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Slop buckets. There, I said it. I love my reclaimed clay and haven't afforded a mixer or a pug mill sooooo ..... We keep two buckets in the wheel throwing area dedicated to scrap and hand water. By the time one is full, all the particles are pretty well soaked and there's a good bit of water on the top. We found we like to dump in our hand water because it contains all those lovely, slippy, small particles that give the clay its elasticity. Anyway, as one bucket gets full and the other is starting to be used, it's time to pull all the water and super wet stuff off the top, put it in the other bucket and empty the rest onto a large sheet of plastic on the wedging table. That's where we mix it up really well with our hands, pulling out any obviously hard lumps (and of course, all those missing sponges). I let it sit that way overnight. In the morning, I move it by hand-fulls onto the plaster surface of the wedging table, spread it out about an inch thick and leave it there for the day. By the end of the day, it's ready to be peeled off the table. I slam it together into ten pound blocks and double bag it into old clay bags. Or, if I'm in a wedging mood, I wedge. Lovely.
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 Thursday, February 12th 2004, by Amara & Thomas Alban
I first read about this shape in "The Fourth Dimension," by Rudy Rucker back in '86. I started doing meditation exercises with it and got some pretty crazy dream correlations -- dream/real-time as a result. Mostly I was just fascinated by the shapes and depths of shapes I was seeing.
Do a search on the hypercube and you'll come up with a lot of good information as well as actual cad models you can "virtually" fly through.
It's extending the model of the cube, perception of X-Y-Z, to a whole nother perception (or direction) -- called Ana -- a perception of the fourth dimension.
It's pretty apparent, upon looking at the shape, how it's trying to "hyper" itself right off the screen. Unlike the two flips (back and forth) of a traditional cube drawing, ~each shape~ you come across in the hypercube also flips, but in several directions.
Have fun! Don't hurt yourself!
--Thomas (ps. I'm interested in other ways this has shown up out there. Please comment ...)
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Category: Shifts in Perception
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12 Feb 2004 @ 22:57 by Ashanti @196.21.43.5 : Shapes within shapes...
and the shapes within shapes are equally intriguing - perhaps we've found the secret on How to Escape From this Universe?
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