So I worked on another set of sample tiles. This time it was bronze, called Lamp’s Bronze. The recipe is pretty straightforward with nice results but I am having troubles with changing it. The base recipe is Lamp’s Bronze 7 – Ball Clay86 – Cedar Heights Redart7 – Silica_____________________ 14% …
I am learning some very important life lessons since I started throwing pots. The most obvious to me is patience. Patience is everything in pottery. First in throwing. If you try to rush a piece and pull to hard your piece will end up lop-sided and uneven. Since “there is …
As I continue in my creation of my own glazes I look to other potters as a source of information. Matt Fiske’s Blog was one of the first sites I hooked into and in short order I read every post. I highly recommend you check it out. You can …
I have started making my own glazes. I found a great recipe called St. John’s black. Nepheline Syenite – 25Alberta Slip/Albany – 75Cobalt Carbonate – 5% But I wanted something more dense, so I tried working on the recipe by adding other materials. Going from left to right I added:5% …
A critique on the pseudo health sciences? Great video though. De Staat – Witch Doctor (Official Video) from STUDIO SMACK on Vimeo. Oh little sicky, seems to be the pain?Got all these herbs don’t mean a fucking thingI am the witch, with the magick tricksMistrust the white house, come and …
I don’t normally write about analytic implementations. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, or that I am not interested. It’s more that this is my bread and butter. I have invested a lot of time and effort in creating solid solutions to problems like page naming strategies and I …
Every year I get all excited when there is a new FIFA video game out. I love playing FIFA 2015 and I especially love the career mode. I keep hoping that AE will add some sort of character development around the career section and every year I am disappointed. Here …
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Marlon’s Meat is back as Camden Market! I just got a comment on an old post warning me that the Butchers is back as Camden Market at 2500 Yonge Street. For those of you who are not familiar with the butchers incident it was quite the saga and a lot …