Books and DVDs for potters with ADD?

[Sincultura26]

Hi everyone, for those of you who remember me... I finally was able to
install my new kilns...

Now that I can make more and bigger pieces I need to refresh my
handbuilding/sculptural chops. I have ADD and is hard for me to learn
a physical task by reading. I need many pictures or better yet video.
I've looked around and don't have access to a good teacher at the
moment. I need to hit the library and maybe see if I can save money
for a Sculpture/handbuilding Demo DVD but the teacher has to be able
to explain things well. I have a Hopper DVD on throwing, he does a
very good job. I like to work very organically (no stiff slabs for
example) and like to make most of the piece on one go without
stopping. My local book store doesn't stock this kinds of books and
the info you see on amazon is usually rather limited. I like the work
of Lee Akins and Yoshiro Ikeda, if that's of any help...


Anyone has any suggestions?


Regards,

[hambone]

Sincultura: many excellent videos on YouTube. Also try google searches
like "coil built pottery video" or similar phrase and see what pops up
p e a c e
h a n s e n

On Nov 4, 8:31 pm, Sincultura26 <thelemuriancandid...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Sincultura26]

Thanks... Any other suggestions? I don't have ineternet at home and
where I come to get on the web is very slow... it takes for ever for
clips to load...

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[Sincultura26]

I was wrong... I was able to watch one clip... Is a matter of looking
for short or slow resolution clips...

Regards,

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[Mike]

Sincultura,
I have a slow connection too, so my video tends to be jerky. What I've started doing is to download the video rather than stream it. 
I use firefox as my browser and have an addon called  "1-Click YouTube Video Downloader" which downloads the youtube video files. Then I convert the .flv video files to .avi or .mpg with a utility called  "easy_ffmpeg". Very simple and easy to use.

Some other folks might have an easier method but this seems to work for me....

Good luck,
Mike

Mike
in Taku, Japan

karatsupots.com
karatsupots.blogspot.com
karatsupots-workshop.blogspot.com/

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[gary navarre]

Hay Mike,

So explain to my if I'm right... What you are saying is I can use this add on to download videos from YT, say throwing tips from Simon Leach or Tim See, without being logged in to YT, and save them to my computer, or a disc, to view at my leisure off line?

At the moment I'm still stuck at 40Kbps. and it doesn't look like that will change soon so I've accepted having to wait a couple hours to view the movie. My luck uploading has gotten better using their "batch up-loader" with the Gear thing even though I only have one to up-load. It still takes a while but at least it don't stall out anymore. These long waits might be a problem for someone using a computer away from home. At the house I just find something else to do like glazing, load the kiln, or throw, do e-mail, or sleep.

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, Mike <mi...@karatsupots.com> wrote:

[Mike]

Gary,
Yes, it's worked well so far. The only inconvenient part is that the .flv file format isn't normally playable on your computer, so you need to convert the file format to .avi or .mpg.

The FFMPEG utility works well, just takes a little extra time for the conversion process.

Mike
in Taku, Japan

karatsupots.com
karatsupots.blogspot.com
karatsupots-workshop.blogspot.com/

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[Des & Jan Howard]

Mike
Try Googling for
FLVPlayer.exe
about 2meg
When I make up CD's of collected vids in
.flv format, for our pottery group I include
this application on each disc.
You can convert to other formats if you like,
I haven't found the need to do so.
Des

Mike wrote:
> Yes, it's worked well so far. The only inconvenient part is that the
> .flv file format isn't normally playable on your computer, so you need
> to convert the file format to .avi or .mpg.

--
Des & Jan Howard
Lue Pottery
Lue NSW
Australia
2850

02 6373 6419
www.luepottery.hwy.com.au
-32.656072 149.840624

[gary navarre]

So basicly you are stealing copyrighted material and not paying the artist for it. Kinda makes me wanna shut down my YouTube account if there is no money there for me either. I guess that's socialistic capitalism for ya! From everyone according to their ability with no expectation of a return. Geeze, I might as well get a degree in psychology and become an alcohol and drug counselor.

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Des & Jan Howard <djho...@hwy.com.au> wrote:

> From: Des & Jan Howard <djho...@hwy.com.au>
> Subject: *ClayCraft* Re: Books and DVDs for potters with ADD?
> To: clay...@googlegroups.com

[gary navarre]

Ya, Bonnie Staffle in Michigan over on ClayArt and PotteryBasics has a few suppose ta be good hand building and coil & throw videos. Might be a kind gesture to help the old lady out with a few scheckles eh!

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, Sincultura26 <thelemuria...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Sincultura26 <thelemuria...@gmail.com>
> Subject: *ClayCraft* Re: Books and DVDs for potters with ADD?

[Des & Jan Howard]

Gary
Must be the approaching winter, you really have
shit-on-the-liver this AM. The vids are the freely
available ones from Ceramic Arts Daily.
Des

gary navarre wrote:
> So basicly you are stealing copyrighted material
> and not paying the artist for it. Kinda makes me wanna
> shut down my YouTube account if there is no money there
> for me either. I guess that's socialistic capitalism for ya!
> From everyone according to their ability with no
> expectation of a return. Geeze, I might as well get a
> degree in psychology and become an alcohol and drug counselor.

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[Lee]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, gary navarre
<navarreen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> So basicly you are stealing copyrighted material and not paying the artist for >it. Kinda makes me wanna shut down my YouTube

No. You are watching videos the only way you can on a slow connection.

Anything you put on youtube is out of your personal control.
That is simply the truth.

--,
Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift." -- Albert Einstein

[gary navarre]

I have no problem viewing videos on dialup unless they are formatted only for the ritzier than thou broadbanders. Simon Leach posts a video, I right click and open in a new tab and wait. If I want to see something else I go to my favorites or his site, right click to open in a new tab, mute the sound, and wait. I don't need to store it offline to watch later, my brain will remember what I need to know. I might have half a dozen tabs opening while I do something else and watch them on a break. YouTube is a pretty good deal for a free ten minutes, hell, the free porn sites only give ya 30 or 40 seconds before ya gotta come up with a couple bucks.

Ya know something, come to think of it I don't get enough hits that stay at YouTube to make it into their "get paid" club so I doubt there are vary many viewers downloading my stuff to watch later so I don't know why I'm bitchin. Sure wish I had a buck for every click so far though, might put me into a different Medicare bracket.

And no Des, I ain't got shit in my liver... thank God I don't need a drink right now so stay in there eh!

Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Lee <tog...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lee <tog...@gmail.com>
> Subject: *ClayCraft* Re: Books and DVDs for potters with ADD?

[Des & Jan Howard]

Gary
You too mate, keep packing that kiln.
I don't think I'm the only one hanging
out for the results.
No pressure :)
Des

gary navarre wrote:
> thank God I don't need a drink right now so stay in there eh!

--

[Lee]

Craig's anagam fired nicey. He thinks the new floor helped the firing.

--

[Paul Herman]

Hi Lee,

Can you or Craig describe the new floor please? What did you do?

best,

Paul Herman

Great Basin Pottery
Doyle, California US
www.greatbasinpottery.com/

[Lee]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Paul Herman <potte...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Lee,
>
> Can you or Craig describe the new floor please? What did you do?

In the middle (not the front or back), he moved the sand and then put
soft brick down. He put on a layer of sand, and then put these large
(I think Kholer) shelves down, two wide, that just fit on the floor.
If I remember correctly, there were three pairs of shelves put on the
floor. It was dirt beneath the sand before he made these changes.

Craig also did a dry out firing on Wednesday, then closed up and went
to bed, and came back early to start the stoking again.

If weather allows, Craig wants to fire again in December. I hope
mother nature cooperates! We had a sort of Indian summer on Friday
and Saturday. Saturday was extremely gorgeous. Makes up for the
wet October.

[Lee]

I forgot, between the levels, where the side stoke holes are, Craig
put down hardbrick. I am not sure if their is softbrick under it.

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[Paul Herman]

Hey Lee and Craig,

That sounds good, I never regretted all the trouble we went through to insulate our floor. It helps.

We had terrible cold N winds for the firing, but the weather has been beautiful otherwise, with a lot of good fall leaf colors. Last of the birch leaves are just now falling. The winds made the draft act funny and unpredictably. Most of the results were good, but too much grey on the front in my opinion.

Good firings,

Paul 

Great Basin Pottery

Doyle, California US

www.greatbasinpottery.com/

[Sincultura26]

Thanks for the information... I will ask the computer owner if she's
ok with it...

On 9 nov, 00:14, Paul Herman <potterp...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> Hey Lee and Craig,
>
> That sounds good, I never regretted all the trouble we went through to  
> insulate our floor. It helps.
>
> We had terrible cold N winds for the firing, but the weather has been  
> beautiful otherwise, with a lot of good fall leaf colors. Last of the  
> birch leaves are just now falling. The winds made the draft act funny  
> and unpredictably. Most of the results were good, but too much grey on  
> the front in my opinion.
>
> Good firings,
>
> Paul
>
> Great Basin Pottery
> Doyle, California USwww.greatbasinpottery.com/
>
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Lee wrote:
>
>
>

> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Paul Herman <potterp...@frontiernet.net

> > > wrote:
>
> >> Hi Lee,
>
> >> Can you or Craig describe the new floor please? What did you do?
>
> > In the middle (not the front or back), he moved the sand and then put
> > soft brick down.   He put on a layer of sand, and then put these large
> > (I think Kholer) shelves down, two wide, that just fit on the floor.
> > If I remember correctly, there were three pairs of shelves put on the
> > floor.   It was dirt beneath the sand before he made these changes.
>
> > Craig also did a dry out firing on Wednesday, then closed up and went
> > to bed, and came back early to start the stoking again.
>
> >    If weather allows, Craig wants to fire again in December.   I hope
> > mother nature cooperates!   We had a sort of Indian summer on Friday
> > and Saturday.   Saturday was extremely gorgeous.   Makes up for the

> > wet October.- Ocultar texto de la cita -