Uncle Heavy Dude

lokie

lokie

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JacFlasche said:
No -- I be a retired glassblower. The kind that works out of a furnace and uses pipes and jacks. All the stuff that Evoteck Theater did was just a bunch of people who got together for fun. We did have a theater in the heart of Buckhead (like Times Square for Atlanta) at one point. We had a lot of standing room only shows and it was the only theater company in Atlanta that had no government money involved. We also set up a cabaret at one point. The One Shoe Laughing Industrial Cafe. I wish we had taped those shows. Uncle Heavy Dude was played by a guy named Carlos Dwa. He use to write some of the stuff for the theater. He also wrote the best Science Fiction novel I ever read -- though you probably never heard of it. It was titled The Unwritten Book: Xellex. or something like that. He also wrote a killer three act play for us that was the last full length production before we all went our separate ways. The videos were just for rehearsal aids, and documentation I guess. They rotted away in someones closet for years, then I called a friend in ATL and got him to try to digitize the remains. He was able to resurrect some of them. They were VHS tapes and they were in bad shape. I have been going through some of them lately and posting them on YouTube. Basically for the folks who used to be involved in the group. ONly been able to find a hand full of them. The best one by far, IMHO is Sex, Blood, and the Phenomenology of Pretense. You can see it here if interested. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD4nI7D7J0bWf67vEJK81aQ?view_as=subscriber
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Is it coincidence that you post this vid on the eve of Woodstock anniversary?

Given the era that it was produced I may have laughed then.

It has the vibes of a cheech and chong skit performed by amateurs'.

Excessively using the main characters name was a big turn off, the yoyo prop and the character playing with it were annoying
and his momma dressed him funny.

Glass blowing looks interesting. I thought about getting into it. Start up cost vs returned rewards changed my mind.

Do you have a favorite glory hole?
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1) Furnace/Glory Hole

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Most glassblowers rely on furnaces as their sources of heat. Furnaces used today are typically gas-powered and reach temperatures of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Each furnace has a glory hole, an opening in the furnace where glass is gathered and reheated.

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curious2garden

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JacFlasche said:
No -- I be a retired glassblower. The kind that works out of a furnace and uses pipes and jacks. All the stuff that Evoteck Theater did was just a bunch of people who got together for fun. We did have a theater in the heart of Buckhead (like Times Square for Atlanta) at one point. We had a lot of standing room only shows and it was the only theater company in Atlanta that had no government money involved. We also set up a cabaret at one point. The One Shoe Laughing Industrial Cafe. I wish we had taped those shows. Uncle Heavy Dude was played by a guy named Carlos Dwa. He use to write some of the stuff for the theater. He also wrote the best Science Fiction novel I ever read -- though you probably never heard of it. It was titled The Unwritten Book: Xellex. or something like that. He also wrote a killer three act play for us that was the last full length production before we all went our separate ways. The videos were just for rehearsal aids, and documentation I guess. They rotted away in someones closet for years, then I called a friend in ATL and got him to try to digitize the remains. He was able to resurrect some of them. They were VHS tapes and they were in bad shape. I have been going through some of them lately and posting them on YouTube. Basically for the folks who used to be involved in the group. ONly been able to find a hand full of them. The best one by far, IMHO is Sex, Blood, and the Phenomenology of Pretense. You can see it here if interested. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD4nI7D7J0bWf67vEJK81aQ?view_as=subscriber
Obviously not for everybody.
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JacFlasche said:
Wow, I think it is so cool that you have grafted female tops onto male roots. I started with clandestine outdoor planting in 68', but ended up total organic outdoor for about twenty years in cali. Now I am clandestine again and forced to be indoors. So far so good. All in all it's a lot less work than all the tea brewing and transplanting and pest and mildew suppression, I had to deal with. Even outdoors I ended up using a high tech nylon net to plant under like the big boys in Columbia do. Cut way down on the pests. Ended up using various beneficial insects, and bacteria to take care of the pests. I had a little herd of dragonflys that lived in my tent. Don't know where they came form or how they got in but I use to give them water and they were very amusing to hang out with. And when they couldn't handle something I would use a vacuum cleaner with a little reducer attachment and would shake a plant and just vacuum up the flies or whatever that took off in the air above the plants.
One thing I am curious about is how you matched up the cambiums, I mean assuming that the male bottom half will be much older and thicker in diamerter than the clone you grafted onto it.
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