Definition of Ceramic

A recent post to an email group called "Naked Raku"
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I recieved this definition while touring the Ceramic Color & Chemical MFG.Co in New Brighton, PA, July'04

"Minerals of variable compostion and rather doubtful purity are subjected to an unmeasurable thermal treatment for a period of time just enough to allow unknown reaction to take place incompletely, yielding the heterogenous, nonstoichiometric material known by the name ceramic."

Unfortunately, the person did not sign the name.

Another upcoming tile job is recreating some of this guy's tile...

Batchelder Tile
This is an interesting story, about a 'find"...and here is some background on the guy 'a little website for an old tilemaker'

Paper/Adobe homes, for less than $10,000

This has got some great mixtures for building your own structures with inexpensive materials

Victor Hugo quote

Be as a bird
perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she
sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo 1802-1885

Phoenix Magazine- June issue talking about my chair

Check it out on page 42, if you happen to run across a copy, it's the June issue-Summer Getaways. :-)

This is a public library where the next tiles are going...

It was built in the 1890's, the Amelia Givin Free Library in Mount Hood Springs, Pennsylvania. This is a bunch of cool pics of it, and an article-


No one should go around artless

This is a great idea...

Scott McNeill

This guy may be the most amazing real-life artist I have ever had the fortune to meet-