ceramic kingdom berlin 3D Clay Printing program NOTES

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I started a little website for our 3D Clay Printing Program at ceramic kingdom: 

https://ck3d.art/

But I also wanted to collect some outstanding notes and photos in the ol'm blog here:

ROUGH NOTES on the STEPS:

I add water and let it sit for 5 days in a dedicated (new) paint bucket 

(which I bought new from the hardware store) 

We have 10 L and 15 L sizes - not sure which is 'better', but it is nice to have room for the...

CONCRERTE MIXER!

Using a concrete mixer I add a bit more water and mix thouroughly... be sure little bits ofn non-clay don't get into the mix! Fore example I like to mix out in the courtyard but sometimes tree bits fall into the fresh clay:((( 

be sure to take a spatula and slam/smooth the clay outr as you pack your cylinders... I always duct tape and label them with the date and recipe... 

always take into accoun that 3D clay has MORE water therefore MORE shrinkage than even average clay we use at the studio... 

3D Print Clay.

MAKE NOTE of models and files that work. 

(Our printer saves everything, so you might end up with dozens or even hundereds of unlabelled files called "vase"...

https://linktr.ee/ceramickingdomberlin

Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie on the trouble with millennial students

• FILE UNDER: I'll just leave this right here for eternity... CONTEXT: A few years back Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie wrote an essential essay on her personal website but I can no longer find it... Anyhow I did manage to copy a snippet - her issues with some of her students is just sooo spot-on - here is the except I preserved: "In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.
  I find it obscene."
  Another dear friend of mine whom I have known for decades runs a sucessful business in California - he is approaching his mid-40s and when the topic came up of millennials in the workplace, he said simply: they don't know how to pay their dues.  
  I think for the Gen X crowd this in an ongoing, deeply frustrating saga... which is not likely to improve.