I just posted a new work to the "Oscillations" page on this website.  It's actually a work I completed a couple of months ago, but I've been so busy with everything, I'm just now getting around to posting it.  It's in the show at Appalachian Center for Craft right now, so if you're in that area, please consider checking it out in person.  

Obviously, its similar to the some of the others in that series, however this work is much smaller and more tightly compacted than many of the other forms as I've been challenging myself to build those forms smaller and smaller.

In any event, that's it for now.  I still more new work to post, so stay tuned for more updates.

Brian 

Just a quick update – the other day I shipped off some new work to Appalachian Center for Craft for an exhibition they are having of works by the 2013 ACC Summer Faculty.  I'll be teaching a 3 day workshop there on using multiples as a mechanism for generating form and content.  I'll be covering everything from 3D printing to clay extrusion, so it should be pretty fun.  In any event, the two new works aren't even up on my website yet (well, one of them is the index page image, but I'm a little behind in getting more work posted in its entirety here)

And here's one of the new works .. 

That's it for now!

Brian

It's a well made video, even if I hate to hear myself talking!  During that project, they also wrote an article for Inside IU – an IU wide online newsletter.  Here's a link to that article: http://inside.iu.edu/features/stories/2013-03-20-story-3d-iuse.shtml

Additionally, the article was published in the IU Southeast magazine .. and yes, I'm the centerfold! haha. First and only time I'll ever be a centerfold I'm sure.  Here's an image of the article.

That's it for now..

Brian

STILL trying to get caught up with things after a whirlwind few weeks.  After finally getting back home from Cape Town (after a 60 hour traveling nightmare compliments of Delta Airlines), I left 12 hours later to fly to Houston for the NCECA Conference.  Jet lag and traveling exhaustion made for some interesting conversations for the first day or two of NCECA, but otherwise it was a productive conference.  It seems like the days of just casually wandering from gallery to gallery are gone now as I was busy with some NCECA meetings and other commitments.  As some of you know, I was nominated to run for an NCECA Board position this year.  I didn't get elected, but I was happy to have the opportunity to get up in front of people at NCECA and talk about my beliefs in the free and open access to information .. something I think NCECA could improve on!  In any event, after getting back from NCECA, I left again just a couple of days later to drive work to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania for the Ceramics Invitational exhibition there.  I brought two works there, a smaller curling work and a larger one.  Here's an image of the poster in a hall outside the gallery …

Hope to get more images from the show soon, for now, that's it.  Back to work.

Brian 

I did some photographing while there, so I'll be posting some of those images on this site soon.  For now, though, I thought I'd share a handful of my Instagram pics.  The rest are on my Instagram account - check it out if you're an Instagrammer!

Anyway, there are a bunch, so here are just a few.

That's it for now .. Setting a new goal for myself to post more here, so hopefully we'll see more posts!

Brian

It's such an amazing and humbling experience feeling the support of so many great people – friends, family, peers, and colleagues.  Thanks to them, we're able to partake in this opportunity.  We're both just speechless, really.

Honored and humbled.

Brian H.

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We are so honored and humbled to have your support .. it really means the world to us!

Thank you soooo much!!

Brian

For now, I just wanted to shoot out an announcement that I have a new section on my site called "New Photographs".  As many of you know, I was a photographer before getting into ceramics (way back – more than 15 years ago now).  I've always enjoyed making images, but lately, I've been working on some photographs again.  Upon returning from China and Thailand last summer, I spent a big amount of time pouring through the 7,000+ images I shot there.  I've edited those down to about 75 or so and posted some of those in "New Photographs" section of this site.  Here are a few of my favorites ..

There are lots more, so if you have a minute to check it out, they're posted at http://www.brianharperstudio.com/china-thailand-2012/  

That's it for now.  More SOON!

Brian

The late summer/early fall has been spent working on a new project I started called The Open Crowd Project.  This is a project to 3D scan and print representations of people in an effort to build a 3D printed "crowd" of people.  On The Open Crowd Project website, there are instructions on how to send in images of yourself – participants send in their images and I stitch them together, print them, and add them to the crowd.  The learning curve has been STEEP, but it's been a really excited project so far.

Please help spread the word about the project.  People have already sent in images from as far away as Seattle and Rochester, but I would like to get people participating from around the world.  Here's most of the group (so far) …

There are LOTS of images on The Open Crowd Project website, so go there and check it out!  And send in images of yourself!

So much else going on right now, grants, shows, awesome students, etc.  I think this is maybe the busiest time of my life.  Sometimes its overwhelming as it all piles up, but I can't remember a time when I've been involved with so many amazing things.  

Speaking of that, I better get back to work!

Brian 

And this one: 

And this one: 

And there are LOTS more.  Anyway, its hard to sum up the experience in one blog post.  I probably should have worked to keep my blog going when we were there (my other blogs on Blogger were shut down in China, but I never checked to see if this one was shut down as well).  As you know, Facebook and Twitter don't work there, but for some reason, Instagram worked, albeit slowly, but that's why I continued to post there.  

One of the interesting aspects of the trip to China and Thailand (at least for me) was the sheer amount of energy surrounding you in daily life there.  I'm certain its much different in the countryside, but for the most part, we were travelling in large cities – some of the largest cities in the world.  The amount of visual (and actual) energy around you seemingly all the time is pretty astounding.  Upon returning to the States, the world seemed to be moving so slowly – traffic, people, everything seemed to move at half speed compared to life in a big Chinese city.  

So, I hope to post more images here of the trip.  For now, I hope I've broken the blogging ice here as my posting regularity is not what I hoped for when I first set this blog up.  

Anyway, stay tuned!

Brian