Baren Digest Saturday, 23 June 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1468 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:00:54 EDT Subject: [Baren 14939] Re: Standard Print Definitions It occurs tp me that perhaps our idea of educationg is fine, but perhaps we need to push our congressmen to look into this matter. I for one do not hate the giclee nor do I hate the zerox copies my aquaintance is selling, I hate the fact they are being placed in the same category as my hard work is. When I have created a block whether it is a woodblock, a linocut, a collagraph or a drypoint or even a monotype it is all original art and needs to be classified in this manner. In other countries there may be laws to define the differences and perhaps we should be pushing for this, hard. I know we have baren members from other countries and i do not mean to leave them out of this and education can still be done, but those of us living in this United States and are griping about this as a problem should think of uniting to get legislation out there in the form of full disclosure of what a product is. i for one think there is a place for reproductions as well as our wonderful hand pulled prints. I merely want the public to be told this is a reproduction of a piece of fine art and this is an original print hand pulled and signed and numbered by the artist. People can than choose where to spend their dollars and many with limited monies and wanting something pretty over the couch will buy the reproduction, so be it. marilynn ------------------------------ From: "Bill H Ritchie Jr" Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:35:07 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14940] What about DVD? charset="iso-8859-1" I would like to know how many Bareners are equipped to play a DVD disc on their computers? Some people have CD/ROM drives on their PCs or Macs. I got a PC last November with a DVD drive instead. I also got a "CD burner" that "burns" a DVD, too. I just finished making a shortened version of a DVD from a 1980 videotape of Akira Kurosaki printing a woodcut. Who else can play it, though, besides me? Anyone? ------------------------------ From: GraphChem@aol.com Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:55:06 EDT Subject: [Baren 14941] Re: What about DVD? Bill - While we (Graphic Chemical) are struggling to join the 20th Century in many respects, we do have a DVD player here. Many newer computers, as you point out, come equipped with them Dean ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:07:08 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14942] RE: What about DVD? Bill, We have grown up to CD burners just now. Then again, I still listen to Joplin and Pink Floyd LP's and have around 400 cassettes that I will never replace. As an artist's tool, I definitely think CD's and perhaps you are right, DVDs may be the future. But all the competitions I entered this year with one exception, are still asking for good ol' fashioned slides (labeled very properly :-). I do think as the world gets more and more integrated through the digital/virtual venue that is the www, more and more digital technologies will be the rule and not the exception. The one competition that allowed digital entries was in Spain. Amazing. Some of the "kids" that my husband deals with at UNLV have not known a world without CD's and beyond. He runs the Information Technology dept. at the University and the biggest demand for video/programmable technology comes not from the engineers and architects, but from the theater and music departments who are hungry for editable video and sound. Artists here are quite a bit behind for some reason, although the new bucks and buckettes are starting to sniff around for suitable media for their digital works. Maria ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:11:18 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14943] Re: What about DVD? Well, Bill, technologically speaking you are way ahead of me. I have a Mac with a cd-rom player & I have a Yamaha read/write external machine - I have a DVD player hooked to my TV, though - will that work? A step behind the times, Wanda Bill H Ritchie Jr wrote: > I just finished making a shortened version of a DVD from a 1980 videotape of > Akira Kurosaki printing a woodcut. > > Who else can play it, though, besides me? > > Anyone? ------------------------------ From: "JD Roehrig" Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:29:22 -0600 Subject: [Baren 14944] Re: What about DVD? charset="iso-8859-1" Bill and Maria, First to Bill, yes my computer has a DVD player and I have an external CD burner. Maria was that Scott or Janis that you were listening to, as I still have 600 vinyl albums and a old single play Thorens turntable to play them. I just can't seem to let go of the old days. You are assaulted by these snap, crackle and Pops and you try to remember what party and yo-yo destroyed that album. I keep saying that I'm going to use this new technology to clean the music up and record to a disc, as soon as I complete the three unfinished print jobs, the gray water system and my studio. Thanks all it is nice to wander at times. 'til then, JD Lincoln County, New Mexico ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V15 #1468 *****************************