{"id":3249,"date":"2011-01-27T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:08:05","slug":"meet-the-last-glass-eye-maker-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/meet-the-last-glass-eye-maker-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the last glass eye maker in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/glass-eye-maker.jpg\" alt=\"The story of the last glass eye maker in Britain\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a beautifully shot film about the last glass eye maker in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Tomas Leach and filmed in 16mm by Ben Todd, the film tells the story of Jost Haas, a German-born craftsman working in London using techniques that are nearly two hundred years old.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Haas has\u00a0dedicated his life to\u00a0creating glass eyes of the highest quality, and the\u00a0film shows him deftly shaping and forming the eyes by blowing into a small glass tube.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/glass-eye-maker-1.jpg\" alt=\"The story of the last glass eye maker in Britain\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The craft is\u00a0traditionally centred around Germany and Austria (so I guess he\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0get to hang out with fellow glass eye makers very often), but Haas says he intends to go on as long as he can for the sake of his loyal customers who appreciate his\u00a0craftsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a charming film:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18583833&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yatzer.com\/VOW-N-3-The-story-of-the-last-glass-eye-maker-in-Britain\" target=\"_blank\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a beautifully shot film about the last glass eye maker in Britain. Directed by Tomas Leach and filmed in 16mm by Ben Todd, the film tells the story of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193,1],"tags":[387,10],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","category-stuff","tag-craft","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/glass-eye-maker.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Qp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}