Chekhonte

As stressful as loosing power in an ice storm can be, it's it also kind of magical[sic] and wonderful too? The few times I've lost power for long stretches of time it made me drop all of the filters I've had towards the world and see it like I did when I was a child, like it was new and fascinating.

I'm glad you caught that the two concepts are contradictory. What's even more interesting that they coexist in a single form but contradict each other. This is something that can only exist in art and music (namely scott walker)--in fact you can't even say it in words with out contradicting yourself yet they exist harmoniously not side by side or in the same work but in a single form. It really starts to ask questions about how we see. Questions that I haven't yet been able see clearly enough to ask. As for your second statement, I'll give you a PM when I make more.

I heed your point. I might draft up an artist's statement then or think of a title. I'll talk it over with a couple of artist friends of mine and my professor and see what they think before I come to a conclusion. Thanks for your advice.

As generic as it sounds I think it would be best to leave it untitled. I think that what the individual brings into it themselves is what makes them interesting. I don't want to taint that with a title that may influence them by shifting the focus away from what they make of it to what they think I am trying to say.

That's an interesting point. Next quarter I'm going to make around 300 more so I'll have enough for a real installation. I'll take some SPL readings of the space before and after the installation goes up. Ceramic resonate quite a bit so I wonder if that will factor in to what wavelengths it deadens. When you tap them, they sound like a combination of metal and glass. I'm applying for grants to afford enough clay for this project and I'm going to see how large I can make them. I have got the OK from the school to use their hydraulic hoist to lift up a few hundred pounds of clay to drop not to mention loading them into the kiln.

my local art supply store is going out of business so I went sick and bout 4 rolls of 30 inch x 50 yard rolls of heavy weight white drawing paper 2/3's off the original price, A few drawing paper storage tubes, a huge slab of wood to replace my old drawing board, 3 boxes of 12 ebony drawing pencils, silk screening fabric, 3 large fox hair paint brushes, a 128oz container of golden acrylic medium clear, some fancy ceramicist's tools that were previously too expensive for me to consider, a 24 inch silkscreening squeegee, real gold gilt and adhesive size, a book on silkscreening glazes onto ceramics, a 5 foot t square, and a electric pencil sharpener. It all came out to be under 200 bucks which is a silly good deal.

it's too bad that it's computer generated, my girl friend would really like that for christmas.

A few years ago a friend of mine sent me a gif of a orgy of guys in their 70's. It really made me reconsider what kind of world I was actually living in all while laughing my ass off.

it says that many of us were banned from head-fi.

It's funny that you brought up elephantine features. One of the things they remind me of (besides buttholes) are elephant or mammoth molars although only marginally. Since they are reminiscent of both flesh and earth, they remind people of all kinds of textures found in nature. For better or worse they are definitely the best things I've made. EDIT: the dimensions range from 5 to 7 inches tall and 3 to 5 inches wide.

It's embarrassingly simple. I role a thick coil out, fold it into a doughnut and then start to drop it from about 10 inches over and over while rotating it. 2 out of 10 times it makes an interesting shape. I then use copper oxide to accentuate the folds and glaze the side with majolica mixed with porcelain to give in the dull sheen of ivory on the sides. I also use square and eliptical coils for different effects.

My sculpture prof. and I were cracking up when I first started making them because of how orifice like they are. The process of making them doesn't let me control how they ultimately look and most of the time they turn out looking like some invaginated form. I really enjoy things that make people, including myself, feel gross and perverted. These tend to do that to a lot of people. What really wierds me out is that my mom really likes them and wants to buy them off of me.

I'll take pictures when I'm done and post them in this thread. I don't think I'll be able to do it until late january though.

Perhaps that's what their buttholes look like.

thanks, I was expecting to get dissed. EDIT: Also, i made 128 of them so far and when I have time I will wall mount them in two 8 x 8 grid patterns.

they uncomfortably wed forms reminiscent of flesh and earth. EDIT: they are non-representational.

they are ceramic

the picture in the link buried in that thread look fake as hell not to mention ugly. http://www.oomp4.com/doc/478/680/1663.htm

It might have come from sennheiser of germany and the contact could have mediocre english skills. On the other hand, it seems to be the policy of all corperations to not divulge things until an official announcement. In the casino a member was asked to build a headphone stand for an unanounced headphone and he was sworn to secrecy about the new headphone. I doubt that they would just spill the beans willy nilly to some stranger asking a question.

that was my thought too. Perhaps he's shooting non-lethal riot rounds or something. If you also notice he starts to move the helicopter forward right before he shoots, which caused the forward velocity to shift to backwards for a millisecond. I'm not saying it's real by any means but I suppose it's plausible. I don't know enough about rc choppers and handgun recoil so say anything for sure.

I have read that people with aspergers range of autism spectrum disorder who are also musicly inclined always have the ability to know what note is being played. There is a lot of debate to whether Mozart had Aspergers syndrome.

yeah i'm thinking about getting a d80, amazon has them at around 500. I need at least 10mp camera. I have to take digital slides of some sculpture to apply for grants and some places have a 10mp requirement otherwise I'd look at that d2h. Just to make sure, older nikkor lenses from the 90s for their film SLRs work with the digital cameras right?

dang, that's too bad. Then they're out of my price range but I'm glad I didn't get scammed.

I want to get a Nikon d90 body and most places offer it at around 900 dollars but there are a couple of places that offer it for about 550. Are those places safe to order from? They don't seem overtly sketchy but I rarely order things outside of amazon.