Adrift in a Glass Sea

[gnommi]

Another day mainly procrastinating: in theory I started my first thesis chapter. That is, I wrote an outline, read three papers and took notes on the references, got bored, started organising my enormous stack of technical papers and had to go out to buy more lever arch files and subject dividers.

In the course of all this, again I took to fantasising about alternative careers and anything else I could constructively spend time doing. I've been getting quite inspired by nudibranchs lately, and was researching around learning lampwork which seems to lend itself well to recreating the colours and textures of the beasties. I also recall that I've seen some tremendous glass marine invertebrates in several Natural History Museums in the UK (More here). Dublin Zoology Museum has a fantastic collection. There are a few artists around that do tuition and I quite fancy messing about with a blowtorch.

THEN, courtesy of MakeZine, I see THESE wonderful things by Wesley Fleming, and am summarily gobsmacked.

Ah well, back to filing three years worth of stem cell reading.