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Bayou City Recap

Houston, I think I love you!

Thanks to all who came out to Bayou City Downtown during the beautiful weekend. The show was packed but even better was that people were leaving with some new pots. It was definitely one of the more successful shows that I’ve had in a while and am glad that so many pots found new homes in Houston.

I’d write more but I feel like I’m already behind schedule for the Texas Clay Festival in Gruene(pronounced “Green”). I’ve got some pots to catch up on so I can have a full booth for the festival. More on the Clay Fest later…it’s a pretty cool event and I’m glad to be part of it this year.

One of the cool things about Bayou City was that they had these barcodes for each of us. With an App on your smartphone you could scan it and get right to my website. I’m glad my site is somewhat up-to-date….somewhat is the key word. That’s on my list of things to do when I have a moment.

Posted in craftshows on 10/12/2010 03:21 pm | 1 Comment

Skyscraper Preview

Here’s one of my new decal pots. Skyscrapers on a new gray glaze.
4 of them will be in Houston.

See you there.

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Posted in Uncategorized on 10/06/2010 01:50 am | Comments Off

Buraka Som Sistema

It’s a double-header musical start to Tuesday.

I caught some of the Buraka Som Sistema act at the FunFunFun Fest last November and it was fantastic. I had never heard of them which made it even better to discover something new and awesome at a live show.

I’m looking forward to the FFF Fest this year because it’s a great sized festival (not too big) and it always has an amazing line-up of punk, hip-hop, indie-rock and more. It’s also a great mix of bands you know, bands you knew and bands you’re glad you found out about. Devo, Deerhunter, The Hold Steady, Slick Rick and Bad Religion are just a few bands I’ll be catching at this year’s festival.

As soon as my ridiculously busy October is done I’ll be taking a weekend full of Fun Fun Fun.

Posted in austin, music on 10/05/2010 01:56 pm | Comments Off

Soup or Cappuccino? (Part 2)

It’s been a long week but I wanted to get a quick post in. I didn’t even get my ridiculously easy Musical Tuesday post together. Picture above are some of the new cups. They have a clear glaze but the line-deco has been waxed so it’s just the raw porcelain. I wanted to see if the deco would be cleaner and brighter without the glaze on top. I like the results but I think I just re-complicated my glazing.

It was a week of making, bisqueing, glazing, firing, decalcomania-ing and today I’ll load the decal firing. I’ll put another post together soon once I find the brain-power.

Quick musical thoughts:

The Ratatat Show on Monday was one of the best shows I can remember. Music, video and lighting effects combined seamlessly.

Guided by Voices last night was slightly disappointing. best review I saw was on twitter, “It took 10 songs and a bottle of tequila but Guided by Voices finally kicked the shitty cover band off the stage.” I know it’s early in the reunion tour but it looked like the previous nights show was the first time the original group played together…I’m guess it was. Still, they had some good points and maybe they’ll have it put together for the Matador Anniversary show in Vegas that they’re getting ready for.

2 shows in one week made me feel old and tired but somehow I’ve also been able to get my work done…now back to that decal stuff.

Posted in cups, firing results, music on 10/01/2010 04:07 pm | Comments Off

Pixies, Snakes and Anniversaries

Well Evangelina and I made it to Number 9…Number 9….Number 9 and celebrated our anniversary last night. I had bought tickets to the Pixies as soon as I saw they were playing in Austin. Evangelina and I have slightly different taste in music. I’m an aging indie rocker who was skateboarded and playing punk rock in college…She likes Jimmy Buffett.

I was getting the feeling that she really didn’t want to go to a show for our anniversary so I surprised her with a dinner at Hudson’s on the Bend. They specialize in wild game and I’m not that adventurous of an eater but a good bottle of wine was enough magic snake oil (pun intended) to try their famous Rattlesnake Cake. Think Crab Cake but a little more cowboy. So, we had a fantastic meal with rattlesnake, smoked quail, seared duck, trout and a variety of other deliciousness.

I definitely got some good husband points for the surprise change of plans. And, at least one of our good friends was able to enjoy the show as I seem to be running a part-time ticket agency.

So now that we’ve had our wild game for the week we’re off to Dallas tomorrow for a quick weekend without the kids. The Texas State Fair starts tomorrow so if we leave the poolside margaritas we may have to try some of this coronary inducing goodness.

Blurry Snake Photo from Maggie’s Austin

And, since I forgot to post my Musical Tuesday here’s a Pixies Classic that we listened to on the way to the restaurant last night…

Posted in family on 09/23/2010 04:48 pm | 3 Comments

Calatrava Cups

I’m getting ready for tomorrow’s Art of the Pot Workshop at Eye of the Dog Art Center so I’m playing around with some decals to demonstrate with tomorrow. I’ll print out some of my Old York decals but I also wanted to try out some new ones. I found images of some Calatrava bridges on the intertubes and I’m working some things out with regular paper before I print it on the decal paper.

I thought I’d put up two images, a cup with a sample decal image and another cup (cappuccino cup from the other day) with a similar incised line deco. I like the play between the two styles of decoration.

So I think next up it’s time to bitmap and print.

Posted in bridges, cups, decals, design on 09/17/2010 02:35 pm | Comments Off

Sneak Preview

Some fresh fall pots and I’m in that in strange place somewhere between expectations and results. Give me a couple of hours and I’ll figure out what I think and where I’m going next. Still liking the cityscape design and I like the sharper lines.

I used some underglazes to get some color (gray and blue) on the insides of some pots. Not too many this time, just testing it out but I think I’ll play around with it some more. (Does gray even count as a color?)