[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Monday, 2 November 1998 Volume 05 : Number 328 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jimandkatemundie@juno.com (James G Mundie) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 10:00:40 -0500 Subject: [Baren 1959] Re: Baren Digest V5 #327 Ray wrote: >Does anyone want to take me up on this wager? That's a sucker's bet, boyo. >Jim uses a razor blade. (An idea I am trying my best to steal.) A swindler and a thief! Did you spend a lot of time on riverboats in a past life, Ray? :-) Jim Mundie ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 08:48:19 +0900 Subject: [Baren 1960] A 'pointless' weekend? No way! So I missed my weekly 'deadline' for the 'One-Point' lessons this weekend. Sorry about that. Did anybody even miss it? I have a pretty good excuse (actually I've quite a few of them, but just one will do!) This weekend is the national holiday 'bunka no hi' - Culture Day, and at community centres across the land, it's time for 'Show and Tell' ... and _do_! Thanks to my 'instant' digital camera, I can do an easy 'morning after' report ... http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xs3d-bull/exhibitions_events/finished.html *** Re the exchange. Somebody wrote: > What do you mean by having enough prints to fill up the > case? We will have 28 unless someone else drops out. You are each to make 29 prints please. That's _2_ and _9_ ... 29. An updated list of participants will be sent out by Jim when we get a bit closer to the deadline ... Dave B. ------------------------------ From: "Ray Esposito" Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:01:22 -0500 Subject: [Baren 1961] Re: A 'pointless' weekend? No way! Dave That was _my_ response. If we had 29 originally, and Graham dropped out, isn't there just 28 left? Ray ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 18:45:56 +0900 Subject: [Baren 1962] Updates, Links, etc ... A few updates, links, and odds and ends for you ... *** The 'Who is Baren' page has been updated with three prints from David Stones. I haven't got a good mug shot for him yet, and if your browser doesn't handle Java and you thus don't see his name on that page, he is the entry in the lower right corner of the 'grid' ... http://www.woodblock.com/forum/who.html (I'm still waiting for permission/approval to put some of the other missing [Baren] members into that page ...) *** This morning I ran across a new website with plenty of colour woodcuts: http://www.nativeimagesgallery.com/ *** I zipped into downtown Tokyo the other day to visit a small woodblock print exhibition. It was only a few prints, and most of them were of no particular interest, but one was very much worth seeing. Maybe you've heard about it: made in 1904 by a group of Japanese printmakers for display at the St. Louis World Fair, it is 167cm high and 102cm wide, and took 1,300 impressions from 22 woodblocks. The woodblocks turned up somewhere about ten years ago, and a group of printers got together and ran some more copies off; one of these was also on display. (The process was filmed for an NHK documentary.) Also one of the guys from the craftsman's guild was in one corner doing a printing demonstration (on a 'standard' type of woodblock), and I wanted to shoot some photos to show you, but the gallery people said 'no' ... 1,300 impressions ... It'll be on display until the 22nd of November, in case any of you will be in the neighbourhood ... *** It's the end of another month, so here is the current 'Top 10' for the Encyclopedia (along with previous month's rankings). 1 (1) - Contributors to the Encyclopedia 2 (2) - Printmakers on the web 3 (5) - Library - Woodblock Printmaking (Yoshida) 4 (7) - Library - Japanese Wood-cutting and printing (Tokuno) 5 (4) - Carving Techniques for Creating Texture (Mundie) 6 (3) - 'Editor's Choice' Exhibition 7 (10) - Library - Japanese Wood-cutting and printing (Fletcher) 8 (8) - Suppliers in America (Bivins) 9 (11) - Turn of the Century Printmakers 10 (12) - Bibliography I have also updated the 'stats' page at: http://www.woodblock.com/stats/stats.html *** I hope all the prints for the exchange are coming along well. Just about 12 weeks or so left now. For me, it's back to the local community centre tomorrow, for another six hour marathon with the kiddies ... Dave B. ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V5 #328 ***************************