Photo Hunters #63: Glass
April 5, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber
Filed under Photo Hunters
Today’s Photo Hunters scavenger hunt is glass!
This is a good one for us. We visited the Corning Museum of Glass a few months ago. It was wonderful! There was so much to see that I had to split up our visit into three blog posts!
The Corning Museum of Glass is in the southern part of New York State, in Corning, NY. The glass factory there makes unique materials for NASA as well as some of the dishware in your kitchen cabinets and the windshield on your cars. Our visit was so much fun that we want to go again!
Here’s a video of us discovering Corning’s new invention, the disappearing LCD glass. Boy, did we have fun with this!
Here’s a short video of two glass makers making blown glass for us!
My favorite part of the visit is in Part Two. That’s where I got to see the development of glass through the centuries. The kids’ favorite part is Part Two and Three, because we entered the “hands on” section of the museum, and learned many scientific things. Part One has a great video about how the Egyptians made glass, too. You won’t want to miss these posts– I tried to make it as if you were right there with us! This is the one of the best museums I have ever visited (and I have visited a lot!). Be sure to take a few minutes and read all three posts. You will learn things about glass that you never dreamed imaginable!
wirelessbliss on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 10:46 am
the first pic looks very cool!
i have a different take of the theme here
Daisy on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 10:56 am
That museum was really fascinating. Thanks for showing us some of it’s treasures. It is hard to believe that something as beautiful as glass is made from sand! I really enjoyed seeing the glass blowing demonstration.
bingskee on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 11:09 am
interesting. wish there is something like this in our country.
Lynne on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 2:53 pm
We’ve been there! We stopped on our way from Connecticut to Niagra Falls about 10 years ago. We really enjoyed the tour.
Dragonstar on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 4:03 pm
This is a fascinating post. Thank you so much for all the information.
Christine on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 5:52 pm
How neat! I can stand and watch glass blowing for a long time, lol .. it’s really cool. The first photo was just crazy, talk about a “bugs eye view” lol …
Maybe if I did an actual “themed” photo meme I might actually TAKE more photos? Hrm?
katney on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 7:27 pm
Thsi is a lot to take in in one sitting. I may have to come back to see more of it.
castocreations on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 10:03 pm
Oh my goodness. You totally deserve to win this week!!! Excellent photos and video even. =D
A. on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 4:59 am
Wonderful post, or should I say posts! A complete guided tour.
Ten Things on Sun, 6th Apr 2008 2:42 pm
I’m fascinated by glass and glass blowing. I used to watch the PBS specials on Dale Chihuly over and over, and I love to watch glass blowers work at Renaissance fairs. Thanks for the neat pictures and story.
Matt Urdan on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 11:22 am
Thank you very much for the kind words and the recommendation you left for me this morning on entrecard! I really appreciate it.
Have an awesome day!
Jennifer Robin on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 12:55 pm
When I was little, glass blowers were a big deal at several tourist attractions around where we lived and I found watching them at their craft endlessly fascinating. I can only imagine by reading your posts how fun it must have been at the Corning Museum.
Thanks for the glowing recommendation over at entrecard!
Mrs. Mecomber on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 4:36 pm
Looks like everyone likes glass! Glass making is an old industry– we saw artifacts from B.C. 3500! I appreciate your comments. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and seeing my Photo Hunters post!
gizmo on Mon, 7th Apr 2008 9:00 pm
That’s funny, my next post is probably going to be on Corning too!
The Other Side of New York » Corning Museum in Ithaca on Sat, 12th Apr 2008 11:52 am
[...] I’ve been meaning to post about our trip to the Corning Museum in Elmira. I got my my inspiration to actually do it after I read a post on one of my regular blog visits to Mrs. Mecomber’s site at New York Traveler. [...]