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#Class

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James Akers

My oh my, The Mind Benders class I taught at FOCI wrapped up last night and what a wonderful whirlwind! I had the most amazing students who time and time again, were so hungry for knowledge, and wanted to learn more and more.
We learned to bend neon, make digital vector patterns, blink the neon with programmable microcontrollers and I even showed them how they could work with a glassblower to pull their own tubes.

My TA, @dinkytown was incredible- typically fulfilling the class's needs before I even asked her. I am thrilled that she learned a bunch in the class.
It was able to train two FOCI staff members to bombard (the dangerous process of purifying and putting gas in the tubes)- so now FOCI neon renters can get their tubes filled quicker.
The artist talk and demo I gave was well attended, and now FOCI has the doodle I made during the demo in their permanent collection.

Lila and I, smiling with my show title in the background
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A very messy table with some students in the background. Two neon color samples, transformers, digitally drawn patterns, circuit playgrounds, notebooks and beverages covering the table
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Students working and bending neon around a big octagonal table at FOCI. Neon torches and fire abound, clear glass tubes scattered around the table.
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A class poster to the left, and a show poster to the right. The class poster has a doodle made with colors that can only be bought in california (yellow, turquoise, purple and pink) and the show poster has my Soul Selling Timer with a neon green "DATA DRIVEN" in the forground in an acrylic box emblazoned with big tech logos carved into it and big red button on the top.
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#neon#class#roadtrip
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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊

#trump #economics A succunct demolition jon. The same of course applies to #RachelReeves ("I'm from accounts"). Why are the #political #elite #class so appallingly bad at #economics . Asking for a friend.🤔
kolektiva.social/@bifouba/1142

kolektiva.socialBilal Barakat 🍉 (@bifouba@kolektiva.social)❞The administration claims that these numbers represent tariff rates and non-tariff barriers. They don’t. Internet sleuths soon worked it out. Trump’s team appears to have taken the US’ trade deficit with the country and divided it by the country’s exports. The US has a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia and Indonesian exports to the US are $28 billion. They divided 17.9 by 28, got 0.64 and presented it as a 64 per cent tariff. It’s hard to state just how nonsensical that actually is. You might as well divide the numbers of apples in your kitchen by the number of bagels and use it to calculate your mortgage rate. To criticise it on political or economic grounds is too generous. It operates below the level of rational thought.❝ https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-downfall-begins-now-paranoia-baseless-rage-3621228
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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊

#wealth #class #inequality #politics #capitalism
Caveat 'residing' . For #HNWI that can be anywhere, anytime. Also note source is steeped in the #capitalist ethic.
zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114264767

zirkusEmeritus Prof Christopher May (@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us)Attached: 1 image Here's Virtual Capitalist's chart on where High Net Worth Individuals reside... what is interesting (for us, here in the UK) is that while the UK ranks 7th in number of HNWI (and around the same for headline GDP), when you look at GDP, per capita the UK ranks in the mid-20s, which gives you another way of seeing the levels of economic inequality in the UK right now... [Yes, one might also expect the Hong Kong figure to be included in the Chinese total!] #inequality
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James Akers

Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.

It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.

My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.

Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company

Stick sculpture with neon inside the pyramid of sticks
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A student (Juyon) with a wobbly piece of formerly flat glass with imagery and mirror on it
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My stick and neon chandelier sculpture mid packing. This one- packed last minute before we leave- is packed in a form fitting cardboard box with the "bend over" method
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Another Juyon piece of glass she mirrored. The bubble was heated, and sucked in- leaving 5 trails of glass leading to the upper square ring, and membranes of solid glass left behind. Lots of other silvered glass on the cart in the background
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#roadtrip#mirror#class
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

“My childhood was full of it and being able to represent where I’m from is integral to me. Too often I’ll watch stuff and think they’re treating the working class like an art project. It’s very condescending. ‘Ooh, look at the poor!’ But I’m proud to be this mixed-race working-class kid from a block of flats.”

theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/

The Guardian · Stephen Graham: the ‘working-class, mixed-race kid’ who cares deeply about the workBy Lanre Bakare
#StephenGraham#Class#UK
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NAGAMEDIAS

Un extrait du clip « Leisure Class » de Laura Hurt Ft The Salo Panik, tiré de l’album THE BOOK OF EMI.
De l’electro rock french, du fringe heavy strange metal, du son pour bouger dans la Joie ! Une production NAGA
#fringe #heavy #metal #strange #electro #frenchtouch #LauraHurt #emi #thebookofemi #party #foryou #fyp #viralmusic #viral #banger #slay
#viral #leisure #class #pleasure #joy #art #arty #surrealism #music

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James Akers

I made my Mirror World class some bling out of 6mm glass tubulation. We can all laugh and be shiny together now. I actually didn't make myself one though. I guess I can make it tomorrow. I bent it to my handwriting in cursive with a 6mm sharpie :) . lol happened to be an easy an fun 3 letter phrase that flows nicely.

I sure do love mirroring a bunch of little tubes simultaneously :)

I gotta get a few feet of bright colored silicone or latex tubing. They are meant to be necklaces. They may be fragile during hugs.

Its been nice to teach these classes with Kacie Lees in the evenings and decompress from the hectic week finishing up neon work things ahead of an upcoming midwest road trip! Class and show in Minneapolis and visiting artist 2 day at UW, Madison.

We mirrored so much. Its so fun seeing people get it- and run wild with it.

me, wearing red and pink kitchen gloves, with a funnel, and all the fire polished lols attached end to end with latex tubing hanging down. bottles of chemicals and messy dryer pan are on the table.
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shiny blinged out lols drying off on the new york times. Other shiny blobby glass objects and plastic things in the background.
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six lols against a black painted table, with their ends fire polished
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The long tube with all six lols in it... actually I think there was another tube of lols. Box of tissues and red stabilo 8008 pencil and white block on the non metallic table. Student in the background.
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#glass#flameworking#silver
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