LCP is the latest in a series of apps designed to bring out the inner artist of people who have no artistic abilities whatever. You don’t even need talent, All you need is your iPad. You don’t need a wheel, or a kiln, or even to get your hands dirty. And then I would be afraid that while I was sitting at the potter’s wheel my dead wife would show up to haunt me like Patrick Swayze showed up to haunt Demi Moore, only my first wife isn’t dead-she’s very much alive-but that doesn’t mean I want her showing up in my expensive new pottery studio. You have to buy a pottery wheel, and a kiln, and a huge sink with big pipes that won’t clog when you wash all that clay off your hands. Why not pottery? Because pottery requires a huge investment. When someone suggests “let’s create” I think “a ruckus,” or “mayhem.”Įven if I wasn’t me, however, pottery would still be low on the list of the first things to come to mind when someone shouts “let’s create!” Art might come to mind, or music, or a better world for our kids to live in, or a fence that my blind dog with a death wish Bandit can’t get out of so he can run and sit in the middle of the road and bark while the pick up trucks and SUVs whiz by. We are talking about a reviewer who spent most of his high school career in the principal’s office, after all. When I think of things to create, however, especially things to create with an exclamation point, pottery is way down on the list. I suspect the developers are actually planning a “Let’s Create!” series which could expand to watercolors, mosaics and maybe even black market religious icons. What kind of name is LCP? I mean the real name that I don’t want to type anymore. This is why I have officially redesignated the app LCP.
White in lets create pottery free#
Even last night, I lay in bed wondering if it was worth writing this column if I would continue to be exposed to apps like Little Things and Wasted Time.īut this is America where we have as close to a free market as Apple will allow and that means anyone can develop any app and you have the right to buy it even if it’s a waste of time (and money, since the App Store doesn’t refund).īy contrast, the only thing I don’t enjoy about Let’s Create! Pottery (LCP) is typing its name on the iPad virtual keyboard. Or Kind.) A weekend has passed and my mind is only now shaking off the Little Things induced anesthetic stupor. (I can say this now that I’ve written the review and no longer have to pretend to be objective. Little Things made me want to collapse face down onto the Starbucks table and dissolve into the simulated wood veneer it was so boring. I usually understand why apps get selected for App of the Week, but after playing with both Little Things and Let’s Create! Pottery I began to doubt the selection process. Somebody exchanged money under the table or has a cousin who works for Apple and had his mother call her mother to put the pressure on someone at the App Store to pick Little Things over all the better apps that could have been chosen. The comparison caused me to wonder how apps got selected for App of the Week. The same day I downloaded the App of the Week Little Things, I downloaded another app called Let’s Create! Pottery. In addition, I make fun of the app’s name, find all kinds of ambiguity in the concept of creativity and knock both parties in Congress, which may irritate readers who think the fault lies with one party or another. The learning curve is steep with few useful hints.Emulates selling your products on an auction block.Offers fairly sophisticated 3D painting and shading.It isn’t a real market and you only earn virtual dollars to buy more pottery supplies, but what do you expect from your iPad. The app allows you to cast pottery and take it to market.
The bottom line in Let’s Create! Pottery is that you can kill lots of time without feeling you killed lots of time.
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