JOYCE LEE on sun 3 jul 05
The new Clay Times is chocked with Can-Do-This
information. I'm hoping to get to the Layered
Colored slips this week before heading off to the
Lake... which appears to me to fall right in with
the Throwing Marbled Clay. I've worked with the
marbled clay successfully using Robin Hopper's
videotapes as a guide. It's been a couple of years,
however, and I'd like to give this approach a spin.
What REALLY intrigues me with this July/August
publication, however, is the COVER. Admittedly
my eye is untrained...... but isn't it a refreshingly
startling change from the usual pots with grey
backgrounds descending (or ascending) in tone=20
that most pubs seem to offer ad nauseum??
OR the few that continue to hang on to showing
a potter by his/her lonesome throwing on an
impossibly clean wheel....... deliver me! Shades
of Ghost.
The new Clay Times volume 11 actually suggests
ART... and the colors are definitely worth whatever
the extra cost entailed ... the eye..... my ignorant
eye traveled immediately from the orangey red
on the pot in the bottom right-hand corner to the
words Eastern Shore Pit-firing (same color) on
the left side midway..... and on to the toboggan
(cap) worn by the potter at the top righthand
side .... holding a red hot pot emerging from
the raku kiln. Description is poor, I know, so look
for yourself...... and that's not all that's going on
on that cover...... still, it's NOT TOO BUSY.=20
Somebody knew when to quit. Wonderful.
Joyce
In the Mojave desert of California U.S.A.
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 3 jul 05
Hi Joyce, all...
Curmudgeonly me, I hate all of these magazines, no matter their 'covers'.
If they wish to deseminate useful or edifying or entertaining information
and insights into the making and understanding of Art and Craft related
Ceramics, then they can certainly do so in a way that is in itself,
consistant in mode and mood, with those aesthetics one might wish Art or
Craft to posess or embody or represent.
Their crass, vulgar, banal, ad-ridden corporate management lowest connon
denominator of dollar worshipping carcases do nothing of the sort.
Far as I am concerned, they can go out of business and the World would be a
better place.
They have no moral courage to BE anything but more of the same ubiquity of
shallow banalifying schlock on the mag-racks next to all the other ones that
are the same about whatever their 'subjects' ( ad selling ) purports to be
about.
They have no imagination, no identity, no courage and no real substance, no
fidelity to any guideing sense to 'do' anything different from the standard
pandering cynical formula for any modern magazine on the racks...regardless
of the ostensible 'subject' and the real subject is selling ugly ads, and as
many of them as possible.
It is only an arbitrary concession to filling in market gaps, that these
magazines and magazine publishers - in their way - exist to address or
insult, interests in Pottery or Ceramics.
My rant-de-jur...
Love,
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JOYCE LEE"
The new Clay Times is chocked with Can-Do-This
information. I'm hoping to get to the Layered
Colored slips this week before heading off to the
Lake... which appears to me to fall right in with
the Throwing Marbled Clay. I've worked with the
marbled clay successfully using Robin Hopper's
videotapes as a guide. It's been a couple of years,
however, and I'd like to give this approach a spin.
What REALLY intrigues me with this July/August
publication, however, is the COVER. Admittedly
my eye is untrained...... but isn't it a refreshingly
startling change from the usual pots with grey
backgrounds descending (or ascending) in tone
that most pubs seem to offer ad nauseum??
OR the few that continue to hang on to showing
a potter by his/her lonesome throwing on an
impossibly clean wheel....... deliver me! Shades
of Ghost.
The new Clay Times volume 11 actually suggests
ART... and the colors are definitely worth whatever
the extra cost entailed ... the eye..... my ignorant
eye traveled immediately from the orangey red
on the pot in the bottom right-hand corner to the
words Eastern Shore Pit-firing (same color) on
the left side midway..... and on to the toboggan
(cap) worn by the potter at the top righthand
side .... holding a red hot pot emerging from
the raku kiln. Description is poor, I know, so look
for yourself...... and that's not all that's going on
on that cover...... still, it's NOT TOO BUSY.
Somebody knew when to quit. Wonderful.
Joyce
In the Mojave desert of California U.S.A.
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