Ok Finally you get a peak at the top of the pin-hole camera and a wee bit of the side of the bottom.

This is a picture right after i have taken it out of that little rusty bin with a pair of tongs. Its still very hot - oh and before i forget to tell you - i dropped it! AAAAAAH yes i did, i felt it slipping out of my tong grip so i got super super close to the ground so when it finally slipped out of my grip and went TINK onto the hard pavement i was sooooo hoping it didn't put a crack into i...

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Eeeeeeh (thats my excited noise) well the little pin-hole camera is in the rusty trash bin and i have to wait now. This would be a good time to have Supermans x-ray vision so you could see the little pot in there. I have to come back in about an hour and take the lid off to see if the magic worked :-D

At this point the anticipation is killing me. But i go inside and slip glaze another piece while i wait. So i don't have to think bout it.

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Ok - don't go getting disappointed yet, because its not the finished pin-hole camera. I feel i should take you thru the process, heck if i wanted to be super technical i would have started from the very beginning. However, i was not inspired to start taking and posting photos unitl my dear friend cabbagehead started posting.

Ok but back to the process. This barrel contains strips of newspaper that have been shredded by hand, which will be used later as cumbustables. Its waiting on a good mix ...

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Humm - i guess i should update this a little bit & let you know what you are seeing is the top of a kiln. Its a hole about 5 or 6 inches in diameter and it has heat coming out of it. It gets so hot it starts to have a flame come as the kiln heats up after about 2 hours. So i'm standing on the side of the kiln with the camera above my head just clicking away to see if i get a good shot. B/c i don't have anything to stand on. What you see IN THE HOLE that is all red looking is one of my pinhole...
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