Re: [Clayart] clay fails

[Skrej Bulgar via Clayart]

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Don't feel too badly for the third guy with the overloaded wareboard. I'm
pretty sure that's the same guy by name of Joel Cherrico, whose shtick is
to "accidentally" overload (or sometimes bump into) a nearly full board.
He pretends to look shocked, the proceeds to wedge everything together on
the floor. He then lifts the huge batch of clay back onto the wheel where
he throws from the hump, time-lapse filling the board, until he
"accidentally" bumps it again. The video continues to loop again with
wedging, etc.

He's got dozens of such videos on his TikTok account. Not sure if he uses
other social media. He's talented, but I find the videos annoying for
some reason when it's obviously so deliberate. Probably because I've done
it by accident myself.

Occasionally he uses a western kick or treadle wheel, but more often throws
on a Korean/Japanese style wheel.

But yeah, the multi-faced sculptural piece makes me cry every time I see
it.

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> Subject: Re: [Clayart] CLAY FAILS !
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> Hi David -
> Thanks for that video. The first, second, fourth and fifth snippets are
> humorous, and in my many years teaching clay, I saw those things happen
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> times. Better the tee-shirt than the hair. And the over-centered board
> loaded with freshly-thrown pots happened to me quite a few times.
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> The third snipped is hard to watch. I feel so bad for the artist who put
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> much work into that complex figurative sculpture. But once again, in my
> teaching career I saw similar tragic studio accidents happen a number of
> times. In this case, I hope that after a period of despair, the artist got
> out the clay and started over, and if so, I'll bet the second attempt was
> better than the first. We learn something from every single thing we make
> with clay.
> - Vince
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> Vince Pitelka
> Potter, Writer, Teacher
> Chapel Hill, NC
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> I look at several meme sites every morning, to start the day with a smile.
> This morning I ran across this short video. I uploaded it to the "Clayart"
> page of my website. Check it out:
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> https://farmpots.com/oven.htm
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> da...@farmpots.com
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