Saturday, November 17, 2007

Our very first (and very loud) Aluminum Pour on New Year's Eve, 2006. Join us this New Year's Eve for our very first IRON pour.

Join us, call to reserve your spot today! Possibly the most refreshingly unique and awe inspiring experience you'll have this year.
(You might impress your date as well!)

NEW YEAR'S CAST IRON WORKSHOP: New Iron in the New Year
Fri, Sat, & Sun, Jan 4-6
Join us for a very special weekend as we start 2008 with Smartshop’s very first iron pour! Help us recycle a half ton of scrap iron by melting it down & turning it into new grey iron castings, new sculpture, and a new experience together. Most materials & safety gear provided. Leather work boots & natural fiber clothing a must! Bring a sack lunch & lots of drinking water. Workshop meets 6-8 pm on Friday, 9am-5pm on Saturday, & 9am -4 pm on Sunday. $375.00 per student prior to December 23, $395.00 late registration. Materials: $6.00 lb Iron (over 10 lbs) $.30 lb resin sand (over 20 lbs). 4 students min. 8 students max. Instructor: JC Christy

Inside the Shop

Enjoy an interior view of the main shop space at Smartshop, we also have a Smithy in the south end of the building and a casting studio downstairs. Along with our Gallery, there's ocver 12,000 square feet of creative space! Did I mention our shop is very well organized, incredibly clean, and VERY SAFE? it is! I hope you'll get a chance to visit soon and see for yourself.

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Rilke said...

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Flow (psychology)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.^[1]

According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task.^[2]

Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, in the groove, or keeping your head in the game.