You thought it was bad!

Remember how I wrote about that awful experience I had interviewing at the grad school in New York?  And how I didn't get in anyway?

WELL.  Someone one-upped me!

One of the people in my program also interviewed at that school, and also went to New York specifically for that interview because they refused to do it over the phone.

But get this, she is from Korea.  She flew all the way to New York for the interview (paid $1200 for a plane ticket!) and the woman didn't even show up to interview her!  She sat there alone for a while before going off in search of someone, and finally some grad student - who had never heard of her or seen her portfolio or application - "interviewed" her without apologizing for the lack of welcome!

I don't know if she got in or not, but she said that after that experience she was pretty determined to not go to that school even if she did get in.

Who do they think they are, anyway?

Eee! I want this book.

I read about it in Book By Its Cover today, and now I really want it!  It sounds like a great book and good inspiration :)

NaBloPoMo: July

OK I am thinking of tackling another month!  July's theme is "FOOD," which is something I love to talk about, take pictures of, and eat.  So I think I can handle it, even with moving and going to a wedding and starting grad school.  What do you think?

Vases - they make sense!

It's hard to look at an empty vase and go, "ah yes, I get it."  Sometimes you just don't get it until you put a flower in it.

I didn't like the second vase very much but now that it has a flower in it I like it much more.  JewishGuy said he didn't understand the first one until there was a flower in it, like why was there that weird wing off of the side, but now it make sense (it off-sets the tension and makes it look balanced, not like it is about to fall over).

First Prize!

I won the Israel Sheli photo constest/exhibition!  My first show and I won.  Hooray :)  It was a really small show but I am going to count it.

My prize was this book (click the image for more info/ordering):

I am very excited.  I may read it on our drive to Chicago. :) :)

Squished Flowers

Flowers on my car (and the dent)

First Show: Israel Photography

Three of my photos are going to be displayed in a traveling photography show this summer :) The contest was called "Israel Sheli," where we had to send in three photos that represented Israel.

Here are my photos:

Finished pieces: Misc

I have a few pieces that would be each separate categories, so they all go in "misc."

This is a kind of bowl I made in a mold.  I wanted to make a real bowl but when it dried and I took it out of the mold, it balanced strangely on its side.  I decided I liked it anyway and kept that balance/shape in mind when I glazed it.  I really like this piece, but unfortunately something bad happened in the firing and there's a piece of something stuck to the side (I didn't take a picture of this).  So while I think this is one of my best pieces, I wish it didn't have that weird thing stuck to it.  Oh well.  The glaze looks neat :)

The long-awaited Shabbat lamp. :)  I don't know if I'll actually use it as a lamp, but it's neat.

These are the hanging jars.  I once again used the glaze that I thought would show of texture and instead of showing off texture it just glossed over everything.  Bah!  Never using Temoku again!  I think this came out all right but I don't think I would use them, who knows.

This was what I made to fulfill the project: "The Figure."  I like it :)  I made it out of scraps left over from another project, I was just playing around and thought, well this kind of looks like a lady!

I have no idea what this is, I just kind of made it from scraps and kept it.  A lot of the weird things that kind of looked phallic I threw away, but this one I kept.  I don't know how I feel about it.

And that's pretty much all I made this semester!

Finished pieces: Dishes

This next category is called "dishes" but it stands for bowls, plates, things to serve food in, etc.

This is a sort of set of dishes that I made.  They weren't made as a set until I glazed them this way, but I think they came out nicely.  The plate is kind of a stupid plate, it would have been nice but it fell down so now it's more like a hummus plate or a vegetable serving plate.

This was going to be a vase but then the top crumpled.  Instead of folding up the clay and using it again another time, I decided to keep it, and this is what came out.  This was the second instance where I used a Shino glaze and then put another glaze over it (the blue on the crumply section), hoping for weird bubbly reactions, and getting nothing.  It still looks cool, I think.

This is a set of pitchers I made, trying out different glazes to show off the texture.  Obviously the one on the right doesn't show any texture, which sucks because I had made this cool fan design on it.  Oh well.  I love the way the blue one looks.

I made the scratches in this bowl with a weird wire tool pressed against it while I spun it on the wheel.  I don't remember what I did to make the white stripes inside the bowl, I think it was a different Shino glaze (like two different Shino glazes on the bowl).

I'm not overly happy with any of these things, but most of it was made on the wheel and since I am just learning the wheel I guess they are somewhat successful. :)

JewishGal Travel

I will be in Israel soon and mostly without internet so I've created a blog where I will be posting from my phone!

jewishgaltravel.blogspot.com

Yes, I know you wanted to add another JewishGal blog to your feed, and I'm happy to fill that void for you!