George Koller on wed 8 oct 03
Oh my golly Janet,
You are absolutely incredible, I can't believe you have the time
and energy and the will... scratch all that... simply the heart to do
something like that. Thank you and Wow. But we also need to
chat about some of this....
Those "historic" leaves. those are really ugly birthing pictures, not
what they look like now with saturation adjustments, improved
images and such. You're showing the world my red prunny baby
bottom here... first impressions are important.
Our new site, ImagesOnClay.com, will be nominally oriented toward
interesting, informing, and supporting tile retailers. These are the
good folks that seperate me from the women with the wallpaper
samples - so you know my first priority has to be to get them and
keep them there.
And I just can't ask you to keep up with the rapidly changing
technical stuff I intend to keep under the "Clayart Info" button at the
end of the homepage.
How should I think about the people that visit SUCAWS?
Are they mostly artists, or people looking to make purchases
of art pieces? Mostly Clayarters - ie sophisticated clay artists
of the first rung? I have some ideas for future things, things
Charley can't do yet but should be able to eventually without
major modifications. If I put that stuff on the "sell it" site people
will likely get confused. Would this be a way to focus things?
Consistent with other folks? Will this fit your idea of a typical
visitor?
Best always,
george koller
sturgeon bay, wi - door county
northport, mi - leelanau county
two great places separated by 100 miles of great lake.
Janet Kaiser on wed 8 oct 03
You forget George, that Charley and the work he does are already
on the web!! Your SUCAWS page is still there you know, although
you have not updated the content for a while (do I sound slightly
reproachful?)... Anyway, the "historical" Charles Mark I lives on
at http://www.clayart.fsnet.co.uk/pp_george_koller1.html
And BTW Richard and Veena... Don't you guys make me blush any
more please! It truly is *my pleasure* NOT LEAST because that way
I get to see your pots.... AT LAST!! How am I going to otherwise,
stuck on the arse of Europe with a damn great pond between
us?!?!?! It is not like being able to fondle a pot, weigh it,
hold it up to the light, but it is a little consolation...
Seriously, I need to do what I can for others on Clayart, just as
people have done for me. "Do unto others" and all that, because I
have had much more helpful gifts than a few bits and bytes thrown
out into cyberspace... The kindness and simple generosity has
been quite overwhelming... Folk have sent me cutting tools, can
openers, "miracle cloth" and what a couple of people knew would
make life easier for me now I have ten stiff, stout sausages
where there used to be nimble fingers...
Then there are the people who help with my sodding hard/software
problems which have been dogging me for years... Some have sent
disks like the time a cigarette burned an original CD or another
who chased fonts all around the internet for me to find my
favourites which had gone poof in one of my dead drive episodes.
Another helps chasing spam and virus sources, then there is the
dear heart who sent a couple of magazines with articles being
hotly discussed at the time... Cards at Christmas, birthday
greetings... All from people I have never met and probably never
will. Such is the kindness of Clayart folk.
And of course the tiles Clayarters have sent for The Path... Did
you think I had forgotten?? Oh, no! Although it is "The Potters'
Path - made by and for Potters" (and NOT "Janet's path") I know
many would not have sent a contribution if they did not have some
personal connection. And each time someone like Russel, Rikki or
Jean M. visits (the visiting Clayarters this summer), it is like
being able to point out work made by old friends. Here's Veena's
tile, here are Alisa's (tell the story of Alisa being "caught" by
a local reporter rolling out clay on a town manhole cover and the
follow-up). And see up here... That is Snail's and over there is
Terri's. No not that one, that is Kurt W's. It is in the middle
"brown" section with Anji H. and Stephanie S. Then Father Anthony
is in the true blue... Bonnie's and Fabienne's over at the end of
the last section laid, then down to Lena's N, S, E, W section.
Here are your brother's Jean... Ron M.'s and just next to his...
Lots, lots more of course, including one very odd one in a
Minnesota Orange Shino :o) but far too many to mention here. But
I can more or less point out and name every single Clayarter tile
if you come and visit and have enough time...
Well, one day I hope I will be able to make a web page with each
tile "clickable" to get the details of who made it, so you will
all be able to see for yourselves beyond scanning the long list
of "Path Makers" on The CoA web site. But I am not starting on
that until The Path is finished! I hope I live long enough to see
the day and hopefully I will have the technical skills by then!
But projects like SUCAWS are a good learning tool to learn what
does and does not work, the best way around the few rapidly
ageing and outdated programmes I have at my disposal.
Anyway, enough of a ramble! I just wanted to say that there is a
huge amount of good will and respect for others, which really
makes Clay Town a wonderful community and it all invites not only
participation, but a feeling of needing to reciprocate in some
tangible way. Above and beyond my odd rant (=B0!=B0) there is not
much I can contribute otherwise.
Anyway...Enough said. Just remember to keep sending updates and
new images! I becomes a tad boring seeing the same pots every
time I make over the site... Not to mention people returning
hoping to see new work...! Anyway those pots will be losing their
original brightness... Yes, it happens, even in cyber space!
Mostly because of my own silly mistakes and having to make copies
of copies but don`t tell anyone, eh? Blame the potters!!!! And as
everyone knows... Gallerists always do... Ha! HA!
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser - just back from a six hour marathon helping a
friend re-install programmes on her new hard drive. She still has
Windows98 and how I envy her! I am sitting here with bigger,
better 80 gig / 240 RAM and XP but cannot scan, cannot use the
DVD, no sound, with programme menus cut in half so I cannot do a
lot of "stuff" and with a modem that plays silly buggers because
it obviously suffers from selective hearing just as my
grandmother did.... WHAT PROGRESS IS THIS?!?!?!
*** MAIL FROM GEORGE KOLLER ***
>We will be putting pictures of Charley and the tiles he can make
>now up on the web. Charley is a simple 2d cartes' iiiiaaaaan
>robot, but we are always work'n to make him a tad smarter.
*** THE MAIL FROM George Koller ENDS HERE ***
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