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The Potters Cast

"The Farside" of Clay | Dave Zackin | Episode 580

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Business, Careers, Arts, Visual Arts

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dave Zackin studied animation at RISD, taught art classes for adults with schizophrenia for a few years, redesigned the recycling stickers for the City of New York, and then got into ceramics. His work, mostly depicting old men with big noses, is often made from greenware and bisquware discarded by others.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:01.9

A podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their

0:08.0

business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, Paul Blaze. Hello and

0:15.3

welcome to episode number 580 of the Potter's cast.

0:22.5

I'm going to have a great day, the day that this episode is being released,

0:26.2

because it's been released on Thanksgiving here in the United States.

0:29.2

And if you are not from the United States,

0:31.6

Thanksgiving is just a day that we all gather to say thanks for all the great things

0:35.5

that have happened in our lives.

0:36.6

So I'm super thankful for the our lives. So I'm super

0:37.6

thankful for the Potter's cast. I'm super thankful for you for being a listener of the show. So

0:43.7

huge, huge thankfulness for that. Now, I'm also thankful for today's guest, who is Dave Zacken.

0:49.7

And the reason I love this dude, well, there's lots of reasons, okay? I had a phenomenal conversation with him.

0:57.4

But you know what's cool about this dude?

0:59.3

Remember the far side cartoons that were put out by Gary Larson?

1:04.0

That guy was hilarious.

1:05.7

I'd go into a store and I'd get a Far Side magazine that had come out or a comic book that

1:10.1

would came out.

1:10.7

And I would just stand there laughing so hard at the various panels.

1:15.1

Like almost wet my pants laughing.

1:18.1

That was so funny with the Gary Larson cartoons of Farsight.

1:23.6

Now, that's kind of the impression that I get with Dave Zacken is that he is kind of like the far side of clay or the Gary Larson of ceramics.

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