"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
Written by Deb St. George, Publisher, Spiritravels.com
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" TRAILER
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull looks to be an
exciting movie. There is a rumor going around that the movie was based
on the legend of the 13 skulls that are supposed to prevent the end of
the world Dec. 21, 2012. Since the storyline is a secret, we'll have to
wait until it's release to see if the plot resembles the rumor.
The filming of Indiana Jones was done in my favorite town of Deming,
NM. They don't have a theatre in Deming NM yet but will soon be
building one.
Part of the movie was filmed in
Deming, at a former World War II Army Air Force base. The film is
supposed to take place in 1957 in a Cold War-era.
About 6 days of filming was
done just outside of Las Cruses on the 180,000-acre Corralitos Ranch,
where a concrete slab and a track for a rocket sled were constructed for
some night scenes, on which explosions and other pyrotechnics lit up the
sky.
Written by Deb St. George, Publisher, Spiritravels.com
Maria Martinez: Notable New Mexican
A look at the life and art of Native American craft artist and potter Maria Martinez (1887 – 1980
through the memories of her grand children. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME-TV.
Maria Martinez, a Native American artist, was from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, a community located 20 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico and was known for her traditional Pueblo pottery.
An excavation, in 1908, led by Edgar Lee Hewett, a professor of archaeology and the director of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, discovered examples of black-on-black pottery.
Mariawas asked to recreate the black-on-black pottery style for Hewett. As almost all clay found in the New Mexico desert was red, one specific challenge was to figure out a way to dye the red clay jet black. Maria discovered that smothering the fire surrounding the pottery during the firing process caused the smoke to be trapped. The carbon in the smoke caused the pottery to turn to a black ash color (Hyde 20-23). She experimented with the idea that an
unfired polished red vessel which was painted with a certain paint on top of the polish and then fired in a smudging fire at a relatively cool temperature would result in a deep glossy black background with dull black decoration. Shards or sheep and horse manure placed around the outside and inside of the outdoor kiva-style adobe oven would give the pot a slicker matte finished appearance. After much trial and error, Maria successfully produced a black ware pot. The first pots for the museum were fired around 1910.
According to Susan Peterson in
The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez, these steps include, finding and collecting the clay, forming a pot, scraping and sanding the pot to remove surface irregularities, applying the iron-bearing slip and burnishing it to a high sheen with a smooth stone, decorating the pot with another slip, and firing the pot . The first step in creating a pot is gathering the clay. The clay is gathered once a year, usually in October when it is dry and stored in an old weathered adobe structure where the temperature remains
constant (Peterson 164).
When Maria is ready to begin molding the clay to form a pot, the right amount of clay is brought into the house. A cloth, laid upon a table, holds a mound of gray pink sand with a fist hole in the center filled with an equal amount of blue sand. A smaller hole is made in the blue sand and water is poured into the hole. The substances are then all kneaded together, picked up within the cloth, washed, and covered with a towel to prevent moisture from escaping where the clay will sit for a day or two to dry. The pukis or “the supporting mold, a dry or fired clay shape where a round bottom of a new piece may be formed†builds the base shape of the pot looking like a pancake (Peterson 167).
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After squeezing the clay together with one’s fingers, a wall is pinched up about an inch high from the pancake base. A gourd rib is used in cross-crossing motions to smooth out the wall, making it thick and even. Coiling long tube shapes of clay on the top of the clay wall and then smoothing it out with the gourd increases the pot’s height. Air holes are patched with extra clay and sealed away with the gourd rib like a patch being sown on a pair of blue jeans (Peterson 167). After drying, the pot is scraped, sanded, and polished with stones. This is the most time consuming part of the entire process. A small round stone should be applied to the side of the pot in a consistent, horizontal, rhythmic motion. Rubbing the stone parallel with the side of the pot produces a shiny, polished, even look (Peterson 173). Burnishing then occurs followed by firing the pottery. The pot is finally finished after the decorating process.
Maria Martinez and San Ildefonso Pottery
Maria Martinez - wikipedia
Angel''s Nest is a sustainable home in Taos, New Mexico made from straw bale, tires, pop cans and bottles. The electricity is generated through wind and solar technology. Rain water is captured as culinary water and there is a bio-diesel/hydrogen fueling station outside.
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