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Picking cane for making murrine
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Marvering color w/Yuki
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Measuring a cane pickup
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Yuki squeezing a cane pickup
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Closing the cane right after picking it up
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Marvering to help smooth/melt in the cane
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Measuring for the next pickup
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Yuki heating the cane and me warming up my parison
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Pulling the multi-layered murrine into a rod
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After it's pulled to length it's broken up and annealed
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Being interviewed by the local TV station
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Heating some white for a cane pull...yeah, Japan's fun :)
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Yuki bringing color for cane
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After color is applied, removing bubbles from a gather of clear
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Snip, snip and the bubbles are on the floor
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Gotta cool the pipe
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Beginning the cane pull
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Getting longer
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Finished, stretching the glass about 40'
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Breaking up the completed cane
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Being introduced for our lecture at the Seto City Cultural Center
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Arina's lecture
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Arina makes amazing ceramic sculpture from body molds
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My talk
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I discussed influences, motivations and a bit of history
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There weren't many questions, but we were joined by a former Seto resident artist
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Mingling after our talks
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Chatting with 'Murrine Girl' and Sawa--both glass artists
