Most years the Google Japan team shows off a wildly impractical keyboard in October, and they release the open source resources necessary to recreate their madness. Their offering for 2021 was a keyboard shaped like a teacup, with the keys corresponding to the kanji for different kinds of sushi. Naturally I took it upon myself to actually build one of these, which is now done. It was way less aggravating to put together than I expected, mostly a lot of bending and soldering little pieces of metal to assemble the PCB pieces into a cylinder.
back in the game with a bit of insanely last minute holiday rush. i've been busy slapping the shit out of some lovely new cups, tea bowls and yunomis with about 45 in total now nearly dry enough to bisque late tomorrow or Wednesday;
you're simply not living until you betch slap some shetbag clay!
and that little mishap with glaze in the kiln? got to play surgery earlier and successfully extracted the mess
it was that wonderful blue/green crystal glaze, but when most any fluid glass makes contact with kiln brick, it's a bubbly corrosive nightmare. saved some souvenirs to commemorate the first dip shit damage 😑
however, this provided a good time to patch some nuisance cracks that have been causing concern lately plus other fine tuning and maintenance to keep this giant crucible chugging along smoothly! my go-to shop was out of kiln patch compound but with most anything ceramics, such things can be made from source materials, and i found a great and simple refractory [doesn't melt even beyond 2400°f] brick patch!
so my yet-to-be-officially-named baby is currently running a quick bisque temp firing to seal the deal before going full speed ahead during the next week. beginning to mentally prepare for a breathless glazing marathon later this week.
there's gonna be a lot of unicorn cum just ahead...
#teatuesday with the perfect crystalline glaze to match the big snowflakes outside. It even has an icicle. ❄️ I am currently enamored with horizontally carved textures like this one. It feels like water to me. All sort of #texture experiments going on. Not sure where they are leading me yet. Which is awesome! . . . #teabowls #yunomi #handcarved #crystallineglaze #pottery #ceramics #handmade #handbuiltporcelain #makersmarket #etsyfinds #etsyhandmade #potterylover #potteryaddict #homeart #art #clayartsutah #lithologyceramicart https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHONVBrgWe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
today's milk was drank from a yunomi i also made bc i couldn't find the clown mug . when i was trimming i decided to add some accents on the side but the glaze filled it so up and you can't see it much at all . i have yet to actually drink tea out of it bc i don't actually like hot tea but it makes me happy nonetheless