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Baren Digest               Sunday, 2 August 1998       Volume 04 : Number 232

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From: Gayle Wohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 11:08:12 -0400
Subject: [Baren 1283] Re: Baren Digest V4 #231 

Dave wrote: 
> Over these next five months, would it be of any interest to [Baren]
> members if I described some of these preparations?  

Very definitely, Dave.  I think some of us don't want to face what
would have to be done (I mean me, of course) because it all seems so
businesslike and not creative.  Maybe you can show people like me
there's nothing to scoff at?  My favorite thing is sitting on a summer
day on my backporch, carving away.  I like printing the image.  
After that, I don't seem to care much.  

* * * *

> Jim is simply including the address of his Encyclopedia page with a lot
> of the mail he sends out to people.

What a great idea.  I had been doing it the hard way, sending them
to woodblock.com and all the pages leading up to mine.  Sometimes I
 wonder about myself.  )8-D

* * * * 
Dave, your one-point lesson is just what I needed!  Thanks for telling
us how to make sharpening stones for curved chisels.  It will work for
even the tiniest gouges?  How about v-cutters?

Gayle Wohlken

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From: jimandkatemundie@juno.com (James G Mundie)
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 13:58:50 -0400
Subject: [Baren 1284] luring in the porno crowd 

Dave wrote:
>One of [Jim's] _images_ is getting multiple accesses daily.  The internal file 
>name of the image in question is 'girl.jpg' (it's one of his portraits ...), 
>and this was picked up a while ago by a robot from 'Hotbot'.  So now
>whenever some geek out there types the word 'girl' into the Hotbot
>search engine it seems that the address of this image is one of the
>things that the engine returns ...  
>
>What do you think James, are those people a little bit disappointed 
>when they download your portrait?  Have you got something a little more
>'spicy' we can give them instead?

All part of the master plan, Dave--  lure them in with the promise of
pornography, convert them to lovers of woodblock.  Isn't that the way
most people discover art?  The promise of "nudie pics" has drawn more
than one young boy to the fine arts!
 

>Over these next five months, would it be of any interest to [Baren]
>members if I described some of these preparations?  For myself, I know
>that I would very much like to hear how the rest of you promote and
>prepare your exhibitions.  

I would like to hear more, Dave.  Getting people to look at your work
(and buy it!)  is nine tenths of the battle.  Making the prints is
usually the easiest part-- educating and convincing your public takes
much longer. As you said:

>If nobody _sees_ our work, what is the point of doing it?  

Mise le meas,
James Mundie, Philadelphia USA

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Subject: [Baren 1285] 
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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:39:49 +0900
Subject: [Baren 1286] P/R preparations 

> Over these next five months, would it be of any interest to [Baren]
> members if I described some of these preparations?  

I've just uploaded a .jpg copy of the flyer that I made the other day,
and which I will be sending out next week.  It's at:

http://www.woodblock.com/forum/archives/vol04/extras/ad01.jpg
(again, to avoid confusion - that's 'vol' as in 'volume', and 'oh one dot
 jpg')

It's reduced from the original A4 size, so the lettering looks a bit
distorted, but anyway you get the idea ...

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Gayle wrote:
>Thanks for telling
>us how to make sharpening stones for curved chisels.  It will work for
>even the tiniest gouges?  How about v-cutters?

Because the outside faces of V-cutters are flat, you don't really need a
grooved stone to sharpen them; a normal flat stone will do.  But you
_do_ need a special slipstone for the interior V-shape.  I'll cover
those in part two of that article, in a couple of weeks ...

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Hideshi wrote:
>I uploaded new pages to my website.
>You can see the process of making a new print.

This is a very interesting idea - to document on the web the birth of a
new work, from first conception, right up to finished print.

Hideshi, at first we thought that you were going to keep all your
'secrets', but now we see that you are willing to show us everything! 
Right now, I don't understand what you are trying to do with this print,
but I'm sure that as time goes by, it will become clearer ...

I'm looking forward to following the progress of this print ...

Dave

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