Mike Dodd: "Potter" short film into his life and work 

That's great, thanks for your kind words.

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It's interesting to note what Mike Dodd had to say about busyness. 5:57

@@77777aol Personally i find this part extremely self-righteous and self-indulgent. He may have the time to make pots and doesn't have to work 10 hours a day, but he can only do this because someone else works 10 hours a day so he can have it easy. When he is sick, he goes to the doctor, when he is really sick he goes to the hospital, when he is hungry he goes to the supermarket or the restaurant , when he wants to go on holiday he jumps on a plane. But he can do all of this only because some people work 10 hours a day as doctors, as nurses, as waiters, as supermarket staff, as flight attendants and pilots, etc.... If everybody decided to just become a potter, the world as we know it would end within days and mankind wouldn't survive a month. He is completely depending on the fact that people work that hard so he can enjoy an easy life, but rather than being grateful, he literally spits at the face of these people by saying that they are being too busy, although this is precisely thanks to these busy people, he can stay home and make pots. I find this part infuriating . I am a medical doctor , married to a veterinarian, we both work 14 hours a day. Do you think we wouldn't enjoy staying home and making pots. But how would you feel if you were sick or your dog was dying and you realized that your doc or vet thought that today he'd rather make pots than take care of you or your pet ? Some of us have some integrity and common sense, and know what to prioritize . Never tell people that they are too busy, when they are the ones allowing you not to be !

@@morganolfursson2560 everybody as too assumate there choice what do you know about his potter’s life ? and about his private life ? maybe i never take any plane and any vacation ? , maybe i spend a lots off hours on his vegetable garden wich provide the best food and keep mony on your pocket ? ,maybe is making himself lots off differents work on is house ,on is car, or on repair different objects which also avoids spending money ? do you think life is imposssible without doctor and without veterinarian working 14 hours a day? nobody prevents you from working in a group practice for exemple where you will work fewer hours because a colleague can take over. of course you will earn less money and you will have to limit your lifestyle but you will have more time to do something else . and above all you will have more interest to practice. I do not imagine how it is possible to maintain a good efficiency towards its patients by working 14 hours a day.

@@nairolf5177 This is the husband answering, the veterinarian . We are 3 vets working at the clinic , but we also run animal shelters and rescue centers plus we do volunteer work for the people who can`t afford medical fare, Even by working only 8 hours a day at the clinic we still need to work an extra 6 hours (often much more) at the rescue center and shelters where we have over 200 animals to take care of daily. My husband (we are two men) works for different organizations in war torn areas or areas struck by man made or natural disaster. A 14 hours day work for him is a good day , sometimes he works 18 hours a day . None of us do it for the money, and whatever money we make after paying the bills, we use the rest to rescue more animals. We really do not have time to do our garden, and we really do not have any form of expensive tastes in any aspect of our lives. The last time i bought clothes was 3 years ago and we haven't been on holiday for 4 years , which was the last time i remember sleeping more than 6 hours a night. I am not complaining for a second, this is the life we chose and it is a very rewarding one, just not financially. Professional efficiency is more a matter of organization and living a stressless life rather than sleeping 9 hours and working 8. I sleep 5 to 6 hours a night and wake up to a job i love so it doesn't stress me at all. I use every little time i get to relax . Like right now, writing a message to you while eating my lunch and doing my paperwork is very relaxing. And taking care of animals is not a hard job. I will sleep better and change my schedule when i have to perform a surgery , but other than that it is rather an easy life. That's why i pity people who have to work in a supermarket, even just 8 or 9 hours a day. I pity them far more than myself or my husband because although we work nearly twice the time a supermarket worker does, our jobs are not stressful, and though risky the risk is worth it. But i am also extremely grateful to all those workers who make my life a lot easier, and i thank you for not giving up and doing a job that many believe to be menial but which actually is so important to millions if not hundreds of millions of people. I really do not want to make time for shopping or cooking or doing the laundry and cleaning the house. This would be a complete waste of my time , and i'd rather pay someone to do it rather than spend 5 hours a day at home doing chores , when this time can be so much more efficiently spent on 10 or 15 animals . That's why i am grateful to have an organic vegan store not too far from the house and the clinic where i can get excellent food, thanks to those very busy people who work there relentlessly. I am grateful to have my guardian angel who comes to the house twice or three times a week and cleans it and keeps me clean too, without him i would live like a hoarder. Plus he is a vet school student so i am glad to be able to help financing the person who hopefully will work with us some day. I am so grateful to the bus driver who takes my kids safely to school, to the teachers who work their ass off to give them a great academic education, grateful to the docs who treat my kids when their father is not home, to the people who work in factories so we can all have clothes on our back. This is all these busy people who make my life and our life (all of us) much easier and who contribute to make this world a better place to live. This potter contribute nothing to this planet, which is fine because this is his life and his choice, but what i definitely not accept is that he refers to others as the Busy Ones in such a negative way , when as i said, they are the ones allowing him , not to be so busy. That's how i see life. We need potters and i admire their work , but they are not better than the busy people , who either do it to make this planet a little better or who just don't have a choice but to be busy to keep food in their plate and a roof over their head.

@@morganolfursson2560 thank you for taking the time to respond to me for so long, while reading you I thought that I may not have understood what shocked you in the speech of mike dodd. I am French and my English has its limits ... in the end I don't find anything especially anti-social there, and I share enough his way of seeing the bad things of buissness. that said I also understand your point of view and I realize that once again it is impossible to imagine people's lives on the basis of a few lines on a youtube comment. that's a bit what i did with you and i was partly wrong ... :-) I’m happy for you so much despite this many hours of work your life is happy. very good continuation to you. Pierre A French potter :-)

The sound is coming from the pots themselves as they cool down. I'm sure someone out there could furnish us with a scientific explanation...

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I also wondered about it. From the way he doesn't care that it falls back into the clay bits in the wheel tray which he will later recycle, I've an inlking it's just the same clay body he uses only in dry powder form, like what you have before mixing it with water. I've got to try it and see if my theory stands.

Neldidellavittoria That’s my guessing too. I will try and let you guys know.

China Clay

Just ashes from wood dude. :)

kathy maxted are you have a some Pres machine to sell me it

Thank you

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Probably a little of both!

Your interpretation reflects how you view those women

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+11 Regent Street I guessing just powdered clay. Looks like he cakes it on and then expands the pot to give it a kinda cracked texture.

I'm guessing sodium silicate, but it's just a guess. The finish is similar to salt fired (sodium chloride), which is beautiful, but salt generates toxic fumes that can combine with atmospheric humidity to create hydrochloric acid. Unsafe.

I thought it was wood ash? The finish seems to suggest it with the olive hues and how runny it is.

Thank you too!