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Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GSby Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/22/2009 12:00 AM EST
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Codeman03xx - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkthey already said crysis can be played on iphone. whats the big deal about unreal 3. Reply
kimtaylor - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkI Really enjoyed reading your blog...
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silverblue - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkAs it's a PowerVR chipset, it'll be far more efficient than a standard rendering solution as well as cheaper to produce and run as it doesn't need the fastest parts. Imagine how these things would perform if given a high clock speed and fast RAM, especially nowadays that they possess hardware T&L. Reply
papapapapapapapababy - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkEPIC FAIL
what about the Wii epic tards?
you know the biggest selling console worldwide?
there is really no excuse now...
ralahinn1 - Thursday, December 24, 2009 - linkI agree, there are still some of us out here who want a way to play a game and use a phone on two different units. I don't want someone who makes a phone to decide what games I might like Reply
slang - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - link"what about the Wii epic tards?
you know the biggest selling console worldwide?"
It isn't the "biggest selling console worldwide", that's the DS. Besides that, 3rd party games simply don't sell very well on the Wii...and Epic knows that. Reply
papapapapapapapababy - Friday, December 25, 2009 - linkBoth your comments are 100% factually incorrect.Deluded or ignorant? I think both... Look at the actual numbers instead of babbling pure nonsense, it makes you sound stupid ( neoGAF sales age is a good place to start) Reply
Locut0s - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkas far as 3D applications go I don't see the need for that kind of power. Similar to what Lonyo was saying bellow about space one doesn't really need the power of the XBox 360 or greater on an iPhone. It doesn't take a huge amount of power to render things at the iPhone's native rez of 320 x 480. At that low rez you could get crisis running smoothly with no where near the kind of power it takes to run stuff on modern consoles and PCs. I would like to see them put a relatively small GPU in there and use the rest of the transistors for other purposes. The iPhone was never meant to be an iGameBoy and while it's nice to be able to place full 3D games it would be even nicer to see some other types of hardware acceleration built in and other creative uses for those transistors. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkIf anyone thinks that control scheme looks awkward, that's exactly what I think when I see an FPS played on a console. And yet they work and people enjoy them, s I bet it will work here too. Reply
T2k - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - link...remember Carmack's wife? She was suppose to conquer the mobile gaming market with id's engine and games: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/11/id-software-...">http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/11/id-software-...
Well, it's 2 years later and aside of some ported games I don't really recall too much noise about them... Reply
dgz - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkJust look at how wrong you are.
What about Doom Resurrection - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53wYKApgPk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53wYKApgPk Reply
T2k - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkRight.... and? To me it looks like sh!t and it's Doom... pleahhhhse, let it die already - Doom 3 was sooo bad the entire game journo scene was baffled by how much it sucked. The only nice thing was the dynamic lightning but in return we got pontyheads and stupid, closed tunnels and nonexistent AI (replaced with a 1996-styled triggered scripted-action NPCs.)
id is pathetic, seriously - Hollenshead might can raise PR hell but there's no product to sell, they know little about making a modern game engine and don't know shit about creating a game nowadays, period.
The Doom 3 engine was a ROYAL FAILURE, NOBODY LICENSED IT while UE3 was licensed faster and more than any other engines before.
No wonder id had to be sold - they probably took a hard, long look at their revenue hopes and concluded 'nah, it's not gonna work, we have nothing to show' and looked for an investor. End of story was ZeniMax obviously didn't want to invest after seeing their books but offered to flat out buying id - no option left they went with the only choice they had and sold id.
Good for everyone, I guess - now that their finances are in order we might will finally see some good games coming out of this techdemo-company... Reply
dgz - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkwow, what a pointless rant.
I couldn't care less for your gaming taste. Fact is, Doom Resurrection DOES look impressive, given its running on all iPhones. Epic's simple tech demo runs exclusively on 3GS which is a few TIMES more powerful. And it's not even a product.
Now, call your parents to pick you up. Reply
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Nokia N900: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7looAzaQAR0&fea...">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7looAzaQAR0&fea...
IIRC next PSP in 2010 rumored to come with PowerVR SGX graphics HW...
IMO the biggest audience is still the S60 v5 platform (SE and Samsung + other Nokia devices), waaaay bigger than iCrap 3G$.
T2k - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - link"The same Unreal Engine 3 that powers Gears of War 2, running on an iPod Touch."
Ummm, no, not really - the word "porting" means IT IS NOT THE SAME, IT HAD TO BE PORTED. Reply
MamiyaOtaru - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI don't think you know what porting means. It's not rewriting the engine, or creating a new engine. You end up with the same engine, ported. Reply
T2k - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkNope, you're not. Porting = you have to recompile then "fix" it in various places so it's very rarely the same and almost never when it comes to advanced things like a game engine. Reply
R3MF - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - link"The engine also works on the iPhone 3GS, and Mark tells me that we'll see it on another mobile platform at CES (hmm...)."
i so want this on my Nokia n900! Reply
JimmiG - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI remember playing the original Unreal Tournament on a 900 MHz Athlon in a full tower case with lots of fans, and with the huge Voodoo5 5500 card. This demo looks better and runs on a tiny hand held device.. Reply
T2k - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkWhat a surprise, ouch... perhaps because it's NOT THE SAME engine, let alone being a different game...? Reply
JimmiG - Saturday, December 26, 2009 - linkWell duh, obviously it isn't. But it's a 3D game. Same as Doom II and Crysis being different games, but a good indication of how far technology has progressed. My point was just that today's smart phones produce more realistic graphics than a full tower from ten years ago. No need to try to be a smart@ss. Reply
spaceholder - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkAt what point does the smartphone become more powerful than an Xbox 360? Sometime in the next 3 - 5 years for sure.
Really? Really Anand?
Maybe, maybe in 5 years smart phones will have the power of an xbox's original. Reply
Mike1111 - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkAre you kidding me? The iPhone 3GS and 3rd gen iPod touch are already as powerful in the graphics department as the original Xbox (in relation to their display size/resolution of course!). You don't see it so far because right now game developers can't afford to ignore the original iPhone hardware because of it's big market share. But an engine/game designed from the ground up exclusively for the 3GS hardware with a comparable budget to a AAA original Xbox game would definitely look just as good.
But yes, in REALITY 3GS games will probably never look as good as original Xbox games, but that's not because of hardware capabilities but because of backwards compatibility issues and way smaller budgets. Plus you got a rapidly changing platform with new and more powerful hardware probably every two years, so there's no real incentive for developers to get the last bit out of the hardware over the years as they do for consoles in the long run. And consumers upgrade after 3 years at the latest to a newer model anyway, nobody keeps a smartphone around as long as console.
So unless some AAA game developer studio like Epic invests 10 million dollars and 3 years developing a game exclusively for the iPhone 3GS you can't do a practical real life comparison, just a theoretical based on the used hardware.
Regarding the next 3-5 years:
Most likely Apple will upgrade the SoC in the iPhone every two years. A 2-year cycle makes perfect sense to me and matches Apple's previous strategy, one year internal hardware/SoC upgrade, the other year new design and secondary components (camera, display etc) upgrade.
Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC's in 45nm are expected in late 2010 (from TI etc.), Apple could use something comparable plus a SGX543 dual-core in their mid 2011 iPhone (probably in 40nm or maybe even 32nm). Mid 2013 a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 and a SGX543 multi-core or SGX6xx sounds reasonably (22nm or smaller since Global Foundries will be pushing the envelope for ARM hardware). That's pretty powerful hardware (and probably only has to deal with a WVGA display, not HD like the Xbox 360) and 3.5 years in the future, 4.5 years if Apple takes its time, 5 years if Apple takes its time and changes its release schedule. So Anand's 3-5 years sound right on the money for me, at least regarding the hardware capabilities. Reply
Jovec - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkInput/Output > processing power.
spaceholder - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkWhat makes you so sure that the graphics power will be so easily scaled to x-box 360 levels? Ignoring the fact that the iphone couldn't push the resolutions an xbox could.
35-nm is one of the last real free doublings in efficiency as it will take a lot of time and money to get things on a smaller process and the power savings wont be as marked. After things are on 35nm phone manufacturers will likely begin stagnating in terms of GPU abilities because there wont be a demand for anything beyond this level of gaming. People wont demand the latest and greatest graphics from phones, they'll just want fast time wasters and cool pseudo flash type crap that they buy now.
You're also forgetting that this engine is stripped down. There is no way it supports the laundry list of things taken for granted by modern platforms like PC's and the latest gen of consoles. To say smart phones will have anything approaching an xbox 360's power in 3-5 years... come on. It might look *damn good* but wont be outputting 720/1080.
Yes it isn't fair to hold phones with resolutions of xxx/xxx with the xxxx/xxxx boxes - but think of it this way. A $50 video card can play the same game a $600 one can. At severely reduces resolutions. Would you say $50 cards have the same power as the $600 card? Of course not. That would be retarded. Reply
Mike1111 - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - link22nm for SoCs is pretty reasonable in the next 5 years. Just look at the Global Foundries articles and roadmaps here on Anandtech. And since CPU and GPU are on the same die they will both profit from 22nm. And the specs for the SGX543 multi-core GPU give us a pretty good view of what's possible in the next 2 years within a very small power envelope, and you can be sure that in 5 years the successor to the current generation will have a better performance.
Regarding the engine: Yes it's stripped down (right now), but that wasn't the point. In 3-5 years no one will use this specific version of the engine, but some improved successor since it would have to run on a different hardware platform (multi-core etc.). Plus you would have to strip down the Unreal Engine 3 for the original Xbox too.
And you can't compare resolutions like that between a smartphone and a console. Smartphones have one specific resolution to work with and nothing else. If it looks good in your hands then that's it. There's no reason to discuss how it would look like on a 65" Full HD screen or with a built-in 1080p display, since it's not even an option and clearly not the intended use-case. Reply
spaceholder - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkthe transition from 35 to 22 will not net nearly the power savings as the 55-35. Just because the next generation will have better performance doesnt mean it will increase it by orders of magnitude like smart phones have done in the last 5 years.
Yes it is fair to compare resolutions since its an apples to oranges comparison anyways. Car metaphor: Just because cheap economy cars top speeds have increased 40% in the last 20 years while race cars in motor-sport X have remained the same does not mean an economy car will EVER have the power of a racing machine.
Of course phones wont have 1080p displays and wouldn't benefit from them if they could. That's kinda my point. Apples to oranges. And if you DID hook that theoretical-5-year-from-now apple up to a 1080p display, the orange lit x-box 360 would kick its mother fucking ass. Just before it red ringed. Reply
slang - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkZune? Android? I don't think so!
Seems people already forgot about the upcoming Apple tablet which is supposed to lauch in Q1 2010. Reply
phatboye - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkEpic claimed that they wouldn't port the U3 engine to the Nintendo Wii simply because the Wii was not powerful enough but somehow they were able to port the engine to the iPhone which clearly shows that if they wanted to do it, the U3 engine could be ported to the Wii. Reply
TerraBubble - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - linkThey probably COULD port the engine to the Wii, but the graphics would nothing like as good as on the Xbox 360/PS3/PCs. From what I've played on the Wii, it and the iPhone 3GS have about the same graphics proccessing power, except the Wii uses TVs, not 3/4" smartphone screens. Therefore, porting it to Wii would be a really pointless invesment for them considering how grainy the textures would look displayed on a TV by a Wii, it would have to be atleast as good as Xbox 360 graphics.
Plus the Wii isn't very popular for shooters compared to the 360 & PS3, so it wouldn't be worth it if they didn't get many people buying the game. (Most companies don't really care most about the customers like they say in the ads, they just care about TEH MONIES) Reply
pullmyfoot - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkAt what point does the smartphone become more powerful than an Xbox 360? Sometime in the next 3 - 5 years for sure.
thats actually kinda scary if you think about it. Reply
dgz - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkHm, while id Software is well ahead of Epic in pretty much anything (except userbase) again, this is somewhat impressive, considering it's running only on 3GS. Doom: Resurrection could've been so much better if it wasn't intended to be running on all iPhone models. Reply
Gannon - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI mean they call it "UE3" and it's running on mobile platforms but I imagine significant functionality is gutted to save on power. I can tell just by looking at the screenshots that the graphics capabilities look pretty bland. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkIt's the full UE3. Obviously textures, geometry and shaders aren't going to be as complex as they are in Gears of War for example - but they could be if the hardware was fast enough.
That's the whole point. In ~4 years this thing could be as fast as an Xbox 360, which means that you could have something that looked like Gears of War 2 on your phone.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Veerappan - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - linkI'm imagining the possibility a few years down the road.. Take one of these improved mobile devices, add a TV-Out cable (such as the one that iPhone already supports, but possibly an HD output), then add a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
You now have the ability to play any game your phone supports on a hotel TV with a standard KB/Mouse combination, and the phone supplies the internet connection (if the hotel doesn't have wireless).
This could be fun. Reply
Xeeghay - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI hope battery technology keeps pace, or we'll be playing games on these high powered devices for all of 10 minutes Reply
IdBuRnS - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkYou have quite the eagle eye.
/sarcasm Reply
damianrobertjones - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkIt annoys me so much, but if WIndows Mobile would have stopped D**cking around years back and INSISTED on default hardware requirements, they'd have already stolen the mobile games industry BUT instead they slacked off and manufacturers kept on releasing many, many different models.
I use the Toshiba TG01 which is damn fast but... where are the games :( Reply
Spacecomber - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkIt will be interesting to see how far 3D graphic intense gaming can be pushed inside of the envelope of something like the iPhone. Besides the demand on the processing power of the unit, you bump up against the issue of how quickly this might run down the battery.
Makes me think of those model ships that are constructed inside of a bottle -- very detailed work constrained by a small space. Reply
Kibbles - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI hope it's Zune. There really isn't anything else I can think of. Maybe Android, but that's more of an OS than a plateform.
- Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkI'm really hoping the other platform would be Maemo. I've been playing with N900 for a month now and the HW&SW stack is just amazing. Because of this, Maemo would probably be the easiest platform for porting too.
I think that is also the reason why Mozilla is bringing Firefox Mobile to N900 first. Reply
felipecn - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkThe problem with Android is that almost everything should be programmed with Java. It's true that Google now allows to use some C/C++, but no one used it yet. And it's only to speed up apps, the graphical parts should use Java/Dalvik.
While that, iPhone OS share the roots of Mac OS X. It's much easier to port something designed for a PC to the phone.
It's the same advantage Maemo has. It's a desktop Linux, but with a mobile interface.
Actually, it's even easier than iPhone OS. Just recompile and run (with screen state, memory and processing restrains). Reply
Charbax - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkIt's just not true that Android is Java only. The Android Native SDK has been released 6 months ago and all the advanced apps are being prepared for release on the Android platform soon. Android devices runing ARM Cortex A8 can come with OpenGL ES 2.0 just as well. Unreal Engine comes for Android at CES most probably. It will look awesome on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android with its superior 4.8" 800x480 screen that also outputs 1280x720 to a HDTV using the HDMI output. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkStop reminding me how horrible Android is :( Reply
tali3san - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - linkYep... I've been trying to improve the graphics on an Android card game... basically higher resolution graphics for the Droid's screen (no point in having all those pixels if you don't use them right).
I maxed out the heap space pretty quickly holding just prebuilt card images and some Illustrator built text and overlays exported at the right size for the screen.
I can't see many good games coming out for Android UNLESS Google allow someone to build an entire 3D graphics engine including the resource management in C++ and run that through Java (not using the Java heap space for resources).
Sigh. Reply
djc208 - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI'm betting it's Android. The iPhone is a platform/os combo too. The market for Android is probably already larger than for Zune, especially since most people are probably thinking primarily of the ZuneHD only.
If the Zune is easy to port to they may go there too, but I'm thinking there's a much larger potential market in Android than Zune. Especially because Android has not been limited to phones either. There are netbooks, and MIDs that have adopted it as well.
The only downside to Android is that the hardware isn't fixed like with the iPhone. Different Android phones can have different hardware specs, which like in PC games will change how well the system performs with a given app. Reply
voodooboy - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkI'm actually fairly confident that it is infact the Zune. Just like the iPhone/iPod, the Zune OS/hardware/software is a closed, tightly controlled eco-system...similar to the XBOX hardware/software/Live service. And this is infact very much UNLIKE the Android market, with 4 different versions of the OS floating around (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1), a variety of processors (ARM 11's, Cortex A8's, Snapdragons, Intel Atoms!), different form-factors/screen resolutions etc. It'll be a nightmare supporting such a fragmented platform. Also, most of the Android devices (non-Cortex/Snapdragon) do not, infact, support OpenGL 2.0ES.
Apart from this, Microsoft and Epic have pretty close ties. Add in the fact that nVidia is looking seriously towards Tesla and Tegra to boost its revenue, they'd really want the UT3.0 engine running on the Tegra to be their poster-child. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkYeah, and game companies that use the Unreal engine already have well established ties to MS, so it should be relatively easy to get products into the market. Also, consider that PGR is already available for ZuneHD, so it seems like porting we be another source of revenue for current and old game titles. Reply
Lonyo - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - link[quote]NAND Flash capacities to support multiple 9GB games will be there in another few years, as will GPU horsepower.[/quote]
I doubt that it will be 9GB when ported to a mobile platform :P
No point in having higher res textures, high poly models etc in a game when it's going to be rendered at a fairly low resolution. That 9GB game would become more like 2GB, which isn't that far off being feasible at current capacities. Reply
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MonkeyPaw - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - link"No point in having higher res textures, high poly models etc in a game when it's going to be rendered at a fairly low resolution."
Agreed. Why will we ever need a phone to have as much power as a PS3 or 360? Most phones have very low resolutions, and most games today can be played at such resolutions on some pretty old hardware. Today's high-end phones are probably as powerful as the PS2 or Xbox, and the games for those consoles don't look too bad. Reply
therealnickdanger - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkNot only that, but very few games even exceed single-layer DVD capacity (4.5GB). Many even pack the disc with garbage data (which is easily removed) to intimidate pirates.
I certainly hope that Microsoft chooses to capitalize on the NVIDIA Tegra chip inside the Zune and release some 360 ports! Reply
Guspaz - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - linkDon't hold your breath, the first-gen Tegra is not all that different from the iPhone 3GS. The Tegra has the older ARM11, but has two of them, which should bring it on-par with the Cortex A8 used in the 3GS.
The GPU, on the other hand, looks similar from the most basic specs, although I've no clue what the relative performance is.
Tegra 2 should bring the performance up somewhere between the Wii and 360/PS3, probably much closer to the Wii than the latter.
Tegra 2 will be unveiled at CES in January, according to nVidia. Reply


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Slabs for Kids
Posted 10 May 2013 - 09:08 AM
The first of these was a re-visitation from my college years and a project my ceramics prof presented. He called it the "poison goblet". His version was to create a wet slab, decorate it, roll it into a rough tube, seal the seam and squeeze the center into a neck, then refine. When I presented it to the students in my beginning classes it was a little more structured. First they had to use three of the major decoration techniques I had taught them: stamping, incising, added on clay, or piercing. Secondly they had to add some form of organic or inorganic form to the pot after refinement of the goblet itself. My example was as shown
I usually followed up with some form of leather hard project in slabs so that they could see both ends of the spectrum, soft and leather hard construction. One of these projects was to create an incense or candle box of fixed dimensions. It had to have pierced areas for the light/smoke to come through, and it had to have one other form of surface decoration again using one of the techniques taught. The edges has to be defined, and the form had to have a way to get the candle/incense in and out easily. My simple example is shown below.
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Posted 12 May 2013 - 09:30 PM
Great idea with a lot of possibilities. Just wondering- this is with wet clay, so if you are doing it with kids do you limit the slab/goblet size so the whole thing doesn't collapse on them- I can just see some kids making a really skinny stem and the whole thing being top heavy.
Easy to limit the size for age groups, pre weigh balls of clay the size that you think they should use to make appropriate sized slabs. I have done this with kids all the way from 8-to adult. 8 year olds would usually get about a 2 lb ball of clay and sticks of 3/8". A demonstration of how to get an appropriate slab shape for the "poison goblet" was done first, along with decoration techniques. This would allow me to size the project larger as the kids were older.
Posted 14 May 2013 - 03:29 AM
I'd like to try this one with the children of my schoolgroup.
I tried some easy slab projects with children (roll out, stamp, cut, form over plastic foil and a plastic mug) before christmas in 2010
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and for Halloween some ghosts (foldes slab for body and arms and attached ghostly head)
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These ghosts were created by my son and a friend.
In the school group (11/12 year old to 14/15 year old children) I have mostly the problem of very unmotivated kids because they just want to "chill" instead of being in school in the afternoon.
It is a "working group" without marks, but obligatory to attend. :blink:src="http://ceramicartsda...ult/blink.gif">
I'd like to get more ideas for teenagers in the puberty.. :rolleyes:src="http://ceramicartsda.../rolleyes.gif">
Necessity is the mother of invention
Posted 14 May 2013 - 03:32 AM
Necessity is the mother of invention
Posted 14 May 2013 - 08:34 AM
Do you have some pictures of how the students created their goblets? Just to get an idea how this project turned out "in reality"?
Sorry, I don't seem to have any of these pics on file. I will check the hard drive on an older computer as I am loading it into one I just built. Maybe some of these are on there. I did these in the 90's. Later I used them with 10-14 yr olds in summer. The summer class was 5 days exactly, four projects. The 5th day they went home with all projects glazed. No time to photograph pieces when I unloaded the kiln, and sent them on their way.
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look up The Mud Peddler website. she taught kids for many years and still does. makes lots of beautiful things kids can do. contact her for more.
Posted 14 May 2013 - 09:33 PM
4 projects in 5 days, Pres?!?!?! You must be some sort of miracle worker. How did you get them dry so quickly? I would love to hear what your other 3 projects were.
We started the week with a slab tray on this I taught them to do 4 forms of decoration, roll out a slab, use a template, set up a slump mold(push-pinned sheet to a box) and add feet. The templates were some matt board shapes I had designed, but the large slabs that they made allowed them to pick a decorative area for the smaller sushi sized platter. Second project started the same day with mixed mat board templates(rectangle measurements went together) made to create a shape variety of boxes. The slab was already decorated and they had to pick areas that would match up, All this the first day-assembly for the box day 2. 3rd project was using wet slabs in a bisque bowl. I had thrown 2 dozen of different sizes to use in the regular classes for hump and slump molds. These had rounded bottoms so both worked. We also introduced the potters wheel and using a lump of clay stuck to head, used tools to carve and put a hole in the center for foot rings-time wise not enough for throwing of any sort, but foot rings turned out most times, Last project was the poison goblet same day-usually finishing up day 3.
So what was the magic? I had two down draft tables that had been purchased to handle dust/fumes in a shop/industrial area. These were purchased in a block for all over the district shops-bright idea of someone in admin. The special price had two left over-I got them by chance. . . he he he. Anyway in 30-60 minutes they would dry an entire day of work. I would have them in the kiln by 1pm, be unloading a cone 06 bisque in the morning. Fourth day we glazed, fifth day we had a critique, and everyone got 30-60 minutes on the potters wheel-no keepers, which I told them upfront.
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50 Fabulous Fall Recipes
Cider-Braised Chicken, Brussels Sprouts and Apples
This fantastic one-pan dinner is ideal for a Sunday supper or casual fall get-together with friends; the sauce is delicious, so serve with bread or mashed potatoes to soak up every delicious bite.
Autumn Beef Stew
We riffed off Julia Child's legendary boeuf bourguignon, stealing her trick of flavoring a wine-rich beef stew with bacon drippings, but adding generous chunks of carrot, potato and butternut squash.
Wine-Marinated Pot Roast
This tender beef creation includes a gorgeous, glossy red wine sauce that amps up sweet root vegetables, mushrooms and onion.
Slow-Cooker Brat and Sauerkraut Soup
Potatoes, onion, sauerkraut and brats pack in the German flavor in this homey slow-cooker soup. Try with Whole Wheat Pretzel Rolls; the soft pretzels' chewy, brown exterior comes from being boiled in an alkaline solution—the 1/4 cup baking soda in the water isn't a typo!
Slow-Cooker Brat and Sauerkraut Soup
Quick Black Forest Cherry Cake
This quick twist on the classic German chocolate-cherry cake uses boxed cake mix and cherry preserves. Don't skip the kirsch or brandy; it adds that signature Black Forest flavor.
Roasted Pork with Apple-Walnut Salsa
Who knew a pork shoulder seasoned with just salt and pepper could be so scrumptious? The recipe comes chef Marshall Paulsen of Minneapolis' Birchwood Cafe. The salsa recipe makes a very generous amount of the apple salsa, about 4 cups. It will keep fine for a day or so in the refrigerator to eat with leftovers, or just halve the recipe if you don't think you'll use it all. Any leftover pork makes a mean sandwich.
Cheesy Brat Casserole
This six-ingredient hotdish recipe from an Appleton, Wisconsin, reader features an all-star lineup of Wisconsin foods, including bratwurst, cheddar cheese and potatoes. "It's a quick, easy recipe," our reader says. "There's not much you can mess up."
Southwest Corn Pudding
Buttery onions, cheddar and green chilies lace our stuffinglike pudding. Inspired by traditional skillet corn bread, this recipe works as a side or as a meatless main served with a salad or garlicky sauteed kale.
Streusel Apple Bread
A touch of lemon, chopped cranberries and walnuts make this quick bread taste like coffee cake.
Harvest Chipotle Chili
Sweet potatoes and apples hold their own with spicy chipotle chilies in this perfect sweet-heat balance. Does it take a lot of peeling and chopping? Yes. Is it worth it? Oh, yeah.
Roast Chicken with Caramelized Onions and Fall Fruit
Apples, pears and cranberries mix with caramelized onions in a luscious tumble over chicken breasts. Why leave the skin on and bones in? Trust us; you'll notice the extra flavor in this fabulous fall recipe.
Spiced Pear-Cranberry Cobbler
You can almost remember a misty-morning trip to the orchards and bogs when you taste this riff on a Midwest favorite. A pumpkin-cornmeal biscuit crowns the sweet-tangy fruit duo.
Apple Scones with Spiced Maple Butter
They're light, buttery and fall artwork on your plate. We almost hate to cover up the baked-on apple slice with the whipped maple butter. Almost.
Brussels Sprouts with Ham and Leeks
In the final minutes of cooking, a splash of fresh orange juice and cider vinegar adds the perfect sweet acidity to a company-worthy (but family-night-easy) side dish.
Roasted Chicken with Sage Pan Sauce
This sage-infused, company-worthy fall recipe takes full advantage of cast iron's versatility. The pan goes from stove top to oven and back to stove top.
Triple-Spiced Pear Bread
Oats, walnuts and nuggets of chopped pear give this loaf a toothsome heartiness, while buttermilk keeps it moist and tender.
Sausage and Spinach Skillet Pizza
A hot cast-iron skillet mimics a pizza stone to create a crisp, evenly browned crust. We loaded our pizza with oozy red sauce and stretchy cheese. Fork and knife highly recommended.
Crumb-Topped Apple Trio Pie
Crisp on top, sweetly tender inside, this quintessential fall dessert blends tart and sweet apples -- Granny Smith, Jonagold and Braeburn -- with sugar and cinnamon under a brown-sugar and walnut crumb topping.
My My's Brown Sugar Pound Cake
Patty's grandmother sifted together the flour and baking powder three times before adding them to the batter. We had good results just whisking them together. This recipe comes from Patty Pinner's cookbook Sweets (crownpublishing.com).
Butternut Squash, Lentil and Wild Rice Stew
Here's a main-dish soup loaded with veggies. Need to reduce the sodium? Use only one can of French onion soup and replace the other with 1-1/2 cups water.
Apple-Pear Praline Pie
This picture-perfect fall pie takes more than a flaky crust. "The key to this pie is the apples you use," says Mary Schrier of Cumberland, Iowa, who got this recipe from an old, handwritten family recipe book. She suggests not using Red Delicious apples. Instead, make this with Granny Smith, Jonathan or any sweet-tart heirloom apples.
So-Easy Apple Butter
Your home will fill with the fall aroma of this five-ingredient apple butter while it simmers in your slow cooker. Serve with cheese and crackers - and keep some extra jars to give as hostess gifts.
Apple, Cranberry and Pecan Galette
A free-form tart is the anxious pie-maker's best friend. No fussy crimping, and any torn edges or lumpy folds just add to the charm (especially when sprinkled with sparkly raw sugar).
Sweet Potato-Cranberry Cake
Chocolate and sweet potato batters are swirled together to make this moist, tender spice cake from Patricia Polley of Columbus, Ohio. Wrap and store the cooled cake overnight for easier slicing. (It's a great alternative to coffee cake for brunches.)
Danish Pastry Apple Bars
One of her students shared this fall recipe long ago with Gail Michael of West Lafayette, Indiana. "These were in the lunch box of one of my first-grade students in the fall of 1974," Gail recalls. She's baked many batches of these apple bars since then. It's like apple pie in a baking pan.
One-Pan Harvest Pasta
This hearty weeknight dinner recipe is perfect for fall and winter, when you crave cozier foods.
Pumpkin-Banana Bread
Lisa Johnson of Gardner, Kansas, added banana to pumpkin bread for a new twist on this quintessential fall treat. "This pumpkin bread is a favorite with our family," she says. "It's easy to make, and my two girls enjoy helping me."
Chipotle Black Bean Chili
Inspired by traditional Mexican mole, this hearty vegetarian chili includes a touch of chocolate to add depth. Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce give a rich smokiness to this fall recipe. If you like, you can save half the chili to make Stacked Black Bean Enchilada Pie.
Cranberry Layer Cake
This moist white cake combines toasted pecans and refreshing orange peel with cranberries. Orange peel flavors the thick cream cheese frosting, too.
Multigrain Apple Streusel Muffins
Rise and shine! These tender gems taste so good, you'd never guess we bumped up the fiber in this fall recipe with two kinds of whole grains and traded most of the butter for applesauce and buttermilk.
Cranberry Orange Upside-Down Cake
Invert this moist cake while it's still warm to reveal a fall kaleidoscope of glistening, tart berries and sweet mandarin oranges.
Warm-Me-Up Chicken Chili
Combine chicken, chopped vegetables and canned beans for a warm and comforting chili. This fall recipe gives variations for Slow Cooker Chicken Chili as well as a spicier Chipotle Chicken Chili.
Almond-Cranberry Bread with White Chocolate Glaze
Sweet bread balances tangy cranberries in this winning fall recipe. Like many quick breads, this loaf will improve in flavor and texture if you let it sit overnight before slicing it.
Pumpkin Cheesecake with a Caramel Swirl
This fall dessert comes from Mooselips Java Joint in Seeley, Wisconsin. It's creamy, cool and not overpowered by the pumpkin or the spice.
Maple Sweet-Potato Sticky Buns
Traditional sticky buns not quite sweet enough for you? Add sweet potato, maple syrup and syrupy pecans. How about now?
Hearty Minestrone Soup
Susan Corley of New Albany, Ohio, shared her version of the classic Italian soup in New Albany Cooking with Friends, a cooking club project that took regional honors in the 2007 Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards. Susan often slow-cooks a pot of the soup for family meals during the holidays.
Pumpkin-Praline Layer Cake
This nutty layer cake is a favorite dessert with Midwest Living® readers. Whipped cream topping complements a moist filling of pumpkin, brown sugar, pecans, butter and more whipping cream.
Chicken and White Bean Stew
Great Northern or cannellini beans blend with chicken and purchased Alfredo sauce in this easy-to-assemble slow-cooker meal. Serve with crusty bread and tossed salad.
Pumpkin Ravioli
Wonton wrappers make a low-calorie substitute for the pasta dough usually used in ravioli. Fresh Italian parsley and rosemary brighten up fall flavors.
Apple-Cranberry Walnut Pie
Sweet apples balance the tang of cranberries in this fall favorite.
Steel-Cut Oatmeal Heaven
Why steel-cut oats? This chunky oatmeal has a nuttier flavor and chewier texture than if it used rolled oats. Other heavenly ingredients in this fall recipe include dried fruit, mini chocolate chips, crumbled bacon and a drizzle of honey.
When cooler nights trigger cravings for warming autumn suppers but the garden still bears a summer's bounty of tomatoes, zucchini, peppers and eggplant, we call on the French for help. The classic vegetable stew is traditionally served unadorned, but we love it spooned over homemade garlic bread as a luxe fork-and-knife sandwich.
Wild Rice and Chicken Soup
Mix a can of cream of chicken soup, mushrooms, veggies and rice mix for the soup base. Any boneless cooked chicken works in this slow-cooker recipe, but chicken thighs, with more moisture from fat, cook the best.
Michigan Tart Cherry Pie
If you're a fan of classic, not-too-sweet cherry pie, look no further. This is our best one.
Apple and Couscous-Bulgur Salad
Apple cider and lemon juice add a touch of pucker that keeps this hearty grain salad from tasting too sweet. For a nutritional boost, use whole wheat couscous.
Cheesy Potato Soup
Potato, bacon and cheese - all the flavors you love in a bowl of soup! The American cheese keeps the soup from curdling while it slow cooks. Mashing cooked potatoes a bit gives it some body, while the bacon adds a smoky-salty taste to this fall soup.
Single-Serving Caramel Apples
Flaky pastry and baked apples become absolutely irresistible when combined with caramel and a hint of brown sugar in this fall recipe. Make these up to six hours ahead of your meal and cover with plastic wrap so the pastry doesn't dry out. Bake while the coffee brews!
Slow Cooker Cranberry Chicken
Cranberry sauce combined with tapioca and onion soup simmers to perfection in this five-ingredient main dish recipe, a slow-cooker version of an oven classic. Serve over white rice to complete the fall meal.
Hot Dog-Hamburger Secret Sauce and Cranberry-Orange Relish
Joan Wagner of Overland Park, Kansas, contributed the Hot Dog-Hamburger Secret Sauce recipe. "My two sons, Chris and Ken, gave this recipe the name 'secret sauce' because no one guessed what was in it," Joan says. It's a nice balance of sweet and tangy.
Colorful Cranberry-Orange Relish comes from chef Richard Fisher of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The versatile spiced topper goes well with meats, including deli turkey, bratwurst and grilled pork chops.
Hot Dog-Hamburger Secret Sauce and Cranberry-Orange Relish
Redemption Hazelnut Pie
This über-sweet pie is essentially a traditional pecan pie made with hazelnuts. This recipe comes from Patty Pinner's cookbook Sweety Pies (tauntonstore.com).
Bacon-Cheddar Cheese Balls
Freshly shredded cheese works better than packaged shredded cheese in a cheese ball. Prepare the cheese mixture the night before so flavors have a chance to blend. Shape and roll in the crumbled bacon or pistachio nuts a few hours before serving.
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Albania: My Wonderful Daily Grind
This documentary considers a day-in-the-life of Fr. Leonardo, a Polish Franciscan missionary who has assumed the task of responding to the spiritual needs of the local mountain population. The task is not without challenges and often the physical obstacles, the frustration through an inability to respond to all the needs and personal isolation weigh heavily. Fr Leonardo is a modern day missionary reflecting those same fears, concerns, courage and faith of missionaries of yesterday.
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