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Amir

better to be deep than shallow

About Me

I've been blowing glass since 2001, I live out in Gig Harbor with my girl Allison. I am an explorer, and in between I'm enjoying blowing glass and working on our house.I'm setting up an art gallery right now online, it's called the Glass Peace Gallery

check it out www.glasspeace.com

My Interests

Music, art, dancing, I love finding good shows with good music and good people...that's kind of hard to find in tacoma. I also spend alot of time reading and watching news. I feel I am pretty knowledgable about what is going on in lots of places in the world, at least the main conflicts, and I like to keep up to date with what is going on so I actually know as opposed to just seeing one bit of the story.I like watching canadian and british news because with american news you have to watch all of them to be able to get the whole story, and sometimes even then they don't tell you everything. You have a better chance just watching the daily show cause at least it's easier to tell when someone's joking with you than when someone's just totally manipulating you.The last few years I have been spending most of my time learning the art and possibilities of glass. It's definately something I will be doing for the rest of my life in one way or another. It's just an amazing liquid, that is so unique and limit less. I've been making a variety of things, I haven't gotten to the point where I've focused on one thing, I'm just trying to learn how it's all done. I really like making goblets, bottles, pendants, and sculptures.

Music:

I listen to almost anything but country, I love reggae, good underground hip hop, and quality electronic music, trance, and drum and bass mostly. I don't really dig alternative music, I like some classic rock. Lately I've been really getting into electronic music with organic sounds.

Movies:

Anchorman, Sin City, streets of new york, butterfly effect, 5th element, fear and loathing, super troopers, scratch, slam, hotel rwanda. Basically good quality crazy movies.

Television:

South Park, Daily Show, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, The Colbert Report, BBC News, Now with Bill Moyer, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, Aquateen hunger force, The price is right.

Books:

Reading books puts me to sleep

Heroes:

John Stewart, Bill Moyer, Alex Grey, my mom, people who volunteer to feed the hungry...