Michael W. Moses New Year Greetings and The Peaceful Gulf Coast Life!

Wishing everyone a very joyous and prosperous New Year! 

2013 was a nice year for me.  I did not have anything earthshaking happen, either good nor bad.  

 It was a year in which my heart and mind were filled with an almost serenity that I have rarely encountered in my life.  I must admit that I did less pottery, less art, and just flat out less of everything in 2013.  And even a bit less weight, which is of course not a bad thing.  My brain is now reeling with all manner of new and exciting things to do in 2014!  

I have a bunch of old pottery to finish and I have tons of new ideas that I just can not wait to start.   Who knows I might even do a few painting....I have not done any painting in a very long time.

Living on the Gulf Coast has made me slow down a little and take things at just a bit more relaxed.  No real hustle or bustle here.  I know that I make this place sound like the land bountiful, but it is for the most part an area where things just seem to move at a different, quieter pace.

I hope that the upcoming year will be full of love, happiness, and prosperity for you and your family and friends.  I hope that 2014 will be as full of peacefulness for you as 2013 was for me.

With hope and love to all,

Michael W. Moses

Art Ceramicist

Ocean Springs,

Mississippi

Michael W. Moses goes to CoastCon 36 Science Fiction Convention in Biloxi, MS

Here is a non pottery related post for you.

Over this last weekend I went on Saturday to the 36th annual CoastCon Science Fiction convention at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Colosseum in Biloxi, MS

This year the convention saw what seemed to me to be a considerable increase in attendees from the last few years. I would like to thank the many people of CoastCon for putting together a pretty good one for 2013. It makes me anxious for the 2014 one next year!

There were a fairly large number of gamers that showed up and there were many people in costume. I found this years layout for CoastCon a bit better than in previous years at the Colosseum. There was a nice flow to the setup that really worked well.

I picked up a few items in the merchant room and went to the costume contest. This year the prize for best costume was a reproduction Brave Heart Sword, that was donated by South Coast Antiques. The sword was won by a young lady that had a great looking Wonder Woman costume that she made herself. I took a few images during the costume contest and once again was not happy at the Biloxi Colosseum's difficult lighting for photography.  After the costume contest I went around and took a few more images with my digital camera.  If you want to see a few more of the images that I took at CoastCon please go to my photobucket gallery.

I spent the evening setting around talking with some of my friends that I do not often get a chance to spend time with. We had pleasant conversation all Saturday evening, until the convention closed and we were sent out into the night.

I have spent the last two evenings processing the images that I took. I have created a few Art Photo Manipulations using some of the images that I took that I thought deserved a bit of a bump up to the next level so to speak.

I have a passion for doing my ceramic art pottery, but I must admit that I sure do love doing digital photography a whole lot.  I just love taking an image and making a collage of unrelated images that create a new and wonderful image to behold. Many do not consider this type of work to be art, but many people in the 1800's and 1900's did not consider film photography to be real art either.  To me it does not matter one way or the other. I just love digital art and photography and to me creating because one loves to create is more to do with being art than solely creating to just make money.

For a few more of my digital art photo manipulations you can see them at photobucket