not at 100% yet healthwise, but feeling a little better.
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this weekend chiaki and mr. yoshida were making their comdey skits again. i got pulled into a few of them. good to see everyone.
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in the studio i worked on some general landscape drawings and some pottery for the upcomning firings… john sent me some glaze recipes so we’re going to bisque a few pots next week then try a couple and see what comes out.
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nothing going on. kids at school sick. swine flu has closed several schools in the area and one grade of a school i work at. everyone wears masks, which i would find amusing if i wasnt sick too. traveling around from school to school ive managed to maintain a steady stream of colds over the last few weeks. not getting enough done when i get home in the evenings.
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Ive been working some on the oni landscape drawings and mixing oni sketches in every once in a while.
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just working at skool, drawing, making a few pots and trying to finish new portfolio to send off asap.
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been using the canon 7d to take slides of artwork. I had been putting off documenting work until i got the camera. probably wont post many of them on the site until the new one is finished . web site progress has slowed a lot recently though… well, it will be done someday.
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new oni drawing.
the largest ceramics magazine in the usa, Ceramics Monthly published John Dix’s article about us pulling a pot from his anagama kiln during the Spring 2008 firing. I had thought he described me as the fool who burned his hand on the pot. John had mistakenly teased me about that before since it looks like im not wearing gloves on my left hand in the photo. ( im wearing two pair on each hand and it still got me pretty good) actually i come out in the story as the guy who caught and saved the pot.. a fact kindly pointed out by Sherman Hall, the editor of the magazine.
I like that guy’s attitude. if it wasnt for me that pot would be on the ground either broken or the glaze ruined and covered in gunk. i guess im kind of a hero. unless one of the 5 other people around john would have caught the pot instead, then they would be the hero.
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if you dont have a subscription to the magazine here is a link to the article Sherman sent me.
>>>http://ceramicartsdaily.org/firing-techniques/wood-kiln-firing/a-new-pots-story/<<<
the Kelly bag shown as Dix and his assistant, Kjell, use a stainless steel rod and wooden sticks to retrieve the piece from Dix’s wood kiln. (Photo by Amy Farkas)
i mentioned a few months back that some guys had interviewed me about my artwork… ive had other interviews and sometimes people dont come though with what they say, but this one is done. and they did their best to try and make me look good.
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a group of japanese guys including Yasuhiro Iwatani and a brazilian guy named Louis Silva are putting together a website and something of a community of “interesting” people in japan. what they are trying to do is something similar to the Cool Hunting Videos podcast with a little less art world snobbery.
according to their site:
We all Japan” its a free independent internet TV video project. which the main purpose of this entertainment program is to spread out the current culture of Japan and about the interesting people who habitat this country, making the high-tech samurai land more unique, and one of the most attractive cities in the planet.
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heres the result of all their hard work for the first episode:
click on the link to see more of their site.>>>WE ALL JAPAN <<
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please comment on youtube or contact these guys if you like their work.. they are doing this for free after all.
going to yokohama today and tomorrow to assist chiaki with 7 other people. he’s doing a live painting at a jazz festival there. fuyuko and mome made the 100 foot long canvas last week. hopefully we dont have to work the whole time and walk around the festival a bit.
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an unrelated video from several years back:
kjell hahn overtaken by the spirt of erez sitzer’s terrible amazanga art devoted an entire CD and series of videos to the experience.
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Music by kjell hahn, part of a collaborative tribute to erez’s terrible art.
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check out erez’s sacred site, www.amazanga.com
some of the pieces i made at the raku firing workshop…
took some time, but i finally got the photography room in pretty much working order. here are images from the raku ceramics workshop we put on at the end of september.
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i decided to post the images of my pots separately since the wordpress image gallery isnt the best interface in the world.
new camera came. canon 7D. got to use it for the first time yesterday.. the 100% viewfinder and auto focus are worth half the price of the camera. it was about a thousand times easier to photograph pots and artwork with. the interface is just light-years beyond my 5 year-old rebel. wish i could had the money to get a full frame sensor though..
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also talked to john dix. he wrote an article about the last sasayama firing for Ceramics Monthly. It will be published in the November issue. I think there is one mention of me, but only to say something like “my assistant kjell burned his hand badly catching the pot” .. i guess every story needs a fool.
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last night i set up and used the photography studio for the first time. sent off photos to a japanese site that interviewed me a few months back. Still need to make several adjustments but its much better than anything i had before.
ill put up more photos from the raku firing and the pieces that came out soon.
kjell hahn raku teabowl
finally got a digital copy of a video from the oni ten exhibition.
hope you enjoy it.
this video was made by ai deguchi at the onishi festival in the summer of 2009. shot with 8mm film and video camera. A lot of info was lost transferring from film to the computer, then compressing it for youtube. still looks good.
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