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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Type v. Mac
I joined PPLetterpress, a Yahoo listserve for letterpress printers, last week. Someone just linked to an interesting article by Steve Rigley in Eye Magazine on the pros and cons of learning graphic design on the Mac (as most people have for the past few decades) v. letterpress.
I’ve only had time to give it a cursory [...]
Posted in letterpress
Tagged design, Eye Magazine, letterpress, Mac, photopolymer, PPLetterpress, Steve Rigley
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no rain, no problem
Rain threatened all day Sunday at Street Beat, but that’s all it did. I kept my work dry, had a funnel cake for breakfast, bopped around to the kinda awesome Prince-influenced B-more band Shook, met lots of funny people, and got visits from Danny and Meiling, Mike Cook of Literature Is Not Dead, and Steve [...]
Posted in Import
Tagged Danny, funnel cake, Literature Is Not Dead, Meiling, Mike Cook, rain, Shook, Steve Cole, Street Beat
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Street Beat Today!
Sunday, September 28, from 11am to 7pm in Baltimore.
Street Beat Festival tomorrow!
I’ll be in Baltimore tomorrow for the Street Beat Festival in Federal Hill. 11am to 7pm, rain or shine!
S. Charles and Cross Streets
Federal Hill
Baltimore, MD
could this be considered “the big time”?
This li’l old diary of mine got featured on DC Blogs yesterday!
Spins, High Kicks, and More!
I recently acquired this set of woodblocks from the ’40s, and made my first poster with wood type (courtesy of Anthony from Dirty Pictures, whom I just re-met at Adams Morgan Day). It took forever (five runs!) because of all the overlapping elements, but I’m very pleased with it! I messed up a few figuring [...]
Posted in Diary, inspiration, letterpress
Tagged Anthony, dancing girls, Decoy, Dirty Pictures, letterpress, necktie, poster, wood type
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Letterpress Happy Hour Wednesday, Sept. 24
Experienced letterpress printers:
Join me Wednesday at Pyramid Atlantic for Letterpress Happy Hour!
Pay only $10 ($20 for non-members) to mix, mingle, and set type or print whatever project you’re working on. The group will decide on a color or two.
Email me at letterpress (at) pyramid-atlantic (dot) com to RSVP.
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(5 minute [...]
custom concerns
I’ve been pretty busy with custom jobs lately, like these little inserts for the Collectors Edition of the new Gregor Samsa record from my friend Mike’s label, Kora Records. The edition just sold out! But it’s still available on (double) vinyl and in the standard issue. Check it out! It was fun listening to the [...]
Posted in Diary, inspiration, letterpress
Tagged bat mitzvah, custom, Emily, Gregor Samsa, invitations, Junction, Kora Records, locust, motorcycle, pink, Rebel Social Club
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après Adams Morgan Day
I’m still recovering from Sunday’s craziness (and my apartment building catching on fire Monday!). I had a great time at Arts on Belmont–it’s always been a favorite event of mine, but this year in particular was one of my best fairs ever. It was a long day and hot as hell, but Tim and Patty [...]
Posted in festivals
Tagged Adams Morgan, Arts on Belmont, Bookwyrms, Cat, Dynamite Printworks, Patty, Tim, Val Proudkii
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It Talks! It Sings! It Laughs! It Plays Cornet Songs!
A few weeks ago, on Tim‘s recommendation, I checked out the exhibit Ballyhoo! – Posters as Portraiture, at the Reynolds Center. I hadn’t heard much about it, and I hadn’t yet discovered the “companion website” for the exhibit, so I didn’t know what to expect. But it was excellent–it jived perfectly with some things that [...]
Posted in Diary, inspiration
Tagged A Good Man is Hard to Find, A Good War is Hard to Find, Ballyhoo, Bessie Smith, Dewey, Edison, Fats Waller, Flannery O'Connor, James Montgomery Flagg, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Last Tango in Paris, Marlon Brando, music, patent medicines, portraits, posters, Reynolds Center, Robert Blum, Tom Waits, Truman, Uncle Sam, Winner?
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