Fired Up

dont trip!
Editorial
If you keep looking back, you might trip over something in front of you.
Elijah Pierce eaching decade milestones are always a cause for celebration. We do it throughout our lives and enjoy the little extra time we stop to ponder the accomplishments of the past ten years. This issue marks our tenth anniversary and we can look back with a degree of satisfaction at the successes that have brought us to where we are now. But the big question is where will we be ten years hence? When we started in 1998, DVDs were in their infancy, the Internet relied on dial-up (and a constant barrage of AOL CDs in the mail), Google was hatching, and Amazon was just launching. The internet will continue to change our lives and the way we receive information. Ceramic Arts Daily, our new website, will grow and expand each year rising to meet the electronic information needs of anyone interested in the ceramic arts, but print will continue to play a major role, as well. My copies of CM and PMI end up in the studio with slip, glaze, stains and slop splattered all over them, which wouldnt be a great thing for the computer. Studio technology will change as well. We can look forward to seeing the introduction of microwave kilns (theyve been around in industry for more than twenty years), more advanced wheel and kiln options, more high-tech refractories to meet our energy conservation demands, ever-safer materials to use, and the next great studio device thats not even on the radar yet. Going forward, we do know one thing for surewith each new technique, each new skill we learn, we enhance our experience and increase our enjoyment. None of us wants to go back, because we see how weve improved and learned so much. And while we dont know what kind of work well be making in the next ten years, we do know that well enjoy the journey, ever curious about whats over the next rise and being careful not to trip over anything in our path.

Volume 11 Number 1
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January/February 2008