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  #21  
Old May 17th 05, 12:17 AM
Stephanie Coleman
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John:

Where upstate? North of the city or real upstate where the blizzards blow?

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Stephanie Coleman
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"J and K" wrote in message
news
I have been reading this newsgroup for years. I am a high school drawing
and ceramics teacher in upstate New York and have been active in ceramics
for about seven years. Most of my work is one of kind functional wheel
thrown pieces but recently have been doing quite a bit of figural
sculpture. I don't have a web site yet, but plan on one someday. I am
currently trying to set up my own studio (in the basement) but the rest of
the house renovations seem to consume my weekends. I am constantly trying
to accumulate new ideas and techniques and this past year took part in my
first aborigama firing. I recently built a raku kiln and can't wait to fire
it ( saving up for the burners). Well that's me and I just wanted to thank
the group for all the great info and inspiration.
John




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Old May 17th 05, 12:19 AM
Stephanie Coleman
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Did you write the quote at the end of your email? I love it!

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"Lori" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi Everyone!

Freeport, Illinois, USA is where I call home - just a short distance
from the famed Galena Pottery area - and am more of a lurker than a
poster, but I do have my moments.....

I'm not a full-time potter - I hold a full-time job in the
administrative offices at the our community college. I do, however,
manage to work part-time as the chief gofer/technician/kiln
mistress/tutor/researcher and assist in the ceramics department. It's
strictly volunteer and as we have a very small department, my hours are
adjusted to accomodate the need for me elsewhere on campus at odd
times. (It's so nice to be needed.) lol

I teach children's classes (ages 8-12) for our Community Education
department one night a week a few weeks a semester, and will be one of
the two presenters this fall when we finally are able to offer our new
workshops. (Thank you everyone for all the wonderful advice on that
request.)

My studio at home is where I can be found in the wee hours of the
morning or late at night when I need to "decompress" - my daughter and
her husband call it "thestudiothatusedtobeagarage" - always with a
silly grin because of what it took to make it become a reality. I
don't have a website, but I do have a small gallery where you can see
some of my kids' work from last fall.

I'm a wheel-worker - not real fond of handbuilding, although I can
pretty much hold my own when I need to. I'm also a beadworker, still
enjoy sewing once in a while, do a little knitting in the winter, am a
fairly proficient cook/baker and like puttering in the garden and yard
if/when time permits.

If any of you have had a chance to check out the Naked Raku group on
Yahoo!, chances are, you've run into me along the way, whether you
realized it or not - I'm one of the co-moderators for the group.

I, too, started in clay as a way to reduce stress and because I had
always had this unexplainable urge to get my hands into it. Before I
started having problems with my eyesight, I would use sewing or
beadworking as my channeling device for negatives - clay has taken
their place and I can't imagine being without it.

And, like Steven, I'm a maker - of things - always have been and always
will be.

Take care all,

Lori

Life is a work of art,
Created by the one who lives it.



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Old May 17th 05, 11:38 AM
Monika Schleidt
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Bubbles wrote:


I would love to get in touch with other potters in Switzerland or nearby
across the borders.


Marianne, it seems you and i are the only ones in Continental Europe. I
live about 25km southeast of Vienna, Austria, not quite accross the
border from Switzerland ;-). Where in Switzerland do you live?

I learned pottery many years ago in the US, where i lived for 20 years.
I have been back in Austria again almost 20 years now. I have my own
little workshop here, well, everything else about it you can read in my
homepage below (which is dreadfully outdated, but...).

Monika





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Old May 18th 05, 12:53 AM
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Hi Monika!

I think we have corresponded a while ago about something. I seem to remember
that lovely workshop of your's!

I love to show kids how to do pottery. My teacher and the gal who shares her
studio both teach kids, so I often see kewl projects my "tageskind" and
other visiting kids can try.

I am in Zurich. Not too far away, but not exactly next door, either :-D

Very glad to meet you, Monica! Let's stay in touch!!

Marianne


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Old May 18th 05, 01:55 PM
Bob Masta
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I'm an electrical engineer who worked in the auto
industry, then went back to school to learn bioengineering
and worked for many years in hearing research. This
was basic research stuff (electrophysiology of sensory
cells, etc), which involved non-human subjects. One of
my main ongoing projects there was "evoked potentials"
software that allows you to tell what an animal can hear
via brainwave recording, since it was a major chore to train them to
respond behaviorally.

I have only been involved with pottery for a few years. I
find it really exciting because there is always something
new to learn. I love to experiment and "invent" things...
even if someone has already "been there, done that",
I still get a thrill from finding my own way.

I do only handbuilding of various kinds, and my
kiln is a tiny home-built electric using silicon
carbide elements. I plan to add a home-built
computerized controller soon.

Nothing I do is "production", just family gifts and
stuff for the house.

I had been meaning for a while to write a simple
glaze analysis program for my own educational
purposes, and dkat's work in that area finally
inspired me to get to it. I'll be glad to share my
program also, as soon as I get it to a point I
am happy with. (Yep, as a kid I never let my
mommy see my coloring until it met my
masterpiece standards.) Probably a couple
more weeks yet.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
Home of DaqGen, the FREEWARE signal generator
  #27  
Old May 19th 05, 12:55 PM
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
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An Online Friend asked me how I came to study pottery in Mashiko,
Japan. This is what I replied:


.. Not counting my early experiences as a kid, digging up my own clay, I
become interested in pottery during undergrad at the U of Central Mich.
Was too busy trying to get a degree to raise a family to take time and
study pottery at the time. When I met my wife Jean in 1983, I looked
her up because of the note she posted on the Zen center bulletin board,
looking for a partner to go square and folk dancing with. This caught
my eye, because it was out of character for your average Minnesota zen
student, who my potter friend Dirk describes as being "about a quart
low on blood."

The first thing Jean asked me was if I was a potter. I said no, I was
studying wood sculpture, but I was always interested in pottery. She
said I looked like a potter and reminded me of her friend Dirk. When I
met Jean, her apartment was full of MacKenzie's work and Dirk's work.
Jean also took me to an import store, Yamato Imports, Downtown
Minneapolis, where I was able to handle the work of Hamada and Shimaoka
and also see the wood block prints of Shiko Munakata. She also took me
to visit MacKenzie's pottery in 1983, not long after I came back from
the monastery in Iowa.

Jean introduced Dirk to MacKenzie's first graduate
student (Horning), after Dirk came back from the East coast, where he
ran a bookstore for the Himalayan Institute in NYC and learned pottery
to make their cast formed netty pots (a sort of Aladdin's lamp used by
Yoga people for cleaning the sinuses.) When he came back to Omaha in
1981, he told Jean he was really interested in the work of Shoji
Hamada. Jean told him that he should meet Jerry Horning at Creighton
University, the head of the ceramics department there, because he
studied with MacKenzie, who was the leading proponent of Hamada in
America. So, from the beginning, I was always interested in Dirk
Gillespie, Warren MacKenzie, Tatsuzo Shimaoka and Shoji Hamada.

After I studied with our zen teacher for 7 years, I began studying
pottery. My initial plan was to study at my friend's pottery for a year
and study Japanese too, and then study at Shimaoka's for a year. My
friend's pottery situation was not satisfactory, so I went to
Shimaoka's after a couple months and ended up studying with him for
over 3 years. We decided to stay in Mashiko early on, when we found our
modern house and studio, which is very rare in Mashiko. Jean's single
request for a house was that it had a flush toilet and not a pit
toilet. We have that here. Dirk and I both picked up work at the wheel
very quickly. I have always attributed this to his yoga mediation and
my zen meditation. I was also lucky to be able to collect and study
good pots for 7 years before touching wet clay.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~

It took me a long time to send in my Jerome Travel Study grant report
because I am still being effected by it, but I did sent it in last
month. I include it below.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


My travel study grant allowed me to come to Mashiko to study pottery
and do a three year apprenticeship with the National Living Treasure
Tatsuzo Shimaoka. I was introduced and recommended to Shimaoka by his
friend Warren MacKenzie. Few foreigners have had the chance to study
with Shimaoka for three years. I was able to study all aspects of
traditional wood fired pottery, from the processing of clay and glazes,
working on the wheel, glazing, firing a large complex Noborigama
climbing kiln and preparing work after it is unloaded. I had a
graduation show in the spring of 2003 at the Tsukamoto gallery, the
best gallery in Mashiko, which included my wife Jean Shannon showing
her monotypes and new woodblock prints.

I have built my own wood fired kiln which can be seen he
http://mashiko.org and have opened my own studio and am making my own
work in Mashiko. I am also working on a book drawing on my experiences
that the travel/study grant enabled. The book is related to zen
practice, craft and the importance of craft in the 21st century.


Below is a short bio I sent to the International Wood Fire Conference
in Goshiwara, Aomori Japan, that I am presenting at in June. My talk
will be titled: "From MingeiSota To Mashiko."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I was born in Osaka, lived my first 18 months in Sakai, and grew up in
Michigan in the U.S.A. I moved to Minnesota in 1983 to study Soto Zen
Buddhism with Dainin Katagiri Roshi. At my teacher's funeral service in
1990, I was impressed with the traditional Hassidic Jewish pine coffin,
of nailess construction, that his body lay in. I decided at his funeral
to become a potter, and to make funeral urns with the same heart/mind
as the Hassidic coffin maker.

Consumption is death and creating is life. Human beings are by nature
creative. We cannot be happy through consuming only. And the best means
of communication that transcends time, place, and culture, is through
art and craft. Creativity can bring understanding, peace and harmony to
the world.

--
Lee Love in Mashiko, Japan

homepage: http://mashiko.org

  #28  
Old May 19th 05, 01:14 PM
dkat
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I still have those DT2821 boards sitting in a closet gathering dust. If you
ever want to be wild and crazy and experiment with one, let me know.

Donna

"Bob Masta" wrote in message
...
I'm an electrical engineer who worked in the auto
industry, then went back to school to learn bioengineering
and worked for many years in hearing research. This
was basic research stuff (electrophysiology of sensory
cells, etc), which involved non-human subjects. One of
my main ongoing projects there was "evoked potentials"
software that allows you to tell what an animal can hear
via brainwave recording, since it was a major chore to train them to
respond behaviorally.

I have only been involved with pottery for a few years. I
find it really exciting because there is always something
new to learn. I love to experiment and "invent" things...
even if someone has already "been there, done that",
I still get a thrill from finding my own way.

I do only handbuilding of various kinds, and my
kiln is a tiny home-built electric using silicon
carbide elements. I plan to add a home-built
computerized controller soon.

Nothing I do is "production", just family gifts and
stuff for the house.

I had been meaning for a while to write a simple
glaze analysis program for my own educational
purposes, and dkat's work in that area finally
inspired me to get to it. I'll be glad to share my
program also, as soon as I get it to a point I
am happy with. (Yep, as a kid I never let my
mommy see my coloring until it met my
masterpiece standards.) Probably a couple
more weeks yet.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
Home of DaqGen, the FREEWARE signal generator



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Old May 20th 05, 12:05 AM
Lori
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Thank you! I like it a lot myself.

I don't honestly know just where it came from, whether it's from within
or if I just picked it up somewhere along the way. I've carried it
around for a long time - use it as my signature on my email messages.

What I DO know is that it's how I try to live - take each moment and
use it to the best advantage - make what I can of every day. I'm a
continual work in progress and I have no immediate intentions of ever
being finished.

I used to write some - not so much anymore.

Take care,

Lori

Well behaved women rarely make history.....
(another one of my favorites - G)

  #30  
Old May 20th 05, 01:16 PM
Bob Masta
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:14:00 -0400, "dkat"
wrote:

I still have those DT2821 boards sitting in a closet gathering dust. If you
ever want to be wild and crazy and experiment with one, let me know.



Wow, talk about coincidence! I've been trying to locate a DT2821
for someone in Australia. (He saw that I have DT2821 drivers for my
software.) He needs the specific model DT2821-G-8DI. Any chance
that you might have one of those? I have no idea what he's
willing to pay, but you may have the market cornered!

Best regards,



Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
Home of DaqGen, the FREEWARE signal generator
 




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