My mom LOVES raku pottery and has made a bunch in her studio, I called her immediately after seeing this post so she'd have something to look forward to today on her lunch break!
Awww, so nice of you to make your mom’s day with that news! I thought it was an interesting change to have them do naked raku this time. I like seeing other people doing raku but I think it would drive me crazy not to be able to predict the outcome if I did it. That must be so nerve wracking.
my mom took up pottery as a hobby around 55 or so and she just does not give a fuck what happens lmao she has done some horsehair raku that's p fucking cool looking
she works full-time as a nurse so for her throwing is stress-relieving and she's not super focused on a specific outcome, she's just happy to be on the wheel
tbh I think she'll probably do it full-time when she retires bc she has shown work in galleries before and sold plenty of her pieces so it'll probably be a 'side hustle' for her
I've never done it but I do love hanging out in her studio with her all day while she does it, we have great talks and she lets me pick out glaze colors and shit
Wow, that's awesome! What an awesome hobby to relax from a stressful job.
I made pottery exactly once and it wasn't a great experience in terms of the outcome. I went to a local place and their "class" consisted of putting me in front of a wheel with some clay and playing a video. I was supposed to just watch and follow along. When I asked the owner a question about what I was doing wrong, she told me to just watch the video again. I enjoyed the process of working with clay but I knew I was never going back to that place again. They eventually closed and a new pottery place took over the space, but they only do long class series (like six weeks at a time) and I just couldn't commit to that because of my schedule. But I would love to try again. I know this will probably sound crazy, but the trimming part was so soothing. I would probably be happy just putting a lump of leather hard clay on the wheel and using various tools to trim it.
Can I just say that I'm disappointed with this week bc I don't think it was fair to judge when the kiln shelf broke of its own accord and messed with half the ppl's stuff. Bc of that they shouldn't have eliminated anyone this week and just done 2 ppl next week like they do when unpredictable things happen a la Bake Off
I agree that this was similar to an oven breaking on GBBO. It's not the contestants' fault and they shouldn't be punished for an equipment malfunction. I know it's a competition but if this happened in the real world, they would have the opportunity to start over, make a new piece, and fire it. They wouldn't hand a client a busted piece and say, "Sorry, the kiln shelf broke so this is what you get."
Lots of competitive reality shows have done a non-elimination followed by a double elimination when something like this happens so I was surprised that they didn't do that this week. But I think that this show and Blown Away are a lot more nonchalant about incidents like this because they know shit happens when you are working with fire.
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I miss when they used to have a throw down AND a spot test every week.
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she works full-time as a nurse so for her throwing is stress-relieving and she's not super focused on a specific outcome, she's just happy to be on the wheel
tbh I think she'll probably do it full-time when she retires bc she has shown work in galleries before and sold plenty of her pieces so it'll probably be a 'side hustle' for her
I've never done it but I do love hanging out in her studio with her all day while she does it, we have great talks and she lets me pick out glaze colors and shit
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Wow, that's awesome! What an awesome hobby to relax from a stressful job.
I made pottery exactly once and it wasn't a great experience in terms of the outcome. I went to a local place and their "class" consisted of putting me in front of a wheel with some clay and playing a video. I was supposed to just watch and follow along. When I asked the owner a question about what I was doing wrong, she told me to just watch the video again. I enjoyed the process of working with clay but I knew I was never going back to that place again. They eventually closed and a new pottery place took over the space, but they only do long class series (like six weeks at a time) and I just couldn't commit to that because of my schedule. But I would love to try again. I know this will probably sound crazy, but the trimming part was so soothing. I would probably be happy just putting a lump of leather hard clay on the wheel and using various tools to trim it.
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I agree that this was similar to an oven breaking on GBBO. It's not the contestants' fault and they shouldn't be punished for an equipment malfunction. I know it's a competition but if this happened in the real world, they would have the opportunity to start over, make a new piece, and fire it. They wouldn't hand a client a busted piece and say, "Sorry, the kiln shelf broke so this is what you get."
Lots of competitive reality shows have done a non-elimination followed by a double elimination when something like this happens so I was surprised that they didn't do that this week. But I think that this show and Blown Away are a lot more nonchalant about incidents like this because they know shit happens when you are working with fire.
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