Raku

Three raku pots that I made!

Today I was a little late to the raku firing, but I still got to help out a bit.  I pulled three pots out of the trash-can-on-fire and got to see a lot of cool glaze effects.  Here's Mike doing the raku:

Raku from Monica Huang on Vimeo.

Now I'm watching an ANTM marathon (don't judge) waiting to go to work at six o'clock.  I'm so happy because I am completely done with Issues in Contemporary Art for good (I finished the two essays of death, and I think I did a pretty good job).  Tonight, I hear there's a mechanical bull someplace and food (possibly free)?  I've also got to break in those legos (by the way, 1500 is not as much as one would think).  

Gas Kiln

Burn, baby, burn.

Today was my last day of classes and, voila, just like that, Junior year is done!  Well, for the most part.  Now I must sprint through this week of exams and make it out alive.  I've got two critiques to prepare for my studio classes, a drawing project, two essays to write for my contemporary art class and, miraculously, I've done everything for my psychology class.  My last day here will be Sunday (I'm sticking around for one last day of work at the nursery) and then I'm hanging out at David's house until I have to get to camp for training week.  Nothing can stress me out too much, though.  I'm looking forward to camp and today I had lots of fun watching the gas kiln with some classmates.  I can't wait to see what comes out of the reduction firing:

Will feeding the fire.  This is an electric kiln that Mike converted into a gas kiln.

Will from Monica Huang on Vimeo.

This is the kiln that Mike built.  Pretty impressive!

Gratuitous pics of kilns can be found in this album.