Ode to Pottery

So its official, I have my own business card and it states in some ways that I am grown up now... This is a rare insite into what I believe is true at times but mostly makes up a part of me that I have longed to have. You know, that feeling of respect you can gain from those you have never met and stuff. It kinda just makes me happy to know that I am progressing in some sort of way.
The pottery studio has been running for about 2 months now and things are doing well. The shop has had some orders and I have even been able to get some new gifts done for friends who are getting married... which is really a slap in the face cause there are at least 6 friends at the moment engaged... 2 of these friends I am making complete culinary sets for. This might seem really dumb for a business that wont run without sells but I have always believed that you will always get back what you give away in a manor where time multiplies the reward.
It is really fun to be in a position in my life where I am able to really live my dreams. Hopefully since I got a head start on things then I will be able to live my dream for the rest of my life and be able to support a family and such. But if not then it will be a hobby till I die and I will be able to spread a little joy to lots of people through my work.
What I really want to get at is kinda just an update on where I am at right now.
-I own my own business. At Last Enterprises, inc which provides a base for my 2 sub companies At Last Ceramics (A pottery Studio@ http://www.atlastceramics.com) and Fanzden.com (A ecommerce website)
-I am single, 21, a year out of graduating from college with no 9-5 and a head full of ideas
-I have the greatest friends in the world who love me and who I love.
-And most of all I am strong in the faith and have a lot of motivation to push my accelerating dreams forward onto something bigger then I know.
You can read more about my studio at: www.atlastceramics.com

Creating the Ultimate Fanz Den!

Its been a wild ride to this point getting everything started in the business but things are starting to roll now. I have found that I have an idea for something that could be great but at the same time could be the same idea that everyone else has so... what do you do.
All in all I have been building a website that incorporates everything that you need to be the ultimate fan. This is mainly for the Man cave but hey if you are a fan then you need a room to show that you are a fan. Weather it be a game day room with the crew or just a small piece to hang on the wall then you can get it here at Fanzden.com
It is an ecomerce store and has been in progress for the last 3 months. When I began the adventure I had some big ideas in mind so I hope that it will be able to progress to that point. There are still a lot of things left to be done but I wanted to get the word out about it. Go find whatever it is that you are a fan of and show it off.
Have fun with it because I know that I have!

Eye Opener

It seams as if every time I start working in one direction I find myself wanting to go in another. It is almost aggravating how many different routes my life is going right now. In every one of those routes I am in a roller coster of emotion and thought. Like today for example... I almost blew up the house after I found out that what I had been working on for the last 3 months just went down the drain... Like that disaster with the ceramics piece without being able to make it again. My heart sank for about 2 min then I found myself so happy to be with a friend that really just wanted to just hang out and be in my life. It was so nice so we sat and did not worry about a thing until it was time to go and when I got back... BOOM the problem within the business... and then school enters the equation which takes my already sunken heart and pounds it into the ground... and then it gets lifted by a call from a friend or some good news about the business... which then reminds me of the success I will have... which gives me an idea that is literally so blatantly obvious its just stupid! The idea just makes me happy to think that I am getting all of this and am doing pretty good at keeping up with it. A moment of peace and knowledge that everything is going to be alright... and then an understanding that I am up at 2 AM and have school in the morning and realizing that I will be a zombie for the next couple of days because of it.
Heck this is my life at this point now time for some decisions to focus a little more on some priorities and understand that everything I have now will always be there whenever I get back from were ever I am going. I am 21 years old with nothing really to tie me down and a mind that will take me farther then anything I have imagined yet. Its time to not just be but to live! Heres to the next couple of months and were ever they take me!

Just go with it!

I find that most of the time I spend when making something new is made with an idea in mind. From that point I just start feeling it out and it typically turns out. Well this last week I have been working on another vase since the first one ended up on the floor of the local high school (that was just a sad day so we wont go into it). So I started on this new vase and I figured that I would see if I could make it better... I had no idea how though so I just started and it was turning out quite nice but it was still nothing more then what I had already created. And then the pieces of the vase started to break out and I was deviated. I put just a little too much pressure on once fragile piece and crack....

I sat there and hoped that I would be able to glue it back in after it was fired but decided then and there that if I was going to make it then it had to be right.

So I got bold and started to just go with what had just happened. I took what I had and I pushed the limit of what I have done.

In the end it turned out like this.

Kinda fun Huh?

I am excited to get it all glazed and we will see how it turns out after I put a few more little tricks I have into place but in the end it should turn out as something quite unexpected.

Guess thats just a part of my style. 

Go in with an idea and come out with something completely unexpected.

Just goin' with it!

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-At Last

Illuminessence

The other night I woke up in a fit which included what seemed to be an upside down world and some serious delusions... What happened? Well I think every one has been there when they find themselves in a strange place but swear you have been there.... Then realizing that what you think is some kind of dungeon/paradise turns out to be your bedroom. Maybe I am just strange like this cause it happens to me all the time. Actually before the other night I thought my drum set was some sort of bush and I tried to jump through it. Bad idea in the end were I woke up the house with my "crash" symbol and a low tom-tom boom. 

Well... What do ya do... 

BUT the other night I became conscious and I felt as if I was in a complete dream state and some strange things happened. First off I was in the dark and I mean like PITCH BLACK darkness.  Then  there was some floating sensation like I have a wings and there was stuff floating all over the place.  At this point I was a little freaked out BUT taking it in stride so I was good. 

Even though I was trippy all I could think of was Light and if I could break the Darkness... 

I then felt like I was dropped and realized the objects were pillows and the complete darkness was actually were I had thrown the blanket over my head. All in all I was standing on my bed and realized I was about to jump off the bed and you would think being kinda sorta an athlete that reaction would kick in at this time... No... instead of a leap and land I went ugh and squealed a bit and hit the ground with an Umph. 

At that point IT HIT ME!

Breaking the Darkness... 

I thought and thought and I did not sleep for hours after that because of what had just come to me.

This could be what I have been looking for

My dream finally coming to life

So I planned and planned and found by the morning I had all the things in place. 

I understood that it would take time and a lot of trial and error but it is going to happen.

This has started what I feel may become my signature line. 

I will call it 

"Illuminessence"

Now to bring it to light!

-At Last

I just thought of Zoolander and the look he was working on.

...Magnum... 

A New Idea

A couple of weeks ago I was playing with some ideas that I have had for a style... I have wanted to find my style since I started really getting into throwing pottery and art.

I mean I think I have always been kind of creative and stuff but I don't know if I have found MY style just yet. I remember one of the grad students up at the U told me that I was just fighting my true style... Trying to replicate other styles that I have seen and done in the past. Well I took that at face value and have been trying to just start creating. I have a few ideas for a line called "Shattered". This line is going to include somethings I have never even played with before so we will see what happens in the end. I have played with this idea once before but I think I got it right this time. 

I will keep playing with it in the future but what do you think?

~Cheers~

At Last

It's Vegas Baby!

Vegas is a city of some pretty strange stuff and really,

if you don’t have your wits about ya,

then you might just get a little freaked out!

While walking the strip Pop saw two Michael Jackson intimidators and after that it seamed like it was all that much more important to get to wherever we were going. 

He simply, sped up.

Now I have found it a strange experience here in the infamous Las Vegas, which is kinda my celebration for a 21^st birthday that happened a month ago, and I just cant kick this “I should be having the absolute time of my life…but I really don’t care being here” feeling. 

Now first off do NOT get me wrong, I love the experiences that I have had with my Ma and Pa and will cherish them forever and I love just being with them and having a good time.

It’s great to be here but ya know I wish I were throwing clay back home with maybe a movie and a popsicle (even though its snowed a foot outside).

 Kinda strange I know… But what do ya do.

I will say right now that if and when I do come back to sin city that I wont be coming back for the gambling or the lights and casinos. I will be coming back for the out of control shows they put on and… THE FOOD... and maybe the shopping. 

(Weird I know but my Ma taught me Shoes,Ties, and Cufflinks... Lotta Love!)

Since it is somewhat of MY trip. I get to pick were we eat and the tally so far… Sushi for lunch on the first day at a little Chinese place in the MGM that we found while perusing through the casino to get our tickets to see KA, which turned out to be a mind blowing experience!

Dinner that night was Pizza, and when I say pizza I mean like that gourmet pizza that has the really freaky ingredients but is a complete masterpiece.

Ya, that kind of pizza.

Now the one I got was not that particular and it didn’t have any amount of crazy ingredients but it was still a masterpiece in which I DEVOURED.

Now for today’s choices… 

I think breakfast will be something exotic like French Creep (its just what I like to call em), or French Toast with some fruit and stuff.

The Lunch I think we will find one of those really expensive finger food places I have herd so much about. Delectable

See if I they can surprise my taste buds into that sense ecstasy when you eat it. 

And then… 

yup you guessed it… 

STEAK! 

mmmMMMMMmmm! 

Its going to be the end all be all for my trip I think. SHWING!!! Well then of course go watch The Lion King... I mean really why not!? 

In between well we will see what I can find. Hopefully a new pair of kicks a new fly tie and some cufflinks.

Yup thats what I am going to do.

And tomorrow when I get home I am going to set up my little corner and throw a little bit of clay.

That I would say is going to be pure bliss... like that Vegas Roll I ate yesterday... *Drool*

I mean I could maybe throw in some homework along the way.

Or not I guess.

Ya never know when you get in that mood to actually do homework... 

It's rare but as I learned in Vegas...

 Like being able to stand on the top of the world at a world class club...
It could happen!
But really I can't wait to be back home with a piece of clay in my hands and an idea!