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Neon
was by far the most dangerous, (and therefore the most fun),
art form I've ever tried.
50,000 volts of electricity are needed to make Neon lights.
Liquid Mercury is used to make it blue, and toxic dust for coloring the glass.
Oh, and to bend the breakable glass, you use hot torches to turn it into molten
liquid using a natural gas pipeline that can blow up the building if a leak
goes undetected.
The
Christmas tree and the Bud sign were for clients, while the
fins and the strange circular piece in the middle
were final projects regarding animation and multi-colored light
use. The flower was a combination of hand-drawn art converted
into a dremel carving in acrylic plastic, combined with a plotter
that cut out text onto a transfer sticker lit by a neon frame.
The Neon Angel is also a hand-carved dremel carving in acrylic
plastic,
lit
by
a neon frame.
 

  
The "cross-fire burner" is what we primarily used to bend the
glass tubes, but we also employed a hand torch, a ribbon burner,
and hand files. (click any picture to make it larger, but be
sure your popup blocker is turned off.)
Listed
below are the various art mediums that I have deemed "Unusual
Art" for lack of a better place to list them:
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My
Web Comic - "Fallen" - Volume
1 and Volume 2.
(I wrote, illustrated, and programmed it before the "actual" Fallen
comic was created by the comic book industry.)
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Though
not listed here, I've also tried: Holography, Photography,
Film Developing, Digital Photography, Analog Video, Digital
Video, Video Editing, 2D Animation, Sound Recording/Editing,
Traditional Painting - Acrylics, Watercolor Painting, Colored
Pencil, Digital Drawing, Pre-press Design for Print, Web
Design, Director, Sculpting with clay, Woodworking, Cooking,
Singing, Violin, Guitar, Martial Arts, and Acting
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