Tommy Humphries on thu 21 sep 00
Several years ago I demo'ed at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio.
Had over 200,000 in attendance over the four day event. You know that there
is a crowd when there is a dead silence, you look up and the people are
mesmerized...standing in the hot 110 deg. sun, watching you make little
pots.
I would throw for 45 min. making 20-30 pots, then take a 30 min break come
back and wedge all the pots up for the next batch. Thought they were going
to have strokes when I would squash them. Re- used the same 150 lb. of clay
for the whole 4 days. On Sunday (kids day) would make the pots, set them on
the table and let the kids have at 'em, they got to keep what they made, so
no clay to haul back home.
There is no greater confidence builder than displaying your skills before a
crowd, as the crowd wants to be pleased. This feeds back to you, making you
want to please the crowd even more.
One stunt that always gets a laugh is to make a medium to large narrow
necked form and pick out someone in the crowd with a hat on. Tell them to
look into the bottom of the pot (with you holding it in both hands). when
they lean down squash the pot quickly and blow their hat off. Always a big
laugh...after the shocked silence at the "awful destruction".
Tommy Humphries
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. P. Skeen"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: studio ideas and throwing before a mirror
>
> O I love demo throwing. It's especially fun when something COLLAPSES in
> front of 50 people standing around.....(no, that was not a joke, it IS
> funny.) I have learned to talk while throwing, and people ooooh and
aaaaah.
> Now what's hilarious is when folks come and see the 10 or so pots I've
> thrown in the last 3 hours and say, "Wow, did you do all that
> TODAY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>
> L
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