mel jacobson on sat 26 nov 11
i am going to start a new series called:
kohler white.
ron roy has already sent me a great glaze called `dime store white`.
bob anderson has sent me `lehman's creamy white`.
if any of you have a really bright white that will
stay white at cone 11 send it to me.
then we will run an experiment to see if my less than intellectual
800 customers that have no aesthetic taste will buy the crap i make.
life is full of joy, excitement and fun.
i am also going to call mark hewitt and suggest he sell his wood fired kiln
and quit making those ten thousand dollar pots
that he `glazes` and fires in his wood kiln. how dare he.
and, i still find that making the invite, and putting
labels on 800 cards, then adding the stamp is harder
than making 200 mugs.
sale this next weekend.
it will be joyful. as many of you know, i laugh far more than i frown.
over 50 straight christmas sales in a row in my studio. (except the year
i was in japan, but then, i had a show at the `american embassy in
kyoto` that new year holiday. nice)
mel
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
Lee on sat 26 nov 11
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:08 AM, mel jacobson wrote:
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> i am also going to call mark hewitt and suggest he sell his wood fired ki=
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> and quit making those ten thousand dollar pots
> that he `glazes` and fires in his wood kiln. =3DA0how dare he
Why do you insist that everybody do it one way? =3DA0 Loosen up!
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sn't becau=3D
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they are incompetent or because they have a lousy kiln. =3DA0=3DA0It is oft=
en
because of the level of their standards and the techniques they use,
that don't depend upon following commercial (Kholer) practices.
Mark Hewitt's _The Potter's Eye_, is an excellent book about
the N. Carolina pottery tradition. I was sorry to hear that his
co-author Nancy Sweezy , "The Savior of Jugtown Pottery", passed away
last year. She singlehandedly revived Jugtown.
I think there is a Toilet Bowl White maybe in the Kansas City Glaze
handout. (I think that is where I have seen it. I'll see if I can
dig it up.)
If you fire TAK Fat White in electric and don't reduce or quench it,
it is pretty close.
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Art Art Ramsey, December 3, 2011 10am to 5pm
http://www.artatramsey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ramsey2011-1.pdf
http://www.artatramsey.org/clay/2011/08/
--
=3DA0Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3DA0"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D9=
7that is, =3D
"The
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue
Steve Mills on sat 26 nov 11
Mark's and Nancy's book was and is inspirational as far as I'm concerned, a=
n=3D
d was the trigger that ultimately sent Kate and I into NC with Ruth Ballou =
a=3D
nd Russel Fouts after Phoenix in 09 for a nine day Potters' Tour.=3D20
Steve M
Steve Mills
Bath
UK
www.mudslinger.me.uk
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On 26 Nov 2011, at 15:39, Lee wrote:
>=3D20
> Why do you insist that everybody do it one way? Loosen up!
> Not everybody that fires gets 90% success and it isn't because
> they are incompetent or because they have a lousy kiln. It is often
> because of the level of their standards and the techniques they use,
> that don't depend upon following commercial (Kholer) practices.
>=3D20
> Mark Hewitt's _The Potter's Eye_, is an excellent book about
> the N. Carolina pottery tradition. I was sorry to hear that his
> co-author Nancy Sweezy , "The Savior of Jugtown Pottery", passed away
> last year. She singlehandedly revived Jugtown.
>=3D20
Lee on sat 26 nov 11
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Steve Mills
wrote:
> Mark's and Nancy's book was and is inspirational as far as I'm concerned,
> and was the trigger that ultimately sent Kate and I into NC with Ruth Bal=
=3D
lou
> and Russel Fouts after Phoenix in 09 for a nine day Potters' Tour.
It is an excellent book. It was a brilliant idea, to use tea
aesthetics to examine N. Carolina pots. It both points out the
universiality of tea aesthetics, as well as the universality of old N.
Carolina tradition.
In a grant application, as a back up plan, in case the
Mungeyong Tea Bowl Festival doesn't come through for me (my plan is to
tour Korea after attending the festival) I said I would tour N.
Carolina.
N. Carolina is where I would work if there was no Minnesota.
--
=3DA0Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3DA0"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D9=
7that is, =3D
"The
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue
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