“We’re very proud to be part of the Netflix family,” said Hornburg. “They are passionate people who have a story to tell us through this delicate art.”Īnd to add the icing on the cake, the show was fortunate to have Netflix become its broadcaster. “As well, the people who create these works of glass are compelling characters, whose personal stories make them accessible to the viewers,” he added. We found it interesting that we could juxtapose fire with the fragility of glass.” It’s something that we can all relate to, and even the technique of glass blowing has remained the same for all those years. Glass is all around us and has been for thousands of years.
“The idea was actually suggested by one of our interns. It had to be visual and stunning,” said Hornburg during a recent phone interview. “We wanted to generate a show that was process and skill-based that was not a cooking show.
BLOWN AWAY SEASON 2 SERIES
Since its debut two years ago, “Blown Away” has received a great deal of fans and acclaim from such media outlets as the New York Times, which picked the show as one of its favourite TV series of 2019.īut how did an unscripted reality show about the art of glass blowing get its genesis? According to Matt Hornburg, one of the show’s producers, it emerged from a brain storming session. At the end of the season, the final contestant left standing will win a $60,000 prize package, which includes an internship at the prestigious Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. Their works are judged by host Nick Uhas, glassblowing expert Katherine Gray, and a different guest judge each episode. The 10-episode series, produced by the Canadian-based company marblemedia, pits 10 selected glass artists with varying years of experience in glass blowing, as they compete each week on a different creative challenge, and have a total of 4-5 hours to design, create and showcase their respective works of glass art. That’s the main premise of the reality competition series “Blown Away”, in which its second season recently premiered on the popular Netflix streaming service. The major pitfall being that one wrong move can shatter or break your glass work, and you have to start all over again (and experience all the frustration and anger that go with it). Then you take the heated glass and twist it, turn it, bend it and shape it like taffy until you get that desired effect or look. Using a technique that dates back thousands of years, in which raw and coloured glass are used to create intricate works of art by sticking the material in a hot furnace (which is called a “glory hole”) at a temperature of about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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