To wit - Louis Couperin wrote this prelude for harpsichord and I wouldn't know where to begin with it:
We had a nice sunset this evening:
That's it - the weather has been warm, it hasn't rained in couple of days and I was able to finish a maple bowl today:
Edit. Here are two bowls I turned out of some ColorWood I bought a long time ago. I turned these back in 2012 and they sold, eventually.
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Sixty, if you're bowling for dollars, you must be turning a profit. I mean, how many bowls a week to turn? I've lost count how many you've served us here.
By the way, let me know if you get an offer on the groovy yellow and purple one.
The guy who provided that piece of SpectraPly will be here tomorrow - maybe we can figure out a plan for some other color combinations. I bought one big chunk of ColorWood back in the '80s and it took me 30 years to use it all up, so I have not been in a big hurry to make more of those. But maybe I am wrong. Maybe my colorblindness prevents me from seeing the potential in non-natural wood products. Maybe I will edit this post to include a picture of some of the bowls I made years ago. But they did sell, so maybe I am missing the Furthur Bus here.
The moodiness of the Couperin piece (several moods actually) suggests he would have made a good composer of music for the movies. To think he could have been as great as John Williams! I actually think John Williams is pretty great, just sayin' Couperin missed the bus, or his bus came too early, or sump'n.
I think hippies would go for the colorful bowls like crazy. We have some friends who lean heavily in that direction and she paints stuff, including walls, furniture, and paintings in the house with bright colors like that. Dinner at their house is exhausting from the sensory overload.
The notes make no sense in that score. All whole notes? Yeah, where do you begin?
All whole notes. That and the lack of measures is disconcerting. I watch the score go by and listen to the music - there are trills in there? Where? Maybe my sight is failing as bad as my hearing at this point.
One more thing - I had company today and we were able to discuss the possibility of ordering a custom block of ColorWood wherein we could select the colors used, the number and placement of each color and what it will take to get that process started. Both of them can see color and the woman has a fine sense of aesthetics, whereas the guy was suggesting some pretty loud combinations (he ordered the yellow and purple block, so there you go). With luck we can get going on that soon and I will have some more colorful bowls to sell this season.
Dinner at their house is exhausting from the sensory overload.
Every now and then, in the midst of scores and rings of color, I find a sentence or two that stands out as a match for my experience.
Good luck with the colored bowls, Sixty. Although I prefer the ones that reveal nature's markings, I do believe there is currently a market for outstanding bowls of color.
They provide the attention-getting quality that's showing up as significant in the YouTube videos, where catching multiple eyeballs matters while carefully revealing only one of your own.
Thanks, MamaM, with any luck the acquisition of ColorWood shall begin this week. It is a roll of the dice as I have no idea which color is which, but with any luck I will turn a profit. Ar ar...
I don't really care for the stop and go color scheme of that one. The yellow/purple one is the bomb.
You might consider making ones with NFL color combinations and market them to football fans. Perfect for chips on Super Bowl Sunday!
If you can waterproof them they could be Souper Bowls!
Imagine a colorblind artist making a money selling bowls of color to football fans. You could be the Stevie Wonder of woodturners.
Say, what is the correct term for lathe artistry and the lathe artisans who practice it?
We are turners, but most just call us lathey.
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