Comments on: Podcast: Simon Levin, Intentional Pottery

By: odin

odin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:48:48 +0000

Thank you Andy. There is an interesting article in “Ceramics Technical”, Vol. 13, Page 57, entitled “Consider a Little More Water in Your Fire” by Marie Woo and John Stephenson. They investigated ancient Chinese kilns that actually employed a pool of water on top of the kiln at one point during the firing to achieve “water reduction” in the production of silver/black roof tiles. You should probably check out this article if you haven’t already.

By: heidi

heidi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:17:53 +0000

hi oten,

just wanted to say i’m really enjoying these podcasts. thanks for the work that goes into making them.

heidi, in los angeles.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:53:56 +0000

hi odin,
thanks for putting up these wonderful podcasts. i love listening to them. the simon levin podcast was terrific. he is one of my favorite potters and really gets unique and nice colors and textures out of his kiln. i would love to meet him someday. i especially liked the part of reduction downfiring and getting that nice matte finish. speaking of which i have recently been reading a lot about using water during firings and will email you an article seperately. thanks- andy

By: odin

odin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:18:57 +0000

I’m not sure why the iTunes link is not working — I just tested it on two computers and it worked fine. Perhaps my server was down the day you tried. As for the direct link, there was a subtle typo. I redid the link and tested — it’s working now.

I’m making no excuses for my error, but sometimes it happens, and sometimes it is possible to get what you want without the website’s help. For example, look at the two URLs (incorrect, correct):

www.anagama-west.com/firing_log/pics/20070119-firing_log_podcast-simon_levin.mp3
www.anagama-west.com/firing_log/pics/20070219-firing_log_podcast-simon_levin.mp3

The error is in the date part of the file name — the file was actually from February but I erroneously identified it as being from January. Now, this blog entry’s date stamp is Feb. 19, so it wouldn’t be an unreasonable guess when a file isn’t found, to think it was incorrectly named. Just copy the incorrect URL into the url bar, and start modifying things, in this case, the thing to do would be to change the January (”01″), to February (”02″). It’s fun, like a puzzle. ;-)

By: Victor Hart

Victor Hart — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:33:22 +0000

The direct link for the simon levin podcast is not working. I tried the itunes link as I have itunes and that did not seem to work either. Can you get them up and running please, as I would love to hear it.