Three days worth of weather
We’ve got another print in the store. It’s a 4-color letterpress poster.
I am also looking for local Brooklyn/New York folks who want to collaborate on posters this summer. If you’re interested, holler @me.
Simple Precision 15
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Here’s an overwhelmingly boring video overview of the steps involved printing on the new SP15. In the video, I am making the first test print on the press; it’s a kind of bastardized synesthesia I overheard not too long ago (more accurately described as a cross-sensory metaphor, I reckon).
Observant viewers will notice I accidentally printed onto the tympan paper (d’oh).
Noticeably absent from the video are any shots of cleanup or typesetting (both as necessary for printing as the printing itself, I’d say). Maybe if we are all lucky, I will make another equally engaging video focusing solely on cleanup (and somehow try to communicate in that video the peculiar joys of California Wash – the extraordinarily noxious solvent used to remove the ink).
The music here comes courtesy Van Dyke Parks – if you haven’t, it’d behoove you to listen to Song Cycle.
Artlog postcards
Here are a pair of snapshots of the Artlog postcards I just ran off on the SP15. If you’re looking at the photographs of the cards when you are not reading these words, you are looking at the front and back and they aren’t yet trimmed down.
Friday night on press
Jesse, Erica, Chris and Kendra stopped in last night for some pizza and some beer. We ran some prints on the new whip.
Simple Precision 15
Here’s an overwhelmingly boring video overview of the steps involved printing on the new SP15. In the video, I am making the first test print on the press; it’s a kind of bastardized synesthesia I overheard not too long ago (more accurately described as a cross-sensory metaphor, I reckon).
Observant viewers will notice I accidentally printed onto the tympan paper (d’oh).
Noticeably absent from the video are any shots of cleanup or typesetting (both as necessary for printing as the printing itself, I’d say). Maybe if we are all lucky, I will make another equally engaging video focusing solely on cleanup (and somehow try to communicate in that video the peculiar joys of California Wash – the extraordinarily noxious solvent used to remove the ink).
The music here comes courtesy Van Dyke Parks – if you haven’t, it’d behoove you to listen to Song Cycle.
Vandercook SP15 #21593
With Dan Morris’ invaluable help, I moved a new press (the last for a while I imagine) into the studio yesterday. It’s a Vandercook SP15. It’s serial number, #21593, puts it near the beginning of the production run for SP15s (starting at 21500 in 1961).
It came from the Arm where Dan nursed it into shape and put it to good use in workshops and printing editions.
