Blue, Glass, Handaxe

Yesterday we did some filming. Howard (film maker) and Jex (sound person) at the bottle tip. I had brought some props with me to explain the overall idea. Enter, my current favourite large handaxe (above) to illustrate where I want to go with things.

Next up was my best glass handaxe made from the base of a vase. This was to illustrate the limitation of size of materials, with this being exceptional, but still not very big.

Third up was this (presumably) 1950s Vicks bottle of amazing blue glass. This was to illustrate the rare blue material I wanted to collect in order to then work with Nacho to produce a blue glass block.

Anyway, after the above introduction and some bottle tip footage Howard wanted some live action blue glass finding moments. This was going to be difficult as over many visits I had picked the area clean, or so I thought. I found quite a lot, mainly a pale or lighter blue, but nevertheless illustrating the material gathering process authentically, which is what we both wanted. Let’s see what Howard makes of phase one.