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Hello Lightning Tamers!
and Welcome to Chapter X notes, These are bonus episodes to supplement the Taming lightning X GEEX collaborative series: intro to plasma, where I was inspired to expand on questions or topics from each episode. |
Show Notes
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As mentioned in Chapter 1, Elements of Plasma, is something I came up with as a way to organize the varying knowledge, process, skills, and techniques that goes into the completion of a plasma lamp or sculpture. These Elements are Vessel Crafting, Alchemy, and Technology.
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Now it may be a bit confusing since we use the same term, “Element of Plasma” to talk about the parts that make up the plasma vessel, instead we’ll substituting with “Anatomy of Plasma Sculpture”.
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- The first category is vessel crafting: the means of facilities, education, materials, and techniques related to glassmaking; contains the topics of vessel shape, structure, size, choice of electrode along with its placement, and leak checking.
- The Second Category is Alchemy: the means to which pieces can be processed and filled for plasma; containing topics such as: cleaning, adding phosphors, filling technique, and gas mixtures and recipes.
- The Third category is Technology: the facilities and the means to learn, educate, and practice processing and filling, and finishing plasma sculpture; containing the topics of the vacuum manifold, gas transfer system, gauges, equipment maintenance and use, Transformers for plasma, which includes considerations for resolving your sculptures aesthetically, and safely.
So I’m going to stop here, since we are kind of leading up to chapter 2: Taking Shape, where we’ll review the Elements of Plasma, elaborate on why vessel crafting comes first, and contextualized the aesthetic and function considerations in the Anatomy of Plasma Sculpture.
TL x GEEX: Intro to Plasma
We’re hoping to raise at least $2,800 to support the production of this four-episode series. That comes down to 100 listeners chipping in $7 each per episode. We hope you’ll support Percy’s expertise and help us establish a precedent of compensating valued voices in the field. Every donation really counts! Help us reach our goal and donate! Alternatively, Venmo @geexglass your support with the word “PLASMA”.
I’d like to thank GEEX for inviting me to collaborate for this series. Writing the Chapter Notes was challenging, yet fun, though academically I never found myself enjoying writing, yet I hope to have more feedback I can respond to for the upcoming chapters.
Let me know if my experience helped provide some footing since there is yet to exist a comprehensive resource for guidance. While frustrating, through simple curiosity and spark of passion finding various sources to tackle these subjects can be quite fun.
I will admit in the regards to my announcement last podcast I failed to meet the declared release date for the episode by exactly a week, but in the very least I’m homing in. Writing took much more time than I ever anticipated.
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And as always be safe, be healthy, and be Strong.
See you next time,
-Percy Echols II, Taming Lightning
