CHAMPS!

CHAMPS is scheduled for the 17th through 19th of August at a new venue: Las Vegas Convention Center! And it looks as if they will holding yet another flameoff as there is space clearly marked for such on the upcoming floor plan!

Here are some photos from this recent show...

Micah Evans bub!

Giant ray gun from Liberty Glass!

MGW/T-Baller collab tubes!


Sick "Star Wars"-themed piece!

Buck anglerfish!

Rasta retti Toros!

Electro Toros!

Eush upline!

Buck Velociraptor!

Rolling High booth - the headiest of the headies!!!


That worked tube just POPS with brightness!

More of Buck's fishes!

Buck just kills it with his fish, congrats once again on winning it all, and by just one vote!!! Got a couple slides by Buck coming to the site hopefully later this week;-)


Dosh, Dizz, Voorheezy, and the last two slip my mind at the moment - what an awesome collaborative piece though!

Doshworld/JD collab!

JOP showing off his wares...

...siempre con cerveza en su mano, hahaha;-)

A humongous jar of relief, J.A.G.-style!

Some of J.A.G.'s lovely ladies!

And Japanese newcomer Dice K's incredible renditions of commercial fountain soda cups, complete with straws! And some nuts and bolts for good measure too!

John Madden's "Robotech"-looking piece!

Words can't even begin...

Buck and the bird he made with Darby! Fully functional!!!

And the all-boro birdcage they made to house the creature!

Eusheen fillacello marb, and a Mike Gong in front it!

Thanks for looking, and much thanks to everyone who made it such a good time! See ya in August;-)

PS AGE has been tentatively scheduled for Aug. 9-11 FYI! That's right, a week earlier than CHAMPS!

PPS Anyone in Florida who hasn't been made aware of HB 187 & 366, please go to http://killbill187.com/ to learn more!

DOC!

New Doc slides just posted!


Two OG Moss/Fire combos with horns and Holy Waters dichro marbs!



Two new sparkly "Beachballs"!


And two white ones with white pushs!

Thanks to Holy Waters for hookin' it up;-)

UMBSSTADDER!

Wait, who?!?

Umbsstadder?!?

Umbsstadder has joined us on the site at SHINOBI GLASS, and we are real happy to be able to showcase the wares of yet another young local glassblower! He came out to Berkeley at the end of last spring, working for a while alongside others such as Sherpa, Koji, and Je$ter, and now happily torches with some of his old comrades at the new Blue Sun Studios in Oakland. One thing I definitely remember about watching him work in Berkeley was his dedication and passion for flameworking; he was (and is!) always quietly and diligently putting his all into his work! And it has paid off in spades, as he is currently pulling all his own color tubing for his projects, as well as making his own millis - with less than a year behind the torch!!! A lot of Je$ter's work displayed at AGE, and his current production as well, is made from Umbsstadder's own hand-pulled tubing! We have just two slides up by him now, but plan on adding more soon! All work on them were done by him, as I said before, and it will be exciting to see what else he comes up with as his skills continue to improve!

B&W vs. Fire vessel!

Three wig-wag millis on each!


Black & blue!

Horned!

Pushes made from Heavy Blue Leprechaun with Purple Luster over it - lookin' good!

Who?!?

Umbsstadder, that's who!!!

NEW STUFF!

New curves up by Dosa!

(^^This one sold already btw!)

That hot Purple Fire combo! All his curves are stacked with super-thick ti-pads and chunky wire to hold them in place! Get 'em while you can, at the prices listed, these clear necks are practically a steal (since I've seen roughly the same being offered for 1.5 times the price!) - so they won't last long!

A clean but classy green/white/black fade!

And a white honeycomb! More domes coming soon hopefully, so stick around!

New worked Slim bub on site now!

Love this blue & white FTC!



"S" is for Slim!


And Umbsstadder!