flower things.
On a macro level it was amazing, but when you looked at each individual piece in the boat, it was even more so.
This isn't a great picture, but it kind of shows the size of the thing. That's my mom in front of it. all 5' 6" of her.
This display was basically a seascape, about 30-40 feet long (I'm bad with guestimating). There were seaweeds, and sea lions and all sorts of wonderful imaginative things.
Like this.
And these.
I loved how there was even a bubble of lava on the ocean floor. Or at least that was my interpretation!
I wanted this to have for my very own forever and ever. Though it would have been a shame to separate it from it's environment.
Mom had a big thing for the green spikes. She must have asked six times if I had a good picture of them.
I wish I could have done justice to the scope of the piece.
The reflections in the black perspex upon which they were displayed was as beautiful as the objects themselves.
The little seals in the middle were an absolute delight. We kept going back to them.
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