| Well, this year it is fabulous Portland Oregon for our
Symposium. Too far to walk to drive, so we fly this year. We started out
from DFW on American at 12:55 pm. Seems a little weather set us back far
enough to miss the connection in San Jose, but eventually via standbys
and good clean livin' we got to Portland at 10:30pm. You can take the MAX light rail right to the host hotel, the Doubletree Lloyd Center, for $2. . Nice clean system. The convention center is only two stops down the rail. We went and setup already and checked into the Doubletree, the host
hotel. Nice place except the in-room internet access is $10! What's up
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The convention center has many different art objects around the lobbies. From this huge pendulum/solar "object" to the ginko seed, hanging canoe and glass flowered trees |
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Well, we were fortunate enough to be selling Doug Thompson's' gouge line
this weekend. I have been using his gouges for about a month and I like
them a bunch. It is a CPM 10V® gouge that is triple heat treated
and Cryo tempered. Best of all, it is really affordable. He has both a
"U" and "V" staped flute bowl gouges and three different depths of
flutes for spindle gouges, from a detail to a full spindle. We rode the MAX around Portland quite a bit. Went to the Bullseye glass factory, went and saw the Turning Green exhibit. A very eclectic town and it hosted an almost equally eclectic group from around the world. The auction this year was done a little different. In the past they
had so many pieces that the live auction would drag on far too long.
This year they were going to limit the amount of items to 60 for the
live auction and put everything else in the silent auction. Well, they
only had 64 pieces. All of them went into the silent auction and the
closing bid there was the opening bid in the live auction. That said,
there was a few real highlights. A Bin Pho tribute to Frank Sudol went
for $30,000. Yes, $30,000. At the end of the night they had raised more
than $100,000 for the education funds! Awesome. |
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| AAW's walkabout | Andi Wolfe's BLOG |
Special thanks to all our roving reporters this year Bob Elliott |
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