The View From Kalamazoo

The piece from my fertile crescent assignment I’m working on duplicating: vessel with spout.

It’s complete and I’ve burnished the surface once. I need to burnish it again before applying surface decoration. (handbuilt, red earthenware)

The pieces from my ancient Greece assignment I started tonight: a cup, and a perfume/oil container (instead of fashioning it after a Greek one in one of the books we’ve been pouring over, I like this Eutruscan one, instead..and we’ll get to Rome, but they are pre-Rome and clearly influenced by Greek pottery, so…)

Red earthenware, wheel-thrown tonight. I hope they will be dry enough to trim next week, and I can throw a base and attach handles. I might totally have to use some stoneware this weekend and try to make this jug. It’s just too fabulous.

And might I take a moment to crow about the incredible online Compass of the British Museum? The images, the collections…totally mind blowing. Gorgeous.

Yay, I’m on a list!

Lessee: another load of links is coming. blogging session is coming together nicely. work is Hell. black licorice is da nums. my Amazon order of Understanding Girls with AD/HD by Nadeau, Littman, and Quinn has arrived. I owe someone an abstract. Colin just turned 4 and colors in the lines almost as well as the 9-year-old (which says more about the latter than the former, unfortunately). I’m tired, good night.

Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller.

300 is a re-telling of the Battle of Thermopylae (in which King Leonidas and300 Spartans fought against King Xerxes and an immense Persian army).

Trailer

Happy ADHD Awareness Day!

Been asked to write a paper for 2007. Yep. Will I never learn?

Stone Age discovery

Archaeologists find traces of legendary Viking centre

Bronze Age pyramid found in Ukraine

Bulgaria: archaeologists find 5,000-year old dagger

2,500-year-old figures may be terracotta army models

Archaeologists discover permafrost mummy with fur coat

Phoenician tombs found in Sicily

Italian archaeologists discover main sanctuary of the Etruscans

Archaeologists Discover Burnt Body in Roman Oven at Sedgeford

Medieval treasures unearthed in field

Medieval Hostelry Found Beneath English Heritage Gastro-Pub

Foundations of monastery found at Holyrood

Dig unearths round table evidence at Windsor Castle

Summer heatwave unearths historic past

Made an etsy shop. Will cease hawking here, despite having been asked to do it I was a little uncomfortable. But piccies will continue. I’m vain like that. If you’re shopping the wonderful world of stoneware there is a link at the left.

Course I’m beginning Wed. is called Inspired by History. Descrip: “Etruscan pots, Minoan vessels, Greek vases, and Medieval Japanese teaware! The history of
ceramics is a gold mine for potters, and they have long used it to inform and inspire their work. This class will look at ceramic cultures and significant historical vessels as inspiration. Learn to look to the greatest pots ever made
to inspire a new look at form and content.” Should be very interesting. I have commission work up the wazoo to get going on, anyway, so let’s hope for a productive term. *tosses confetti*

Note to self: Sleep is a useful thing. Consider getting more of it.

The shortened summer term class I took was called ‘Out of Round’, so nearly everything I made was just that.

Everything was wheel-thrown – then handbuilt portions were added, they were tweaked and twisted or otherwise modified. I made lided boxes, mucked around with plate/cup sets, modified bowls, threw a couple of standard issue round pieces (but experimented with texture or glaze), and then attempted to make tiles that approximate the work of Paul Klee as requested by PESz. A couple of them came out warped (I wonder if the glaze kiln was too high in temp?) but that’s why I made 4 – so I would at least have one I can felt the bottom of and send to him for his coffee cup in his new office (I have the Klee piece I used for inspiration next to the image, but clearly the stoneware glazes weren’t able to come terribly close to the hues in that piece).

I also have a bunch of stuff that was bisque-fired (but I didn’t have time to glaze) sitting and waiting for me, so there will be more piccies.
(note: I’ll add measurements to these shortly, if you’re interested in that information. And yes, my dear fans, prices – one box and a plate/mug were claimed shortly after I brought the stuff into the office to display on my bookcases. No nagging, now.)

Boxes:



5″ tall (includes lid) x 3.25″ widest Sold



4.75″ tall x 5″ widest

6.5″ tall x 4″ widest

Modified-rim bowls:



5″ x 6″ widest

3.5″ x 7″ widest

Plate/Mug sets:



10.5″ plate, 3.5″ tall x 3.5″ mug

9.5″ plate, 4.5″ tall x 3.5″ cup

9″ plate, 4″ tall x 4″ mug Sold

Varia:



3.5″ tall x 5″



4″ tall x 5.5″ at widest (this is actually a gentle oval)



6″ tall x 6.5



4.5″ tall x 4″

Cloverleaf candy dish:



3″ tall x 5″ widest

Poobah’s project

So I give a long interview. I give examples, I include URLs to my Children with Disabilities blog series, you name it.

What do they latch onto? One light-hearted-in-context end-of-conversation quip.

ADDitude Magazine naysayer article.

I’m not sure how to feel about this. *grumblesnarl*