Monday, March 10, 2014
Over a week to go.
I am so looking forward to going to NCECA. I am ALSO quite nervous about going to a new city and I'm worried about transportation and how to get to the convention center. TODAY I WILL RESEARCH MORE ABOUT THE LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS AND AND GET SOME IDEAS ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO GO SEE.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Plane, Hotel and Conference Milwaukee, WI
My Plane, Hotel and Conference are booked. I am about a month away from departure. I have started to research the conference schedule and plan some of my outings. Touring the Kohler Plant is high on my list. I am excited that I know a few people who are going!
More to come,
Love,Love,Love,
Jada
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sunday Sunset in Seattle
Sunday, Sunset, Seattle, my most favorite time of day on my most favoriteday of the week... I am looking down upon a very long line for the Ani Defranco, show. I hear a fairly loud band playing somewhere down the street. It is freakin' cold right now, I don't see how they do it. Some of the gals in that line have short sleeves and short skirts. Doors open at 7:00. We shall see how it goes..
It is so very busy here there is always something happening. ...ooo the line is moving.. It is very, very long.
It is so very busy here there is always something happening. ...ooo the line is moving.. It is very, very long.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
SUPERGIRL'S! Sullen Saturday
I woke up to rain, rain, rain. Booooo.... Made some frantic texts home trying to figure if I could go home today, or get a hotel till I leave on Tues. NOTHING would work with out downpayment on a house. I resigned myself to staying here. I am tired of being cold and wet.
Leila came down to the mkt in the morning and bought me some fresh made donuts! She is the best... she had to parent me and Catherine a few times on this trip. I got my act together and went back up to the convention center, did I mention that it is 5 blocks uphill in the cold rain? waaaaaaa.... The emerging artists were very interesting. They all have stuff written up about them in the conference materials. What they do is way beyond what I can dream of. They are using alot of computer stuff for their designing and imagery. They really are in the digital age, I don't even think that NCECA was in the digital age when I started going in 2000. Things move so fast. They also had closing speakers, Robert Brady and his wife Sandy/?. They both spoke separately about their lives and their work. She is an unbelievable potter, making utilitarian pottery with grace and peace. He is a sculptor who works in a variety of meetings. They are very different, but must make it all work. I enjoyed what they said and how they said it. It was a very nice wrap up to the conference.
I was very discouraged about having to stay here any longer so I tried to make the best of it, I walked to Poineer Square, not a long walk if you know where you are going. I feel like I am in a labrynth/maze here and it has these tall walls I cannot see over or around and when I think I have a handle on it, it takes me down another path. It was getting to be about 2pm and I realized I REALLY needed some food. I found this shop that had the kalamata olive bread as a grilled cheese. YUM. When I came out of the restaurant I tried to use my guide and my gps to find the galleries that everyone so raved about. It was darkish and still raining and I was frustrated and sad. I remember Gayle telling me to go to a japanese mkt called Kobo. I got my bearings and walked UPHILL again and found it. It was worth the climb. There were beautiful asian styled pottery all over the place that was part of a show for the conference. There were also interesting other interesting things there.
After I left there I headed down the hill (still raining) and decided I was too tired to walk all the way back. I found some transportation tunnel that I thought was the train(that I rode in from the airport) but it was busses and I had NO idea where I was going. I looked for someone to ask, I thought I had found him, but just as I was about to speak he got on a bus. I went back up the stairs and headed back on foot. I stumbled upon a gallery that was the Archie Bray Show.. it was magnificent!! As I left there I asked where I might find the Underground Tour that everyone recommends. I found it but there was such a massive amt of people there I turned around and walked out.(that has happened several times this weekend, I think that my people anxiety sometimes kicks my butt so that I miss out on good things because of it) The sun was shining now and I walked back to Pikes Mkt and went to my hostel for a few. I couldn't stand that I was so tired but missing the sun.
I got myself out of my bunk and headed out to the mkt and walked around a bit more. It was cold and beautiful outside(those who know me, know those are not two words I would ever use in the same sentence). I parked myself near the market and watched the sunset! Yipee, SUN! I went back through the market and got myself some togo lentil soup and took it back up to the hostel We aren't allowed to eat in our rooms so I ate in the VERY busy community room. I sat with some potters who cringed when I sat down because of the SUPERGIRL! shirt, but I noticed one of them was one of my bunk mates and I introduced myself to the others. I think they were relieved I wasn't a comic book hero. We had an awesome conversation about teaching pottery. The gal "Violet" was cool and we talked about here getting ready to teach in the summer, she is a grad student now. I hope to help her out if she likes.
I decided to do laundry, I was on my last pair of underwear. Not so good for 3 more days here. I read for a bit and then finally slept. I haven't had to take any sleeping pills, but I am sure that my sleep pattern is really screwed up from the slamming door. I cannot wait to get home, I am soooo homesick, but the sun coming out had it's redeeming qualities.
Love, Love, Love,
Jada
Leila came down to the mkt in the morning and bought me some fresh made donuts! She is the best... she had to parent me and Catherine a few times on this trip. I got my act together and went back up to the convention center, did I mention that it is 5 blocks uphill in the cold rain? waaaaaaa.... The emerging artists were very interesting. They all have stuff written up about them in the conference materials. What they do is way beyond what I can dream of. They are using alot of computer stuff for their designing and imagery. They really are in the digital age, I don't even think that NCECA was in the digital age when I started going in 2000. Things move so fast. They also had closing speakers, Robert Brady and his wife Sandy/?. They both spoke separately about their lives and their work. She is an unbelievable potter, making utilitarian pottery with grace and peace. He is a sculptor who works in a variety of meetings. They are very different, but must make it all work. I enjoyed what they said and how they said it. It was a very nice wrap up to the conference.
I was very discouraged about having to stay here any longer so I tried to make the best of it, I walked to Poineer Square, not a long walk if you know where you are going. I feel like I am in a labrynth/maze here and it has these tall walls I cannot see over or around and when I think I have a handle on it, it takes me down another path. It was getting to be about 2pm and I realized I REALLY needed some food. I found this shop that had the kalamata olive bread as a grilled cheese. YUM. When I came out of the restaurant I tried to use my guide and my gps to find the galleries that everyone so raved about. It was darkish and still raining and I was frustrated and sad. I remember Gayle telling me to go to a japanese mkt called Kobo. I got my bearings and walked UPHILL again and found it. It was worth the climb. There were beautiful asian styled pottery all over the place that was part of a show for the conference. There were also interesting other interesting things there.
After I left there I headed down the hill (still raining) and decided I was too tired to walk all the way back. I found some transportation tunnel that I thought was the train(that I rode in from the airport) but it was busses and I had NO idea where I was going. I looked for someone to ask, I thought I had found him, but just as I was about to speak he got on a bus. I went back up the stairs and headed back on foot. I stumbled upon a gallery that was the Archie Bray Show.. it was magnificent!! As I left there I asked where I might find the Underground Tour that everyone recommends. I found it but there was such a massive amt of people there I turned around and walked out.(that has happened several times this weekend, I think that my people anxiety sometimes kicks my butt so that I miss out on good things because of it) The sun was shining now and I walked back to Pikes Mkt and went to my hostel for a few. I couldn't stand that I was so tired but missing the sun.
I got myself out of my bunk and headed out to the mkt and walked around a bit more. It was cold and beautiful outside(those who know me, know those are not two words I would ever use in the same sentence). I parked myself near the market and watched the sunset! Yipee, SUN! I went back through the market and got myself some togo lentil soup and took it back up to the hostel We aren't allowed to eat in our rooms so I ate in the VERY busy community room. I sat with some potters who cringed when I sat down because of the SUPERGIRL! shirt, but I noticed one of them was one of my bunk mates and I introduced myself to the others. I think they were relieved I wasn't a comic book hero. We had an awesome conversation about teaching pottery. The gal "Violet" was cool and we talked about here getting ready to teach in the summer, she is a grad student now. I hope to help her out if she likes.
I decided to do laundry, I was on my last pair of underwear. Not so good for 3 more days here. I read for a bit and then finally slept. I haven't had to take any sleeping pills, but I am sure that my sleep pattern is really screwed up from the slamming door. I cannot wait to get home, I am soooo homesick, but the sun coming out had it's redeeming qualities.
Love, Love, Love,
Jada
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday started with one of those scary showers. I do think that the bathrooms here are quite gross most of the time. There are just too many people sharing and too many people who don't clean up after themselves. Bkfst was a toasted peanut butter and jelly and coffee. We are right across the street from the first Starbucks and the coffee here is sad cuz of the powdered creamer. Right next to the hostel is a homegrown coffee shop and the coffee is wonderful and cheap. For the same thing I get for close to 5 bucks at Starbucks I can get there for $2.65. It was raining again.
I started in the morning with a lecture by a cute young college student about her quest for pink glazes using rare earth materials. The gal was blonde and soft spoken and what came out of her research was complicated and maybe not quite what she was after, but she used her brains and was able to communicate the finite points of her research with slides (Power POINT damnit).
I went to several other lectures... Tip Tolan and Patty Warishina spoke about their work. Richard Notkin was supposed to be there but had hurt his back. Tip Tolan was one of the demonstrators also for NCECA. She made a HUGE head out of clay. I do look forward to seeing her work again. I didn't take too much time in the demos. I usually want more head stuff like the lectures have. I also know that they video tape all of it, and you can buy it the next year. I should also not feel so compelled to go to the lectures over the demos because all of that is published too. I think there is more to say about the lectures I went to but I am brain dead and overloaded now.
I stayed close to the convention center most of the day except for one short run out for a delicious roasted red pepper soup.
Right before I left my boyfriend said something about a comic book convention that was going on at the same time in as NCECA. I didn't pay attention to him until I started seeing people dressed as super heroes riding the escalators. The first one I saw was a 250lb Alice in Wonderland. Ya know that blue dress ain't so cute anymore when it is made of 10 yards of sky blue fabric and your cankles hang over your bobby sock anklets. I also saw Clark Kent.. man how did that guy get his hair to look like gelled back black JB Weld? The cool thing about all the comic book fanatics/nerds is they make the clay people look totally normal. I must say though, never under any circumstances wear the electric blue SUPERGIRL fleece that Brenda B. gave you, to a town that is having a comic book convention. The drunk beggar at the bottom of the stairs in the hostel here yells SUPERGIRL! everytime I walk by and perfect strangers have discussed SUPERGIRLS virtures with me. I feel like an Comic-con fraud, I don't even know what she looks like.
Back to NCECA...
At 4pm there was a cup exchange with Clayarters. I stood in line next to a nice lady from Vancouver who had a beautiful carved porcelain/thrown cup, GIO(glazed inside only). We all dropped our cups off and picked up a ticket and left the room. The cups were put into brown paper bags, and we all returned and picked a bag. We weren't aloud to touch the bags we just had to pick one bag and take it. IN my bag was a beautiful wood fired shino cup by Liz Willoghby. She had been right behind me in line. Mind you there were probably 60+ cups. As I was thanking Liz, she was opening her cup, and it was Leila's! I don't remember the lady that got mine but she seemed happy.
After the cup exchange I went up to Catherine and Leila's place and hung out for a bit. I left my load of stuff there and went to a party over at the Sheraton. That was a party that may be better to say "what happens in Seattle stays in Seattle" and I took the photos?!?! (at least I was behind the camera).. and maybe you will see what I took in a poster at the next NCECA.
I got lost on my way home, again. I am thankful for my SMARTPHONE "Sweetness Two", who is much smarter than me when it comes to figuring out where I am. I am remembering my stay in PHX in the hotel what was 8 blocks from the convention center, where I didn't get lost, but found I was not in such a great area. I think that there are some interesting characters down here(5 blocks downhill from the convention), but I haven't felt unsafe.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
Jada
I started in the morning with a lecture by a cute young college student about her quest for pink glazes using rare earth materials. The gal was blonde and soft spoken and what came out of her research was complicated and maybe not quite what she was after, but she used her brains and was able to communicate the finite points of her research with slides (Power POINT damnit).
I went to several other lectures... Tip Tolan and Patty Warishina spoke about their work. Richard Notkin was supposed to be there but had hurt his back. Tip Tolan was one of the demonstrators also for NCECA. She made a HUGE head out of clay. I do look forward to seeing her work again. I didn't take too much time in the demos. I usually want more head stuff like the lectures have. I also know that they video tape all of it, and you can buy it the next year. I should also not feel so compelled to go to the lectures over the demos because all of that is published too. I think there is more to say about the lectures I went to but I am brain dead and overloaded now.
I stayed close to the convention center most of the day except for one short run out for a delicious roasted red pepper soup.
Right before I left my boyfriend said something about a comic book convention that was going on at the same time in as NCECA. I didn't pay attention to him until I started seeing people dressed as super heroes riding the escalators. The first one I saw was a 250lb Alice in Wonderland. Ya know that blue dress ain't so cute anymore when it is made of 10 yards of sky blue fabric and your cankles hang over your bobby sock anklets. I also saw Clark Kent.. man how did that guy get his hair to look like gelled back black JB Weld? The cool thing about all the comic book fanatics/nerds is they make the clay people look totally normal. I must say though, never under any circumstances wear the electric blue SUPERGIRL fleece that Brenda B. gave you, to a town that is having a comic book convention. The drunk beggar at the bottom of the stairs in the hostel here yells SUPERGIRL! everytime I walk by and perfect strangers have discussed SUPERGIRLS virtures with me. I feel like an Comic-con fraud, I don't even know what she looks like.
Back to NCECA...
At 4pm there was a cup exchange with Clayarters. I stood in line next to a nice lady from Vancouver who had a beautiful carved porcelain/thrown cup, GIO(glazed inside only). We all dropped our cups off and picked up a ticket and left the room. The cups were put into brown paper bags, and we all returned and picked a bag. We weren't aloud to touch the bags we just had to pick one bag and take it. IN my bag was a beautiful wood fired shino cup by Liz Willoghby. She had been right behind me in line. Mind you there were probably 60+ cups. As I was thanking Liz, she was opening her cup, and it was Leila's! I don't remember the lady that got mine but she seemed happy.
After the cup exchange I went up to Catherine and Leila's place and hung out for a bit. I left my load of stuff there and went to a party over at the Sheraton. That was a party that may be better to say "what happens in Seattle stays in Seattle" and I took the photos?!?! (at least I was behind the camera).. and maybe you will see what I took in a poster at the next NCECA.
I got lost on my way home, again. I am thankful for my SMARTPHONE "Sweetness Two", who is much smarter than me when it comes to figuring out where I am. I am remembering my stay in PHX in the hotel what was 8 blocks from the convention center, where I didn't get lost, but found I was not in such a great area. I think that there are some interesting characters down here(5 blocks downhill from the convention), but I haven't felt unsafe.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
Jada
Friday, March 30, 2012
Decisions
Do I buy a teabowl and or go to a show? Or, save my money and get a hotel room for my last night??
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