Today's postings

  1. [Baren 39486] Question on numbering prints (Melissa West)
  2. [Baren 39487] white line (Doug Haug)
  3. [Baren 39488] Re: Announcing a new feature: BarenSocial (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
  4. [Baren 39489] BarenSo...Baren (Eileen Corder)
  5. [Baren 39490] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V48 #4914 (Jul 28, 2009) (Robert Arnold)
  6. [Baren 39491] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V48 #4913 (Jul 28, 2009) (Sharri LaPierre)
  7. [Baren 39492] Julio Rodriguez/Corp/Walgreens is out of the office on training. (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
  8. [Baren 39493] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Melissa West
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:12:56 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39486] Question on numbering prints
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Hello all--
I have a question about numbering prints.
Is there any convention on how to number prints if you use the same
blocks for entirely different color schemes?
I was thinking of making two sets, one natural colors and the other
very high-intensity sci-fi colors, which would result in two very
different-looking sets of prints.
Different sets of numbers? Same? Something in between?

Just curious what y'all have to say. :)

Thanks!

Melissa
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Melissa West
816 Hanover Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
melissa at mswest dot com
www.mswest.com
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Message 2
From: Doug Haug
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:04:43 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39487] white line
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I heard, have never tried, to print white ink on white paper. Then
you would wash with india ink. I was told this would produce a more
stable black, but I defer to others on this.
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Message 3
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:30:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39488] Re: Announcing a new feature: BarenSocial
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Carol writes: "Does this mean we can attach items, which has not been
allowed before?"

You still can't attach items here on the email list forum but you can go
to "barensocial" ( http://www.barenforum.org/barensocial ) and upload your
files there and the rss feed can send a notification via the daily
blogmanager emails so that the Baren group knows you uploaded a file.

Files (images, audio, video, etc) can be uploaded (or linked to from other
sites) easily and can be used to create your own webpages, blog posts,
etc. on barensocial.

One possible activity could be to have a Baren online
exhibition/contest....bareners can upload their images and others can use
the 'Rate' feature (not turned on right now) to vote on their favorite
images.

Remember green little icon over your profile photo means user(s) are
online, yellow means new user(s). It's a nice way to know who is
online...there is a drop down menu from anywhere you see a user's little
profile image that gives you a set of options to view info or send
messages to that user.

thanks...Julio
ps. If you are using an older browser like IE6 you may experience some
styling issues when viewing some of the pages but you will still have all
the functionality....
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Message 4
From: Eileen Corder
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:05:56 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39489] BarenSo...Baren
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Julio,

Looks GREAT this new feature of Baren's. Thank you! Thank you! Here is an
example of what is good about the internet.

But...I wasn't able to log in after initial registration. I didn't get the
validation email. Should I try all over again or will that gum up the works?

Peace,
Eileen
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Message 5
From: Robert Arnold
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:11:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39490] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V48 #4914 (Jul 28, 2009)
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I am interested in looking at how positive and negative space are perceived
using the same image. I am going to print the same image black on white and
white on black to do some study comparisons.
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Message 6
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:15:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39491] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V48 #4913 (Jul 28, 2009)
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Carol L,

From a Curator's point of view the image is all that matters, to the
Conservator it is about materials, to Artists it is everything. We
appreciate the image, but we also like to know how it was done and
with what.

That's my two bits worth.

Sharri
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Message 7
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:46:57 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39492] Julio Rodriguez/Corp/Walgreens is out of the office on training.
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I will be out of the office starting 07/29/2009 and will not return until
08/14/2009.

I will respond to your message when I return. While I am away please
contact Mark Ruscitti at x5379 or for Upload/Downloads/NAI issues contact
Biju at x7493

Digest Appendix

Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: Kite festival tent

Kite festival tent. Traditional Japanese art



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Subject: [Forest in Summer - 12] : Printing underway ...
Posted by: Dave Bull

Continued from [Forest in Summer - 11] | Starting point of the thread is [Forest in Summer - 1]

Printing is now underway, and the first two impressions are done:

... and ...

Printing one directly over the other in sequence is not the way I want to do this, but my hand is being forced by the tightness of the registration this time.

What I would normally do is print the first base tone on the tree, then next perhaps print part of the open 'v' space you see there. This would help keep the moisture balance even across the sheets, and the general quality of the impressions would be better. Printing right on top of another impression right away can be difficult - if there is too much water in the paper, the next impression won't 'take' properly.

But for this print, because the registration is razor tight, I want to do the four impressions of the tree trunk one on top of each other before I add the grass in the open spaces. This will let me clearly see how they are lining up; once the grass stuff gets in there, the edges will all be far less visible and sharp.

But already - with only two impressions done - the paper is now far too saturated. Early this morning - before brekky - I went down there to test it, and finding it too damp, put some interleaving sheets between each pair of sheets in the stack.

But when I went down to start printing around nine, even through the interleaves had become completely damp themselves, there was still too much moisture overall. So I pulled them out, and replaced them with a fresh dry batch.

(Wow ... three paragraphs in a row with ... 'but' ...)

Anyway, as I write this, the stack is settling. Hopefully, it'll be ready to go soon ...


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