Baren Digest Monday, 11 August 2003 Volume 24 : Number 2338 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: =?iso-8859-1?q?dimitris=20grammatikopulos?= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:39:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Baren 22542] how?what?why? Dear Baren, I did write my last e-mail too excitedly. That is true. But I don't understand how can we stick so much to 'how' we make the print and practically never discuss 'what' we are going to show on it. Further more we never (ever) discuss 'why' - 'what for' is this or any print created and mostly PUBLISHED. We all live (sometimes even survive through) our visions and we need to express them, or you may say, see them happen. Don't you ever feel that you care more or solely about publishing and/or selling your print than about the actual content of it? Marketing art? Discussing prices? How much more appropriate is this discussion than discussing an all Baren protest on anything+everything going wrong around us? I congratulate most sincerely all those who participated in the Firemen print. It was ... I envy you! ...But you know they had firemen in Yugoslavia too... Or do we care about our own only? Woodblock printmaking may as well be the most ecological (if not the only, come to think about it) printmaking technique. Shouldn't we be the ones to talk ecology? ...Instead of discussing which one's is bigger? ...or more colourful? Could we discuss the 'what about' of a print from time to time? Actually, the only really helpful advice to all starting out printmaking should be to Draw and Read and to keep all your senses working. The 'how' of a print will always come along later or by its own. And just to make it clear from my part: I don't have anything against anybody. Mostly those I don't know. That includes Americans, Russians, Martians, penguins and all living creature. There's this saying in Greece: "When your neighbor's house is burning, yours will soon burn too". Frankly, I believe that all the houses in our world are burning.I don't have the right to be indifferent to that. I am not allowed to have a voice and not to speak or not to urge those who have a louder voice than mine to cry along. Lastly, read carefully biografies of people who made a difference like Goya and all those mentioned plus many, many more. You WILL BE surpised. If you are afraid to art, you're in the wrong joke. regards, Dimitris ------------------------------ From: "Ramsey Household" Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:27:30 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22543] Re: how?what?why? Well said!! Carolyn ------------------------------ From: "Bill H. Ritchie, Jr." Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:22:58 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22544] Nice Munakata site A student I met on-line created a nice Web site on Munakata. She's actually a student so in order to access the site you must be prepared to meet a challenge for user and password. They are flasher flash The project may not be on-line much longer, so check it out if you like Munakata. http://scooter.shore.ctc.edu/207208/a/shiko207/index.htm Bumpersticker: Hanga if you love Munakata. - - Bill Ritchie in Seattle Professional Career Site: www.seanet.com/~ritchie First Emeralda Portal Site: www.artsport.com Snail Mail: 500 Aloha #105, Seattle 98109 e-mail: ritchie#seanet.com ------------------------------ From: John and Michelle Morrell Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:44:46 -0800 Subject: [Baren 22545] Christmas cards Mike Lyon, in responding to Jim Ek you wrote: I don't know 'masha' paper. How about 'hosho'? I think Jim meant masa. Michelle Morrell jmmorrell#gaci.net ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V24 #2338 *****************************