Saturday, June 12, 2004

Sold first forged iron bowl This is another private holiday for me - the day I sold my first iron bowl, back in 1987. It was an openwork bowl called Spiral Dance. I sold it from an invitational exhibit of ironwork at the Madison-Morgan Museum in Madison, Georgia. The exhibit opened at the start of the Southeastern Conference that year, of ABANA - the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America. That was also the first time I was asked to demonstrate at a national ABANA conference. (I wisely declined, to wait another two years.) Back then I had no idea I'd end up specializing in vessels. Or that my openwork iron fruit bowls would evolve into sculptures. I was just making what interested me most. That's what I'm doing now too, so who knows where it will go? 11:21:32 PM    comment []

DVD Review: Shrink is In - 1 star We may have seen worse - and there are plenty of films of which we didn't watch more than a few minutes. So maybe "Shrink is In" deserves 1.5 stars instead of just 1. But really, it's pretty asinine. At the end, we wondered why we had kept watching it. It must be more difficult to make a good comedy than to make a good thriller or even a good drama. The outcome of this one is pretty obvious early on. It's just a question of working out the details. The acting isn't that great. No one's all that attractive. So - why not skip this one? 11:16:15 PM    comment []