Comments on: Ode To The Elementary School Art Ashtray

By: DJ D

DJ D — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:44:45 +0000

LOL!

I love it! That sounds like the best kid ever!

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:10:23 +0000

I never got the privilege of having the experience of making an ashtray, when I was a freshman in high school I took ceramics and failed. The only thing I took home completed was a tile, a square of clay I put a cartoon face on and painted and was done. Most of the time my friends and I hung out in the storage room and cut chunks of clay apart with a wire and talked. Me failing to complete an assignment for that class was one of the two times I got punished in my growing up. I couldn’t watch the Simpsons Sunday of that week and I was so pissed. I know what episode it was and have watched it several times since (when Mr Burns finds out he has a long lost son voiced by Rodney Dangerfield) but I was at the time not too happy.

The only two things I brought home from shop class in middle school were a wood racing car w/ plastic wheels and a narrow rectangle w/ my name drilled in the middle of it by the teacher. He made us sand the piece of wood w/ our name on it so much. I felt like I was never going to finish. It’s around here someplace.

By: kittymao

kittymao — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:57 +0000

No…
But I animated a Liger for my final in Intro to Animation in college.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:20:17 +0000

I always made ye olde candle holder. Basically an ashtray with a candle dent in the middle and a loopy handle on it.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:48:11 +0000

Wow! You were the artistic one. I know your type. (eye squint)

By: Will

Will — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:46:52 +0000

And not a Lygor? Lion/tiger?

You are awesome.

By: kittymao

kittymao — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:48:15 +0000

I made a Swawk.

It was this bird thing that had the body of a swan with the head of a hawk.
I painted it brown and yellow and gave it to my dad.

I should have made an ashtray, my dad DOES smoke.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:13:05 +0000

haha we’d always make clay wall flower holders. If you can picture it.. it was like a square with a pocket in the front to stick some dried holly or something. So eventful I think my mom even still has mine hanging up. What a lady.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:10:24 +0000

And I you. That would be a great card. We have to partner up.

By: bschooled

bschooled — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:40 +0000

Thanks for the petrified orangutan shit with the convenient dent in the middle, son!

You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to pull out that greeting card. I thought I’d have to add it to my reject pile.

Just another reason why I revere your blog.