The winter is upon us
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Your the best around...
Been wood firing for the passed couple of days. Packed the kiln and stacked/split the wood Friday morning and afternoon, then I started the firing at 8:00pm Friday evening after dinner.
Typically the temperature dropped to -3 so the night shift was very cold so we got a tramp bin blazing to keep us toasty. So by the end of my shift at 6am the kiln as at 1100ish degrees and going strong...
...I'm woken at about 12 noon by a panic stricken Russian. In 6 hours they actually lost over a 100 degrees by over stoking and blocking up the kiln...enter Reid! Just like me the kiln need raking out. I then kicked its ass with the help of my team. top temp 1337!
...Fire in the disco...
So its a lazy Sunday for me, but on a sad note Jill one of our artist in residence has left us to head back to the states this morning.
http://whistlepigstudio.com/home.
We wish her all the best and a safe journey home, you will be missed xxx
Typically the temperature dropped to -3 so the night shift was very cold so we got a tramp bin blazing to keep us toasty. So by the end of my shift at 6am the kiln as at 1100ish degrees and going strong...
...I'm woken at about 12 noon by a panic stricken Russian. In 6 hours they actually lost over a 100 degrees by over stoking and blocking up the kiln...enter Reid! Just like me the kiln need raking out. I then kicked its ass with the help of my team. top temp 1337!
...Fire in the disco...
So its a lazy Sunday for me, but on a sad note Jill one of our artist in residence has left us to head back to the states this morning.
http://whistlepigstudio.com/home.
We wish her all the best and a safe journey home, you will be missed xxx
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Another...one of those days
It's like the plot for a Tom Cruise movie...A man who can pot, I say a great potter! He has a crisis of confidence and can not long pot, that's until he meets a woman...
You get the point, I'm massively sucking at the moment but wait, who's arriving on Friday??? A woman...my woman!
You get the point, I'm massively sucking at the moment but wait, who's arriving on Friday??? A woman...my woman!
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
A bridge to...nice?
So we were off on a beer run, me, Matt and the Russian. Irina was telling us about the girls trip to a gallery and shes mentions that she owes Christina like 150 kronner for the bridge..."What?"
They had to pay to cross and return over a bridge, it works out like £50 which is out outrageous!
"...it's ok tho, it was a nice bridge"
"...so if it was a ugly bridge would you expect to pay less?"
They had to pay to cross and return over a bridge, it works out like £50 which is out outrageous!
"...it's ok tho, it was a nice bridge"
"...so if it was a ugly bridge would you expect to pay less?"
One of those (many) days
Stupid clay
Stupid wheel
Stupid Denmark
Stupid alien hand syndrome
I made...lets just call them blobs of clay
Stupid wheel
Stupid Denmark
Stupid alien hand syndrome
I made...lets just call them blobs of clay
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Lost in Translation?
In Denmark, the phenomenon knows as "cameltoe" is referred to as "mumbling pants". And in Japan it's "the boomerang"?
Monday, 23 January 2012
Days gone by...
...I had to take a few days to relax as the king was grinding me down and working me like a dog. So I caught up on some sleep.
I've been working on some mug forms to be ready for firing the wood kiln, which should be going on wed hopefully. Had a few pots out the soda kiln which was mainly work by a Danish potter. He was very pleased with his results. It was a very easy kiln to fire, my work was ok. I think the kiln was pack to tight so there wasn't enough soda and ash deposits on the work.
Weekend...hit up Cassiopeia, the only bar in town. We rocked the joint, the locals...lets just say there different and from what I can gather, there only just getting the 90's. It was a lot of freak deeky Danish people doing some very odd things.
3:00 get to bed...zzzzzzzzzz
Sunday Manchester United vs The Gunner 2-1 Whammy!
Monday; Cleaned the soda kiln, hit the outside gym with Matt, packed and fired a kiln, cooked a bad ass meal, thrown 10 mugs and now its time for the Karate Kid! Sweep the legs!
I've been working on some mug forms to be ready for firing the wood kiln, which should be going on wed hopefully. Had a few pots out the soda kiln which was mainly work by a Danish potter. He was very pleased with his results. It was a very easy kiln to fire, my work was ok. I think the kiln was pack to tight so there wasn't enough soda and ash deposits on the work.
Weekend...hit up Cassiopeia, the only bar in town. We rocked the joint, the locals...lets just say there different and from what I can gather, there only just getting the 90's. It was a lot of freak deeky Danish people doing some very odd things.
3:00 get to bed...zzzzzzzzzz
Sunday Manchester United vs The Gunner 2-1 Whammy!
Monday; Cleaned the soda kiln, hit the outside gym with Matt, packed and fired a kiln, cooked a bad ass meal, thrown 10 mugs and now its time for the Karate Kid! Sweep the legs!
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