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Here are a few images taken before the last kiln firing. The pieces in these images have been glazed, but not yet glaze fired at the time of the pictures. I hope to post final images very soon.
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Image taken by Chris about a year ago of a previous firing of the Alpine
I have just returned from an exhaustive day of firing a 40 cubic foot, natural gas, forced updraft Alpine kiln at UNCC. The kiln was piloted last night at around 4:30pm, and the firing began today at noon. For nine hours the kiln was monitored and gas and air adjusted as needed. At 9pm (almost exactly) the 04 cone began to bend and the gas to the kiln was stopped. During the previous day the front loading electric kiln ran, it cooled during the same time period.
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| Modeling pieces on the table to fit into the Alpline | Modeling pieces to fit into the Baily Front-loading electric |
My Gaston College course, Drawing 1 (ART131) closed this evening. The final grade for the course is: A
Images of my work will be posted here during the post-semester blogging period.
Why do we look back at yearbooks, old pictures and other items from our personal histories and feel depressed or excited?
Those of us who become depressed likely do so because we remember the times when things were better in our lives, or we had a better understanding of ourselves, perhaps more hope for the future. In my case, any time I see anything about high schools or see anyone my own age being successful I have that feeling, I am sad. I feel like I have done nothing productive with my life and my number of positive qualities are becoming smaller and smaller as I become more bothered by my state of life. I need things to change, I need to feel inspired again. I need to get out of bed each day with a purpose and a plan.
For you that may have become excited at reviewing your histories, it is likely somewhere between you are feeling reminiscent emotions that have stayed with you that you can still feel because you yourself haven’t changed or perhaps you used to be a total fuck up and now your life is together. Either way, be happy.
So, what is the point of this documented grand synaptic misfire of the day? I don’t really feel that great about my current state of life. I want to seek a real job where I can have responsibilities and actually do something productive with my time. At the same time, I want to hang out with people my own age (and a little older, since I still have some intellectual maturity intact) again. I want to experience life again, not just spend 4 days per week in a classroom and 3 days a week sitting alone in my room.
Here are important dates for the UNC Charlotte Ceramic studio:
November 14 – Last Day to make clay
November 20 – Last Day to work in clay
December 3 – Last Day to bisque
December 8 – Last Day to fire glaze
December 13 – Exam/Final Critique
See Google Calendar
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| Progression of a sculpture | |
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| A new favorite under construction | |
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This week I found out that CPCC and Gaston College are both using a new policy regarding their electronic course registration systems. In previous semesters, the registration floodgates opened promptly at 12:01am on the day of first allowed registration. For spring, new policies exist….6am for Gaston and 7:30am for CPCC, who the fuck is awake at that time of day?
I’m guessing that the new times are a function of policy with NCCCS. It is so frustrating to be here with a course schedule filled out and ready to go at 1am, but no electronic systems to care that it is ready 🙁