DRB Seattle on sat 30 aug 08
This is driffting a little sideways
One oldtime tool I've read of openned a centered ball of clay.=A0 An arm wi=
th a dowel was pulled down to open.=A0 It hit a stop for the correct bottom=
thickness and was then swung sideways to open the ball...
DRB
--- On Fri, 8/29/08, David McBeth wrote:
From: David McBeth
Subject: Re: further thoughs on a note from amaco
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 12:13 PM
While I too was initially appalled at the notion of an auto-centering devis=
e; I
have been the studio this afternoon, throwing on the electric wheel because=
I am
making largish platter/bowls. Suddenly there was a small but earnest voice=
in
the back of my head chuckling at me for using an electric wheel, in fact a
machine, to make the making of my pots easier. So what did the really old
timers says when the kick wheel was motorized, what did the really really o=
ld
time potters say when the clay pot spinning in a depression in the dirt was
centered on a kickwheel, for those living and working in the second half of=
a
century - remember a time when we fired kilns without a computers? Maybe w=
e
don't always realize or recognize the benefits of things new.
the ramblings of a professor on Friday afternoon of the first week of a new
semester
Dave
David McBeth
330 B Gooch Hall
Department of Visual and Theatre Arts
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee 38238
731-881-7416
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart on behalf of Paul Herman
Sent: Fri 8/29/2008 12:52 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: note from amaco
=20
Oh, Phil,
We can't throw all the professors out with the funky centering patty
maker, but we should certainly throw out the two who were cited in
connection with this stupid thing. Did you notice the lady from amaco
neglected to give out these esteemed professors' names? I wonder who
they are?
C'mon amaco lady, give us their names so Phil can chuck 'em into the
pleistocene.
Echoing Vince, this is the lamest thing I've seen in quite a while. It
looks like the marketing department is the big boss, like in so many
american businesses. Just look at the "big three" car makers here in
NA. Marketing department in charge. What a sorry disaster is all is,
huh?
Best wishes,
Paul Herman
Great Basin Pottery
Doyle, California US
www.greatbasinpottery.com/
On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:43 PM, pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> I realize now more than ever, the need for a 'Mechanical Arm'
which
> can
> grasp and lift 'professors', 'phds' and other Academics as
well as
> very
> nearly all 'retailers' and definitely all 'politicians'
out of their
> habituated environments, and, plunk them neatly into ohhhhhh, say,
> the early
> Pleistocene.
>
> If they find their way to say, the Olduvai Gorge as it was then,
> they could
> leave entertaining 'notes' scratched into Sun bleached Ibex femurs
or
> something, letting us now how they made out.
>
>
> These 'Arms' of course should be provided for free, as would
detailed
> instructions for how to make them, and, both should be widely
> distributed...and the design would be provided with ample Zerk
> fittings for
> sure and sustained trouble-free use, too.
>
>
> Ohhhhhhhh...if wishes were Horses...
>
>
> ....sigh...
>
>
>
> Phil
> l v
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