Town of Pollution

Javi's school is right near the police station in town.

I took these pics with my phone a while ago because they were too good to pass up.

I meant to post this in the fall when I took the pictures...maybe I did...I can't remember.

Drying Management

Here you go Brandon....pots hanging out under plastic.

I'm just about done catching up with the pots that have been hanging out under plastic since Thursday.  I'm at the "lost in the studio" phase right now.  I have a few more pots to make for this firing.  A few of them orders and a few of them pots for specific spots in the kiln.  I'm having trouble getting it together in there.  

I'm somewhere between close to be ready for Baltimore and close to having a freakout that I will never be ready.  It's still a few weeks away but it's school vacation week just before I leave for the show.  I'm trying to get the firing done and any booth work done ahead of time so I actually have that week off with the kids.    We'll see.  Like I said...I'm just about caught up with what needs tending to right now.  I'm hoping to throw some decent pottery tonight.  

I'm heading down to NYC tomorrow to catch a NY Rangers Game at MSG with an old friend. I'm taking the train down from Providence which will be nice and easy...plus Penn Station is a pretty convenient place to end up considering our plans.  

As soon as I find my brain in the studio I'll start getting some more regular postings back up here...perhaps I left it under some plastic somewhere.

Behind the Scenes Work

I've spent this week doing the unseen parts of being a potter.  Not the studio part of the job but the part where I photograph everything, start updating the website, sending out mailings and getting email newsletters out for our upcoming Holiday Trunk Show.

I was going to upload the new pots to the webstore after Thanksgiving but I found myself with some time this week so I'm almost done with pictures.  I'm doing a mix of pots on a backdrop and pots in a home setting.  I think it should help with the context of viewing functional pots on a website.  I want to have everything ready to go together instead of uploading things piecemeal.  If I can figure out the php code for a couple more changes to the site I should have it up by Monday.  

Javi had a friend over after school today who asked a question that I had trouble answering with a straight face.  I was in the dining room photographing some of the work and he walked over, looked at the setup and said, "Why are you taking pictures of a coffee cup?"  My only answer was, "Because I made it."  I'm not sure if the answer was good enough for Henry.

I wish I had this setup for photographing my work.  Perhaps with that setup and some actual photography skills, my pics would look better.

I'll let you all know when the site is ready.