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From: Guadalupe Victorica
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:56:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43563] RE: New Baren Digest leather sharpenning tool
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Message 2
From: Eileen Corder
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:32:07 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43564] Dedicate to Claudia
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Message 3
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:46:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43565] Re: Dedicate to Claudia
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Message 4
From: Ruth Egnater
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:11:33 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43566] leather strap
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Message 5
From: Amanda Miller
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:22:52 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43567] Re: leather strap
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From: slinders # comcast.net
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:28:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43568] Re: leather strap
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Message 7
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:28:47 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43569] RE: leather strap
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Message 8
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:35:46 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43570] Re: New Baren Digest leather sharpenning tool
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Message 9
From: slinders # comcast.net
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:45:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43571] EX48 Mythology update....
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Message 10
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:48:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43572] Re: Worksharp
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From: "Phare-Camp"
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:36:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43573] RE: ACEO size
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From: Oldfield Press
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:41:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43574] Re: EX48 Mythology update....
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Message 13
From: Margot Rocklen
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:04:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43575] Leather strop for sharpening tools
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Subject: Mokuhanga Conference Part 1
Posted by: Annie B

I love Japan. The 10 days I just spent there was my third time in the country, but before this trip to attend the First International Mokuhanga Conference it had been six years since I last visited. I've also never been to the Kansai area before, so there was a lot of newness for me this trip. I did all my free-time traveling in the four days before the conference, and I began my travels in Urawa, which is north of Tokyo, at my friend Mariko's house. I stayed in Urawa just long enough to have a lovely dinner with Mariko's family and to be awakened by an aftershock during the night. The next morning Mariko and I hopped the shinkansen (bullet train) and made our way south and west to Kyoto. Mariko getting directions for us In Kyoto we met up with Baren Forum member and printmaker Linda Beeman for an afternoon tour of temples and shrines in the district of Kyoto called Gion. Meeting Linda was just the first encounter of many that I had with printmaker friends who I have only known online. I'm happy to report that everyone I met, including Linda, was even nicer in 3-D than I had imagined them to be in cyberspace. Linda Beeman in front of a big concrete Kannon (Kuan-Yin) statue in Gion I was amazed and impressed when Linda told me that not only was this her first time in Japan, but it was her first time overseas at all! Such courage. She was staying at a really nice traditional ryokan (inn) in Gion. Here are a few more photographs from my sightseeing before the conference. [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here]

This item is taken from the blog woodblock dreams.
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Subject: Leftovers II - Up on Wingtip Press
Posted by: Ellen Shipley

I participated in the Leftovers II mini print exchange at Wingtip Press and Amy's been uploading all the prints on her blog.  My print is in this batch: http://leftoversanyone.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-many-more-courses.html It was an exchange for using up leftover pieces of print paper.  When ever you cut down paper for a set of prints, there are always odd bits of paper left over.  This was a clever way to use them up.  I had a lot of fun with mine. Check out all the mini prints in the collection -- all 120 of them here: http://leftoversanyone.blogspot.com/  Amy's putting a handful up each day.

This item is taken from the blog Pressing-Issues.
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Subject: Peru Day Fifteen -- Catching Insects
Posted by: Steveke

Several days ago I came across two primate specialists in the forest. One was wearing a loudspeaker on her head that was emitting monkey calls [calls of the saddle-backed tamarin, I believe]. This got me to thinking about the ways we stretch to get our data, to study animal and plant behavior, to collect specimens, and to document the comings and goings of species. It's hard work that demands a staggering array of equipment from a butterfly net to a portable mass spectrometer. It also requires smart, fit, capable, adaptable people with highly specialized training and lots of imagination. Everyone who contributes to the community at CICRA shares these characteristics -- the permanent staff, the visiting researchers and the students. The sense that just being here is fragile and very special engenders a work ethic in which nothing is wasted; not time, not materials, and not effort. Need ethanol to store you specimens in? It will come over the Andes by truck, then by small boat up the Rio Madre de Dios to be carried by hand up the near vertical ascent from the riverbank to CICRA. So, back to the loudspeaker-on-the-head thought -- what do the specialists working with our K.U. entomology team use to trap and study insects? I've been keeping track: Malaise Trap This is a mesh trap that insects fly into. Once they have hit the mesh they tend to cling onto it and start to climb -- ultimately into a trap. The traps are often jars or pans of water with a little detergent in them to break the surface tension. There are two variations on this theme: The Terrestrial Malaise trap sits on the ground. The Canopy Malaise Trap is like a rigid tent that gets raised 20-30 meters up into the forest canopy, it also has a trap to collect insects that that don't grab the mesh but fall after hitting it. Flight intercept trap This is similar to a terrestrial malaise trap but it has only a vertical mesh, stretched taught, with pans underneath it to catch flying insects that crash into the mesh and tumble into the pans. [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here]

This item is taken from the blog VELOPRINT : A Journal of Printmaking and Bicycling.
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Subject: Home Festival this weekend

This item is taken from the blog Against the grain.
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Subject: ?Great show? but have you seen my jumper?

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