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How is that nice and shiny piece of glass made?

Uys van der Merwe is a Cape Town based artist, specialising in sculpture.

At Obsidian Glass a wide variety of custom solutions are offered. We specialise in the art, design, architectural and interior market.

Mission

This society was founded for the purpose to support the local Glass Art Community, to encourage the appreciation and development of the Glass Arts. It strives to promote excellence, educational development, aiding the transfer of skills and establishing a communications network amongst artists.

In May of 2003 I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Pilchuck Glass School’s Summer Program. I applied for session one (May 24 – June 10) under the guidance of Jiří Harcuba, a renowned glass engraver and scholar from the Czech Republic – a man with a real zest for life.
Boy, what an experience…

This beautiful peace is made entirely of glass.

This is an ASF demo.

This is a realplayer demo.

This is a Quicktime test.

This article will demonstrate how to use media objects in eZ publish.

Below you should se a wonderful animation of the eZ publish logo.

This article is a demontration of some of the features of the eZ publish? article renderer engine.

This article will show some of the more advanced eZ publish renderer functionality.

This article will show how you can use pre defined forms to get feedback from the users on your site.

eZ publish version 2.2 offers great improvements since version 2.1. The highlights include: PostgreSQL support, template based tags in eZ article and eZ trade, user defined article/trade tags, dynamic form creation, support for media files ( flash, quick time, mpeg etc ) and section support.