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The Potters Cast

Wood Fire In Olympia | Alan Perillo | Episode 1043

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Alan Perillo is a potter living in Tenino, WA. Alan makes thrown, functional pottery that is wood-fired in his anagama-style kiln. Alan has been throwing pots since high school and studied as an apprentice in North Carolina. Alan is currently a vendor at the Olympia Farmers Market.

http://ThePottersCast.com/1043

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's cast.

0:01.9

Hey!

0:02.6

This is the podcast home of the Potter's Mastermind, a community of potters dedicated to grow their

0:07.8

business.

0:08.7

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.3

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.2

Hello, my dearest of friends, and welcome to episode number 100 and 443 of the Potter's cast. Welcome to the show. Yeah, we just finished up the 4th of July weekend. Yeah, that was a good time. Nice to be able to, I don't know if this was your experience, but mine was that I got to have Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off, which meant that I got to spend a lot of time in the studio, which I was really stoked to be able to do.

0:45.4

But in terms of like my day job, yeah, I got to just leave that behind.

0:50.7

Leave that behind.

0:51.4

Well, I did have one meeting that I had to go to on Friday morning. And that leads into an interesting thing that happened this past weekend. We were getting up after the 4th of July. And we here in Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington, Clark County, I don't live right in the city limits.

1:13.7

I live kind of out a little bit, but it's, you know, it's a suburb, basically.

1:19.0

And fireworks just go off like crazy.

1:22.2

People go to certain places where they can get fireworks that can go up in the air and burst and explode.

1:31.3

And it's just insanity.

1:33.4

I know people that have spent like $10,000 on fireworks.

1:37.5

And I can't stand spending $10.

1:43.3

And hey, I'm not judging it.

1:46.0

Well, I guess I am judging it.

1:48.7

I do judge it a little bit, but hey, not like judge in the sense of condemnation.

1:56.6

You know, it's just a funny thing people spend money on.

2:00.1

Anyhow, these fireworks going up all over the place.

2:03.7

Well, so Friday morning, we have to go to a seven o'clock meeting.

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