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DPChallenge > popular all-time > 06 October 2007 Okay, this is way cheating as this photo was taken last month on 22nd September. Today I started an actual pottery course, but you're not supposed to take photos inside the classroom, apparently. EARLY last month, I went to an exhibition of Scandinavian design. I sketched some of the furniture and wrote down the names of some of the ceramicists, and then I developed a sudden burning desire to do pottery. Well, maybe slowly smouldering desire, as I've always enjoyed at looking at the Japanese ceramics at the department stores and so on. SO, I went to Mashiko, which is one of the most famous pottery towns in Japan and is next door to the town where I work. A couple of the potteries there have workshops where you can try out things. I did the electric wheel workshop, and these are my not-so-masterpiecerish efforts. I should have paid to get them all fired and glazed, but I left the second one on the right. I'll be able to pick up the other three when they're finished in mid-November. ;-Þ THE course I started today is twice a month for six months; today I started with basic hand-built dishes. Maybe next year I can do a part-time course at the local art university (local, as in five minutes bike ride from home). If I ever go back to Australia I could start a career as a potter; having studied in Japan will add a certain cachet to my profile. ;-Þ The ironic thing is, when I went to a school reunion fifteen years ago, both my former headmaster and his wife independently asked me how my pottery business was going (apparently, a potter with the same name as me was in Queensland).
DPChallenge > popular all-time > 07 October I actually went out to take a photo of an upside-down fleur-de-lis decoration on a new house, but noticed the farmer was harvesting his rice field today, and that was one thing I wanted to present. It's at the back of our place, and the front field was harvested several weeks ago.
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Sand dunes at dawn
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Sand dunes at dawn
Photo by: gaurawa • see photo in gallery
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