In his home glass studio in Shakopee, Eric Ross fuses bubbles of molten glass over a bunsen burner on an industrial lathe that spins and spins. He blows into a long tube, shaping the bubbles into what ...

Chaka makes some icy ass glass. He’s best known for making bongs that look like they’ve been left out in a blizzard. That, and sculptures of fully functioning penguins. To make his penguin-design feel ...

Eric Ross, who has been blowing glass for 23 years, finishes a bong in his home workshop in Shakopee on April 12.