This marble is about as historical as a glass art marble can get! The Glass Addiction millie and marbles were created by a group of marble artists from the original Glass Addiction forum (now mostly defunct, although still there for historical reads and such). Kaj Beck headed up the project and led a small team of artists who worked to put the original two marbles together into their finished form. JD Anderson, Ken 'Spider' Schneidereit and Mike Close made up this team, and they met at the Revere School of Glass in Northern California over the last weekend of Feb 08.

This particular Glass Addiction marble was created shortly later by Kaj himself, using one of the GA polished slices, and I am releasing it from my personal collection. It is signed 'Kaj Beck 2008'. I love how the letters explode up out of the base. The glass behind the lettering is much nicer in hand, I'm not sure if it's steel wool or disco sparkle, but it really sparkles nicely. A simply incredible marble and a must for the CRAZY MARBLE COLLECTORS OUT THERE, ha ha!

The 'Glass Addiction' milli lettering was made by a large group of artists, each taking a different letter, in hopes that the finished product would have a 'ransom note' look to it. It was a fantastic success! Kaj, Dave Strobel, Shannon Norris, Sabina Boehm, Ben Burton, Travis Weber, Justin Bagley, Kevin Nail, Chris Rice, Spider and Mike Close all made letters.

The first main Glass Addiction marble made was officially 'owned' by the entire Glass Addiction community, and it traveled literally around the world to visit all of the different members and have its picture taken with each of the members and also their families if they so chose. For that marble, JD Anderson made the awesome jellyfish in the main lens, and John Bridges made the super sweet fumed implosion on the back of the marble. Kaj Beck was the head glassblower and put all of the pieces together into the final product.

There will be few chances, and maybe never another one, to own one of these Glass Addiction marbles made by Kaj. It is an awesome and wonderful piece of our contemporary art glass marble history!!