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Now it's at $100k!!!!!
At that price you could put someone through a glass blowing course and then have them work for a few months making thousands of these for you.
It's still a little disappointing that the molten glass doesn't really capture the full moment of the explosion as it both dampens the movement of the fragments and the heat melts them so the drop slightly reforms.
My guess is that a suitable concentration of epoxy that's neither too runny or too viscous would probably work.
In this case I groaned a bit when I saw the title (“another Rupert’s Drop video?”), but it was fascinating to watch that team working together, and learn a bit about the process of glass blowing. I found the result a little underwhelming to be honest - at least in its attempt to capture the violence of a Rupert’s Drop exploding - though it was still a cool piece of glass. But the journey to get there kept me captivated the whole way through.
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At that price you could put someone through a glass blowing course and then have them work for a few months making thousands of these for you.
There's a reason early Model T's are collectibles, and why 1980s Ford Escorts are in junkyards.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1980-ford-escort-rec0351...
Destin has a knack for taking relatively mundane topics and making them interesting. I’ve had low expectations going into his videos on coast guard search patterns, center-pivot irrigators, and a film factory tour, but ended up enjoying them because of his emphasis on the little optimizations that are inherent in all human endeavors, and the people who carry them out. It’s like Dirty Jobs (which I also liked) but for…
At first, I thought this was distracting, now I totally see the value for HN (and me). I have to find a way to dive deeper in this topic of mindset around failure.
Here is the gallery of finished pieces in the artist's shop: https://orbixhotglass.com/product-category/prince-ruperts-dr... I am quite sure I saw #01 at $10k earlier today and it's now higher, so I suspect he found out he initially misjudged what Destin's advice of "priced not to sell" would need to mean.