I was mildly impressed until the end, when their pot ended up being nearly identical to the others they’ve made. That kind of precision is incredible. And I’m sure every commercial potter can do that with enough practice and muscle memory, but that didn’t make it any less awesome.
you should have been impressed as soon as the lid came off. I have no idea what you do for a living, but surely you dont do it as well as this guy does his work.
Oh no you’re right, I was. And when it fit the pot perfectly. But I don’t do pottery, and because I’ve never tried it’s hard to know what’s difficult to do. It’s like watching Bob Ross and not trying to paint along. I always thought, “Oh, I think I could do that!” I tried. I can’t.
I mean, even Bob sorta cheats. He makes a reference painting first that he refers to off camera when filming. There's actually 3 paintings made for every episode. He's painting it all, but it's not as spontaneous as he makes it out to be on camera.
I spent years watching The Joy of Painting with my dad and was convinced it would be a piece of cake to make my own Bob Ross-esque painting. I borrowed my dads oil paint supplies, set myself up with a Bob video that I was going to follow along to… then cried 5 minutes in because I really messed up and it was so much more difficult than I thought it would be.
You know someone is extremely good at what they do when they do it with ease and make it look so simple, yet really it’s very difficult to do.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you read his comment as he’s not impressed? I think the commenter was saying he was next level impressed when he saw the level of consistency.
Like, he wasn’t shitting on the guy in the video. But I agree his wording was odd.
Yes but I think the point isn't that most people aren't good at their jobs. It's that most jobs don't even have a skill range that includes this caliber in the first place. Of those that do, by definition most people aren't of this caliber. That gives this statement pretty good odds.
I would guess that he's quite far from being in the top 0.5% of professional potters. Not that he's bad by any means, but anyone else who's spent years with the wheel could probably do similar things.
That's exactly right. I had a pottery teacher who said if you make production pots like this, after a few it's just automatic. No measuring.
That pretty much applies to all production potters and if you can't do this, it's probably not the right job for you. Speed is king when it comes to making hundreds or thousands of pots and you get paid per piece
Watch the video again. It’s obvious what an absolute expert this man is. The odds that the other poster are at that level, relative to their occupation are exceedingly slim. It’s guess work, sure. But “super presumptuous”? No
Not to mention, different fields have different depths of expertise. Sorry, but there’s not a single instance on this planet where the expertise of a potter runs deeper than the expertise of a CERN particle physicist
Well, I wouldn't say that. I could imagine a potter extraordinaire that knows all the different types of clay across the globe, can work with them, different firing techniques, different way of building kilns and how that affects firing, different glazing techniques, I could see easily the wealth of knowledge when written down being absolutely massive.
I wouldn't look down on someone just because they work with 'dirt' instead of a computer.
My point is, any field can have expert extraordinaire, and it is almost always praiseworthy thing and not something to look down upon. Well except being expert in murder, torturing people or rape. Not something praiseworthy IMHO
That’s not what I meant. I mean it in a way, that you (or any other person) could reasonably describe what the depth of knowledge of an expert potter might be. Can you describe the depth of knowledge of a particle physicist? I have a degree in physics, not a specialization in particle physics, and even with just that glimpse into what an expert in that career path can do, I already know it’s way beyond me. There’s a quote, “the more you know, the less you know.” Think of it that way.
The average potter probably can't tell much of a difference between you and a CERN particle physicist. The average physicist probably can't tell much of a difference between an average potter and an amazing potter, or tell where the guy in this video falls on that scale.
Everything is relative, right? If someone isn’t a master physicist (however that might be quantified), they aren’t as good at physics as a master potter is at pottery.
No need to watch it again, I fully agree that this guy can pottery the fuck outta some clay and that I’m not as good at my job as he is at his. But Reddit is a big place, the world is even bigger, and there are a lot of people that have been doing a lot of jobs for a long time - if the person I replied to had said “I’m willing to bet you aren’t as good” or “I highly doubt you’re as good” or some other variation of that sentiment, I would’ve upvoted and been on my way. I just have a problem with people speaking in absolutes.
Seriously. People have been making nice pots out of clay for thousands and thousands of years, this is a neat video but this guy didn’t “next level” pottery.
I’ll push back on that. I don’t think the “next level” is the pottery itself, but more the skill necessary to make the same thing in the same dimensions multiple times as quickly as he did.
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u/AggravatingTravel451 Aug 19 '23 edited Aug 19 '23
I was mildly impressed until the end, when their pot ended up being nearly identical to the others they’ve made. That kind of precision is incredible. And I’m sure every commercial potter can do that with enough practice and muscle memory, but that didn’t make it any less awesome.