Printing Decals | Tom Edwards | Episode 813
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Tom Edwards has been a full time studio potter since graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Art History in 1978. Tom works out of his home in Evergreen, CO. His pottery is wheel thrown, high fire, functional porcelain mugs, plates and bowls decorated with cartoons and ceramic decals. The predominant theme in Tom's work is his sense of humor. "I love the fact that a coffee mug can be a traveling soap box or vehicle for my point of view about something that is going on in the world. My best designs are the ones that tell a weird story about our time in history."
In 2018 Tom received worldwide media coverage over his copyright dispute with Elon Musk and Tesla Motors (see Potters Cast episode 459). The electric car company had placed Tom's farting unicorn cartoon in the touch screens of their cars without obtaining his permission. Upon receiving a reasonable settlement from Tesla Motors, Tom became a voice for artists who have had their artwork stolen by larger companies. On Thursday, March 17 Tom will be talking about this adventure plus "Copyright 101 for Ceramic Decal Printers" at NCECA 2022 in Sacramento, CA. Rosetta Technologies has generously agreed to give away a CerPrint Black (or Blue) ceramic decal printing system ($695 value) to one lucky attendee at Tom's lecture. Must be present to win.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.0 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.0 | 813 episodes now under the belt, well actually we're just starting that one right now. So welcome to the potters cast. So, so stoked. We are hanging out together today. Man, how cool is this? I'll tell you how cool it is. Very cool. That's how cool it is. Yeah, yeah. We've got Tom Edwards coming on the show today. So excited to be able to have Tom Edwards. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, this is an alumni. |
| 0:40.3 | He's been on the show before, and I'm so stoked to be able to have him on again. |
| 0:44.4 | And I want to talk about him in just a moment. |
| 0:46.5 | First off, I wanted to let you know that we've got a new Potter's class coming up in just a few short weekends away. And we're going to be doing |
| 0:58.3 | mixing colors with Terra Sigilada with Rhonda Willers. And so if you would like to be a part of that, |
| 1:06.0 | then come and check that out. It's going to be a great class. By the way, part one, which was making the |
| 1:11.8 | base of a terracidgillot, like a tarasage base, that is up and available. And if you go to the |
| 1:20.1 | Potter's class and you sign up for that one, you'll get immediate access to that one and be |
| 1:23.9 | able to watch the video and get all the PDFs, the downloads. And yes, yes, |
| 1:31.1 | so good. It was so good. Okay, Tom Edwards, he's coming on the show. And what's really |
| 1:38.1 | exciting about this, Tom had basically written me asking me, hey, would you mind promoting my talk that I'm going to be |
| 1:48.0 | doing at Enseca? In fact, I had been asked, he had asked me to introduce him at Enceca, and then |
| 1:54.2 | he was going to do the, do a talk on copyright stuff. And we were supposed to do that like two years ago. And it ended up getting |
| 2:03.3 | canceled because of COVID, COVID canceled practically the whole planet. And so, yeah, well, |
| 2:09.4 | now he's going to be doing it. And I unfortunately can't pull away from life this time around for |
| 2:17.1 | Enseca. But if you have that wherewithal, it is such a |
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