Some more YouTube from me

Hi everyone :-)

I have added to my YouTube "collection" with the process of making lidded
balls and also the opening of my bisque kiln today.

I am not posting because I want more hits on my videos. What I was hoping
for was actually some feedback from "real" (as opposed to little-old amateur
me!) potters about my technique or ideas for developing some of my
experiments further, etc.

The link to my personal stuff is http://www.youtube.com/marihani

Also, I want to invite you ALL to join the Ceramics group on there! You
don't HAVE to post any videos yourself, but I would love to see some from
y'all! You do have to have a (free) member account to subscribe to the
group, though. I try to add any interesting pottery-videos I come across to
that group, so that all that go to the group can see interesting or
entertaining pottery videos.

Please do come along! I would so love to see your pieces, your workshops,
your special techniques, your home-made tools etc etc!

You can go straight to the ceramics group by clicking

here------ http://www.youtube.com/group/ceramics

And, Brad! Post more ceramics stuff! Though I do enjoy your other posts too
:-)

Marianne

Bubbles, Thanks for the great invitation! I loved your bisque opening
video! What a great way to share those precious moments in a clay
artists life!

Can you tell me how you filmed and uploaded your film? Is there a
specific camera that works better or do you have to have a specific
program to edit your film in? I am very interested. The Clay Empire,
my business places clay in the hands of kids of all ages 2-92 across
Minnesota, USA and hopefully soon the world. I ignite imaginations
with the wonders of clay! This format looks wonderful for me to reach
out even more! I would love your imput!

Chad Everson
The Clay Empire
Minnesota, USA

Bubbles_ wrote:
Hi everyone :-)

I have added to my YouTube "collection" with the process of making lidded
balls and also the opening of my bisque kiln today.

I am not posting because I want more hits on my videos. What I was hoping
for was actually some feedback from "real" (as opposed to little-old amateur
me!) potters about my technique or ideas for developing some of my
experiments further, etc.

The link to my personal stuff is http://www.youtube.com/marihani

Also, I want to invite you ALL to join the Ceramics group on there! You
don't HAVE to post any videos yourself, but I would love to see some from
y'all! You do have to have a (free) member account to subscribe to the
group, though. I try to add any interesting pottery-videos I come across to
that group, so that all that go to the group can see interesting or
entertaining pottery videos.

Please do come along! I would so love to see your pieces, your workshops,
your special techniques, your home-made tools etc etc!

You can go straight to the ceramics group by clicking

here------ http://www.youtube.com/group/ceramics

And, Brad! Post more ceramics stuff! Though I do enjoy your other posts too
:-)

Marianne

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Bubbles, Thanks for the great invitation! I loved your bisque opening
video! What a great way to share those precious moments in a clay
artists life!

Can you tell me how you filmed and uploaded your film? Is there a
specific camera that works better or do you have to have a specific
program to edit your film in? I am very interested. The Clay Empire,
my business places clay in the hands of kids of all ages 2-92 across
Minnesota, USA and hopefully soon the world. I ignite imaginations
with the wonders of clay! This format looks wonderful for me to reach
out even more! I would love your imput!

jk

Hi Chad!

I am so glad that you were glad to be invited! I would LOVE for more potters
to open their kilns "live" on YouTube!!! I so agree that these are precious
moments! I hope I kept the language simple enough that also non-potters can
get into the mood.

Hopefully within the next week, I will be loading a glaze kiln. Then I will
show both the loading and then the opening. Glaze kilns are the precioustest
moments of all! WHAT A BUZZ seeing your colorful pieces all finished and
bright and beautiful!

Personally, I have a Canon DV 10 video camera that records on little DVD-RW
disks. I then have Adobe Premiere which is able to import MPEG2 (.VOB) files
and has some good editing and exporting tools. I then export the video as
Windows format (.WMV) at a size under 100 MB and upload that to the site. I
am not even considering buying the full version of Premiere, as the LE
version is plenty for me at my level of editing skills and the full version
costs tooooooo much!

If you are lucky, you will find a good camera that has Adobe Premiere LE
bundled with it.

Our camera is not the cheapest, by any means, but we are very faithful Canon
users, mostly because all our cameras (digital photo of all levels) for the
past 15 and more years have been utterly reliable and the optics are very
good. The only thing I wish the DV 10 has that it doesn't, is a function to
take just a few frames, with a mind to maybe making some animated things
some time - the waltz of the clay balls, perhaps? ;-)

Now, as for marketing on YouTube, I think you should tread carefully. At
this very moment, there is a discussion among the users about the site
becoming commercialised. You can still "market" yourself, though, by taking
movies of what goes on (since you are a business, a written release from
anyone appearing in the videos would probably be a good idea) and the things
that are made - or, if you stand in one end of the room showing how to do
something, film you (I think you can get a release from that participant at
least ;-)

Then, at the end of each video and also on your main youtube page, publish
the links to your homepage and write that courses are available in the
following cities.

Of course, you can also do a "whowho" video introducing yourself to the
community. Reason it is called "whowho" is that that is part of the title of
the original call for introductions posted by Renetto, and you should post
your's as a reply to that video. There you can tell a bit about yourself and
also about the business you have built and want to build further.

Or you can go whole hog commercial and make a super-duper presentation video
that you can pay to have featured on the main page.

Up to you how you do it.

Personally, I am not on there for money or fame. I just really like to share
the fun of pottery with anyone who will watch and I am into filming as well,
so it is a nice match. Just today, though, I was asked in the comments to
one of my videos whether I sold what I make. I don't know if this person
wants to buy something, or is just curious, but I did reply that I do sell
stuff now.

So - very long-winded answer. If you need more information about entering
YouTube commercially, I suggest you contact the site itself.

Marianne

U¿ytkownik "Bubbles_" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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Hi everyone :-)

I have added to my YouTube "collection" with the process of making lidded
balls and also the opening of my bisque kiln today.

hello Marianne,
I watched all your pottery videos on Youtube and I really like them. Yours
lidded balls are brilliant! I was a little surprise that your biscuit firing
was so space wasting - I was told that during first firing I may put in kiln
as much as I can, one in another etc. but maybe it's that here in Poland we're
trying save electricity, time and the money at the same time/firing ).



I was studying pottery in my secondary school and now after ten years brake
(and graduating archaeology) I decide return to pottery. This movies on
Youtube are really usefull - thanks a lot. (sorry for my English, I'm good
in reading and listening but my writing and speaking is really awful)



joanna

We used to stack our bisque kiln without shelves (I'm no longer that
confident or talented at the puzzle). As long as feet were on feet, rims
were on rims, heavy stuff on the bottom, etc. there was very seldom any
problem. I still stack my bisque kiln and load it pretty tight. I just
put in shelves to be able to get more in with less work.

Donna

"Joanna" wrote in message
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U¿ytkownik "Bubbles_" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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Hi everyone :-)

I have added to my YouTube "collection" with the process of making lidded
balls and also the opening of my bisque kiln today.

hello Marianne,
I watched all your pottery videos on Youtube and I really like them. Yours
lidded balls are brilliant! I was a little surprise that your biscuit
firing was so space wasting - I was told that during first firing I may
put in kiln as much as I can, one in another etc. but maybe it's that here
in Poland we're trying save electricity, time and the money at the same
time/firing ).



I was studying pottery in my secondary school and now after ten years
brake (and graduating archaeology) I decide return to pottery. This movies
on Youtube are really usefull - thanks a lot. (sorry for my English, I'm
good in reading and listening but my writing and speaking is really awful)



joanna

"Joanna" wrote in message
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of my bisque kiln today.

hello Marianne,
I watched all your pottery videos on Youtube and I really like them. Yours
lidded balls are brilliant! I was a little surprise that your biscuit
firing was so space wasting - I was told that during first firing I may
put in kiln as much as I can, one in another etc. but maybe it's that here
in Poland we're trying save electricity, time and the money at the same
time/firing ).

It wasn't so much that, as me being afraid the weight of things might break
what was underneath, and that I didn't have more stuff that would fit.

Thanks for watching my videos. If you go to my main page
(www.youtube.com/marihani) you will find "groups" in the list across the
top. Click there, then select Ceramics, and you will easily get to the group
where many potters post their own and other people's videos of and about
pottery. You will have to be a member in order to join the group, though you
can watch without joining, I think.

I was studying pottery in my secondary school and now after ten years
brake (and graduating archaeology) I decide return to pottery. This movies
on Youtube are really usefull - thanks a lot. (sorry for my English, I'm
good in reading and listening but my writing and speaking is really awful)

That's a nice combination of archeology and pottery. If I were 18 again
(HA!) I might pursue the same courses.

Your English is great! You should hear my Polish!

Stauwnsj de bishmiii w'stetchinje........ :-D

"DKat" wrote in message
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We used to stack our bisque kiln without shelves (I'm no longer that
confident or talented at the puzzle). As long as feet were on feet, rims
were on rims, heavy stuff on the bottom, etc. there was very seldom any
problem. I still stack my bisque kiln and load it pretty tight. I just
put in shelves to be able to get more in with less work.

Since I hand-build so much, my pieces are pretty irregular. I worry about
the weight of one ruining the one underneath and so on. Am back on the wheel
now, and then I can probably stack better in bisque. Also, I think it takes
practice to know how to best fill it up.

Another thing, though.... Isn't it important to get air circulation, even in
bisque firing?

Marianne

"Bubbles_" wrote in message
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"DKat" wrote in message
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We used to stack our bisque kiln without shelves (I'm no longer that
confident or talented at the puzzle). As long as feet were on feet, rims
were on rims, heavy stuff on the bottom, etc. there was very seldom any
problem. I still stack my bisque kiln and load it pretty tight. I just
put in shelves to be able to get more in with less work.

Since I hand-build so much, my pieces are pretty irregular. I worry about
the weight of one ruining the one underneath and so on. Am back on the
wheel now, and then I can probably stack better in bisque. Also, I think
it takes practice to know how to best fill it up.

Another thing, though.... Isn't it important to get air circulation, even
in bisque firing?

Not if you have dried your pieces properly. One way to tell if your piece
is dry is to put it against your cheek. If it feels cold, it is still
holding water. You can candle your kiln overnight - sorry - term from days
when everything was done with flame... don't have another word for it. Run
the kiln at a low temperature (below boiling) overnight if you are unsure of
your pieces being bone dry. Handbuilding should follow the same rules as
wheel thrown pieces (other than you would not put rim to rim if you didn't
have a good match). Lighter pieces on top of heavier ones, foot over foot,
some room for expansion and shrinking. I would not go hog wild. Get
comfortable with the choices you are making. It really isn't hard, just a
bit scary when you start out. As I said, I'm not longer as bold as I once
was with my stacking (age...).

"DKat" wrote in message
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Not if you have dried your pieces properly. One way to tell if your piece
is dry is to put it against your cheek. If it feels cold, it is still
holding water. You can candle your kiln overnight - sorry - term from
days when everything was done with flame... don't have another word for
it. Run the kiln at a low temperature (below boiling) overnight if you
are unsure of your pieces being bone dry. Handbuilding should follow the
same rules as wheel thrown pieces (other than you would not put rim to rim
if you didn't have a good match). Lighter pieces on top of heavier ones,
foot over foot, some room for expansion and shrinking. I would not go hog
wild. Get comfortable with the choices you are making. It really isn't
hard, just a bit scary when you start out. As I said, I'm not longer as
bold as I once was with my stacking (age...).

That's my problem, as my pieces are not any uniform shape, or they have
lids. I do have a half-shelf I sometimes use, though.

My teacher taught me to run a "candling" at over boiling point - 120 C -
though you build up to it very slowly. That has worked nicely for me a few
times now. This summer has been rather humid, with around 60% or more
humidity, so I have "candled" a couple of batches just to be on the safe
side.

Marianne

"Joanna" wrote in message
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U¿ytkownik "Bubbles_" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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Hi everyone :-)

I have added to my YouTube "collection" with the process of making lidded
balls and also the opening of my bisque kiln today.

hello Marianne,
I watched all your pottery videos on Youtube and I really like them. Yours
lidded balls are brilliant! I was a little surprise that your biscuit
firing was so space wasting - I was told that during first firing I may
put in kiln as much as I can, one in another etc. but maybe it's that here
in Poland we're trying save electricity, time and the money at the same
time/firing ).



I was studying pottery in my secondary school and now after ten years
brake (and graduating archaeology) I decide return to pottery. This movies
on Youtube are really usefull - thanks a lot. (sorry for my English, I'm
good in reading and listening but my writing and speaking is really awful)



joanna

Sounds fine to me - better than mine most of the time and my first language
is English Writing to this room would be good practice for you so I look
forward to hearing more. Donna