joycem@CUAA.EDU on sat 8 dec 01
My favorite search engine is Google.
In doing a quick check for calendars, I did not come up with some large hidden
cache, but here is some information and some serendipitously found links that
may be of interest to the group.
If you're unfamiliar with Google, one of it's wonderful features is it's
ability to search for images. To seach for images, simply click on the Image
tab at Google and enter your keyword(s). This is an excellent way to find
images of work done by specific people or related to specific techniques. Your
search will generate pages of thumbnail images. Click on one of them and the
screen will split horizontally. On the top will be the image and on the bottom
will be the webpage that is the source of the image. That page is fully
scrollable and interactive. Click Back and your back to your thumbnails.
In searching for ceramics calendars and pottery calendars, some of the URLs
show .calendar in their extensions. Some of the images are pages from actual
calendars (didn't see any that were all pottery) and some were refering to
calendars in the schedule of events sense.
In using Google's default text tab, I found this site from Minnesota Clay in
1998 and 1999 when they published a series of monthly calendars featuring
various artists and ways with working with clay that could be downloaded to
your computer desktop each month. Most of the links are still up. Marcia
Selsor, a name I recognized, was featured in December of 1998.
http://www.mm.com/mnclayus/cal.html
There's a large image at this site of an Aztec calendar made of crushed
volcanic rock and clay. It is 18" in diameter and currently being produced for
sale. http://www.sillyprillygifts.com/redeagle/p_azteccalendar.html
This animal shelter was considering calendars for a fundraiser but went with
clay paperweights into which animal footprints had been impressed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShelterFundraising/message/611
Chapel Hill potter and Duke Divinity School student Cely Chicurel gave each of
the students of the Duke Youth Academy a square block of clay...
http://www.divinity.duke.edu/newsbox/duyouth.html
The Oldest ABC's: The Ugarit Cuneiform Alphabet
Good close-up image of the impressed marks in the clay.
http://www.stormloader.com/flavin/abc.htm
and a good image and discussion of an early clay "stamp seal" by the same
author.
http://www.stormloader.com/flavin/karanovo.html
Enjoy the journeys!
Mark
Mark L. Joyce joycem@cuaa.edu
Professor of Education
Concordia University Ann Arbor, Michigan
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