my name is matt dilling. er of lite brite neon studio, and we manufacture, produce, and restore neon works of art and design. ♪ matt: origins of creative content of a lot of the work at lite brite comes a variety of sources. sometimes people come with a napkin sketch, some people come with adobe illustrator files, then we have a whole design team work together to create an idea of what it might look like. we scale up and create a paper template using a pen plotter, and that paper template actually becomes our guide for what we are going to bend the neon to. we take from the office into the glass shop. we pick out the right size tubing with the right color for the right size project. ♪ matt: from there, we heat up the glass tubing. the torches heat the glass well in excess of 1000 degrees in order for it to get into its molten state. we heat up and bend the glass tubing to match the template. one of our chandeliers has over 100 different bends in it, so each one of those bends has to be marked and heated up, an