a site 2 see friday: Recycled China

From the website:“Recycled China is a design team consisting of artists
Thomas Schmidt and Jeff Miller. During the factory production of ceramic
products, there is on average a 4% loss rate; items which in one way or
another are imperfect and therefore do not reach the market. Once
fired, ceramic materials are no longer usable and simply end up in
landfills around the world.  As an alternative to using mined materials,
Recycled China is about reusing ceramic waste and other industrial
waste into the form of architectural tile, functional design works, and
sculptural objects. “

www.recycledchina.com

movie day: Handmade Portraits: 99 Feelings


Handmade Portraits: 99 Feelings from Etsy on Vimeo.

How do you visualize the human experience — courage, happiness, hope? Ceramicist Mitsy Sleurs (artmind.etsy.com) started with a Matryoshka doll and 99 emotions.

Read the Etsy blog post: etsy.me/99feelings.

Music by Jim Smith (coilandmagnet.com)

via vimeo.com/41859535