[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking.


Baren Digest             Friday, 28 November 1997     Volume 01 : Number 001


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From: David Bull <davebull@asahi-net.email.ne.jp>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:25:31 +0900
Subject: [Baren 0] First Message ...

Hear ye!  Hear ye!  (Fanfare ...)  Today is hereby proclaimed as the
birthday of ...

[Baren] - the mailing list / discussion forum devoted to woodblock
printmaking!  

(Fanfare ...)


[Baren] has its own home page, where you can 'read all about it!'
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xs3d-bull/baren/default.html

The list administrator has used his dictatorial and autocratic powers
and has taken the liberty of giving you an advance subscription to the
forum, so it will not be necessary for you to actually make the
subscription application yourself.  Simply visit the home page, read the
instructions, and then make your first post to introduce yourself ...

Chromoxylographers of the world - UNITE!


Note:  I would like to ask everybody to please refrain from widely
publicizing this forum for a time ...  Until a general tone and style
has been established, I would like to keep it to a relatively small
size.  After a few weeks (months?) have passed, if all seems to be going
well, we can then discuss opening up to the outside world, by putting
links up on our web sites, etc.  (Although if you have any friends,
students, etc. who you particularly feel should be involved now, by all
means give them the URL of the [Baren] home page, and encourage them to
join.)

Hear from you soon - I hope!

Dave



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From: Patrick Robinson <psyberdude@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 15:38:14 -0500
Subject: [Baren 1] David's Brain-child is Birthed


Aloha Everyone:

First of all, I'm absolutely astounded that David was able to get such a 
beautifully designed Baren website up in such a short time . . . 
especially after having received his message that mentioned the other 
things that he has "on his plate" at this very moment. Excellent work, 
List Owner-san.

In the cause of brevity, I'll not give much of a resume in this first 
posting to the list. If anyone is interested in "who I be", then you can 
always pull up our gallery web page at <http;//www.maui.net/~coast> and 
find my bonafides. But I will point out immediately that I am not a 
woodblock artist. Rather, one of the hats that I currently wear is that 
of art dealer. Another is that of fine art appraiser . . . specializing 
amongst other things in the Japanese woodblock print. Just how totally 
audacious this is can best be summed up by saying that I neither speak 
Japanese or read Kanji. But I've got a pretty decent memory and access to 
a couple of good databases, which somehow makes it all work. 

Let's hope that I can conceal my ignorance of the technical aspects of 
this splendid artform as I attempt to be a contributing member of this 
group, not simply a "lurker".

Oh, incidently, despite my unfortunate selection of the CompuServe mail 
handle, "psyberdude", I'm not really a 14 year old nerdish geek. Hm-mmmm, 
well it was either that or "pixel-pusher" . . . everything else had been 
taken. 

Patrick Robinson



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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:43:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 2] Re: First Message ...


Well Well Well.

Give a busy man a job and you will get it done fast and effectively.!!!

This will be a great to be able to send off good stuff to the group.
I am building my soap box,
So now I can get on about how we must, as print artist, make sure that the
reproduction business maintains its present downward slide.   We must never
allow publishers to scam the public again.  E-mail is our tool of education
and we must make every effort to inform the public that reproductions are
simply decorative art that you buy today to throw away tomorrow. The next
wave will be ink jet prints.  They are out there and every effort to make
sure the public is informed.  Some artist need to be educated as well.  We
have several here in Victoria BC who are selling them for big bucks and
praising there potential value. Yep folks here we go again.

Graham Scholes



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From: Oilcolors@aol.com
Date:  Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:17:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Baren 3] First Message ... who am I


Hello Baren:

Thank you David for putting this together. 

I am Daniel.  I am trained in making art (MFA Boston Museum School) and try
to make art but I am employed full time right now as the Administrator of
Adult Education at the Saint Louis Art Museum and as the parent of two
children under three. 

As a lark I looked at *HTML for Dummies* and put up a site on nontoxic studio
alternatives last Christmas. 15,000 hits later its turned into some sort of
ask-the-expert forum with me as the expert ; )  The URL is
<http://members.aol.com/oilcolors/>.  I think the purpose of my putting up my
site was to smoke out a recipe for water based intaglio inks but it hasn't bee
n forthcoming.  The other question that plagues me is if RIT fabric *tints*
are actually azo, phthalo, and quinacridon *pigment stains* rather than
fugitive dyes and are thus acceptable for permanent printmaking but no luck
there either, RIT won't say and no one else seems to know.

My interest in woodblock is twofold: one, from proofreading endless essays by
my wonderful and brilliant wife on the economics of prints, printmaking, and
the enterprises they depicted/promoted in the Yoshiwara, and two, from my
endless elaboration for my students and my instructors' students of art
making possibilities that can be undertaken from the kitchen table.

Also, I love the prints.  I'm glad that David is doing the work.  I look
forward to the proceedings and I hope that none of my correspondences are a
bother to you guys.

Thank you, 

Daniel



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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:16:45 -0800 (PST)
Subject:  [Baren 4] Re: David's Brain-child is Birthed


Hi Patrick.

 "Aloha Everyo" humm.....you must be on the Islands.  Hawaii
I tryed several times to day to visit you here  http;//www.maui.net/~coast
and it did not work
Maybe you can forward on the correction.
Would like to visit.

It is good to have on stream someone that is dealer-appraiser.
We should have some good blah blah blahs about artist/dealer dealings.


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