Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Isaac Button Revisited

Note ! There is no sound on these videos, don't think your computer is broken!

Someone has posted more of the Isaac Button film to YouTube, I just love to watch this, Isaac's gentle demeanour, his calm, and his smile.

He lived at Soil Hill all his life, his father (Also named Isaac) purchased the pottery in 1893, and rebuilt the main buildings, Isaac junior worked there until 1965.

4 comments:

jim gottuso28 March 2009 at 10:03
you have to be impressed by anyone that can do that kind of work with a pipe in his mouth
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Gary's third pottery blog4 April 2009 at 17:46
now that's some big work, isn't it?
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Anonymous2 May 2009 at 13:20
first saw that film 25 years ago when learning how to thorw and be a potter,just as good now as i remember it was then.how he neary loses the cider jar when collering the neck,masterful potting.
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madpotter10 May 2009 at 17:46
Amazing! And we call ourselves potters.
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