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introductory videotape?

updated fri 24 sep 04

 

Earl Brunner on wed 22 sep 04


I REALLY like "Celebrating the Cycle: The Wood Fired Pottery of Matt Jones". You can find it on his website: http://www.jonespottery.com/ or
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=592&item=3749948855&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I bought my copy on EBAY from his brother, It worked out a little cheaper on Ebay than from his website. He starts the video at mixing clay and goes right through the process to unloading the kiln. Great video.

Ted Eisenstein wrote:
A bunch of us are building a woodfired kiln in
my backyard. Some of my neighbors are getting
interested in the thing, ("a big fire? Flames shooting
out the chimney? That sounds so cool!") - but
they don't have any idea about making pottery
or why build a kiln in the first place ("isn't it
simpler to put the watchamacallit in your oven?").
My verbal descriptions are not all that good
at conveying the whys and the wherefores, so
I'm wondering:
Are there any good videotapes (or, well, for that
matter, DVD's) that show, on a basic-but-
informative basis, how one goes about doing
ceramics and using a woodfired kiln? Something
I could show people who don't know pottery
what goes on so they will know what's going on?
(I"m thinking along the lines of public education
rather than the kind of thing you'd show first-
semester ceramics students, if such things exist.)

Ted

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Ted Eisenstein on wed 22 sep 04


A bunch of us are building a woodfired kiln in
my backyard. Some of my neighbors are getting
interested in the thing, ("a big fire? Flames shooting
out the chimney? That sounds so cool!") - but
they don't have any idea about making pottery
or why build a kiln in the first place ("isn't it
simpler to put the watchamacallit in your oven?").
My verbal descriptions are not all that good
at conveying the whys and the wherefores, so
I'm wondering:
Are there any good videotapes (or, well, for that
matter, DVD's) that show, on a basic-but-
informative basis, how one goes about doing
ceramics and using a woodfired kiln? Something
I could show people who don't know pottery
what goes on so they will know what's going on?
(I"m thinking along the lines of public education
rather than the kind of thing you'd show first-
semester ceramics students, if such things exist.)

Ted

Weiland, Jeff on wed 22 sep 04


Ted,
Several years ago I picked up a copy of a video made by Dan Anderson. =
It has a lot of good footage of both Dan's work and the wood kiln =
firing. I must caution you about one shot of his big...uh...posterior =
coming out of the kiln!!! I can always count on that clip getting a =
reaction from my students. I think it is sold through the Southern =
Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation. =20

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From: Ted Eisenstein [mailto:alban@SOCKET.NET]
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To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: introductory videotape?


A bunch of us are building a woodfired kiln in
my backyard. Some of my neighbors are getting
interested in the thing, ("a big fire? Flames shooting
out the chimney? That sounds so cool!") - but
they don't have any idea about making pottery
or why build a kiln in the first place ("isn't it
simpler to put the watchamacallit in your oven?").
My verbal descriptions are not all that good
at conveying the whys and the wherefores, so
I'm wondering:
Are there any good videotapes (or, well, for that
matter, DVD's) that show, on a basic-but-
informative basis, how one goes about doing
ceramics and using a woodfired kiln? Something
I could show people who don't know pottery
what goes on so they will know what's going on?
(I"m thinking along the lines of public education
rather than the kind of thing you'd show first-
semester ceramics students, if such things exist.)

Ted

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