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Cool to see Stephanie Coleman sitting in with both bands tonight. Seen her a bunch, but only in duo with Nora Brown, so enjoyed seeing her get some love from other great musicians and she sounded great. Everyone did! Great show.

Tonight: paradoxically, the only better way to end a workweek than Oscar Noriega at Barbes is when Oscar is out and leaves the slot to his regulars like the transcendent Marta Sanchez. Easing in the weekend in trio with the equally resplendent Rahsaan Carter and Jason Nazary.

Tonight: back in NYC and ready to livemusic! So glad I was able to get to Bushwick to catch the return of Landlady, the underrated genius Adam Schatz debuting a bunch of new material and sounding characteristically awesome. Everything he does is gold, whenever the record comes out, can't wait.

midweek /pulse/#jam interlude at the sultan room in , with 75 dollar bill (in "traditional" noisy/interlocking duo mode) & basic (playing tunes from their great debut LP & some new, feat. chris forsyth on guitar & tortoise's doug mccombs on bass vi) complementing each other perfectly, wild colorful guitaring & off-kilter non-kit grooves.

I will be teaching an all levels neon class at Urbanglass December 14th and 15th (not next weekend but the one after). There are still a few spots left open.

Not sure when my next all levels class will be, but my unofficial description for this class is "hippies dancing in a field of flowers".

We will be eschewing the patterns and templates traditionally used in neon fabrication. Instead focusing on learning the basic bends, and then finding interesting sequences of those bends to riff off of.

Join me for a weekend of 11am- 5pm fun with glass tubes, fire and electricity. Leave with a 3D doodle of light and transformer to power it. You wont be cold, and may learn a thing or two.

eventbrite.com/e/pattern-free-

I was just told that sign ups will be closed on Monday (December 9th)

Below are some things I have made without a pattern. I do have a good bit of experience and good access to colored glass so your doodles may look a little different ;)

About a year ago @alifeeney and I got this tropical plant from a neighbor. It had been brightening up our dim room with its tropical leaves, but it loves sun, and our cloudy Brooklyn apartment does not provide, so its been dying/shrinking and has a mould from not enough light.

After trying little cheap led lights for it, I decided to use some of the giant tubes I got in NC and make a light for it. This is about 12-18 feet or so of 20mm mercury rose pink. I think its between 4- 6 pounds of glass. It puts off a lot of light, is really easy to light up (large diameter tubes have less resistance) and you can look right at it without it being too bright.

After about an hour of being wrapped in the light, the plants leaves started perking up a little :) I plan on making an acrylic trellis with stuff scrapped from Manhattan ad campaigns so I can make a few more coils for it.

#handmade#plants#neon