Friday, August 5, 2005

Ceramics Classes for a Deathrock Cutter Jolene Siana (blog) writes a series of letters to a rock star, who collects them and one day sends them back. She is an outcast in her school, into Deathrock and cutting herself. The prose, pages, and intent are very creative and intense. ("Go Ask Ogre") It seems that her first letter was written while she was in a ceramics class. Not knocking the teacher, or anything, but it does bring up a point on how to make a ceramics class pertanent to someone obviously artistic, yet an outsider. The bigger issue for me is how can ceramic craft reach and speak for people outside the main stream. I know it can and it does. (thx boingboing) 6:28:24 AM

Astronomy Podcast / Audio Program. Loyal readers know that I dabble in astronomy. While viewing things in a telescope is a sort of a visual thrill, understanding more about an object makes the view a whole lot better. I tend to forget the things I read about a celestial object by the time I get a chance to view it. Thus, the idea (not new, I'm sure) of an audio program one can listen to while viewing. I did an example of the globular cluster M13 It is short and not too professional. However, it is certainly suitable for listening while viewing the object in one's telescope. (This is my intent.) M13 ogg audio file M13.txt file I would like to place it where others can improve upon it, as well as create similar audio programs. I am thinking of the wikipedia. 6:23:12 AM