sure do, my lab is in the basement (dungeon) of the Old Meat Market in North Melbourne, a beautiful building dating back to 1874. It'll be a few weeks before we're up and running again, the old building had a bowel problem and we literally got swamped with raw sewage .... twice in as many days
... the second time they had 800 people upstairs for the New Wave Festival and free drink and food ... we ended up with the sum of their merriment ... anyway, almost two weeks later the cleaning and sanitising crew has finally finished with the clean-up, but a lot of our wooden furniture got contaminated and had to be thrown out ... and us with an exhibition coming up (needless to say at this point I have been able to make nothing for it). It's going to take a few more weeks for insurance etc etc .... bah, hate not being able to do my work (although we're in a temp space atm operating at limited capacity.
Cx translates as Chris, btw
Anyway, point is that atm I have nothing set up and I won't be doing much in the way of plasma initially once we have set up again, I have a lot of other work and the plasma is a bit of a hobby, the kind of hobby where I end up still sitting in my lab at 3am filling tubes and fiddling with the generators to see what I get. It's also an expensive hobby, the rare gases and specialised electrodes aren't cheap and a good plasma driver is near $100 alone, and I have to import them from the States, although cheap plasma balls from fleamarkets have drivers in them that are ok to use, just don't expect much movement from those! Anyone know any electronic engineers who can build decent, cost effective plasma drivers here in Melbourne?
I'll let you know when I'm back on my legs, though, I'd love to have a chat about doing some work; I'm a glassblower, not a metal worker, if you get my drift. I haven't made a Geissler tube per se, but they're no more complicated than the pieces I've made to date.
here's a few links to vids of some of the plasma work I do, a couple of others I've already posted in the tactile room. I also put a link to our website page of plasma pics, there's a few more bits of different shapes in there.
pineapplish Plasma Sculpture NEWPlasma Sculpturehttp://www.australianartglass.com/page20.htmI hope this damn insurance gets happening soon ...
Cheers, and up the Irons!
