lately my education with pottery has been a bit more intensive than in any other semester. Donna, the lab tech at school has taken a different approach to my barrage of questions and i am more than grateful for it. instead of answering she's been directing me towards potters dictionaries or coaxing my train of thought onto the solution. i learned that the difference between black and red iron oxides is reduction and that red iron oxide acts like a flux while black as an anti-flux. my professor for the weekend is also facilitating my learning she let me borrow The Potters Workbook, a manual on wheelthrowing techniques. also i was given a real sketchbook in which i've been drawing up my current project. drawing is to lead to proper execution so i'm glad to be participating in that.
reading the book that genny gave me it started with a page on the CV or Curriculum Vitae and that i need to build a personal portfolio. "at all times ad for all purposes, you need to keep a portfolio ready to send out for professional jobs and other applications, for publicity of all sorts and for your own records. this means keeping an up-to-date, detailed chronology of your personal history with an exhibition record, articles and books you have written or that have been written about you together with photographs of your recent pieces. a weel coordinated pitch will help clients and galleries remember your work." (\excerpt from the craft and art of clay by susie peterson. this whole thing seems incredibly daunting and intimidates me that i have not much inthe way of a show or experience in clay works. i told Donna this and she quickly reminded me that i have been awarded a scholarship to attend a workshop just last fall. i feel like i'm very much being helped out. i'm very interested in applying places for internships and the like and need to take a serious approach to enabling success in clay. the book goes on further to state that small shows at libraries are also great and that airports are great places to exhibit work.
i watched funny people today and really liked it. there are handful of actors that i can say i'm familiar with and enjoy their quirky work. tom hanks with meg ryan movies, tom cruise in vanilla sky, leo decaprio, paul rudd, matthew broderick's election. anyways the movie made me really happy. also, this:
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