Today I will screen print more.....
Last session I managed 100 or so prints from 11.30am - 3.30pm
It's quite hardwork on yer upper body.
The Deadline has arrived, the book will be released on October 12th 2012.
I will outline the journey to this guillotine!
Friday, 24 February 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
silk screening
Today I will silk screen some more black pages.....totally black pages.
I have been using photocopiers with the lid open, but the amount of ink smoothed onto the paper
feels a bit criminal......
I managed 50 prints in 3 hours which included a lot of mucking around getting a system.
today i would like to do 200 prints, but I think I should be happy with 100.
Perhaps a better plan is 100 today, 100 on Friday.
I will learn my roleplay at the same time.
Last print session I got so in the zone I could barely speak.
I have been using photocopiers with the lid open, but the amount of ink smoothed onto the paper
feels a bit criminal......
I managed 50 prints in 3 hours which included a lot of mucking around getting a system.
today i would like to do 200 prints, but I think I should be happy with 100.
Perhaps a better plan is 100 today, 100 on Friday.
I will learn my roleplay at the same time.
Last print session I got so in the zone I could barely speak.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Risograph Printing
HATO PRESS and BLACK BOX PRESS
Great find, lovely books and the mention of Munken Lynx!
The start of my journey into building a book was the need for a tactile paper to print on.
I wanted the pulp of cheap books, old colouring books....this is called Munken Lynx.
I never found Munken Lynx because it seemed only to be sold in tonnes from China and now here it is mentioned and used at Hato Press.
Foxing is the discoloration around the edges of the page, due to light/moisture, great stuff.
All roads lead to home.
Great find, lovely books and the mention of Munken Lynx!
The start of my journey into building a book was the need for a tactile paper to print on.
I wanted the pulp of cheap books, old colouring books....this is called Munken Lynx.
I never found Munken Lynx because it seemed only to be sold in tonnes from China and now here it is mentioned and used at Hato Press.
Foxing is the discoloration around the edges of the page, due to light/moisture, great stuff.
All roads lead to home.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Photocopier Surfing
So like one might sofa surf, I am now photocopier surfing.
I've been in a secret location on a digital Konica Minolta machine and have done 640 copies in 3 hours.
The blacks are good, the textural quality is good.
This is the answer for the single pages, often single as attached to colour.
Not sure whether to re-do some colour if the reverse image needs to be solid black.
'Old Konny' at Stew is not doing her blacks anymore, not without a lot of pfaffing and warming of the room, removing condensation from the machine and warming the machine.
The only task in all of this is cutting, flattening and then precision cutting wall lining paper to A3.
It's a world I have created with Sal, we will live in it for a while yet.
I've been in a secret location on a digital Konica Minolta machine and have done 640 copies in 3 hours.
The blacks are good, the textural quality is good.
This is the answer for the single pages, often single as attached to colour.
Not sure whether to re-do some colour if the reverse image needs to be solid black.
'Old Konny' at Stew is not doing her blacks anymore, not without a lot of pfaffing and warming of the room, removing condensation from the machine and warming the machine.
The only task in all of this is cutting, flattening and then precision cutting wall lining paper to A3.
It's a world I have created with Sal, we will live in it for a while yet.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Book Building is full on.
Sal and I took a stocktake of all the printing since the beginning of August......
I gathered the info and tried to create optimistic % s....but the truth is we are not half way.
In the region 19,000 pages printed, but with a total knocking on 52,000.......sigh
So, a massive focus to turn things around, see what is to be done, see if there are easier ways.
The ugly truth is though that I am having to print pages twice to get the blacks black.....hmmmmm
I'm liking the zone, my daily routine takes me across town in the gales with a bundle of prints to be cut to size.
Then over to Stew for printing.
Then home for paper chopping, collect more stuff for the the machine at printers to chop in bulk.
Stride across town in the gales with a bundle of prints to be cut to size.
Then over to Stew for printing.
Then home for a rest, more paper chopping, listen to music, write lyrics ( good ones and crap ones )
Then drink some whisky.
Sal and I took a stocktake of all the printing since the beginning of August......
I gathered the info and tried to create optimistic % s....but the truth is we are not half way.
In the region 19,000 pages printed, but with a total knocking on 52,000.......sigh
So, a massive focus to turn things around, see what is to be done, see if there are easier ways.
The ugly truth is though that I am having to print pages twice to get the blacks black.....hmmmmm
I'm liking the zone, my daily routine takes me across town in the gales with a bundle of prints to be cut to size.
Then over to Stew for printing.
Then home for paper chopping, collect more stuff for the the machine at printers to chop in bulk.
Stride across town in the gales with a bundle of prints to be cut to size.
Then over to Stew for printing.
Then home for a rest, more paper chopping, listen to music, write lyrics ( good ones and crap ones )
Then drink some whisky.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
Music v Art
It became an issue when I started art school and then joined a band and realised that singing was bloody ace.
Art was my first love,it defined my character,I do art, that's who I am.
But music, that was other people's territory. The Grade 8ers, the serious musicians, with application to their chosen instrument.
Of course writing this down makes me see the ridiculousness of my statements about music.
I love art. I can be moved by it, eternally satisfied by it.....but music......
Music stirs me in a way I just cant fathom.
It stirs the bottom of my pond.
It shows me my unknown unknowns.
It speaks a language I cannot put into words.
I love music and here is my declaration to do it more, every day, to share it, listen to and talk about it to everyone I can....
so watch out, if you see me coming run for the hills or get ready to chew the fat over this ace thing we call music. raaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Art was my first love,it defined my character,I do art, that's who I am.
But music, that was other people's territory. The Grade 8ers, the serious musicians, with application to their chosen instrument.
Of course writing this down makes me see the ridiculousness of my statements about music.
I love art. I can be moved by it, eternally satisfied by it.....but music......
Music stirs me in a way I just cant fathom.
It stirs the bottom of my pond.
It shows me my unknown unknowns.
It speaks a language I cannot put into words.
I love music and here is my declaration to do it more, every day, to share it, listen to and talk about it to everyone I can....
so watch out, if you see me coming run for the hills or get ready to chew the fat over this ace thing we call music. raaaahhhhhhhhhh!
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