Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 5

Today is the best last work day of the semester for ceramics, and i feel kind of sad about that, but i got a bunch of pieces glaze. Those aren't much to look at right now, but here are some pics of some new wild clay tests.

Those melted metallic puddles are the clay i dug up in the desert a couple weeks ago. The beads are mixtures of the desert clay and my lake Elsinore clay

"you should be a prostitute" (complimentary)

A message my sex-crazed friend sent to me

@botvolution Is your music going to change over time in the way monet's paintings changed in tonal quality because of his cataracts?

@botvolution what happened there?

@botvolution The ruling classes and their lackeys are too dignified for fun

@botvolution unless it's fun on a secret island

@botvolution @fredy that's a fun one. All of her work is really fun. I wasn't familiar with her before yesterday

@botvolution @fredy which one? There are two of her pieces, and my phone isn't arranging them in a grid

The one part of ceramics class I don't enjoy is the assignment to visit a ceramics exhibition and write a one-page paper on it.

I am fine with writing the paper, and I enjoy looking at other people's ceramics, but I live on the east side of LA, and all the arts stuff in LA is on the west side. Driving way out to the west side of LA is an awful experience.

I've been putting it off all semester and now it's the last week before my assignment is due.

Of course, since I've put it off so long, most of the exhibitions our instructor suggested have already closed. I've put myself in quite a pickle once again

If I had a whole ton of money, i would build some nice art museums out here on the east side

Went to the ceramics museum with @fredy and got in for free. Saw some fun art

I just saw a lifted Scion xA with knobby tires, a brush bar with a winch and a light bar. It had a license plate that said OFFRDXA

I guess this bike tire has given me enough miles to retire now

Baking

This looks very promising!

This is good!

Unreduced and reduced

Holy shit, i did it, lol. It looks terrible, but it works.

For people who haven't been keeping up with this project, I've been doing ceramics for a couple years now, and recently people kept tagging me in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of court they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire.

After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could solder to them, and i found that i could.

Sooo ... I made a stamp and stamped out some really basic boards for an astable multivibrator (two blinky lights) circuit. I filled the recessed traces with copper powder and had them fired in our pottery kiln.

Now i have ceramic circuit boards.

Some things from ceramics class today:

A fully fired moon jar

A chattered marbled mug that's still greenware

My final project with some glaze applied, but not yet glaze fired