Young Canadian surives trying to drown himself. Finds meaning through his anagama firing uncle in Japan. Click on 3rd image to see movie trailer.
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Info on Movie.
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Movie filmed in Shigaraki. Click on image to go to trailer site. Great movie trailer!
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From NCECA.
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As Coper himself once put it: "My concern is with extracting essence rather than with experiment and exploration... The wheel imposes its economy, dictates limits, provides momentum and continuity. Concentrating on continuous variations of simple themes I become part of the process: I am learning to operate a sensitive instrument which may be resonant to my experience of existence now - in this fantastic century. Practising a craft with ambiguous reference to purpose and function one has occasion to face absurdity. More than anything, somewhat like a demented piano-tuner, one is trying to approximate to a phantom pitch."
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Columbus stuff (a bit ethno-centric.)
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Different Sake flask shapes
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Daichibin: Okinawan hip flasks
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Consumerisim and Individual identity
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Paul Soldner's Web Page.
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The Future Is Upon Us

The race is on between environmental destruction on a global scale and sustainable solutions. The finish line, in Jared Diamond's alarmed estimation, is only 50 years away. For Bruce Mau, sustainable solutions, already at hand, will win out. Diamond, too, hopes our civilization will learn from those in history who rose to their challenges and prospered, not suffer the fate of others who dithered and collapsed.

The decisive factor in our time is whether the consumer democracies that drive globalization are capable of the massive change that both Diamond and Mau agree is necessary over the next five decades.
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Up coming shows at the San Diego Mingei Museum.
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Beware China! Materialism kills. From www.Chinaview.cn
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"People today are looking at the work/life balance, they are socially responsible and concerned about overconsumerism - and they want to escape the pressure of urban life," Livingstone says
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TAIYUAN, June 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese archeologists have discovered a group of tombs dating back some 2,000 years ago at a housing construction site in Yuxian County of Shanxi Province.
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The picket was formed by former workers at Belleek's associated company, Donegal Parian China. It shut down its operation in Ballyshannon two months ago.
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In our increasingly hi-tech world, there is less and less room for items made by hand. Mass production wiped out most cobblers, coopers or potters. Yet some artisans, like Virginia potter Kevin Crow, have managed to revive an old trade by going to the very origins of the trade's technology. What they produce is art, and people want something with a personal touch.
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It's not often that a beginner can receive instruction in a craft from someone who has been working at it for 70 years.
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Seagrove is the center of an area that is home to dozens of potters - the exact number depends on which brochure you pick up - and a place considered to have the highest concentration of potters in the world outside of Japan.

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