African Pottery

Zulu Pottery

Slabs on Wheel

Bill Powell - Flame throw Pottery demo

Extended form

Tokoname Master

Icheon

British Potter: Lisa Hammond; 'A Sense of Adventure'

5,000 Year Old Chinese Beer Recipe from Pottery

"Archaeologists discovered ancient beer-making tools in underground rooms, that were built somewhere between 3400 and 2900 B.C. The discovery was made at a dig site in the Central Plain of China and contained  pots, funnels and specially designed jugs. Objects suggest they were probably used for brewing, filtration and storage of beer."

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3,000 Year Old piece of pottery in Papua New Guinea

"A piece of red, glossy pottery found in the rugged highlands of Papua New Guinea has been shown to be the oldest-known pottery in New Guinea. Tim Denham of Australian National University, working with researchers from Otago University, obtained precise dates for the pottery as part of a study to learn more about how the technology spread throughout the Pacific. People who lived on the coast of Papua New Guinea would have had contact with seafaring, pottery-making cultures such as the Lapita people. “It’s an example of how technology spread among cultures. Some pottery must have soon found its way into the highlands, which inspired the highlanders to try making it themselves,” Denham said in a press release. “And it shows human history is not always a smooth progression—later on pottery making was abandoned across most of the highlands of New Guinea. No one knows when or why,” he said. To read about smoked mummies in Papua New Guinea, go to the current issue's "World Roundup."

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Phil Rogers

Ken Matsuzaki - Elemental

Ceramics of Huancas

                                                                         Gabriella Filgueira

"Like in the old days, the women make pots of different sizes and types and even home adornments, such as candlesticks and incense burners characterized by their porous texture and which follow they styles of manufacture of the ancestors with decoration that all together does not damage the environment. Every step of the process is a small ritual.

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Just as in life, the law of the survival of the fittest rules in the cusana. The pieces that do not rise to exact and proportional measures of materials break as if by magic. Not even the most advanced industry has such a sophisticated and rigorous rule."


The fire gods of ceramics are a fickle bunch


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Giant Clay Pots and 8,000 year old tradition of Georgia wine

"I don't make anything special," he says. "I only continue in the way started by my parents."
 
Georgia's winemaking heritage goes back 8,000 years and centers on the qvevri, a cavernous terra-cotta pot shaped like an egg, lined with beeswax and buried to the mouth underground. But these ancient vessels were sidelined by the industrial wine production dictated by seven decades of Soviet rule. Over the past 10 years, however, qvevri wine has slowly recovered. Today, it is a calling card for Georgian wine around the world.

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Challenge: Death Masks pt. 1

Found these randomly on the internet, thought they were pretty interesting.

Nicola Tesla, 1943

Beethoven 1812

Isaac Newton

Dante Alighieri

Queen Mary

Goethe

More here:
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/C0770/


P.S. I don't know if this was a specifically European-American practice, but the death masks are overwhelmingly white men...

Svend Bayer

Lee Kang Hyo - Onggi Master

Lisa Hammond

Jean-Nicholas Gerard

Anne Mette Hjortshoj

Animated Greek Vases