Happy Monday everyone! Before you start drinking some Irish Wiskey come on in and say hello to Eoff St. Studios whose user-name on Etsy is scarecrow3331. Adam is a great mudder from the Etsy Mud Team who seems to have so many talents. From his interview he loves cooking, darn where has he been all my life?? Ok, enough fantasizing about a man who can cook, here is his interview.
Q - 1. Tell me a bit about yourself.
My
name is Adam Bedway. I live in Wheeling, WV with my beagle Marley and
soon I'll have another one named Nigel. I am an artist, potter,
restorer of old things, avid recycled (i hate to throw ANYTHING away),
landscaper, builder, and a thousand other things. These days I focus
mainly on pottery. I like to make functional work that people use
everyday, at least I like to think that people use my work everyday. I
like to cook, and I think that helps me to make better pots.
Q - 2. How do you decide what to make? What is your thought process or inspiration?
Well,
like I said above, I really love to cook. So when I'm cooking, or
thinking of cooking, I usually come up with my best ideas. I use my
pots all the time in the kitchen so that I can try to get a better feel
for them, and come up with ways to improve them. I also like to look at
old industrial machines and utilitarian objects. I like for things to
have a purpose, a certain job, and I think they should do that job
well. When I'm in the kitchen or the studio I look for ways to improve
both the function and the aesthetics of my pots.
Q - 3. What
is usually going on in your studio while you are working? Such as do
you blast music, have silence, or watch soap operas?
I have to
have music playing. I usually listen to my Ipod really loud. I have ADD
too, so I'm usually buzzing around working on seven different things at
once.
Q - 4. Where else can we find you on the web (such as your own site, blog, twitter, facebook etc.) or in brick and mortar?
Whew, this list keeps getting bigger......let's see.....
on Etsy: http://www.scarecrow3331.etsy.com
on Twitter: http://twitter.com/scarecrow3331
on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/pages/Eoff-St-Studios/48984899910
on Makerspot (my blog): http://scarecrow3331.makerspot.com/
For
those of you who prefer the real world, you can see my work in the
Wheeling Artisan Center on Main St. in Wheeling, WV and also in
Artworks Around Town in the Upper Market House in historic Centre
Market in Wheeling. Soon you will also be able to see my work in other
shops around Wheeling as I am collaborating with a local soy candle
company to help raise money to improve Centre Market. I'll be posting
updates on my blog and putting the products up on my Etsy page. Also,
this summer I will be participating in the Ballston Artist Market every
second Saturday, May through October as well as other craft shows and
art fairs.
Q - 5. What are your favorite websites to visit?
I
love to look around on Etsy, and Apartment Therapy. I frequent the Etsy
Mud Team page as well as a few other blogs. I recently discovered
Feedly, which is incredible. If you haven't already checked it out, you
definitely should.
Q - 6. What is your favorite color?
Does
plaid count? I dunno, at the moment, I'm really into reds and grays,
but I also love brown and blue. I'm not a big pink guy, or yellow,
unless it's muted.
Q - 7. What is your sign? Yeah, yeah,sorry, I know a lot of horoscope junkies.
I'm a Pisces, which I think rocks!
Q - 8. Now can you share an embarrassing moment, or at least tell us a good joke? We all do need a bit of humor ya know.
Oh
man, there are sooooooo many stories I could tell here about the
hundreds of times I've been injured, but I think I'll share a story
about when I thought I did something very embarrassing without anyone
noticing, only to have one single person notice, and constantly remind
me about it.
I should start this story by saying that I give my
friend Stephani a really hard time. We have one of those almost brother
and sister relationships, and I'm constantly making fun of her for
something. So when the opportunity arises (and it does quite often) for
her to get back at me, you'd better believe that she doesn't pull any
punches.
I was moving into my apartment about two and a half
years ago, and I decided one evening to have a couple of friends over
for beers. My apartment has a very long central hallway and I had laid
plastic drop cloths on the floor because I was patching and painting
all day. So after everyone had arrived we gathered in the living room
because that was the cleanest place in the apartment. At one point
during the evening I went to the restroom and on my way back I slipped
on one of the drop cloths. This was no ordinary slip however. I slid
like fifteen feet on one foot and flailed my arms in the to try and
balance/ catch myself. The whole thing had to look ridiculous. Luckily
I stopped like 5 feet before the opening to the living room so no one
saw my little dancing act, or so I thought. After I recovered (not
gracefully by any means), I looked all around to see if anyone had seen
me, of course, the one person in the whole world who saw the entire
incident was Stephani. Well, needless to say she was falling on the
floor from laughing so hard, and of course, everyone else who was there
heard the story, with a pretty accurate little reenactment dance from
Steph. To this day, she brings that up at least once a week.
It's
a good thing I have a great little story about her getting her hair
stuck in a ball of clay while she was failing at throwing on the
wheel................ (oh come on, share...lol)
Q - 9. Last but not least - If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have 4 things, what would they be?
Oh
man, that's hard. probably someone to talk to (my dog maybe?), a
Leatherman multitool (because you can do ANYTHING with a Leatherman),
the surrounding ocean to be filled with swimming cows, chickens, and
pigs (because I despise all things seafood), and.........Les Stroud
from Survivorman.
Thank you so much Adam! Be sure to check out a few of the cool items below and go visit Adam's store - Eoff St. Studios and send him some love or send someone else one of his fabulous pottery!
