Re: *ClayCraft* Digest for claycraft@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic

[Louis Katz]

Marian,

THANKS

That was the information I was looking for. Thanks. It seemed like it had to be something like that. Now I know enough to find more info.

I hope I was not the college professor who failed to respond. Usually I am all over people who inquire ( our art majors have tripled since when I arrived). But, like many others who perform highly in specific areas I am ADD and if I do not get to it quick it often gets lost in the sauce. But I would hate for someone to assume that I speak for more than myself.

Also my workload varies greatly. I can have weeks of only 30 hours and weeks of 60+. Usually these long weeks happen because of things out of my control.

I now get requests for very specific program information about once a month. Oddly many of these questions come from the Middle East. I give tours to visiting students, I invite them to campus. I offer high schools a "dog and pony show"  for free, all they have to do is ask and be able to schedule around my calendar.

I normally have a very busy schedule. This year it is not as busy but stressful. I am speaker of the faculty senate and rather "on-call" all the time. I look forward to my term limit in April.

Louis

On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:03 PM, clay...@googlegroups.com wrote:

evolution of millions of wee oxygen bubbles in a rare Titanium(IV) → Titanium(III) redox reaction

[Neon-Cat]

Glad you liked the info, Louis -- TiO2 and rutile are very interesting. Industry now makes self-cleaning tiles using TiO2. Some of you probably have antibacterial surfaced-products made from thin films of TiO2, doped with different metals and non-metals. One of my wall pieces never gets dusty. Works for me!   Being in the 21st century is a grand adventure for those in pottery and ceramics. Mysteries are revealed, old myths laid to rest. New things await discovery and manifestation.   Yes, I did write and ask you about school a few years back. In-state and all that; near the coast (sometimes I long for seashore). The "better" reasons one might give to seek school I lost along the clayart path.   Perhaps being an independent has been good in a way -- I can cover a lot of ground very quickly and have little needing to be un-learned. And clay is clay, forms are forms, and art is Art, or not.   My dog has ADD. Unless his prey-drive kicks in -- then he is totally focused. He is nice enough. And I myself am many things.   (right now a clay junkie celebrating cristobalite-free clay bodies and thinking of fizzy titanium dioxide particles)   Marian Neon-Cat --- On Thu, 1/26/12, Louis Katz <loui...@yahoo.com> wrote: