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Baren Digest            Wednesday, 15 December 1999    Volume 09 : Number 822

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:58:23 +0900
Subject: [Baren 7174] Re: Ban-ban print group ... 

Barbara wrote, re the 'Ban-Ban' prints from Japan:
> I enjoyed the prints, makes me feel humble, but determined. They were
> wonderful. How many blocks do you think were used on the "best one"?

Your guess is as good as mine.  Dozens, it seems ...  And that's a
pretty big print - around 20~22" across!

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Josephine asked:
> The fans. Can you buy the rib structure premade and then just 
> add the print, or do you have to make the entire thing?

The rib assembly is available by itself, for those people (lots of
them!) who want to make their own painted or printed fan.

(Don't tell me - you think _this_ would be a good idea for a [Baren]
Exchange!)

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And now a little note about something not _directly_ print related, but
which should be of very much interest to any of you who are working on a
web site.

When I put those photos up yesterday, I didn't really have much time to
fool around - I just unloaded them from the camera into a folder on my
desktop, quickly cropped them, and then bunged the folder up to the net
'as is' for you to see them.

But this morning, I thought I would get them organized a bit better, so
tried out a new piece of software I have here - one that promised me it
would 'automatically' create a web site ... starting with nothing but a
folder full of pictures.

It works!

Check out these versions of the 'Ban-ban' prints:

Simple 'thumbnails', with links to full size photos:
http://woodblock.com/temporary/ban-ban/1999/index.html

More advanced 'thumbnail with frames' version:
http://woodblock.com/temporary/ban-ban/1999/frame/index_frame.html

How long did they take me to make?  Around 2 minutes for each version,
START TO FINISH!

2 MINUTES!  Here's the procedure:

(1) Start with a folder full of photos (no thumbnails, just normal
photos).
(2) Drag the folder onto the program icon.
(3) After a few moments grinding away (while it creates thumbnails
automatically), it shows you a 'contact sheet' page.
(4) Arrange the page as you like, chucking away some pics, etc. etc.
(5) Select the particular option for HTML code that you want (everything
is selectable: page colour, table borders, row/column adjustments, how
much info to display for each pic,  you name it ...)
(6) Hit 'Export as HTML linked image pages ...'
(7) ...

There is no (7).  There sitting on your desktop is a mew folder
containing all the photos, all the new thumbnails, and a complete set of
.html files like the ones in the samples I just mentioned. Just load the
folder up onto your web site, link it in, and you're in business!

The name of this magical software?
Quicknailer.

Where can you get it?
http://www.amug.org/~sbaber

How much does it cost?
It is shareware ... and registration is $18 (US).

This is (of course) a Macintosh program ... 

:-)

Dave

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From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:25:50 -0500
Subject: [Baren 7175] Re: Thai kozo 

Philip

Isnt there a sample of Thai kozo in one of the sample books that you get 
from various paper supply houses?  I will look it up today, sounds like 
a good deal on paper.  Is it anything like kitakata paper?

Jeanne N.
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From: "Philip Smith" <smithart@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:24:41 -0800
Subject: [Baren 7177] Re: Thai kozo 

Jeanne,...this company has a "sample" offer,...you can pick up to five 
samples, which I mentioned before,....try them,..[www.artpaper.com ]. as 
I usually buy Western paper and 'am not to familiar with Eastern 
papers,..What I got is Thai Kozo, machine made, but a really nice 
looking sheet,.big too, 23by37...but sense we are doing art work, I 
would say there are no hard and fast rules, almost any paper is 
printable.     Philip

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From: "Jandi Goshert" <jandilea@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:16:21 PST
Subject: [Baren 7178] Re: 2 German chaps 

Actually, Gutenberg did not invent movable type either.  He was just the 
brainiac who put 2 and 2 together!  According to the history channel, 
anyway!  :)

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From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:45:12 -0500
Subject: [Baren 7179] Re: skulls, escher, etc 

Sarah

The book on Escher is; The Graphic Work of M.C.Escher
Ballantine Books, Inc. 101 Fifth Aven N.Y.N.Y. 10003,
Published in 1971

If you have a good book seller perhaps they could find it for you. I never
have good luck with books on the Web.

I think a collaborative print exchange is great, as long as the people who
do it are very limited; not to exceed about 4 people. Hope everyone went to
the Show and Tell site on the Baren. Neat!!!!

Jeanne N.

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From: <andyengraver@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:45:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 7180] Re: 2 German chaps 

Reading this again about Gutenburg, you may be
interested to know that the Times in England has named
Gutemburg as the "person of the Millennium".

As printers we are, indeed, in good company!

Andy

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From: "Philip Smith" <smithart@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:23:42 -0800
Subject: [Baren 7181] Re: 2 German chaps

Jandi, you're right, my print shop teacher way back in highschool said it
was a fella named [and watch me misspell this one] Aldus Manusius that
invented moveable type,...anyone,...how close did I get?

Andrea,...your little dragon arrived,..very nice!! Did you cut that in
cherry?                         Philip

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:26:43 -0800
Subject: [Baren 7184] Re: Collaboration result ... 

Well gee Dave - are you jealous or what? This was purely art for art's
sake, nothing else. Although we do have a mutual admiration society
going here. I like Horacio's work and he likes my work. Speaking as an
old married lady - well, 'nuff said.

For those of you who haven't done it yet - please go and take a look at
the collaboration project that Horacio (in Rio, Brazil) and I (in
Oregon, USA) have put together. Apparently, it is a success - even some
of the people who didn't want to have anything to do with a
collaboration exchange have sort of changed their minds. Not all of
them, but some. Really, it was fun to do.

Check it out:

http://web-ster.com/robertson/Menina

and let us know what you think - good? bad? Have I taken a perfectly
wonderful black & white print and ruined it? Us inquiring minds want to
know. :-)

Wanda

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From: "John Ryrie" <johnry@hotkey.net.au>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:37:49 +1100
Subject: [Baren 7185] Manutius 

Philip said:
> Jandi, you're right, my print shop teacher way back in highschool said it
> was a fella named [and watch me misspell this one] Aldus Manusius that
> invented moveable type,...anyone,...how close did I get?

Gutenberg lived c.1394-1468 the 42-line Bible which was the first European
book to use moveable type was printed in 1455.   A generation later in
Venice, Aldus Manutius 1450-1515 was the inventor of  Italic letters.

Like many so called European inventions movable type had been used in China,
I think in around about 800 AD.

    John

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