family, making pots, firing kilns, sculpture, music, hiking, reading, grilling, politics, playing RISK with the boys.
Music
early bob, folky bob, sixties bob, married bob, country bob, bob with the band, single again bob, late 70's heroin bob, christian bob, eighties bob, traveling wilbury bob, froggy went a courtin' bob, unplugged bob, creepy-sad-album-grammy bob, victoria's secret panty commercial bob, the only redeeming thing about sept 11 was the release of love and theft bob, couldn't go to the show because my daughter was born sorry i missed you with willie bob, the new album is incredible your best work yet sir bob.
Jeff Selby (the song above was written by Jeff for my wife and I), Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Nora Jones, Loretta Lynn, Bob Marley, Ray Lamontagne, old country stuff, Run DMC.
Books
Just finished John Adams by McCullough. Currently reading American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Ellis. Also reading the How does a Dinosaur... series and Moo Ba La La La.
Heroes
I won't say a hero, cause what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man...and I'm talkin about the Dude here. Sometimes there's a man...
About me: First and formost I'm a family man. I adore my wife and children more than anything in this world.
Beyond that I'm a studio potter which means this isn't a hobby or a phase... I eat sleep drink and dream clay glaze and fire. This is how I make a living, pay the mortgage, and keep the kiddies' bellies full. It's probably one of the hardest ways to make a living in this modern world we live in but it can be done. It doesn't happen in 40 hours a week, or even 50 or 60, but it can be done. I am beyond blessed to be able to make a living, and do my best to live my making.
If you're and old friend from Jersey or New York or a fellow ceramifer send me a message instead of random friend requests from names I don't recognize! thanks, Eric.
http://www.botbylpottery.com.
Hey Eric how are you and the ladies of the house? I fly this saturday to TN. I definitely want to visit you all while I'm home. What are your plans for June? Ryan is doing well. Staying busy. He always asks about you guys when he calls.
Hey there! Tell Jill that I will try to call her this weekend. I was in Nashville on a business trip when she called. I'm just beginning to dig out from under my inbox!!
With your permission, and only with your permission, I would like to copy and paste a few of the images you mention from your site, and drop them into our PICS section, and note there who we got them from.
We expect plenty of images to come in from all sorts of directions, and this is the pattern we will follow... so take a look at our ever evolving PICS section.
We will soon have a pretty wild, full on call for entries for sketches and designs. Please continue to send us real kiln images, and please feel free to send in sketches of your own, sketches by friends, or images gleaned from anywhere of shapes that would somehow lend themselves to becoming a giant kiln!
THE GRAND KILN is moving steadily forward. Slowly. Comfortably. ...but steadily. I like it. It's big, like a tree migration caught somehow using a stop motion camera...
I'm asking you, and a bunch of others, to look again at what we're doing, and think if there are two, three, four friends of yours who would get an enormous kick out of where this is all going... if they only knew. For fun, if you're of a mind to, forward our GRAND KILN page to them...
myspace.com/thegrandkiln
They don't have to be potters or ukelele players, but they should be those among your friends who possess that soul defining spark of a mischievous sprite...
Hello, friend!! No word from Sour Pottery, yet...but I dropped your name so hopefully, soon. Thinking of you fondly and prayers for your family...please pray for mine as well.
Hey Eric, thanks for being our friend & for joining our little community of nature fanatics! We're just getting our new page up and running, so feel free to drop by any time with comments or suggestions. Happy New Year to you... & many Happy Trails!
I am impressed by the array of colors you've produced!! Combined with such a fluid form, your fluted plates take on an artistic, floral feel...reminescent of a peek through a kaleidoscope...complex, yet simple in its beauty. Bravo!
I know it's been ages...how are you and yours?? I am headed to the Texas Clay Festival this weekend...taking a road trip all by myself...how very brave of me!
Hahaha...I'm afraid I've been too busy to have any news to share. Thank you for the kind birthday wishes... I trust your latest work is faring fabulously at the gallery??
