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Baren Digest             Thursday, 22 October 1998     Volume 05 : Number 320

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 1923] Re: printing large editions ... 

Dave wrote....
>- get the batch of paper moistened and ready.
>- get the pigment for just one colour mixed and ready.
>- print one copy -

I didn't get into this Dave. It is good you did.
I assumed...there's that word again ...that Julio knew the method.

>Graham _may_ disagree with this, but I think not - once the proofing is
>done, making a print is simply a matter of 'construction' ... a
>straightforward step by step process that continues methodically until
>it's done.

I couldn't agree with you more....
Actually the proving is the fun part of the fun.  It captivates me to move
back and forth with colour, number of impressions and/or what ever it takes
to create a masterpiece........I wish......

Graham

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:58:14 +0900
Subject: [Baren 1924] Chinese positions in bed 

There!  Has _that_ subject line for this email got your attention?

The Encyclopedia logbooks show the 'search keys' that people use when
looking for web sites at places like 'Yahoo' or 'Hotbot'.  These keys are
recorded as part of the information always stored about each visitor to
any web site.

It seems that somebody used that search string 'Chinese positions in
bed' and was directed to the Encyclopedia by Hotbot.

Why?  Well, it's because one of the pages in our Encyclopedia contains
the three words 'Chinese' and 'bed' and 'position' ...

http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/012_04/012_04.html

Search engines ... aren't they wonderful!

Dave B.

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From: Sheryl Coppenger <sheryl@SEAS.GWU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:20:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 1925] Re: printing large editions ... 

> > The post
> > office said they can't do Yen.  

Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions on this topic.  I have
too many meetings to try anything tomorrow, but I'll try to pick a method 
on Friday and run with it.
  
>  VISA number ...
> ... here in Japan, they
> still want an actual signature for each transaction. 

Japan does seem to go its own way in a lot of things.

So far I've only dealt with orders from people in Canada and England.
The latter was no problem -- large concerns, done from the Web.  The
Canadian case was a small businessman who didn't want to start doing
plastic because he was afraid of people who reject the charge and then
he would be out the money and the goods.  He also said that there was
a pretty hefty security deposit that the vendor had to give the bank
if he was doing only mail order rather than selling in a shop.  We had
a slight language problem and I hadn't done this sort of thing before
so I wound up sending him a certified check from my bank when he was
intending for me to send an international money order from the post office.
He was just over the border and took US$ so I didn't have to worry about
exchange rates.

I'm very interested in all of this because I don't have it set up yet but
I do have my own domain and a place to put web pages outside of my
workplace.  I plan to set this up for my own amusement/education as
much as anything else, but even my non-advertised non-professional site
has generated some feelers about sales.  I've already received a suggestion 
from one of my faculty members that I might want to look into accepting 
plastic (I think he does).  It probably would make things easier if I
can sell things from the Web site that way.

But, since I still haven't recovered enough to run a press, it's not
like the inventory is backing up anyway. :-)  I've been off the crutches
for 10 days and out of the orthopedic boot for a week.  I started
loitering in the printmaking lab this week (drawing on litho and engraving
maple) so shouldn't be too long now!

Sheryl Coppenger    

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From: Elisa Flynn <elisa@gamara.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:40:18 -0500
Subject: [Baren 1926] Re: dave's post re van Gogh 

Sarah wrote (re Van Gogh):
> which of course led me to question how he had
> the money to buy these prints if he supposedly was totally broke,

Weren't these prints increadibly cheap at the time?  That's how so many 
European artists of the time were able to buy them.

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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:37:20 EDT
Subject: [Baren 1928] Van Gogh 

I stand corrected -- I didn't realize how cheap these prints were at the time
- -- they are so wonderful & worth so much in my mind . . . my apologies to you
all and van Gogh -- 
Back to printing now!

Sarah

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