Home (Day 354/365)
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The beauty and the pain (Day 353/365)
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The mug (Day 352/365)
And here it is: Not bad, although I think I should have used a green glaze for the interior. The size is just about right, so I was lucky there. It does not approach the beauty of my 1987 mug, but it’s nonetheless nice. And of course it keeps me on schedule of one mug […]
Dance for Double Bass (Day 351/365)
The last full day here in the Land of Pan-Dimensional Mice, and it’s a pretty sad time. I’ll talk about that tomorrow, perhaps. We end it all with the Prism II concert, wherein the music department dazzles us with dozens of pieces. This year, it was not just good, it was phenomenal. All the pieces […]
Milky Way (Day 350/365)
At 11:00, I went to the chorus room and worked with the vocal majors on “Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way.” They learned it quickly and it sounded good. They seemed to enjoy it and appreciate it. At 11:30, we moved into Whitehead Auditorium, where the orchestra was just beginning to sightread the […]
Nearly a mug (Day 349/365)
The mug was fired and ready for glazing, so I made my way to the ceramics studio. One of VSU’s ceramics guys, Michael WhoselastnameI’llgetlater, was preparing to do a “soda firing,” and both Andy and Harry encouraged me to hop into that firing. I would be very happy with the finish, they said. Even knowing […]
Nothing, really (Day 348/365)
As you can imagine, the day after a fire closes your Fine Arts building is a bit busy. As fate would have it, damage was minimal and confined to Sawyer Theatre, so after gathering all the fine arts majors in the Old Gym, we were able to release everyone to go their regular classroom, give […]
Ends and beginnings (Day 347/365)
The day began and ended with a bang: an emergency Caesarean and a fire. In between, though, I accomplished a few things. In the morning, I got the copies of the score and parts of “Dance : for double bass duo & marimba” run off, collated, autographed, and distributed to the three players and two […]
The mug, day 5 (Day 346/365)
Morning report: After a couple cups of coffee, I toddled down to the ceramics studio to work on my mug. You will recall, perhaps, that my decorative goal was to replicate the stone carving labyrinth on the side of the mug. In the previous two versions of the mug, I went ahead and carved the […]
The mug, day 4, et al. (Day 345/365)
This morning I went back to the studio and made another mug. I worked smarter, using a thinner slab and more appropriate construction techniques. I also left the etching of the labyrinth until tomorrow, when the thing has dried a bit. It appears to be a much more within-limits size. I also met with the […]