cory Lum (bonjiri) chadogu

[bonjiri]

Hey Cory,
WOW!! I checked in to see how everyone is doing and am amazed with the beautiful pieces you are doing. Good luck with your next firing! May the kiln gods be with you.
Bill

hey bill !

thank you !
just got back from loading a for a gas firing.
wanted to get some 'fish scale' glaze tests into this kiln
i'll post the results soon in a week or so

aloha !
mahalo
cory

[kymidwife]

Cory... the nebula is gorgeous!! Every time I look through your work, that old song "Killing Me Softly" goes through my head. Each thing of beauty is a sharp jab to my ailing tea budget. With my recent camera acquisition, my teawares spending is going to have to be curtailed, so I must wait longer still... but continue the beautiful photos, as I seem to be enjoying the pain.

"I heard he sang a good song,
I heard he had a style,
And so I came to see him and listen for a while..."

[woozl]

"strummin' my fate with his fingers"......

[bonjiri]

kymidwife. thank you kindly ! hehe... killing me softly.. i can hear the tune in my head !

woozi. aloha and MAHALO !

sharing a fun photograph . i made this portrait of a kick butt ceramic artist name joel park. he is a mentor, friend. a renaissance man of sorts. also a wonderful chef !

joel can throw big. he makes amazing large vessels that are paper thin.

[bonjiri]

6 lensed pinhole camera. camera is called a hexomniscope. 120 roll film.



a photo of the camera in action. its about 5 inches square. all CNC'd 6000 series aluminum billet. wild ! matt abelson is the creator/machinist meister !

[Geekgirl]

Ha! Love the photo of Joel Park, great fun!

[bonjiri]

new mizusashi. double biidoro. two flows of ash.

Height 7-inches. aka shino (red shino)

[woozl]

Stunning!

[Chip]

Cory,

Wow bro, that is just phenomenally gorgeous.

Geez.

I haven't yet experienced chanoyu (I hope I'm saying that correctly), so I wouldn't know what to do with a mizusashi. But you are inspiring me to want to find out!

Arigato!

[bonjiri]

aloha all !

just back from firing. tomorrow a tropical storm that was a downgraded hurricane will hit the islands. i fired today. whoa. the winds on the downdraft kiln created an accelerated firing. i tried to compensate. all told, the kiln was about 1 cone difference.

my first time experiencing a strong windy day that would literally suck the reduction flame back into the kiln. WHOA ! live and learn.

also a contributing factor, the bottom was loaded slightly tighter.

i'll open on wednesday. keeping my fingers crossed.

cheers !
c

[Geekgirl]

can't wait to see. should at least be something interesting, eh?

[Chip]

aloha, batten down the hatches

could be some diamonds in the rough ... good luck

[bonjiri]

thank you geekgurl ! MAHALO !

chip. thank you kindly ! yy, all of us need to be safe from the storm. thank you for all your well wishes !

[Geekgirl]

We were in Hawaii on the island of Maui in 2002 when a tropical storm came through. Dumped 6" of rain on Maui in just a few hours. The big island had 11-13" in the same time period.

The road to Lahaina was flooded with 2 feet of water running off the mountain and into the ocean. It was the most awesome display of nature I've ever personally seen. There was a ring of mud around the island that extended out into the ocean nearly 1/2 mile. Incredible. Sadly, 3 people died in that storm when their Jeep washed off the road on the Honoapillani Highway.

I hope you all are safe and the storm is light.

[Aphroditea]

Being from the Gulf Coast area the very idea of pottery fired during a TS or hurricane is quite thrilling. Earth, wind and fire! I have been through my share of hurricanes (and one very nasty evacuation) and each time is an adventure. Ceramics that naturally embody those forces and are imbued with them - not just shaped and glazed to mimic or represent them - have a real appeal actually. Hope you get some things you weren't expecting, but are somehow beautiful and thrilling (as are the storms)!