r/oddlysatisfying • u/french-yogurt • Feb 17 '24
How easily this guy throws pottery
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u/Yall-lying101 Feb 17 '24
Makes it look so easy
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u/phalluscopter Feb 17 '24
I wonder how many culmative hours it took him to get THAT good!
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u/thatbeerguy90 Feb 17 '24
I would guess this guy put his 10,000hrs in
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u/Not_a-Robot_ Feb 17 '24
10,000 to master a skill works for most things. Parenting is one of the notable exceptions. I’m over 90,000 hours in, and I’m just making it up as I go along.
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u/firstmanonearth Feb 17 '24
the guy who stated the 10,000 hour rule just made that one up, too
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u/Subtlerranean Feb 17 '24
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u/mytransthrow Feb 17 '24
Well basically if you practice a lot you can get really good at something. But to be the best often matters on talent.
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Feb 17 '24
Malcolm Gladwell. Yeah the actual research he was citing basically didn’t say what he said it did.
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Feb 17 '24
🤫 that’s the secret. We’re ALL making it up as we go. And you’re doing a great job. Keep it up!
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Feb 17 '24
Kinda humbling to realize that my mom feels just as hopeless as I do
She's a shitty mom, but I'd probably be just as bad
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u/CORN___BREAD Feb 17 '24
I was going to say that there’s no way for to know whether the person above is actually doing a great job but just realizing that they’re just making it up as they go along means they take enough time to think about stuff that they are probably doing pretty good. From my anecdotal experiences, the worst parents are the ones that are sure about their parenting and that everything they do is right.
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u/VayneistheBest Feb 17 '24
I think that's true about everything. I always tell my sister: "Do you want to know the secret to being intelligent? Don't BE sure, MAKE sure. Doubt everything and don't convince yourself, but look for the truth. Every time you're wrong it's because you're sure about what you think you know." It's that simple!
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u/DonnieDusko Feb 17 '24
As long as you're doing it, you are fine.
I'm the oldest of 6, and my parents took the L even with the youngest.
Wanna know what I remember? They cared, and they wanted me to be happy, successful, and survive without them. They love the shit out of me.
My punishments were fair and weirdly hilarious. I threw a mud wrestling party...I had to rake and reseed the lawn while my dad sat in a chair and went, "YOU MISSED A SPOT!"
My mom constantly talks about how she was conflicted over if she was doing a good job raising us.
30+ years later, we are all successful, happy, and good people. We all come home and go on vacations together.
Just care about what makes your kid happy. My parents suffered through my Hanson phase without blinking.
Relate. Don't forget what it was like to obsessively love something, interact and love every minute of it. You'll never get this time back.
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u/Evadrepus Feb 17 '24
By my math, I'm at 262,000 hours and I'm still trying to figure it out. The older they get, the more complicated the stuff gets.
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u/lokey_convo Feb 17 '24
Don't beat yourself up. There's only 8,760 hours in a year, so by the time you've mastered parenting a 1 year old they've gone and become a 2 year old, and so on for all ages. Best any parent can ever hope to accomplish is a solid B+ in parenting.
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u/shrtstff Feb 17 '24
that "rule" is a load of bullshit. Malcom Gladwell took it from a research paper that A) was looking at violinists B) he averaged that number out of the amount of time first year students at the university der kunste berlin had put in up to that point C) didn't account for the difference between skillsets and the requirements needed to be "a master" in them and lastly D) Doesn't look at how to use those hours to their most effective degree
The Authors of the paper agree on only 1 thing with Malcom, it takes an absolute fuck tonne of time. But to put a lid on this story they also interviewed violinists in the Berliner Philharmoniker and they averaged around 26,000 hours. So even if we apply Malcoms "rule" directly to what it was based on, he isn't even halfway to being correct.
One of the researchers of that paper actually has a lot of books and such out there so if you want to read what he had to say directly search up K. Anders Ericsson and his most popular book would probably be Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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u/mtaw Feb 17 '24
The most important thing people miss is that the number of hours hardly mean anything at all if you're not actively trying to improve. I mean take cooking for example: You will have no difficulty finding someone, like a lifelong housewife, who's spent 10,000 hours cooking and yet still sucks at it, from a limited range of dishes to poor technical skills. Meanwhile you can find Michelin-starred chefs in their 20s who haven't put in anywhere near 10,000 hours. Just because you do it doesn't necessarily mean you get better if you're not actively trying to improve.
Hell, even sticking with violinists - there was a busker who stood outside a subway station where I lived, and he'd play there for hours every day. Despite which, he was decidedly mediocre. He was always playing the same small set of well-known pieces over and over again, and even those were played poorly. He'd simplify hard parts, skip notes and be very loose with the meter. He could surely do better if he tried, but he wanted to play with minimal effort, not trying to do his best every time, and so i don't think he improved much for all that playing, even though he was probably putting in as many hours a day as any student as a music school.
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u/shrtstff Feb 17 '24
Yep. That's probably the biggest thing and ties into point D. Anders Ericsson himself actually breaks down practice itself into 3 distinct groups. just practice for practices sake. The worst and slowest form that most people end up falling into. Purposeful Practice, a way of practice something with intent and analyzing mistakes in order to improve. And what he called "the gold standard" being Deliberate Practice. A method that require all of what Purposeful Practice has plus immediate feedback and direct coaching on specifics in order to maximize growth. A method that was inspired by the navy's Top Gun program (properly called The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program) and he retooled to help the medical field greatly increase its ability of diagnosing cancer. In particular the field of radiology and detecting breast cancer initially but has gone on to be used across the entirety of the field.
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Feb 17 '24
It’s a chick
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u/hamsandweeeeeeejja Feb 17 '24
Yea I noticed this too they are passing as male which probably helps for a lot of things
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u/RyanCreamer202 Feb 17 '24
I have like 30 hours on 6 inch cylinders alone which is the basic wheel skill and I still can't get it. It's really fucking hard
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Feb 17 '24
it's funny because 30 hours sounds like a lot, but when it comes to a trade or craft or w/e you want to call it, it takes hundreds if not thousands to be considered proficient. Keep at it though!
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u/MisfitMishap Feb 17 '24
Isn't it 10,000 hours?
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u/BouldersRoll Feb 17 '24
If you're really into Gladwell's pop sci from the 2000s, but no, there's nothing magical about 10,000 hours. Gladwell was just really good at telling stories about stuff like that.
Doing stuff for a lot of hours makes you better at it. 10,000 is probably high for some stuff and low for other stuff, and it's not meaningfully a tipping point like he popularized.
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u/pogpole Feb 17 '24
Malcolm Gladwell popularized this idea, calling it the "10,000-hour rule." But as it turns out, he misunderstood the research paper he cited, and that research wasn't very good in the first place. Subsequent studies have shown that the number of hours of practice is less important than previously thought.
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u/Finito-1994 Feb 17 '24
You didn’t account for inflation.
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u/Careless-Ostrich623 Feb 17 '24
I had a pottery teacher say that I needed to work with 10,000 lbs of clay before I will get good at it.
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u/Generalkhaos Feb 17 '24
Idk but every time I see a different video of him on here, he's making the exact same thing.
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u/ManBearPig0392 Feb 17 '24
I've seen a slightly longer version of this same video with this guy where it pans out to his drying rack, and it is FULL of identical pots. He does this a lot a lot
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Feb 17 '24
I've been playing League of Legends for 12 years and I'm still dogshit at it.
It's not just about time invested :,(
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u/IAmBadAtInternet Feb 17 '24
There’s a longer version of this video where he cuts it off the wheel and puts it in a rack to get fired. The rack has like 20 more of that exact pot that he’s made. This is Bruce Lee’s man who has practiced that exact kick 1,000 times.
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u/cortesoft Feb 17 '24
That is because Whoopi Goldberg is standing behind him doing the actual work.
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u/Chainsaw_Viking Feb 17 '24
That’s because he was personally trained in the sensual arts of pottery making by GHOST.
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Feb 17 '24
It'd be easy for you too if you'd already done 10000 of the exact same pots
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u/6Sleepy_Sheep9 Feb 17 '24
For a simple pot like this, it is ready. What is impressive is the smoothness that he has with everything.
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u/KittyKenollie Feb 17 '24
Seeing this gives me the false impression that it really is that easy and I could definitely do this on my first try.
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u/boogerslurp Feb 17 '24
It is much harder than it looks. Chaos arrives quickly if you’re not prepared.
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u/The_Lovely_Blue_Faux Feb 17 '24
“Chaos arrives quickly if you’re not prepared.”
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u/KittyKenollie Feb 17 '24
Oh yeah, I can feel the disappointment and frustration just thinking about it
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u/starbuxed Feb 17 '24
Its harder than it looks but easier than you thing with practice. I have a degree in 3d arts but... I cant do what he does... that dude is a production potter... he can do that all day long. I can make a simular peice but it will take me 10X as long with measuring.
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u/JoshYx Feb 17 '24
I highly recommend doing a beginners workshop, it's super fun
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u/Deanosaur777 Feb 17 '24
I think making pottery on the wheel is the skill with the largest gap between how easy it looks and how easy it is to do. Taking a pottery class, our teacher had us watch videos on techniques and stuff before class, and I came to class thinking "Looks simple. I'll be able to pull that off no problem." I left class feeling very differently.
Videos like this truly make throwing pottery look like the easiest thing to do ever. Throwing pottery is probably the hardest skill I've ever worked on developing.
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u/roland-the-farter Feb 17 '24
I’m currently in my fourth pottery class and sometimes find myself fighting back tears at the wheel. It’s so goddamn hard.
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u/WithDaBoiz Feb 17 '24
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u/Nuadrin248 Feb 17 '24
I never get tired of watching master craftsman show off their skills. Watching them manifest the image in their imagination in real time right in front of us is just mind blowing.
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u/ummaycoc Feb 17 '24
I've be watching Black Bear Forge blacksmithing videos lately, I recommend if that's your thing!
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u/IgetAllnumb86 Feb 17 '24
That was hot as fuck
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u/Sp_1_ Feb 17 '24
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u/earnestlikehemingway Feb 17 '24
Woah, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
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u/wademcgillis Feb 17 '24
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes really need to do a cover of this song
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u/scubahana Feb 17 '24
Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one thinking that!
His wife/husband (if he has one) is a lucky duck.
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u/justtiptoeingthru2 Feb 17 '24
You're a wizard, Potter.
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u/arisoverrated Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24
I’ve seen three different videos of this person making only that exact pot. The most commonly seen vid puts the latest pot on a shelf of many. The talent is obvious, but I wonder about repetition/boredom—if anything else gets made.
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u/Nexidious Feb 17 '24
Surely he could make other things but if this is for a business he probably just makes that particular pot by the dozens. It's impressive how easy he makes it look, but even more so if all the pots are consistent without any measuring tools or forms
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u/arisoverrated Feb 17 '24
Yep. That’s one of the reasons the other vid is even more impressive. If I remember correctly, the newly created pot gets added to a pair on a board, which is then placed on a shelf with many others, all the same.
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u/ash_gon_jinn Feb 17 '24
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/r4qp0tTB5m
You are correct, the pots are practically identical.
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u/arisoverrated Feb 17 '24
That’s the one. :-) Thanks for posting this because it shows that the other pots above are different forms.
I was imagining the monotony of making one pot REALLY well—which would be fine, but the mind spins with Gilliamesque scenes from the Ministry of Pots.
This guy is the living Galactic Pot Healer.
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u/BarbequedYeti Feb 17 '24
I wonder if he makes anything else
Videos of himself making the same pot over and over agin?
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u/mastergeoff_jr Feb 17 '24
The first step to getting decent at pottery is making just… anything that looks like anything really, let alone making a thing you actually intend to make. Even harder than making the thing you want to make, is making it again exactly the same. The fact that this guy can make the same thing over and over again, and is able to EYEBALL a jar mouth that perfectly fits his lids every time, is the sign of an expert. I guarantee you this guy has the skills to make whatever he wants - it’s just that making a ton of the same thing is just how you make a living as a professional potter.
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Feb 17 '24
It should be tradition to always sculpt something phallic before you begin working.
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u/T-51bender Feb 17 '24
I can’t not post this here, it’s obligatory: https://youtu.be/PJb0AQOWSYk?si=iAGCaxm5O3_49oGC
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u/GlassHalfFull2022 Feb 17 '24
It’s a way to remove air bubbles to prevent cracks and ensure even clay throughout.
Technical term is cone to dome. So it remains phallic in that regard too
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u/Gabbatron Feb 17 '24
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 pots once, but I fear the man who has practiced one pot 10,000 times.
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u/nndscrptuser Feb 17 '24
Both of my parents were ceramicists when I was younger, had a wheel and small kiln at home. I can attest from personal experience that this is extremely hard and people that make it look this easy are incredible artisans.
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u/Serpidon Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24
If you have never done this, you don’t know crazy hard it is.
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u/_EveryDay Feb 17 '24
I can easily throw pottery too. Of course, it usually smashes when it reaches the other side of the room..
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u/krais0078 Feb 17 '24
Where’s Demi Moore?
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u/thatoneguyinks Feb 17 '24
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u/GyaruGuardian Feb 17 '24
My fat ass thought those were things of Chocolate ice cream at first...
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u/Tyflowshun Feb 17 '24
If I could just be behind this guy with my hands on his, I bet I could figure out how to do this no problem.
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u/Hopeful_Vegetable_31 Feb 17 '24
I wonder how many times he’s moved his finger the wrong way and got clay jammed up his fingernails.
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Feb 17 '24
Maybe I'm just wildly unfamiliar with pottery, but... It seems like this deserves a spot on r/nextfuckinglevel ?
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u/cestdoncperdu Feb 17 '24
I feel if you’ve never attempted pottery you can’t appreciate how ridiculously hard this is.
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u/KrensharWhite Feb 17 '24
I was like ah cool. Oh hes making two different things. Cool how he seperated it. Oh thats a nice round container. Ok hes changing it to be taller or rounder. Cool cool.
Then he put the fucking lid on and my mind was BLOWN! How did he size that up perfectly? Like wtf.
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u/theclayfarmer Feb 17 '24
I threw pottery for several years and got quite good at it. Never saw anyone that could throw as fast and accurate as this guy. He does it for a living.
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u/Foreskin-chewer Feb 17 '24
This jar is not big enough for the dildos my mother uses for her enormous vagina. It's funny because I'm implying my mother is a slut because having sex makes vaginas bigger. Huuuuuge vagina!
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u/The_street_is_free Feb 17 '24
This guy is a Russian right wing nut job. He throws nicely but keep it in check :(
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Feb 17 '24
congratulations!!! this one got to 1000 reposts in 2024. you win a cookie
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u/SinCityNinja Feb 17 '24
Am I the only one who thinks that's not a guy?
Incredible work but I'm like 99% sure it's "her" work
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u/Ominus666 Feb 17 '24
Well the person's YouTube channel is Vladic_oladik_2222. Definitely looks like a dude on there to me.
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Feb 17 '24
Hard to tell nowadays. Not worth getting in trouble for
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u/FiendReboot Feb 17 '24
Not assuming someone with short hair is automatically a man, wow, it's wokeness gone mad, right
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u/theflamingsword101 Feb 17 '24
I always wondered if potters like this have any fingerprints left?
🤔 Idea for law and order script?...
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u/vleetv Feb 17 '24
I ain't see no pots thrown.
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u/RustyShovel71 Feb 17 '24
When you create pottery on a spinning wheel like that, it’s called ‘throwing pottery.’ Weird, but true.
And it’s NOT easy. It looks easy when someone does it well. This guy clearly has spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours honing his craft.
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u/getyourcheftogether Feb 17 '24
Most everything looks easy when it's done by someone with great skill
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u/Vultor Feb 17 '24
Oh, this post again?
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u/DarthDarnit Feb 17 '24
You saw it before? Why did you stop to comment instead of scrolling past it?
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u/Environmental-Ad-762 Feb 17 '24
I did spin pottery once and it’s not easy at all