Helen Bates on fri 19 dec 03
Brazil - December 19th., 2003
Surfing with Helen Bates - one from Canada and several sites from Brazil=20
- December 19th., 2003
Andrea Piller (Toronto, ON, Canada)=20
All I can say is: "Oh my!" To=20
view the pages, enter the site then hover your mouse over any of the ten=20
toes and read the menu between the two feet. (The contrast between text=20
and background could be greater, in my opinion.) (I found her site by a=20
web search for her name after my guild sent an e-mail announcing her=20
work and showing a couple of pieces I liked. Thanks, Fusion!)
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R=FAbia Moraes (Clayarter) (S=E3o Paulo, SP, Brazil)=20
Potter and kiln builder and=20
Clayarter R=FAbia Moraes's Photo Album
Also, if you go to Sonia Ro's site:=20
, and click on "Forno"
(translates as "kiln"), you will see the series of pictures of the=20
building of the gas kiln that R=FAbia built for Sonia (who once wrote me =
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nice note at my Yahoo address, following a PMI Online article.)
Both do great work. The sites are in Portuguese but you can surf to the=20
Altavista Babelfish translation page and select "Portuguese to English"=20
to "Translate a Web Page." (Not everything will be translated, of=20
course, just pure text.)
(IE: text in images is not translated.)
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Clay Cooking Pots (Panela de Barro) (Brazilian clay cooking pots)
For those who may be interested in Brazilian Clay cooking pans, here is=20
a partial quotation from the site, with some insertions by me to=20
maintain the sense of the text after cutting:
> Tradition and quality are (some of the) (...) ingredients in the clay=20
> pans from Espirito Santo. (...) Brazil (...) counts among its treasures=
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> (...) its people('s) (...) workmanship (which) increases the flavor and=
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> charm of (its) (...) dishes. =20
The images of the pots are very small and appear to be photographed=20
through some sort of filter, so you can't see a lot of detail. Included=20
on the site are three Brazilian clay pot recipes for fish, including=20
ones for salt cod and grouper. The site was forwarded by importer=20
Leandro Passos (Ace Import & Export Corp. Weymouth, MA, USA.) Passos=20
states that his prices are much lower than those at "Culinary Direct."=20
However, the CD site has a better image... so I add it's link here:=20
http://culinarydirect.gourmetfoodmall.com/ The pots are also sold at=20
another site: http://www.rovena.com/Pages/panela.html This site has two=20
recipes for Moqueca, which is a type of fish stew cooked in these clay=20
pots: http://www.vivabrazil.com/moqueca.htm
(Scroll down for the English explanation and recipes in English.)
Ecocomposite - Buried Clay Pot Irrigation
(Environmental Restoration site of Professor David A. Bainbridge)
(San Diego, CA, USA)
While searching for "Brazil" and "clay" and "pots" I found a number of=20
references to the buried clay pot irrigation method, which, in the=20
article presented at the above site, is claimed to use only a tenth of=20
the water in growing corn as would be required to grow corn in the usual=20
S. California method.
Other sites featuring Brazilian ceramics:
Fl=E1via Santoro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Babelfish Translation:
3A%2F%2Fwww.flaviasantoro.com.br>
Tiny Url for Babelfish Translation:
Nice website, interesting style - functional and sculptural work
If you speak Portuguese, you might like to take a workshop there. What=20
a beautiful mountain view from her verandah!
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Rossi, Maria Alice Porto (Campinas, Brazil)
Translation from the Portuguese to English:
3A%2F%2Fwww.portorossi.art.br>
Tiny Url:
Besides her own work, Porto features Brazilian ceramist and educator=20
Aguinaldo Da Silva who at 56 has been working in clay for 50 years. He=20
makes some very fine musical pieces, including multiple percussion=20
vessels and sculpted ocarinas.
Two more Brazilian sites with ceramics:
CER=C2MICA NO RIO (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
review
Central da Ceramica - Art3D (Brazil)
To try your hand at translating these other sites, you can use:
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(Remember to use the "Translate a Web page" section, selecting=20
"Portuguese to English" and avoiding doubling the string "http://" by=20
accident in your "Copy and Pasting" of the url to be translated.)
Enjoy,
Helen
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Helen Bates - mailto:nell@cogeco.ca, nelbanell@yahoo.com
Web - http://www.geocities.com/nelbanell/
PMI Online - http://www.potterymaking.org/pmionline.html
Clayarters' Urls - http://amsterlaw.com/clayart.html
Surfing Posts - http://amsterlaw.com/nell.html
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