I love that because we keep these adventures secret from each other until we film, we had no idea that Tom was also filming a pottery video for “Plus” only a few days away from when I did mine!
You're best friends in the truest sense of the words Recording the same video in seperate environments without any disclosure or anything Also Matt Honestly How much did the line "I wanted to spend Tom's money on pot" had to do with you selecting this topic
I started watching this and I went 'hang on, didn't Tom do a pottery video a few weeks ago?' Then I thought I might have been mistaken so I had to stop the video and go track it down. Don't know why I didn't check the comments first.
You know, in retrospect I shouldn't have been surprised; of _course_ Matt managed to produce a delightful wholesome video. This video is just a distillation of Matt's entire vibe, "getting excited to do a cool thing, having fun and being thrilled with how it turned out" is kind of the short description of... well, most of the content Matt's ever put online!
All three have been very on-brand so far. Matt's wholesomeness, Tom's technically about him driving a zamboni but is full of digressions about the host and everything that goes on behind the scenes, and Gary mugging to the camera while he goofs off with a train stunt.
This makes me realise I have no idea what to expect from Chris. He's the most mysterious of the gang. It could be both something absolutely wild or something unexpectedly cute.
Kudos to the subtitles and the people who made them for not only giving us multicolour subtitles for each speaker, but also for giving us the notes the ceramics are chiming in when the boys start to talk about it
Tom and his production team are awesome for that. In a sorta recent Tom Scott vid with a visually impaired guest, they also had separate audio for the visually impaired audience.
I like that everything so far has been something quite mundane, but still really fun to do. With that said, for next week's video, I'm going to predict that Chris decided to go to his local scrap dealer and crush cars all day.
Can I just mention how lovely it is that Tom completely lets Matt have the spotlight? You really only hear him mention that he's previously done this when he tells Matt not to worry about excuses.
At 16:45, the subtitles say "chiming in C", "chiming in A" and "chiming in F" when they're trying out the different tones the pots make. That is AWESOME! Caption+ has consistently turned out the most well-crafted captions that can be found on TH-cam, even going as far as to colour the words for different speakers. It's really cool to see so much love and care put in the captions on TH-cam videos from this channel and the Tom Scott channels.
This is the episode that convinced me I could watch an entire series of the Tech Diff cast just going on adventures and reacting to them afterwards, it was very fun!
16:35 „this is not the Video you came for…“ Yes it is, Gary. It was you 4 Friends being happy for what one of you accomplished, and I really liked it. Please make more Videos like this. Or what about a Tom Scott Plus Video featuring not only Tom doing something but all of TechDiff?
@@GumSkyloard Tom Scott Plus The Technical Difficulties finally play a football match against Sark. Peasholm Park United photo op and press conference included, of course.
The best part is that C, A, F are all part of the main notes on the C major scale, meaning you could use these pots to build a simple chord sequence. (C -> A -> F would be my idea)
This is amazing! It’s three mates giving genuine praise for a thing one of their friends made. No toxic masculine bullshit. Just a “you did that. That nice. Good on you mate.” Love it!
Matt: "I thought I would spend Tom's money on pot." Really good pot, Matt. It got everyone mellow with wholesome content. That's one heck of a contact high! ;)
"This is not the video you came for is it people" It absolutely is! You legends ripping into each other and taking the piss out of everything is great, but seeing you all as a group of mates sharing experiences is awesome. If this is the type of content destined for the channel, its going to be a bloody great time.
Seeing as he actually did fairly decently at this, could we dub this Matt Gray's Okay Day with Clay? Also, entirely unrelated, but I just noticed the fact that Elliot's the editor on this one. British TH-cam is a pretty small world I guess.
I can just hear it at the end of a Citation Needed episode. "And that means Matt is the winner. You win a quality period of time with the base material for pottery... it's Matt Gray's Okay Day with Clay!" *insert pained groans here*
I don't think they're correct, though, the intervals aren't right. Assuming the A is correct, but then the C should be B (major second up), and F should be E (perfet fourth down).
I was really disappointed with this one because I thought it was so short and I wanted to see more. Then I looked at the time and realized it was actually the LONGEST one so far. I was invested! Good stuff!
We’ve had trains, Tech Diff on Ice and now Cylinders! Just need Chris’ adventure to be demolishing chimney stacks with his fists and we’ve had a tetralogy of wholesome podcast throwbacks.
I pretty much watched the whole of this video with a big grin on my face, Matts joy was just that infectious. I was genuinely impressed by the progress made between the first and third pots, it's amazing how quickly he improved. Great job Matt!
That third pot is absolutely lovely! Ceramics is such a great reminder of how many times you have to fail before you become skilled enough to succeed. I'm sure Jo has had to make thousands of pots to reach the level she has.
Gary: "....not the video you came for..." Actually, I love to watch people succeed. I was really rooting for Matt there and I'm really impressed, especially with his 3rd pot. Well done, Matt! For both the pots and an engaging video.
This is so goddamn sweet. Just three blokes being caring and supportive of each other. When the video ended I sorta realised I'd been grinning like an idiot all the way though without thinking about it. This is what the internet ought to be.
Honestly how could that not be wholesome... Matt getting excited to do a cool thing he always wanted to do, having so much fun with it, giving it a decent try, and actually ended up making something cool with his own hands!
@Richard Harrold it's actually part of the WW1 armistice treaty since part of it was setting up the league of nations and basically the precursor to ISO standards. 12 Tone did a great video on it (and the history of A440 in general)
The musical notes produced by the pots are roughly an F, a B flat, and a C. I'm amazed that they sound so in-tune! What a wholesome video - this made my day :) EDIT: Didn't realize the captions had the notes, that's pretty awesome. I'd say the middle pot is still a lot closer to B flat rather than A, but it's no biggie.
This is how it usually goes with great friends. you expect to be hassled and teased and ribbed, but because they know you're actually invested and vulnerable, they mostly cheer you on, offer encouragement and dole out praises where due. So wholesome!
I've watched all your content with my girlfriend. There's been many a time we've laughed to the point of tears. but this one was just, genuinely really cool to see. As you've all said, it is genuine magic to watch this potter stuff in action, and the third one Matt did all by himself is really quite good! So cool! I also love how each of you film differently. Just fun insight into your mentality, seeing how you film things and such.
When trying to keep your hands still there's a huge difference between keeping the pressure constant and keeping your location constant. If you try to keep the pressure constant, you'll push into every divot and pull back on every mound. You'll exacerbate the out-of-round. It's very counterintuitive
That probably explains why I had such trouble with it back when I messed with this in, I think, school or something. That and maybe the difference between the NT explanation and the ND understanding of the explanation, which is something I've only become more aware of over time. >.>
This video was sublime in every way, so wholesome as Gary rightly said. The almost childlike joy expressed by all four of you makes it almost feel like we’re in the room with you, left me with a proper smile on my face.
Fun note for those not watching with subtitles: at the "do they all have different tones?" bit ( 16:45 ), the subtitles state (chiming in C), (chiming in A) and (chiming in F)
I love your captioners lol They put the note names when they were tapping the pots. I think Tom's was closer to a Bb, but at this point they're doing things that are beyond their job and there's no way I can't applaud that
shoutout to whoever does the captions on these videos, i love having color coordinated captions for different people, same as how its done in the video edit as well
[Doing my best to avoid spoilers] Love you including what note each piece is making in the sub titles, but I'd like to offer a correction: The one you have marked as 'A' is a Bb. So we have: C, Bb, F as the appear in the subtitle order. Big love, one of those weird musician types x
What I really enjoy is that you're not taking the piss out of each other. Between reverse trivia, citation needed and TOTPAL we have so many instances of you guys taking the piss out of each other that it's kinda nice watching a group of friends doing stuff they've wanted to do and supporting each other. There's not a lot of content out there where men are being supportive of one another and I think we could do with a bit more of that
Well done Matt, that's excellent work! Impressive. I noticed Jo using a form of English that I call "Trainer Imperative Participle" - for example, "putting your clay in the middle" instead of "put your clay in the middle". My personal trainer used to use that as well, and it's all over TH-cam in countless live action fitness tutorials etc. As far as I know it's not "formal" English but there must be a reason why it has evolved... I've long wondered whether linguists have an official term for this. I know Tom's into that stuff, but he's unlikely to see this, so would any other linguists care to comment?
very cool video. While I haven't done Pottery myself I've watched a few channels for a while so it was cool seeing Matt doing this. I hope Jo gets a nice boost in costumers cause from the video she's a fantastic tutor and indeed an expert in pottery making.
The most wholesome is the relationship between TechDiff members. Ready for mockery at any given time, but fully supportive when it matters. Friendships don't last 10+ years when it's all taking a piss and no honest positivity. I envy you, it's awesome what you have here.
13:15: WOW. Matt, if that's really your first attempted pull, you're amazing. I did some clay work back in the day and usually people sling clay all over the place a few times before they can pull that much.
I really love to watch professionals do what they are professional on it is mesmerizing to watch, but I love to see people explore and try things and learn while doing especially when they succeed after a couple hard passes! Really wholesome, thanks Matt
I've been on the fence about this series until now but I just realized as I saw the thumbnail for this one that I was actually looking forward to it quite a bit!
I kind of love this new format. You get the chill vibe of a reaction video but even if you have nothing to say, you made the content so you're not feeling obligated to say something when nothing needs to be said
I have a friend who is a Ceramics major, and I can confirm that working with clay is infinitely harder than it looks. It requires patience and skill that I, myself, do not have, but it's always fun to try nonetheless.
What she didn't realise is that the word avocado actually derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec language) word for testicle. Apparently, if my memory of an old QI episode serves me correctly, this is due to the fact that they grow on the tree in pairs.
1:10 Tis very true. See the allegory of the perfect pot to understand. Sometimes, and ofc in pottery, you just need to make a thousand of somethin before you can make somethin good; no matter how much studyin and prep work you do goin in
So, Gary got to make a bacon buttie in a steam locomotive, and Tom got to drive a Zamboni. And those have a... I'm probably using the wrong word, but I'm going use it regardless. Those have a surreal WOW-factor, with a healthy helping of silliness. But Matt's has been the only truly impressive video of the three shown thus far. I'm not saying the previous two were bad, of course. Far from it. But this one you can get invested in. The others were silly hijinks. I hope you all know what I mean, and it doesn't just come off as insulting Tom and Gary.
Love pottery! Haven't practiced in a while, but it's not terribly hard to do, you can just lay up rolled-flat bits or ropey bits and, make basically anything that'll stand up, or not. Or you can throw it on a wheel, like this with -- as you can see -- only a bit of practice. And you go from something goopy (wet) or dull-thudly (like, well, you know, dried clay) to something glass-hard and... it clinks! It's real, glassy/crystalline, solid ceramic material (well, somewhat porous depending on mix and firing temp), and 100% the real deal that you get at the store. It's also chemistry, the mixes for clay bases and glazes depend on a pretty minor amount of it -- basically, mix certain oxides with certain others, from these respective groups, and you'll have something that works; add a few colorful metals, and now it's pretty too. And you don't even need much of a kiln; clay bits tossed in a bonfire of course get crispy, it just needs to be done slowly (over many hours) to keep from warping/cracking the body. It's no accident it's one of the most ancient techniques; you can literally sit down by a riverbank, with a shovel and some fire, and in a few days' work over a couple weeks, make something neat and useful! Even technical ceramics, for various industrial, chemical, electronic and other applications, aren't much different; they're just handled with a bit more care, as precise chemical composition, structure, etc. may matter. That means more machine handing of course: mills, presses, carefully-managed kilns, etc., but it's still basically glomming fine particles together and heating the piss out of 'em. :)
"Hers is bigger than mine and she's moving it with such precision, and I've got a small one and it just looks like a pancake." I felt a great disturbance in the Force, like Kenneth Williams cried out "Ooh, matron!" in mortification and was suddenly silenced.
I love that because we keep these adventures secret from each other until we film, we had no idea that Tom was also filming a pottery video for “Plus” only a few days away from when I did mine!
You're best friends in the truest sense of the words
Recording the same video in seperate environments without any disclosure or anything
Also Matt
Honestly
How much did the line "I wanted to spend Tom's money on pot" had to do with you selecting this topic
And then Chris made bacon on a steam powered zamboni.
I started watching this and I went 'hang on, didn't Tom do a pottery video a few weeks ago?' Then I thought I might have been mistaken so I had to stop the video and go track it down. Don't know why I didn't check the comments first.
And he didn’t even mention it!
nice work Matt, so much better then Tom's
I was also expecting more dirty jokes
"I thought I would spend Tom's money on Pot"
- Matt Gray, 2022
You know, in retrospect I shouldn't have been surprised; of _course_ Matt managed to produce a delightful wholesome video. This video is just a distillation of Matt's entire vibe, "getting excited to do a cool thing, having fun and being thrilled with how it turned out" is kind of the short description of... well, most of the content Matt's ever put online!
All three have been very on-brand so far. Matt's wholesomeness, Tom's technically about him driving a zamboni but is full of digressions about the host and everything that goes on behind the scenes, and Gary mugging to the camera while he goofs off with a train stunt.
@@adamsbja In that case, Chris' video should be non-existent but everyone acts like he did one.
@@ArdisMeade alternately after Chris’s video is posted we should all watch it then insist it never happened
It's true!
Matt got a soft-serve machine and made an entire show out of it. He's got a knack for finding joy in things.
I love that Jo did such a thorough job roasting Matt that the guys had nothing left to do but sit there in mild amazement.
The pots weren't the only thing in the oven
@@LucasL512 Ba dum tsss
Yeah, she's great! xD
Leave the roasts to the expert.
"And her's is bigger than mine and she's moving it with such precision. And I've got a small one, and it just looks like a pancake."
-Matt Gray, 2022
Quote of the series as far as I’m concerned
That sounds like you should see a doctor
"PHRASING!!" - Chris Joel
@@GumSkyloard
Or Tom Scott.
*Gary silently dies*
Now I am expecting for Chris to start his part in this series off with something like: remodelling the Yorkshire landscape with high explosives
Or the complete opposite direction: ASMR Nature Hike with quiet narration on what you're looking at
@@DasGanon or something completely unexpected: Skydiving over the grand canyon blindfolded
Yep! Chris was always going to be the big finish wasn’t he? Bring it on!
This makes me realise I have no idea what to expect from Chris. He's the most mysterious of the gang. It could be both something absolutely wild or something unexpectedly cute.
@@grmpf It’ll be either, “Chris hugs a penguin in Dubai,” or “Chris blows up Scafell Pike.”
GCSE in Latin and now he's making pottery by hand. Matt has the skills to party like it's 99CE!
Just saying, he even learned cuneiform once...
Since we all know Tom Scott can time travel, perhaps Matt is planning his own time travelling excursion.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 He'll use the Tabletop Timemachine.
Kudos to the subtitles and the people who made them for not only giving us multicolour subtitles for each speaker, but also for giving us the notes the ceramics are chiming in when the boys start to talk about it
til they have color support for subtitles on youtube
Tom and his production team are awesome for that. In a sorta recent Tom Scott vid with a visually impaired guest, they also had separate audio for the visually impaired audience.
Plus it just happens to be an f major chord which is very nice
Knowing the notes they chime in, it's almost as if one of them is a sound engineer.
@@Marmeladecheeseshoes haha! I see what you did there!
I like that everything so far has been something quite mundane, but still really fun to do.
With that said, for next week's video, I'm going to predict that Chris decided to go to his local scrap dealer and crush cars all day.
That is very chris, i could put money on that
No, it';s supposed to be something he hasn't done, not how he normally unwinds after a tough day.
This question may sound random, but are you a gravy timmy?
Considering his passion for using the Ban Hammer in that one tom scott vid, this sounds highly likely.
Steelmember actually happened, you say?
Can I just mention how lovely it is that Tom completely lets Matt have the spotlight? You really only hear him mention that he's previously done this when he tells Matt not to worry about excuses.
Why did Gary have to be so tremendously threatening, staring into my soul, saying "Wholesome" like it was my CIA Sleeper Agent activation phrase?
Omicron be advised. MadPanda is active. Burn all details on Project Wholesome Panda.
Mr. Dalliard! Mr. Dalliard! We've been activated! Upon my soul, our long years of waiting are over...
That was the only non-wholesome thing about this video. Wholenone
Because Gary.
@OneMadPanda I've been intermittently laughing at your comment for the last 2-3 hours now
“I thought I’d spend toms money on pot” legend
At 16:45, the subtitles say "chiming in C", "chiming in A" and "chiming in F" when they're trying out the different tones the pots make. That is AWESOME! Caption+ has consistently turned out the most well-crafted captions that can be found on TH-cam, even going as far as to colour the words for different speakers. It's really cool to see so much love and care put in the captions on TH-cam videos from this channel and the Tom Scott channels.
I would like to note (pun intended) that it's A#, not A.
@@jonahdove1902ah so it’s an Fsus4 chord then
@@jonahdove1902 didn't someone say it was Bb?
@@official-obama seen as its a modified f major chord, i think it would make more sense for it to be A♯, but A♯ is (mostly) the same as B♭
In which Matt Gray is thoroughly roasted by a pottery instructor, and is grateful for the experience.
This is the episode that convinced me I could watch an entire series of the Tech Diff cast just going on adventures and reacting to them afterwards, it was very fun!
Matt Gray's Clay Foray
Hooray!
You win an experience at a ceramic studio with the audio engineer of the Technical Difficulties.
16:35 „this is not the Video you came for…“ Yes it is, Gary. It was you 4 Friends being happy for what one of you accomplished, and I really liked it. Please make more Videos like this. Or what about a Tom Scott Plus Video featuring not only Tom doing something but all of TechDiff?
I mean it's not, but I am more than awestruck by the video that I watched.
Tom Scott plus Tech Diff would be glorious.
@@GumSkyloard Tom Scott Plus The Technical Difficulties finally play a football match against Sark. Peasholm Park United photo op and press conference included, of course.
@@dominateeye Somebody ring Sark. We have to make this happen!
@@nihalanand2690 "Hue and cry! The mainland have challenged us to football!"
The captions go even to another level of greatness by including the *note* that the pots are chiming at when they talk about it!
16:45 if anyone wants to see.
The best part is that C, A, F are all part of the main notes on the C major scale, meaning you could use these pots to build a simple chord sequence. (C -> A -> F would be my idea)
@@fisch37 it's also an F major chord when you play them all together!
@@LofiTurtle_ Neat! I didn't realise that!
@@LofiTurtle_ Or an F major arpeggio when you play them in quick succession!
At this point, I literally don’t care what it is you 4 do together, I’m here for it. Great work Matt, lovely way to brighten up my morning!
This is amazing! It’s three mates giving genuine praise for a thing one of their friends made. No toxic masculine bullshit. Just a “you did that. That nice. Good on you mate.” Love it!
It was truly very sweet.
For me the whole series so far can be summed up as: "not the video I expected. But it turns out, it was exactly the video I needed 🙂"
Avocado... why did I never think of that?!
Matt: "I thought I would spend Tom's money on pot."
Really good pot, Matt. It got everyone mellow with wholesome content. That's one heck of a contact high! ;)
I love Matt's reveal of "and they're here tonight", well executed haha :)
It was like Ellen Degeneres surprising a guest.
"This is not the video you came for is it people" It absolutely is! You legends ripping into each other and taking the piss out of everything is great, but seeing you all as a group of mates sharing experiences is awesome. If this is the type of content destined for the channel, its going to be a bloody great time.
I totally second this!
Absolutely.
Hear hear!
I'm here to see a great bunch of lads being a great bunch of lads.
Seeing as he actually did fairly decently at this, could we dub this Matt Gray's Okay Day with Clay?
Also, entirely unrelated, but I just noticed the fact that Elliot's the editor on this one. British TH-cam is a pretty small world I guess.
Thank you for pointing that last bit out, that's amazing!
I can just hear it at the end of a Citation Needed episode. "And that means Matt is the winner. You win a quality period of time with the base material for pottery... it's Matt Gray's Okay Day with Clay!"
*insert pained groans here*
Elliot's been the editor for the whole series so far! When I noticed, I pretty much squee'd for a couple seconds, his editing work is great
You can tell the purity of the friendship of these four by the pure enamor each of them had for Matt. What a lovely bunch ♥
Matt and Gary are polar opposites. Matt tends to be more wholesome and calmer. Gary tends to be more crude and energetic, and they're both a delight.
16:46 The subtitles having the notes made my day :)
I don't think they're correct, though, the intervals aren't right. Assuming the A is correct, but then the C should be B (major second up), and F should be E (perfet fourth down).
@@Wouter10123
Apparently the A is _very_ sharp, to the point where it could just as easily be a very flat B♭.
@@ragnkja That's also possible, then it would be F Bb C. Point is, the intervals are P4 and M2 (surprisingly accurately).
@@samarnadra
A beginner’s glazed pottery isn’t usually tuned.
I like the detail of the subtitles approximating the tone they were clinging in
I am so glad I scrolled through the comments, otherwise I would have missed this fun fact
@@PQRDG if you haven't been watching Tom et al's stuff with subtitles for the last few years, you've been missing out! There's many gems in there!
I was really disappointed with this one because I thought it was so short and I wanted to see more. Then I looked at the time and realized it was actually the LONGEST one so far. I was invested! Good stuff!
Check out Matt's channel, because there is a longer one showing the process of the third pot. You're welcome.
Hurrah! Matt's pot adventures were a delight. =]
EDIT: 3:36 - the finest moment of accidental knobgaggery all day
Gary really had to work to restrain himself.
We’ve had trains, Tech Diff on Ice and now Cylinders! Just need Chris’ adventure to be demolishing chimney stacks with his fists and we’ve had a tetralogy of wholesome podcast throwbacks.
SPEED DIBNAH!!
I can honestly say I aspire to Chris’s level of beardiness lmao
It wiggles when he talks! It's so great!
I pretty much watched the whole of this video with a big grin on my face, Matts joy was just that infectious. I was genuinely impressed by the progress made between the first and third pots, it's amazing how quickly he improved. Great job Matt!
16:45 "chiming in C"
My god they added the notes in the closed captions😂
Sounds like someone has perfect pitch.
@@Linuxield Sounds like the company Tom pays to caption his videos is really, really good at their job
@@kala_asi
They really are. Check out the captions on his singing video.
That third pot is absolutely lovely! Ceramics is such a great reminder of how many times you have to fail before you become skilled enough to succeed. I'm sure Jo has had to make thousands of pots to reach the level she has.
I like how each person is colour coded in the thumbnails: Tom is red, Matt is blue, Gary is yellow and Chris is green.
so are their subtitles (aside from tom’s being white)
Gary: "....not the video you came for..." Actually, I love to watch people succeed. I was really rooting for Matt there and I'm really impressed, especially with his 3rd pot. Well done, Matt! For both the pots and an engaging video.
This is so goddamn sweet. Just three blokes being caring and supportive of each other. When the video ended I sorta realised I'd been grinning like an idiot all the way though without thinking about it. This is what the internet ought to be.
I am constantly impressed with the subtitles. I mean, "chimes in F", "chimes in C" LOVE IT!
I love that the subtitles specify the notes for each pot, 10/10
The joy that comes through in this series is just amazing. Not just from the person doing the stuff, but from everyone watching with them.
Honestly how could that not be wholesome... Matt getting excited to do a cool thing he always wanted to do, having so much fun with it, giving it a decent try, and actually ended up making something cool with his own hands!
The 2nd and 3rd pots look genuinely well done! Btw Matt is always wholesome. 😊 I was not surprised.
can't wait for the episode of chris getting his chainsaw license renewed.
...or removed...
When you're drunk, you don't need to be licensed.
@@dominateeye it all comes naturally
I love that the subtitles when they are tapping on the ceramics show you what notes they are! Kudos to whoever listened and worked them out!
16:48 apologies for being a person with perfect pitch but that's a B-flat, not an A as the subtitles say
@Richard Harrold somebody's in violation of the Treaty of Versailles
i was gonna say
@Richard Harrold it's actually part of the WW1 armistice treaty since part of it was setting up the league of nations and basically the precursor to ISO standards. 12 Tone did a great video on it (and the history of A440 in general)
The musical notes produced by the pots are roughly an F, a B flat, and a C. I'm amazed that they sound so in-tune!
What a wholesome video - this made my day :)
EDIT: Didn't realize the captions had the notes, that's pretty awesome. I'd say the middle pot is still a lot closer to B flat rather than A, but it's no biggie.
This is how it usually goes with great friends. you expect to be hassled and teased and ribbed, but because they know you're actually invested and vulnerable, they mostly cheer you on, offer encouragement and dole out praises where due. So wholesome!
16:05 you can almost see Tom want to clap vigorously before realizing he is directly next to a microphone
I've watched all your content with my girlfriend. There's been many a time we've laughed to the point of tears.
but this one was just, genuinely really cool to see. As you've all said, it is genuine magic to watch this potter stuff in action, and the third one Matt did all by himself is really quite good! So cool!
I also love how each of you film differently. Just fun insight into your mentality, seeing how you film things and such.
When trying to keep your hands still there's a huge difference between keeping the pressure constant and keeping your location constant. If you try to keep the pressure constant, you'll push into every divot and pull back on every mound. You'll exacerbate the out-of-round. It's very counterintuitive
So the goal is better described as “try to keep the hand rigid no matter how the clay hits it”?
That probably explains why I had such trouble with it back when I messed with this in, I think, school or something. That and maybe the difference between the NT explanation and the ND understanding of the explanation, which is something I've only become more aware of over time. >.>
Matt to me is, and always has been, what the word wholesome would look like if it was human
The guys bring proud dad's when they pick up the pots is very wholesome.
I love how supportive everyone was, just really excited about their friend who tried, and succeeded at pottery.
This video was sublime in every way, so wholesome as Gary rightly said. The almost childlike joy expressed by all four of you makes it almost feel like we’re in the room with you, left me with a proper smile on my face.
I’m a potter and I love to see people falling in love with my passion and introducing it to greater audiences, so wholesome!
Fun note for those not watching with subtitles: at the "do they all have different tones?" bit ( 16:45 ), the subtitles state (chiming in C), (chiming in A) and (chiming in F)
I love your captioners lol
They put the note names when they were tapping the pots. I think Tom's was closer to a Bb, but at this point they're doing things that are beyond their job and there's no way I can't applaud that
I love how Tom instantly recognised not just that it had Matt's name on it; but that was Matt's handwritin of Matt's name on it :3
i always appreciate the effort that goes into the subtitling on tom scott videos but i am particularly fond of the tone identification at 16:46
Ceramics is surprisingly technical, well done for doing so well
My mother is a potter, so I was exposed to throwing pots at an early age. It is hard at the start, but it is so very satisfying when it's done.
shoutout to whoever does the captions on these videos, i love having color coordinated captions for different people, same as how its done in the video edit as well
16:50 "We're not even gonna mock that" is the best proof of wholesomeness
[Doing my best to avoid spoilers] Love you including what note each piece is making in the sub titles, but I'd like to offer a correction: The one you have marked as 'A' is a Bb. So we have: C, Bb, F as the appear in the subtitle order.
Big love,
one of those weird musician types x
What I really enjoy is that you're not taking the piss out of each other. Between reverse trivia, citation needed and TOTPAL we have so many instances of you guys taking the piss out of each other that it's kinda nice watching a group of friends doing stuff they've wanted to do and supporting each other. There's not a lot of content out there where men are being supportive of one another and I think we could do with a bit more of that
I loved this! All of them were fantastic so far, but Matt is just so wholesome. Makes the world a brighter place just by being in it!
Well done Matt, that's excellent work! Impressive.
I noticed Jo using a form of English that I call "Trainer Imperative Participle" - for example, "putting your clay in the middle" instead of "put your clay in the middle". My personal trainer used to use that as well, and it's all over TH-cam in countless live action fitness tutorials etc. As far as I know it's not "formal" English but there must be a reason why it has evolved... I've long wondered whether linguists have an official term for this. I know Tom's into that stuff, but he's unlikely to see this, so would any other linguists care to comment?
Been really enjoying this series
very cool video. While I haven't done Pottery myself I've watched a few channels for a while so it was cool seeing Matt doing this.
I hope Jo gets a nice boost in costumers cause from the video she's a fantastic tutor and indeed an expert in pottery making.
The chemistry between Jo and Matt was fantastic. Could easily watch weekly episodes of this!
I love these guys because they feel just like the of best friends, bashing you and teasing you but are really supportive at the same time
These are an absolute pleasure to watch. You take the mickey out of each other but also enthuse so genuinely about the experiences. Love it
The most wholesome is the relationship between TechDiff members. Ready for mockery at any given time, but fully supportive when it matters. Friendships don't last 10+ years when it's all taking a piss and no honest positivity. I envy you, it's awesome what you have here.
13:15: WOW. Matt, if that's really your first attempted pull, you're amazing. I did some clay work back in the day and usually people sling clay all over the place a few times before they can pull that much.
Equally impressive is the fact that his second pot didn’t collapse. I guess Matt is good at not overthinking things.
I really love to watch professionals do what they are professional on it is mesmerizing to watch, but I love to see people explore and try things and learn while doing especially when they succeed after a couple hard passes! Really wholesome, thanks Matt
There was a lot less anger than I expected from the title. I like it.
The tippity tappity mini orchestra on Matt's finished pottery filled my heart with unimaginable joy. 😭
16:45 I love the subtitles for chimming
I've been on the fence about this series until now but I just realized as I saw the thumbnail for this one that I was actually looking forward to it quite a bit!
just boys being supportive of each other for their achievements. Wholesome
The reactions were not what we expected, but they were what Matt deserved.
I kind of love this new format. You get the chill vibe of a reaction video but even if you have nothing to say, you made the content so you're not feeling obligated to say something when nothing needs to be said
Huge credit to the captioner on this one for finding the notes of each chime! Now I know that it was C, A and F!
I have a friend who is a Ceramics major, and I can confirm that working with clay is infinitely harder than it looks. It requires patience and skill that I, myself, do not have, but it's always fun to try nonetheless.
Not only do Matt's pots make different tones, they also make a delightful F Major chord.
What she didn't realise is that the word avocado actually derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec language) word for testicle. Apparently, if my memory of an old QI episode serves me correctly, this is due to the fact that they grow on the tree in pairs.
And maybe the fact they've got balls?
nice
1:10 Tis very true. See the allegory of the perfect pot to understand. Sometimes, and ofc in pottery, you just need to make a thousand of somethin before you can make somethin good; no matter how much studyin and prep work you do goin in
So, Gary got to make a bacon buttie in a steam locomotive, and Tom got to drive a Zamboni.
And those have a... I'm probably using the wrong word, but I'm going use it regardless. Those have a surreal WOW-factor, with a healthy helping of silliness.
But Matt's has been the only truly impressive video of the three shown thus far.
I'm not saying the previous two were bad, of course. Far from it.
But this one you can get invested in. The others were silly hijinks.
I hope you all know what I mean, and it doesn't just come off as insulting Tom and Gary.
Super wholesome content, it's definitely fun to see Matt beam with pride when everyone's handling his pots. Well done!
Love pottery! Haven't practiced in a while, but it's not terribly hard to do, you can just lay up rolled-flat bits or ropey bits and, make basically anything that'll stand up, or not. Or you can throw it on a wheel, like this with -- as you can see -- only a bit of practice. And you go from something goopy (wet) or dull-thudly (like, well, you know, dried clay) to something glass-hard and... it clinks! It's real, glassy/crystalline, solid ceramic material (well, somewhat porous depending on mix and firing temp), and 100% the real deal that you get at the store.
It's also chemistry, the mixes for clay bases and glazes depend on a pretty minor amount of it -- basically, mix certain oxides with certain others, from these respective groups, and you'll have something that works; add a few colorful metals, and now it's pretty too.
And you don't even need much of a kiln; clay bits tossed in a bonfire of course get crispy, it just needs to be done slowly (over many hours) to keep from warping/cracking the body. It's no accident it's one of the most ancient techniques; you can literally sit down by a riverbank, with a shovel and some fire, and in a few days' work over a couple weeks, make something neat and useful!
Even technical ceramics, for various industrial, chemical, electronic and other applications, aren't much different; they're just handled with a bit more care, as precise chemical composition, structure, etc. may matter. That means more machine handing of course: mills, presses, carefully-managed kilns, etc., but it's still basically glomming fine particles together and heating the piss out of 'em. :)
"Hers is bigger than mine and she's moving it with such precision, and I've got a small one and it just looks like a pancake."
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, like Kenneth Williams cried out "Ooh, matron!" in mortification and was suddenly silenced.
This was just really pure and wholesome. None of the usual ribbing, just a lot of "oh, that's really cool! wow! nice job!"
I appreciate the subtitles identifying the notes the different pots chimed at!
Matts such a charming bloke, I was having fun like I was in the studio with both if them.
Extra credit for the subtitler who *figured out what pitch the different pots clinked at* and added in "(chiming in C) (chiming in A) (chiming in F)"
Talk about contrast. The last one I saw was Matt hovering a helicopter and now he's making clay pots. The best part is he's great at both of them.
Alternative title: "Four men are astounded by the making of ceramic cups"
really fun to watch these small adventures, hope this series keeps going