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Throw sand, lime and soda
into a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit furnace,
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and you get liquid glass.
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Skilled glassblowers gather
the molten mixture using hollow pipes.
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And when they blow,
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glass inflates to form a bubble
to shape and sculpt.
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The tools and techniques
date back to Roman times,
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but we're about to
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turn up the heat.
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We're back at North America's
largest hot shop
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to watch ten exceptional artists…
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…fight fire with fire.
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And now the fun begins.
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Go big or go home.
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And with great risk…
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-Oh, God.
-Rest on the bench. Rest on the bench!
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-I always come out swinging.
-…comes great reward.
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-Yeah, baby.
-Whoo!
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If they can survive
our fiery competition,
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they'll win a life-changing prize package
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that will establish them
around the globe as Best In Glass.
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I'm Nick Uhas. Get ready to be Blown Away.
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Glassblowers, congratulations
on making it to the final four.
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Final four is not enough.
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The ultimate goal here
is to get to the final.
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That's why I'm here.
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There are four amazing artists
at the top four right now.
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I have no idea what's gonna happen,
but I know it'll be a fight till the end.
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You are incredible artists.
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But we know that you haven't gotten
this far all by yourselves.
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You've inspired, pushed,
and supported each other
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throughout the competition.
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And not to mention the friends and family
who are supporting you back home.
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I miss my kids.
I talked to them last night.
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My girlfriend, Marta,
has been behind me the entire way.
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She's managing the studio,
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trying to keep things afloat,
and give me the opportunity to come here.
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Teamwork makes the dream work.
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And that brings us to our next challenge.
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Today the four of you
are gonna be split up into two teams.
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Ooh.
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Team Challenge.
I love to collaborate with people.
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So I am excited, a little nervous.
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John Sharvin, as the winner
of the last challenge,
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you won an advantage.
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And that means you get to pick
who you want to work with.
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-Really?
-Really.
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-This is not super easy.
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Everyone's good. What do you do here?
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I mean, there's not a wrong answer.
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-No.
-There's not a right answer.
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The advantage that John has,
it kinda puts him in the hot seat.
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Crap.
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Yeah.
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-Well…
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John, you want to Team-John this?
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-Hell, yeah. Team John.
-All right, let's Team John this.
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I think we'll work well together.
I'd have picked John as well.
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So that means, Dan and Minhi,
you will be working together.
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Team Seattle. Let's go.
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I like the way it shakes out.
It worked out how I would have chosen.
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But it remains to be seen
if it worked out in my favor, right?
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To help Katherine evaluate your work
are today's guest evaluators, plural…
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Okay.
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Glass powerhouse partners,
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Robin and Julia Rogers.
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Robin and Julia's collaborative works
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have been shown
in museums across North America,
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including the Chrysler Museum of Art,
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where Robin is
the glass studio program director
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and Julia is an adjunct professor.
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The Chrysler Museum has
a great reputation in glassmaking and art.
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On top of that, they're both
incredibly talented artists.
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Julia and I have assisted
each other for years,
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but working collaboratively
as two artists on one piece
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is an entirely different ball game.
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For this challenge,
we want you to take two synonymous words
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that go together to create one piece.
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Pure and simple.
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The word pairings are up to you,
but the criteria is not.
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All right.
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Teams, you'll have
four hours for this challenge.
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You'll be evaluated as a team
and individually on design,
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concept and technical skill.
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The winning team
will be named Best in Blow.
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The two artists on the losing team
will be on the chopping block,
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but only one person will go home.
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-Oh, man.
-There's a lot of pressure.
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If I break my part of the piece,
that's letting John down.
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Then that puts us in the bottom two,
and I don't want that on my shoulders.
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Your time starts…
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…now.
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-Word pairings, what do you think? Uh…
-There's a lot. There's a lot out there.
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"Nice and easy."
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"Hot and spicy"?
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-"Hot and spicy."
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-I like that. That's good.
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We are going to have flames
that point upwards with a ristra,
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which is a string of peppers
coming down toward the flames.
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I'm kinda liking "alive and well."
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I remember this story, Little Otik,
it's like aScandinavian fairy tale,
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and it's about a woman
who can't have kids,
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so her husband gives her a tree stump.
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And the tree stump comes to life
and starts, like, eating people.
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And it kinda turns into
this horrific fairy tale.
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-Maybe we could do something with that.
-Ooh. Ooh, I do like that.
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We want to make one piece together.
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And I think that's
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I'll do the flames,
make 'em blow, and lots of color.
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I'll do the chilies.
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Dan Friday picked
a pack of pickled peppers.
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Dan Friday picked
a pack of pickled peppers.
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Dan Friday picked
a pack of pickled peppers.
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-Ah!
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I could start on the baby rattle.
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I can make the-- the, kind of, the limbs.
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And then you can focus
on the head and the body.
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I would say, it's a match made in heaven.
With hellish undertones.
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-Boom.
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Can't let the Johns just have this.
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-Johns?
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You're gonna use all the reds.
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Yeah, we're goin' spicy.
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Okay.
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We're jumping in fast
'cause we have to make a bunch of parts.
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All righty. Here we go.
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There's a lot of pressure
in this challenge.
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The Johns are on fire.
They've won a lot so far.
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I'm really excited
to be working with Dan.
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You know, my feelings are only
a little hurt that John didn't pick me,
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but don't tell him I said that.
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I'll do three rolls in the white.
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John's working on the color recipe,
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so when I start working
on the pieces I need to make,
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I have a recipe to follow.
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We're working on one object,
so we're constantly back and forth,
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checking scale,
checking size, checking color.
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-That looks right.
-Yeah, I like it.
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So we're really non-stop communication.
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So, Robin and Julia, what's the best part
about working as a pair?
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There's a lot of advantages.
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One being that working simultaneously,
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we can get a lot more done
in a shorter amount of time.
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Today I am responsible for making "hot,"
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and Dan is making "spicy."
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Hot and spicy has a correlation
to being a glassmaker.
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Just the temperature and then
the attitudes that kinda come with that,
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I think it's
a really appropriate word pairing.
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Our plan is to divide and conquer.
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I'm going to be focusing on flames.
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I'm making chili peppers.
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I'm hoping to make 15 to 20 peppers.
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The first thing I'll do is make a pepper
and then make another pepper
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before I make another pepper.
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Hot tamale.
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Dan and Minhi, I'm kinda kicking myself
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'cause I'm like,
"Crap, that's a good team."
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Aw, man.
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Robin and Julia, what would you say
is the most challenging thing
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of two artists working on one piece?
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If you're each making parts for one piece
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and the proportion is not right,
the piece is not gonna feel right.
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I could see that being
an issue for John Sharvin and John Moran.
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The way they're working, they're making
elements that will have to fit together.
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Whereas Minhi and Dan,
I think, are making separate pieces
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that will kinda come together at the end.
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Our concept is "alive and well."
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And we wanted to kinda make,
like, an ambiguous version of that.
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We came up with this creepy
kinda fairy tale character
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who's called Little Otik.
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It's like a tree baby that comes to life
and starts eating everything around it.
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Making one piece,
it's more risky than doing multiples
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because if you break one multiple,
it's like, "We'll make another one."
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We put all of our eggs into one basket,
conceptually, because we believed in it.
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Would you say that John
and John are doing the harder piece, then?
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Probably. By what we're seeing so far,
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it looks, maybe,
a little bit more technically demanding.
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So probably a little higher stakes
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that it all
comes together well in the end.
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This is kinda like
the pepper prep for the-- the stem.
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And we just stick these Kevlar gloves
inside this aluminum mold.
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And it gives me
just enough time to create the loop
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that will attach the pepper to the ristra.
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Gonna have smoked
the whole glove by the end of this.
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I have no idea what's going on
on the other side of the shop.
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I see branches.
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John and John versus Seattle.
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I don't care what they're making.
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I know that they'll make
something cool, so…
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Right now I'm focused
on making our thing really cool.
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Team John for the win.
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-Team John.
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Who?
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It would suck to go home at this point.
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So for the tree baby,
I'm starting with the cat rattle.
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I need to get that done around
the same time that John gets a arm done,
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so we can stick it on.
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The arm is like a tree branch.
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So it has to have some kind
of extra limbs like fingers,
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and some bends where an elbow
or wrist would be, but not too human.
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I'm going for, like,
eight inches, roughly.
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Yeah. I'm going for
about five-ish for the rattle.
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I've never made a baby rattle before.
I'll tell you that much.
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Gonna put the rattle on
and make sure the twigs bend around it.
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It's important there's a hot connection
on the palm of a tree hand.
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And that's what'll give it
the most stable connection to the rattle.
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Then when I wrap the fingers around it,
it'll be even more stable.
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Okay, stop.
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The reason it's a big deal
to attach hot is that it's a risk.
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Flip.
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You stick a piece on that's not hot enough
and it falls off and breaks.
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And we don't have time for that.
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So weird, I love it.
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-Yeah, we're makin' things!
-Uh, flash and then stay there.
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We wanted to have
something that really pops.
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And I think this does it perfectly.
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This is
some gorgeous glass we've got here.
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I love working with Dan.
He's so great and he's so talented.
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I think the best part is
just the familiarity with him
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and just being able to feel
at home a little bit.
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Seattle crew here.
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Yeah, we both, yeah,
live and work in Seattle.
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Dan's strength is
he has this ability
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to make really smooth forms
that are just gorgeous.
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-Thank you. Yeah, awesome.
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-How you doing over there, Minhi?
-Making headway.
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Yeah, you're on fire.
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Minhi can do
the really small, detailed work,
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and also she brings it
making the big pieces too.
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It's nice to see
that broad range of talent.
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Aw.
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Flip.
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Okay.
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How hard is it for our glassblowers
to go from competitors to co-workers?
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I might say,
not as hard as you might think
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just because glassblowing
is always such a team sport.
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You know, as glassblowers,
we generally all like each other
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and like seeing each other succeed.
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I'm sure it's kind of a relief
to actually be working with somebody
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as opposed to against them for a change.
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For this one moment in time.
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-For this one challenge.
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-And then sabotage sets in.
-Yeah.
243
00:12:42,554 --> 00:12:45,557
I need a little mouth hole.
So these are the eyes. You see 'em?
244
00:12:46,058 --> 00:12:48,310
So the next piece
I'm working on is the head.
245
00:12:49,019 --> 00:12:50,646
Oh, yeah. That's lookin' good.
246
00:12:51,772 --> 00:12:54,566
I'm really happy
with the texture and the coloration.
247
00:12:54,650 --> 00:12:55,567
It's looking cute.
248
00:12:55,651 --> 00:12:58,695
It's lookin' exactly like
how we had talked about it.
249
00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:02,241
Hey, guys, we got two hours left!
250
00:13:02,324 --> 00:13:04,117
Two hours?
251
00:13:15,295 --> 00:13:18,006
-Hello, Katherine.
-Hi, John Sharvin, how are you doin'?
252
00:13:18,090 --> 00:13:19,758
-Doin' really good today.
-Yeah?
253
00:13:19,842 --> 00:13:22,261
How is it feeling
making it to the final four?
254
00:13:22,344 --> 00:13:25,639
Oh, man, I actually did not really believe
I was gonna be here.
255
00:13:25,722 --> 00:13:29,101
-To be honest, it's crazy hard.
256
00:13:29,184 --> 00:13:30,811
You are coming off of a win.
257
00:13:30,894 --> 00:13:33,230
Oh, that was really fun,
thank you so much.
258
00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:35,482
-That was great.
-It was all me. I'll take the credit.
259
00:13:35,566 --> 00:13:38,527
-Okay, great. Yeah, yeah.
-I'm kidding. I'm kidding, everyone.
260
00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:41,530
Do you think that's given you
a new sense of confidence here?
261
00:13:41,613 --> 00:13:43,115
It's definitely helped a little bit.
262
00:13:43,198 --> 00:13:46,451
It made me feel like, "Yeah, I am…"
You know, "I can do this. This is fine."
263
00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,789
Do you think what you and John are making
gives you a chance at another win?
264
00:13:50,873 --> 00:13:55,752
I hope so. We should be fine on time.
We just have so much to get done.
265
00:13:55,836 --> 00:13:58,881
-I will let you carry on. All right.
-Thanks for stopping by.
266
00:13:58,964 --> 00:14:00,883
-All right. Good luck.
-Thanks.
267
00:14:04,553 --> 00:14:05,929
Hi, Dan. How you doing?
268
00:14:06,013 --> 00:14:07,890
-Getting hot in here a little bit.
-Yeah?
269
00:14:07,973 --> 00:14:09,892
Both you and Minhi are from Seattle.
270
00:14:09,975 --> 00:14:12,227
-Have you guys worked together before?
-Uh, yeah.
271
00:14:12,311 --> 00:14:14,605
We both worked at a factory together.
272
00:14:14,688 --> 00:14:17,941
It doesn't seem like you guys are talking
too much while you're working.
273
00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:19,401
You just each have your mission.
274
00:14:19,484 --> 00:14:22,487
Yeah, which is a little different
than the way the Johns are working.
275
00:14:22,571 --> 00:14:24,531
-You guys are going for quantity?
-Yeah.
276
00:14:24,615 --> 00:14:27,993
I'd like to be able to see the piece
from 20 feet away.
277
00:14:28,577 --> 00:14:31,038
I'll quit, uh, "peppering" you
with questions.
278
00:14:31,121 --> 00:14:33,123
Oh, nice. I'll take it. Thanks.
279
00:14:43,508 --> 00:14:45,886
The next step is
to start working on the torso,
280
00:14:45,969 --> 00:14:49,056
which is gonna be our building block
to add all of our limbs to.
281
00:14:49,139 --> 00:14:49,973
Yep.
282
00:14:50,515 --> 00:14:55,145
It's a really important part of the piece,
even though it seems kind of minuscule.
283
00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:56,313
Go ahead and flip.
284
00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:58,774
John, it's looking good, man.
We're getting there.
285
00:14:58,857 --> 00:15:02,152
There's 60 minutes left
in this challenge, everyone.
286
00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:03,278
Okay.
287
00:15:03,362 --> 00:15:06,448
Dan, do you know
how many peppers you've made?
288
00:15:06,531 --> 00:15:08,659
Hopefully have made enough. We lost count.
289
00:15:08,742 --> 00:15:10,285
Yeah, I lost count, too.
290
00:15:10,369 --> 00:15:13,789
The peppers, some are two gathers,
and some are three.
291
00:15:13,872 --> 00:15:18,377
And hopefully that size variation
will make 'em look cool as a group.
292
00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:21,171
It's a regular, uh, pepper farm.
293
00:15:22,464 --> 00:15:24,758
We need to start
gettting ready for assembly.
294
00:15:24,841 --> 00:15:26,843
-Yeah, let's do a nice--
-Let's do it.
295
00:15:26,927 --> 00:15:28,637
-Go ahead in.
296
00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,430
This is kind of the moment of truth.
297
00:15:30,514 --> 00:15:34,101
Putting everything together
to see if we actually did it right.
298
00:15:34,768 --> 00:15:37,479
-Make sure it's really gooey.
-All right.
299
00:15:38,397 --> 00:15:39,606
That thing's juicy, dude.
300
00:15:40,357 --> 00:15:43,568
This leg is shorter,
so I won't push it in as far.
301
00:15:43,652 --> 00:15:45,445
We don't have time to make a mistake.
302
00:15:45,529 --> 00:15:47,906
One thing goes wrong,
it's either not hot enough
303
00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:49,992
or it's too hot,
and you lose control of it.
304
00:15:50,075 --> 00:15:52,160
It is something
we have to be really careful about.
305
00:15:52,244 --> 00:15:53,078
Flash.
306
00:15:53,161 --> 00:15:57,082
At this stage of the competition,
if it broke then I'm going home.
307
00:15:57,165 --> 00:16:00,544
-We want to push those legs forward a bit.
-Okay.
308
00:16:00,627 --> 00:16:03,130
Right now it's sitting straight,
and we need it to go like this.
309
00:16:03,213 --> 00:16:04,589
Yep. Yeah.
310
00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,384
Push, push, push, push.
311
00:16:08,427 --> 00:16:09,636
-Keep pushing.
-Yeah.
312
00:16:13,515 --> 00:16:15,767
Okay, I think
it looks good like that.
313
00:16:15,851 --> 00:16:19,312
Once we've attached the legs,
we see the proportions are right.
314
00:16:19,396 --> 00:16:21,440
It looks
exactly like it should,
315
00:16:21,523 --> 00:16:23,150
it's really creepy-weird.
316
00:16:23,233 --> 00:16:24,568
Okay, cool beans.
317
00:16:25,193 --> 00:16:26,945
We still got work to do. Let's get moving.
318
00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:30,782
Under an hour left,
so I'm startin' to feel the heat.
319
00:16:30,866 --> 00:16:32,075
Ooh, yeah.
320
00:16:33,118 --> 00:16:36,329
I'm sort of nestling blown forms
on top of each other
321
00:16:36,413 --> 00:16:39,082
to make the different heat levels
in the flame.
322
00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:42,294
And this one right here
is the very, very inside,
323
00:16:42,377 --> 00:16:43,754
the tiniest part of the flame.
324
00:16:44,463 --> 00:16:46,882
The hottest part of my flame is white.
325
00:16:46,965 --> 00:16:48,592
You think about, like, "white hot."
326
00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:51,720
So you have the white,
is that the inside over there? Nice.
327
00:16:52,637 --> 00:16:55,307
I think that
there's a lot of beauty in simplicity,
328
00:16:55,390 --> 00:16:57,142
so that's what we're shootin' for.
329
00:16:59,227 --> 00:17:01,688
Thirty minutes left
in your team challenge.
330
00:17:02,606 --> 00:17:03,899
Right on schedule, dude.
331
00:17:03,982 --> 00:17:06,860
Okay, so what I want you to do
when you go to bong this off
332
00:17:06,943 --> 00:17:08,653
is put the piece on the bench.
333
00:17:08,737 --> 00:17:13,533
Things get intense when you have
all these parts being attached hot.
334
00:17:13,617 --> 00:17:15,702
All the way up.
Bit, yep. There, yep. Okay.
335
00:17:17,370 --> 00:17:19,664
Everyone needs to be
hyper-focused during this.
336
00:17:19,748 --> 00:17:23,251
Because if you stop looking
at the piece for half a second,
337
00:17:23,335 --> 00:17:25,212
you can hit an arm off immediately.
338
00:17:25,295 --> 00:17:28,882
So there's a lot of focus.
You know, tension is kind of high.
339
00:17:28,965 --> 00:17:29,841
Flip.
340
00:17:29,925 --> 00:17:32,552
That's what happens
when you put all your eggs in one basket,
341
00:17:32,636 --> 00:17:33,804
it gets really hectic.
342
00:17:34,805 --> 00:17:37,390
But it's impressive
if you can pull it off, I gotta say.
343
00:17:39,476 --> 00:17:41,895
Dan, there's only 20 minutes left!
344
00:17:41,978 --> 00:17:43,105
Ah!
345
00:17:45,190 --> 00:17:47,109
Quite frankly, I'm worried about me
346
00:17:47,192 --> 00:17:49,444
not making the coolest thing
and going home,
347
00:17:49,528 --> 00:17:51,738
'cause I think the flames are pretty cool
348
00:17:51,822 --> 00:17:54,157
but the peppers
might seem a little mundane.
349
00:17:54,241 --> 00:17:57,410
But, uh, hopefully together as a group,
they're really beautiful.
350
00:17:57,494 --> 00:17:59,454
All right, let's get on the head.
351
00:18:00,330 --> 00:18:01,957
-Uh…
-There should be an opening.
352
00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,416
-There's a-- There's a mouth.
-Yeah.
353
00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:05,043
Flip.
354
00:18:09,089 --> 00:18:09,923
Turn.
355
00:18:10,882 --> 00:18:12,175
Okay, flash.
356
00:18:13,552 --> 00:18:14,803
Take, lift.
357
00:18:17,139 --> 00:18:18,557
You push the head up.
358
00:18:19,391 --> 00:18:20,517
That's it. That's perfect.
359
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,644
Ten minutes left, glassblowers.
360
00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:24,521
There's only ten minutes left.
361
00:18:24,604 --> 00:18:27,190
Can you feel the heat? Ten minutes left.
362
00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:29,818
And now you're gonna turn.
Turn a little bit.
363
00:18:29,901 --> 00:18:31,695
John, you got all the parts,
hold it together.
364
00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:33,613
Let me get in with the jacks.
One, two, three.
365
00:18:38,368 --> 00:18:39,703
Let's get this last one in here.
366
00:18:41,329 --> 00:18:43,665
All right,
let's put it in the box.
367
00:18:43,748 --> 00:18:44,791
Go, Minhi.
368
00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:47,043
Whoo! Yeah!
369
00:18:47,711 --> 00:18:48,545
Hot stuff.
370
00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:50,130
-Good job.
-Whoo!
371
00:18:50,213 --> 00:18:53,717
-Nice, Minhi.
-All right. Great work.
372
00:18:54,426 --> 00:18:55,844
That was fun, John.
373
00:19:08,231 --> 00:19:10,567
The concept
of our piece is, "Alive, and Well?"
374
00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:12,319
It's a tree baby
that comes to life
375
00:19:12,402 --> 00:19:14,112
and starts eating everything around it.
376
00:19:16,448 --> 00:19:21,369
There's this tie with the ristra
and the flames about community
377
00:19:21,453 --> 00:19:25,665
and coming together
and being a glassmaker.
378
00:19:31,421 --> 00:19:34,466
Welcome to the dynamic duo gallery.
379
00:19:35,425 --> 00:19:38,803
This is Dan and Minhi's piece,
"Hot and Spicy."
380
00:19:39,804 --> 00:19:41,389
This is awesome.
381
00:19:41,473 --> 00:19:43,767
I would totally want this in my house.
382
00:19:43,850 --> 00:19:45,602
You know, I'm a little bit underwhelmed.
383
00:19:45,685 --> 00:19:49,689
I feel like they haven't
pushed themselves technically very far.
384
00:19:49,773 --> 00:19:53,318
I wish they'd, maybe, just taken
a little bit more time with each element
385
00:19:53,401 --> 00:19:56,404
to really either heighten the reality
386
00:19:56,488 --> 00:19:59,574
of the peppers,
maybe the scale of the flames.
387
00:19:59,658 --> 00:20:03,119
And maybe the proximity of them
could be even a little closer, too.
388
00:20:03,912 --> 00:20:07,123
But there's some things
I'm really excited about in this piece.
389
00:20:07,207 --> 00:20:09,626
When you first see it,
it does occupy space.
390
00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:12,379
It is very bright,
and you're kind of drawn to it.
391
00:20:12,462 --> 00:20:15,674
I really do enjoy the texture
that I'm seeing in the flames.
392
00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:19,511
I think that really feels
warm and fiery and fuzzy.
393
00:20:19,594 --> 00:20:21,471
One really nice thing about these flames
394
00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:24,266
is it's not just
what you're seeing on the surface.
395
00:20:24,349 --> 00:20:28,561
If you get close and kind of look inside,
you'll realize there's multiple layers,
396
00:20:28,645 --> 00:20:32,148
and they're stacked upon each other,
which is really rewarding for the viewer.
397
00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:40,991
This is John Sharvin's
and John Moran's "Alive, and Well?"
398
00:20:41,074 --> 00:20:42,367
Question mark.
399
00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:45,203
The creature is inspired
by a Czech fairy tale.
400
00:20:46,037 --> 00:20:50,625
Conceptually, I-- I really like it
because it has many layers to it.
401
00:20:50,709 --> 00:20:53,211
And then technically,
I think it's a really interesting piece.
402
00:20:53,295 --> 00:20:55,130
The texture is really great,
403
00:20:55,213 --> 00:20:57,632
all the parts work together well,
404
00:20:57,716 --> 00:20:59,592
and it tells a story.
405
00:20:59,676 --> 00:21:04,180
I did notice that the head is darker
than the rest of the tree baby,
406
00:21:04,264 --> 00:21:08,059
so they didn't quite do a great job
of matching the colors there.
407
00:21:08,143 --> 00:21:10,437
It is
a hideous-looking creature…
408
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,272
-…but so compelling.
409
00:21:13,064 --> 00:21:15,942
I've got to say it looks
very underwhelming
410
00:21:16,026 --> 00:21:20,405
in comparison to Minhi's and Dan's piece.
411
00:21:20,488 --> 00:21:24,743
It's just… It's a little twig baby.
412
00:21:24,826 --> 00:21:28,496
I feel like that's kind of eye candy
and really easy to like.
413
00:21:28,580 --> 00:21:32,625
Maybe this just takes a little bit more
to really, kind of, have it grow on you.
414
00:21:32,709 --> 00:21:34,669
All right,
we've had a lot of opinions.
415
00:21:34,753 --> 00:21:36,671
So let's go talk to the glassblowers.
416
00:21:36,755 --> 00:21:38,465
Let's bring them in.
417
00:21:42,469 --> 00:21:44,888
The competition is tough.
We all want to win.
418
00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:46,473
I'll continue trying to pull away,
419
00:21:46,556 --> 00:21:49,476
but I think every other artist
will continue to try to pull away as well.
420
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,271
Making it to this point
has taken a lot out of me,
421
00:21:53,897 --> 00:21:57,108
but I'm not ready to leave.
422
00:21:57,192 --> 00:22:00,904
The only way I'm going out that door
is if someone pushes me out of it.
423
00:22:01,529 --> 00:22:04,074
For this challenge,
you had to work together as a team
424
00:22:04,157 --> 00:22:05,617
to create one piece.
425
00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:07,202
I think we were all really struck
426
00:22:07,285 --> 00:22:10,747
by the two radically different approaches
each team took.
427
00:22:11,498 --> 00:22:15,585
One approach was more literal,
while the other more conceptual.
428
00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:20,965
Dan and Minhi, we'd love to hear more
about your collaborative piece.
429
00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:25,095
We were hoping to make
a piece that was easily relatable,
430
00:22:25,178 --> 00:22:29,140
that had really bold color
and filled the space.
431
00:22:29,224 --> 00:22:31,643
The bright colors
and the way you've displayed it
432
00:22:31,726 --> 00:22:34,104
really do make for a great installation.
433
00:22:34,187 --> 00:22:35,355
Very accessible.
434
00:22:35,438 --> 00:22:39,776
Do you feel that this represents
the best that you can do?
435
00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:43,113
That's what I liked about this challenge,
being able to work with Minhi
436
00:22:43,196 --> 00:22:45,365
and equally kinda come together
437
00:22:45,448 --> 00:22:48,284
and bring both of our talents
into a piece.
438
00:22:48,368 --> 00:22:50,412
If you could change
one thing at this point,
439
00:22:50,495 --> 00:22:51,830
is there something you'd change?
440
00:22:51,913 --> 00:22:52,872
More.
441
00:22:54,916 --> 00:22:58,420
But there's only so much you can make
in an allotted amount of time,
442
00:22:58,503 --> 00:23:00,964
and we just pushed to make
as much as we could.
443
00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:05,218
Was shooting for 20 chili peppers,
and I think I got 19, so…
444
00:23:06,010 --> 00:23:08,346
-A little off, but we'll take it.
445
00:23:08,430 --> 00:23:10,348
John and John.
446
00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:12,142
Tell us about your piece.
447
00:23:12,225 --> 00:23:13,768
Yeah, we, uh, kind of,
448
00:23:13,852 --> 00:23:16,813
-created a tree child, Little Otik.
449
00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:19,023
We wanted to do something,
play with both of our styles,
450
00:23:19,107 --> 00:23:22,193
so we knew it was gonna be
on the cute side and the creepy side,
451
00:23:22,277 --> 00:23:25,071
so that fairy tale kind of came to life.
452
00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:28,741
Can you tell us a little bit about
how you chose to display this piece?
453
00:23:28,825 --> 00:23:30,076
We didn't want it at eyeline.
454
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,370
'Cause it's this child
and it shouldn't seem threatening.
455
00:23:32,954 --> 00:23:34,456
So we wanted to have it a bit lower
456
00:23:34,539 --> 00:23:37,167
so you had to get down with it
to get into the details.
457
00:23:37,250 --> 00:23:40,003
The pedestal on its side almost
kind of becomes like a sofa or a bench.
458
00:23:40,086 --> 00:23:43,548
So he's welcoming in a way,
even though it's this threatening monster.
459
00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:46,092
-I really like it.
460
00:23:46,676 --> 00:23:50,138
We noticed the coloration
on the head is darker than the body.
461
00:23:50,221 --> 00:23:51,514
Was that intentional?
462
00:23:51,598 --> 00:23:53,057
We were using the same color recipe,
463
00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:55,435
and going from solid sculpture
to blown sculpture.
464
00:23:55,518 --> 00:23:59,564
It's a little darker than we wanted,
but at that point we couldn't go back.
465
00:23:59,647 --> 00:24:00,857
Thank you, John and John.
466
00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:02,775
-Thank you.
-Thanks, Katherine.
467
00:24:03,401 --> 00:24:06,196
Thank you, artists.
We'll take a few minutes to deliberate.
468
00:24:09,073 --> 00:24:10,700
I want to go all the way.
469
00:24:10,783 --> 00:24:14,370
It was much more impactful,
that larger scale and color.
470
00:24:14,996 --> 00:24:16,414
We did what we came to do.
471
00:24:16,498 --> 00:24:18,708
We collaborated.
We did what we thought was best. So…
472
00:24:18,791 --> 00:24:22,420
I kinda think they made it
harder on themselves than they had to.
473
00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:24,255
I've got work to do here.
474
00:24:24,339 --> 00:24:25,757
Yeah, it's not over.
475
00:24:27,091 --> 00:24:29,427
Thank you for waiting.
We've reached a decision.
476
00:24:30,845 --> 00:24:32,764
Today's winning team is…
477
00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:40,647
John and John.
478
00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:42,315
-Hey, buddy. Nice.
-Mm-hmm.
479
00:24:43,149 --> 00:24:44,442
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
480
00:24:44,526 --> 00:24:47,779
-Team John for the win.
-That's what we've been saying.
481
00:24:49,322 --> 00:24:50,949
-Ah…
482
00:24:51,032 --> 00:24:53,576
On the chopping block is Dan and Minhi.
483
00:24:53,660 --> 00:24:55,995
Well, we-- You know, we tried our best.
484
00:24:56,871 --> 00:25:00,542
Dan and Minhi, as a team,
you did not blow us away.
485
00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:04,003
So, it comes down
to individual performance.
486
00:25:04,087 --> 00:25:06,965
Dan, why should you stay
in the competition?
487
00:25:07,048 --> 00:25:09,676
For this challenge,
it's about, uh, you know, just kind of
488
00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:11,803
participating and-- and pulling your load.
489
00:25:11,886 --> 00:25:13,680
And I think I did my part of the job well.
490
00:25:13,763 --> 00:25:15,014
Minhi?
491
00:25:15,098 --> 00:25:19,060
I feel as though
I utilized the properties of glass,
492
00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:25,275
and I wanted to accentuate light
and the transparency of the material.
493
00:25:25,358 --> 00:25:27,485
I believe that if I stay here,
494
00:25:27,569 --> 00:25:32,574
I can continue to push
and really expand my horizons.
495
00:25:33,074 --> 00:25:34,242
Thank you, Dan and Minhi.
496
00:25:34,325 --> 00:25:35,910
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
497
00:25:35,994 --> 00:25:39,539
The artist going home today is…
498
00:25:44,335 --> 00:25:45,461
…no one.
499
00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:49,799
Whoo!
500
00:25:51,175 --> 00:25:52,010
Yeah.
501
00:25:53,511 --> 00:25:58,891
We've decided that you both deserve a shot
at one more challenge as individuals.
502
00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:00,935
-We'll take it, right?
-Yeah.
503
00:26:01,019 --> 00:26:03,062
So you live to blow another day.
504
00:26:03,146 --> 00:26:07,859
And you're still all in the running
for the $60,000 prize package
505
00:26:07,942 --> 00:26:11,529
and the coveted title, Best in Glass.
506
00:26:11,613 --> 00:26:13,865
You just might be looking
at the final two.
507
00:26:13,948 --> 00:26:16,576
-Yeah, I'd be-- I'd be okay with that.
508
00:26:16,659 --> 00:26:19,078
Uh, that would be awful.
509
00:26:19,662 --> 00:26:21,914
-We'll see you at the next challenge.
-All right.