The indieflix link above has died, but archive.org has it - http://goo.gl/6fz17Z - and confirms the film is from Paul Whittington.

He has posted it on his yt channel... updating embed from that and also *length=598

Also, in the description, he has a dvd available from Amazon with this film and some others http://goo.gl/t7LFqG

Films included are:
- Android 207 (an android is trapped inside of a large maze)
- L19: Disposed (the last few minutes of an android's life)
- The Kitchen Trilogy (three films that showcase a menacing look at the baking, carving, and juicing of food)
- Inanimate Objects (when the humans are way the objects will play)
- Table Kid Kirby (a five part stop-motion animated series about a small clay man stuck on a table)
- Dead Fish (a wasteland of dead fish an those who feed on them)
- Isabel Knew Too Much (a friendly dog begins to comprehend the world around her)
- Plus more...

That's one of the biggest problems in this country: Parents who love their children so much that they let them do whatever the fuck they want create exactly the same type of monsters as parents, if any, who ignore/neglect/leave their children to do whatever the fuck they want.

I'm sickened by parents who just sit there ignoring their kids or occasionally ask them if they could please find it in themselves to perhaps decide to stop their bad behavior.

Real parenting means teaching your offspring to live in a society and be conscientious and considerate of others, not placating them by feeding their bad behavior with positive reinforcement and hoping desperately they'll parent themselves.

I always think of a kid as starting out as an ugly pile of soft, wet clay. You as a parent must get your hands dirty and form and shape that thing into something beautiful, otherwise it'll just harden into a horrible mess that can never be made right again.

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OH YEAH!!! I could STILL use one of those. It would need to be the large version though, my stump is about 3 times that size! If I had that, I would have finished months ago.
I'm near 1/3 of the way done digging it out by hand. There's a clay layer below it that the roots didn't penetrate, so I have dug down into that, and then I started going sideways under the root mass. It's making a 'cave' of roots that look pretty neat. I might try to leave the stump and roots in the pond for habitat and to make a small island for turtles. I'll have to cut it loose from the walls and below so the concrete will seal, but I have a plan for that. Maybe I'll shoot you a pic if I can 'dig up' your email.
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We did this as teens in a friend's back yard. We never hit water, just lots of Clay.
I'm sure we got around 12-16 feet - then we got in trouble and had to fill it in.
"How to keep kids busy, there were 6 of us, who spent over a week on this hole in dense clay. -- Good Times

Or how about the opposite...people who believe that acting crazy and interesting MAKES them an artist. I've known far too many 'artists' who bring no skill to the table...but they sure do look and act the part.

If you want to be an artist you're going to need to master some medium, whether it's clay or paint, physical performance or whatever; learn to make a cup before you delve into the abstract concept of the emotion of "cup".

Serendipity may play a part in artistic creation, but it shouldn't be the ONLY part. Don't throw clay at a wall because that's all you can do and then tell me it was your intention. If you need to tell me, "it's the reaction of the viewer that's the art itself", then you need to take a drawing class or something and try again.

I can appreciate a quirky person. If that's the persona you want to hitch your ego to, then I will respect that choice. Just don't go thinking you have to be an "artist" to sell it. Or at least, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's my reaction that is your artistic creation.

OK. I feel better.

Too bad the better they get the older they get. Eventually they just look like fleshy clay on a potter's wheel.

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I haven't seen it quite like this, they say that's clay in the description there. I was expecting when they dug into it that water would start pooling in the hole...kinda weird.


But I've been on job sites where the ground looks damp at most and the more you drive, walk, whatever over it the water just starts to pump up to the surface and it becomes a total mess. It's why you try not to park machinery anywhere near where you're clearing because you might come back to a machine that once it moves will literally be stuck in something like quick sand.

What I've always been told is that when you prepare a site for something like a walking/driving surface, you have to consider the size and weight of things driving across it. And you install stone in an appropriate size and depth to create ......sort of a locked together surface where all the edges of the rocks form kind of a linked bridge that provides stability over the dirt below it. So the final asphalt/concrete won't break apart because of too much sub-surface movement. And the stone also allows water to drain away into the subsurface or from under the asphalt/concrete so it won't freeze and bust the ground from below.


So I think what the description is saying is that this ground has reached some kind of perfect saturation point. Probably once it takes in so much water it probably fills the clay and the pool structure below it, and then the water has to flow elsewhere.

How dare you question gods plan? He works in mysterious ways!

We're all just his children, and as such, should unquestioningly accept that He Knows Best.

This is the actual language used by theists. Even the more rational ones will continually invoke the idea that if a creator exists, we're bacteria or even "clay" compared to him.

He gave you free will and the ability to reason, but you better not use either of them to question his works.

he told me to think about what its like for a piece of clay to tell other clay what the potter was like. i thought about it for a moment and thought "wow, he's stupid" and stopped watching,

Actually, I did get your intention, and I'd planned a much longer response, but I got distracted and just ended up posting that pithy comment.

But yes, I understand the argument is not so much "we are clay" as "we are as clay".

I can completely accept the possibility of some kind of hyper-advanced species that absolutely dwarfs us in intellect. In fact, I think it'd be really cool if such a thing existed. But I have a sneaking suspicion that actually, it doesn't really get a whole lot better than us. But that's only because I'm a cynical bastard and tend to believe that most species wipe themselves out before attaining that level of awesome.

But let's say that there is some kind of hypothetical super genius race/being out there. They should *still* be able to talk down to us. There are certain fundamental mathematical truths that are constant in the universe. As dumb as we are, we have already figured out ways to communicate using these (CETI, etc). Surely super intelligent beings would be able to respond even if it felt like talking to a particularly stupid child to them. Again, even we manage a very primitive form of communication with animals.

The term "made of clay" is a figurative or metaphor used loosely as a description. I doubt that God meant it literally. Clay can be shaped, it can be formed into something. Each of us has our own interpretation, God may have intended it to be that way. As for organized religion, I don't believe in it especially if its' a 501c3, paper idol worshipping.....

I appreciate the vote for my intelligence, but I was hoping my intended conclusion would be more understood.

What I basically meant by that was: what if what clay is to us in the difference of perceived intelligence, happens to be what we are to a supposed higher-being.

You can never rule out the impossible, and as much as I believe in human kinds miracle of existence and legitimate accomplishments on the human-scale, I can never agree to be so egotistical as to not accept the possibility that I am far less consequential than a molecule in some other unfathomably-complex creatures universe.

In the end: doesn't much matter! We should just all have sex to our hearts content, and make sure everyone like us is warm at night and well fed.

The fact that you're posting this on the internet would suggest that you are not clay.