Brad Sondahl on thu 10 dec 98
Occasionally I'll be making a row of mugs and think, "Next
I'll make some candleholders." And suddenly there's a
candleholder on the wheel instead of a mug.
Production work is inevitably a bit mindless--probably why I
turn on NPR as soon as I enter my studio. On the other hand
special orders require a whole design process in order to
make: A: What the customer wants; and B: What will actually
function well and look appealing. On the whole I prefer the
boredom of production to the frustration of special orders.
However these special orders occasionally result in new
product lines, as well as happy customers...
--
Brad Sondahl
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Ray Carlton on fri 11 dec 98
mmmmm!./....know the feeling.....listening to the music.....mind
wandering...suddenly an hours past and the throwing area is of full fresh
new pots and you realise they came without any mental input at all...like
walking or breathing or heart beating....mmmm automatic pots and they look
good
At 13:38 10/12/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Occasionally I'll be making a row of mugs and think, "Next
>I'll make some candleholders." And suddenly there's a
>candleholder on the wheel instead of a mug.
>Production work is inevitably a bit mindless--probably why I
>turn on NPR as soon as I enter my studio. On the other hand
>special orders require a whole design process in order to
>make: A: What the customer wants; and B: What will actually
>function well and look appealing. On the whole I prefer the
>boredom of production to the frustration of special orders.
>However these special orders occasionally result in new
>product lines, as well as happy customers...
>
>--
>Brad Sondahl
>Sondahl homepage http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl/
>Brad's Index
>http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl/bradindex.html
>Contributing to the potluck of the WWW
>
>
cheers :) Ray Carlton
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Vince Pitelka on fri 11 dec 98
>Production work is inevitably a bit mindless--probably why I
>turn on NPR as soon as I enter my studio.
Brad -
I got a kick out of this. When I was doing production in my studio in
Northern California in the late 70s and early 80s, a major turning point
came when our local public radio station became a NPR affiliate, carrying
All Things Considered, PHC, and a number of other shows. It changed the
whole atmosphere in my studio whenever these shows were on, and now, I
cannot imagine studio life without NPR.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka - vpitelka@DeKalb.net
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Mike Gordon on sat 12 dec 98
HI,
What is NPR? Mike
Tom Wirt on sat 12 dec 98
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Production work is inevitably a bit mindless--probably why I
>turn on NPR as soon as I enter my studio.
>
>station became a NPR affiliate, carrying
>All Things Considered, PHC, and a number of other shows. It >changed the
>
And for those of you who can find it, there's a show called "To the best of our
knowledge. You can dig up local stations by going to www.wpr.org and clicking
on To The Best Of Our Knowledge.
Tom
Berry Silverman on sat 12 dec 98
Vince Pitelka wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original
message----------------------------
I certainly related to this comment. No matter what we listen to in
the studio during the day -- pop, rap, rock -- at 2:45 somebody puts
on a pot of coffee, and at 3:00 we are listening to Terry Gross with
Fresh Air. It has started lots of startling conversations in the
studio -- as well as lots of silent periods where we're listening so
intently we're upset when the air compressor comes on. But the best
story is about a time when Terry Gross had been on vacation for a week
or two, with someone else sitting in for her. And Sebastian, at that
time my pourer, a high-school dropout with a few scrapes with the law
under his belt, and always exceptionally quiet, said near the end of
the two-week period, So where is Terry Gross, anyway? I was thrilled;
he was listening!
> Brad -
> I got a kick out of this. When I was doing production in my studio in
> Northern California in the late 70s and early 80s, a major turning
point
> came when our local public radio station became a NPR affiliate,
carrying
> All Things Considered, PHC, and a number of other shows. It changed
the
> whole atmosphere in my studio whenever these shows were on, and now, I
> cannot imagine studio life without NPR.
> - Vince
>
> Vince Pitelka
>
==
Berry Silverman,
Berryware, Tucson, Arizona
berrysilverman@yahoo.com
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Lori Leary on mon 14 dec 98
Love that NPR while working in the studio, especially "Radio
Reader" (with Dick Estell), "Piano Jazz"(love her variety of guests),
"Echos"(late at night), and "Thistle and Shamrock"(my Scotch Irish blood
is showing). The blues are always good, and sometimes I just *have* to
play Billie Holiday, (when it's a Billie Holiday kind of day.)
But my deep, dark secret:
When I am alone, and doing some sort of repetitive work that I don't
have to think too much about, I put on choral music and sing along.
Before I know it, the CD is done, the work is done, and I feel like I
have been in that "other place" for a while. "Requiem' by Mozart works
well, and "Carmina Burana" is another favorite. Before I was a potter,
and before I was a nurse, I was a voice major...(I guess I had trouble
deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up... but I digress).
I guess it's sort of the studio equivalent of singing in the shower.
Whatever it is, it works for me.
Happy Listening,
Lori L.
lleary@sccoast.net
Pawleys Island, SC
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