ldhenson: (myst iii: exile)
ldhenson ([personal profile] ldhenson) wrote2005-06-08 12:52 am

More on Innerland, and this permanent account thing.

Yes yes yes! Finally found some pictures and info online about Eric Hilton's Innerland, which I raved about in an earlier post as the only piece of art I'd ever drool over owning. By the way, I was wrong--it's not made up of only sixteen cubes of glass, but rather twenty-five.

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It was four years in the making. And no wonder.

Lovely photos of it, taken by a visitor to the CMOG, are here. See the photo in the link; it's a stunner, which is why I linked to it first. There are four in all; click "previous" three times to see the rest.

The Corning Museum of Glass, where it's currently displayed, has good info and a pic on its site. You can zoom the pic, although it really doesn't come close to capturing the full effect of the piece (for starters, the lighting's a bit dull and you can't see the way the light refracts through the glass to fall on the background).

A great source, unfortunately not online, is the small collection of marvelous closeups in the book Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal, which is where I first saw and fell in love with it.

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Haven't been on LJ much this past week. Where have I been that the permanent account sale completely passed me by, eh? It's tempting, but I'll pass on it for now. The main draw is the 100 userpics. Honestly, I barely touch the other features. If 100 userpics will come eventually to regular paid accounts, I can wait.

[identity profile] tallihensia.livejournal.com 2005-06-09 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo -- VERY purty! I'm now drooling as well. You'll have to make icons out of it. ;)

I have one little one made out of plastic which isn't nearly as nice, but I thought I'd share it in appreciation. ^^

My less pretty plastic art

[identity profile] ldhenson.livejournal.com 2005-06-12 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, your plastic art's cute too :-)