Video Transcript

Cupboard:
You’ve been blowing glass a long time. What kind of injuries have you come across?

Bob Snodgrass:
Burns are the worst. Cuts and burns are very easy to happen. I got superglue in my first aid kit, that’s in case of a cut, and burn gel, and burn ointment. Mostly, be careful, and don’t pick up oxygen bottles. That’s actually a way to get hurt worse than what you can get done at the torch.

Cupboard:
Tell us what you think is new in the industry. What are you seeing?

Bob Snodgrass:
The camaraderie, that’s what the new thing is in the industry. It used to be so private. Everybody kept their little techniques such a secret. By the way the sharing has gone on, it’s blown the top off of it. Now, you all knock everybody off. Everybody knocks everybody off. My stuff’s copied, everybody else’s stuff’s copied. At first, it was a bit of a, “Oh,” but after that, realizing how it’s all expanding. Everybody out there is doing something that I couldn’t quite do. It’s all like some kind of hundredth monkey research program, and we’re hoping to just keep evolving. Where the glass has gone in just the last ten years is out of the box.

Cupboard:
This has been another edition of The Cupboard’s Artist Insights with the great Bob Snodgrass.