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lending books & videos

updated sat 2 feb 02

 

claybair on wed 30 jan 02


Our little Kitsap Co WA clay group had some extra $.
We purchased a bunch of videos and donated them to a local library.

During my first year in clay I was allowed to borrow magazines from local
studio.
I felt like a sponge... because some of them were years old I also saw a
progression I would have been lacking otherwise.

I was given many of these magazines and find it very interesting when
reviewing them a year or two later. Being at another level of understanding
I always see "new" information.

Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com

Joyce Lee Wrote>> Subject: Can of Worms/Another Aspect


Seems my mind just won't let go of this one. How do claybuds feel about
lending their clay books and videos to others? I do so often. Well, not the
videos except on one occasion, but I have allowed beginning potters and
friends to observe them in my home. I also belong to Friends of the
Library and make formal recommendations that they purchase clay books that
I'm sure local potters and clay students will use. I've recommended a few
to the local college library also ... through the librarian and the ceramic
teachers, all of whom are friends. They trust my recommendations both
because of my perspective as an active and serious learner/addict of clay,
and as a purchaser of many textbooks and supportive materials for the school
district. snip>>

Curious, too, about your feelings regarding lending copies of CM, PMI, Clay
Times etc ... my mentor sent me home with stacks when we began working
together .... in turn, when I've mentored, I've done the same ... should I
have simply supplied information about ordering their own copies? I know
the answer to this one, of course, but how do you feel? Is this not the
same situation? If you think not ... tell me why not, please? I'd like to
hear it. I've anticipated some possible responses, but won't comment on this
one again.
snip<<

L. P. Skeen on thu 31 jan 02


> I was given many of these magazines and find it very interesting when
reviewing them a year or two later. Being at another level of understanding
I always see "new" information.


I concur. I don't take CM any more because it's too "brainy" for my taste.
When I see a pot I like, I wanna know how it was made, not read an essay on
the emotional rendering of the potter with relation to his experience with
Kenzan ancestry or whatever. ;) For the last week or so, I've been out of
books to read, so in spare time at the studio have been going back thru old
issues of CM and CT. (In the case of CM, what I notice is that if I like
the pot on the cover, I will like a lot of what is in that issue. If not,
then not.) Anyway, even though in most cases I have already looked through
the mag when it came in, I find new things I either missed or dismissed when
I read it the first time. It's like having a whole new subscription for
free.

L

potterybydai on thu 31 jan 02


>I don't take CM any more because it's too "brainy" for my taste.
> When I see a pot I like, I wanna know how it was made, not read an essay
on
> the emotional rendering of the potter with relation to his >experience
with
> Kenzan ancestry or whatever. ;)

Thankyou! Thankyou! This is the most right-on comment I've read about CM!
PLEASE allow me to use it when I respond to their subscription renewal
notice, which should come shortly. I am not renewing. I find CT and PMI
much more to my liking. And I have enough back issues of CM to last a
lifetime!
Dai in Kelowna, BC
potterybydai@shaw.ca

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you
respond to it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. P. Skeen"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CLAYART] Lending books & videos


> > I was given many of these magazines and find it very interesting when
> reviewing them a year or two later. Being at another level of
understanding
> I always see "new" information.
>
>
> I concur. For the last week or so, I've been out of
> books to read, so in spare time at the studio have been going back thru
old
> issues of CM and CT. (In the case of CM, what I notice is that if I like
> the pot on the cover, I will like a lot of what is in that issue. If not,
> then not.) Anyway, even though in most cases I have already looked
through
> the mag when it came in, I find new things I either missed or dismissed
when
> I read it the first time. It's like having a whole new subscription for
> free.
>
> L
>
>
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Celeste Sabel on fri 1 feb 02


Guess that is why there are different magazines -- for different folks.
How boring if we only had one to choose from. Celeste in Montgomery


>From: potterybydai
>Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
>To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
>Subject: Re: Lending books & videos
>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:55:43 -0800
>
> >I don't take CM any more because it's too "brainy" for my taste.
> > When I see a pot I like, I wanna know how it was made, not read an essay
>on
> > the emotional rendering of the potter with relation to his >experience
>with
> > Kenzan ancestry or whatever. ;)
>
>Thankyou! Thankyou! This is the most right-on comment I've read about CM!
>PLEASE allow me to use it when I respond to their subscription renewal
>notice, which should come shortly. I am not renewing. I find CT and PMI
>much more to my liking. And I have enough back issues of CM to last a
>lifetime!
>Dai in Kelowna, BC
>potterybydai@shaw.ca
>
> Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you
>respond to it.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "L. P. Skeen"
>To:
>Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [CLAYART] Lending books & videos
>
>
> > > I was given many of these magazines and find it very interesting when
> > reviewing them a year or two later. Being at another level of
>understanding
> > I always see "new" information.
> >
> >
> > I concur. For the last week or so, I've been out of
> > books to read, so in spare time at the studio have been going back thru
>old
> > issues of CM and CT. (In the case of CM, what I notice is that if I
>like
> > the pot on the cover, I will like a lot of what is in that issue. If
>not,
> > then not.) Anyway, even though in most cases I have already looked
>through
> > the mag when it came in, I find new things I either missed or dismissed
>when
> > I read it the first time. It's like having a whole new subscription for
> > free.
> >
> > L
> >
> >
>____________________________________________________________________________
>__
> > Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
> >
> > You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> > settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
> >
> > Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
>melpots@pclink.com.
>
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
>You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
>settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
>Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
>melpots@pclink.com.




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