Professional Throwing Demo 2

[kam3kaz33]

nooooo!!! i wish i could make that! and then u make it and someone destroys! ahh that pained me to watch

[slurpeejerky711]

oh the days of high school ceramics class, oh the good times

[dshawcb]

I am in my little garage studio being so frustrated trying to trow bigger stuff so i went on youtude to see if i could get a few pointers. Then I came upon this video, watching the first then this one, and laughed so hard I kept playig it Hahahaha It was exactly what I needed! It just goes I should take myself so Damn serious all the time. Sometimes I forget to enjoy doing Art, but not tonight:) Thanks guys...

[EllenKent]

HAHAHAHA all that just to be destroyed! You were so pleased and putting the finishing touches haha wow thats priceless.... Punches would be thrown if that was my piece =]

[scroggs11]

I don't know who you people are, or where this class takes place, but this video made me want to be a part of it. HAHA freaking awesome : ) You should totally fire the clay hulk hands, all made from destroying beautiful pottery... you'd make a killing lol!

[natavidrio]

i didnt like that myself! but thats my fault....i should have just watch the first part! then again maybe i didnt like it......cause i find throwing very hard.....so i have great respect for people who are good at it....i would never do that to anyone..

[Silverjda]

its just clay.... after your done its still gonna be just clay. the art is the process of making it.

[jsawitz]

that's right

[the88real]

throwing isnt terribly hard, i just started bout 2 months ago in my college ceramics course, now im hooked it takes about 3 weeks worth of doing it for 3-4hrs a day till u get the hang of it im up to 7-8 lb balls of clay i can center and throw now. just work at it and you'll get it.

[kmillie]

I was an Art major (just BFA) in college, and they would make us hand-build these monster-sized pieces...and then break them down like this (in pottery class) on purpose. Also, in printmaking, they made us etch a stone and destroy the image, etc... The lesson is- that not everything we create is "Precious" and this is so true (with the exception of having kids, lol). We should be able to detach from such things, it's just MUD... This lesson actually helped me in parting with/selling my work.

[snitzegruben]

I agree with you 100%. Learning is a process that takes on many different techniques, not all of them constructive in the finished sense. I have learned more from my many and varied mistakes and failures. As I have grown as an artist, I look back at earlier work and I see that we must not be so attached, but willing to move on, leaving our comfort zone so we may eventually find what we are truly capable of.(snitzegruben aka Jerry Sawitz)

[Nefitara]

That's funny

[snitzegruben]

humor is good.

[lisaforslo]

I love to throw pottery! I was amazed at how beautiful the vase was and then, PLOW! At first I was thinking holy cow...but then the fist comes up. I can't tell you how many times I watch this and just crack up! The response of the teacher is wonderful. His laugh makes it. Thank you so much for this ;)

~Lisa

[fookthefrench]

haha Kellen a hell of a flame war here

[mapleoaks4]

and I agree,

not everything has to be about "lessons" and rigidity. thats not life then!

[jsawitz]

thank you for that. sometimes having a sense of humor can be a lesson as well.

[mapleoaks4]

i think this video is pretty funny

and the teacher took it all in stride and was able to see the humor in it. Kudos to that!

[brucelinda01]

won't play all the way through

[asdfghrf]

yeah it does

[brucelinda01]

won't play at all

[BelleAmelie]

This is pretty funny. If someone did that while my pottery teacher did a demo, she'd go into cardiac arrest.

[jgreg41]

haha sawitz owned this guy!

[icecreamsammich8]

Willmoo, shut up, you need to chillax man.... That was a pretty vase, but even if it was a demonstration..... FUCK!

Oh well, I'm sure you can make another one in 5 minutes. :P

[willmoo1964]

That kids is an asshole.

[jsawitz]

no, he is a great kid. We did that on purpose. His name is Logan and he is currently at the Naval Academy.

[willmoo1964]

To what end? Was it a lesson in "How to be a part of the Jackass culture?

[jsawitz]

I am writing to Santa Claus to make sure he sends you a sense of humor for Christmas.

[willmoo1964]

Seriously, what was the reasoning behind it?

[jsawitz]

The whole project was a demonstration. I never keep my demo pieces as they are just that, a tool for someone to learn from, not necessarily to finish and make an aesthetic statement. It is a "how to" experience. I take more time and consideration with my art pieces. The beauty of clay is that I could rewedge it and make another one.

[willmoo1964]

Be that as it may, what were the students to learn from him doing that?

[jsawitz]

Everything isn't a lesson. not everything has to relate to curriculum. We had fun doing the whole thing........if you were an educator you would be able to better understand. If you are an educator you need to lighten up.

[willmoo1964]

So you were demonstrating but not so as they could learn something because it wasn't a "lesson". No wonder education in America is so bad off.

[jsawitz]

You are ceratinly an example of education gone awry. Your literalness doesn't allow any creativity. By the way, I believe America has again won more Nobel awards than any other country. If education is so bad, why is that? Just because you do not comprehend a thing doesn't make it any less. Here you write, judging things you know nothing about, ridiculing a student you do not know and telling me I am the reason education is failing in America. You sir, are a GOOBER!

[willmoo1964]

Actually I have a degree in Fine Arts and I am a working artist who also teaches, but that is beside the point. Nice try at the straw man fallacy with the Nobel awards. I asked what the student was to learn by your demonstration that wasn't a lesson and you came up with nothing. Now you resort to name calling. I can infer that your students have more of an impact on you than vice versa. I didn't say that you are the sole reason education is failing. I don't think your impact is that widespread.

[jsawitz]

Aha!I was mistaken. You are no longer a goober. You are an artistic goober.(with a fine art degree)

[willmoo1964]

And you are a mental midget. I guess we can call it a draw.

[jsawitz]

You need to get a life. you come on here and call a student an ass and what are you? You didn't know what was happening in the video and once it was explained you were too stubborn to accept. You probably listen to Rush Limbaugh and think George Bush a great president. If you weren't so far away I'd stick a paint brush in your ear and rattle it around. Now go away and pretend you're an artist.

[willmoo1964]

I called the student an ass based on his actions in the video. Once you explained that you did it on purpose I asked to what end. You still haven't come up with an answer as to what the students were suppose to learn by this.

[willmoo1964]

cont'.

Rather you talk about the reasoning behind setting up the actions you reply with "if you were an educator you would understand", "your literalness doesn't allow any creativity", some irrelevant aside about the Nobel Prize and now you are off on some BS tangent about Rush Limbaugh and George Bush. You can't string together a coherent thought.

[willmoo1964]

To the student, I apologize I didn't realize that the "educator" set him up to look like an ass in the clip.

[jsawitz]

I will write this using small words so you can understand. Logan, student in the video, asked if I would make a piece on the wheel that he could destroy for a video he was making for another class. From the beginning, you have refused to admit you were wrong in all of your assumptions. I feel sorry for any students you may have as they are unfortunately exposed to a narrow minded person with such limited view they are unable to say they were mistaken from day one.

[willmoo1964]

This is the first time you have mentioned that the student asked to do this for another class even after I asked what was the purpose of this and what was the student to learn. You have a real problem answering a simple straight forward questions don't you. NOW in light of the real answer, I admit that calling the student an ass for his "asinine behavior" evidenced in the clip may have been hasty. My label of ass was misdirected.

[jsawitz]

Well, mooface, you are right about that. You were wrong from the beginning but finally arrived at the truth. You are the ass and continue to reinforce that point. Now, go away. Unless you would like to meet and work his out.

[jsawitz]

To my students: As you read through the comments witness the words of willmoo, the text book definition of narrow mindedness and making wrong assumptions. A good lesson on how to misundertand then be small enough not to admit it.

[drumshaper]

now that's art!!!!

[Jr24001]

what the fuck was that fucking stupid!