Incredibly foggy these mornings: potential 12hr-photos of the sun through it all... Visited GraphicStudio (USF): they seem to be the only traditional printmaking studio that attempts to push the technological envelope at times. Most impressive were the over-sized, hand-printed photo-gravures (dense, lush, shadows): some 'important' artist (CC) was producing these portraits of other 'important' artists.... but the proofs looked pretty good.... highlights a little blown-out: perhaps a second/duotone plate (?) I'm pretty sure that there are now digital gravure plate-making processes; this would virtually eliminate the acid-bath guesswork, in addition to enabling a better grasp of complex/multi-colored tonal ranges... I'd like to see them get into digital hi-fi inkjet printing too; there are maybe a dozen shops in the USA doing contemporary artist-editions (IRIS usually), but they all seemingly/needlessly suffer in some circles from an association with ubiquitous 'watercolor reproductions.' For that matter, a little digital 4C offset press too: printmaking faculties still restrictively cling to dead phony notions of 'limited editions.' Might be interesting to see a big- photogravure grid of small postage-stamp-sized 12hr-images... an ongoing process for the printers who could pull the images offline as they needed them... Just circled around Tampa environs for the rest of my time here. I could actually afford to have a studio here! (Maybe set-up a little printshop of my own.) I like the Winter Haven area -- mid-way between Tampa and Orlando, in the midst of all those little inland lakes... Saw this great abandoned, long-over-grown, drive-in movie theatre: all brick/cinderblock construction along with a similar bunkerstyle projection booth -- the grazing cows were hanging-out at the snackbar... The pictorial pastoral potential here is immense... I'd love to spend a year plein-air painting variations of this scene.... and maybe pinhole-photos too. Outside Lake Eagle's Walmart (store): a travelling Huge Snakes exhibit/trailer (URL); only $1. Drove around and around looking for the Miami Jai-Lai courts that were marked on my map -- apparently they've been replaced with a big Home Depot (store). Back to San Francisco. Tried to connect from the airport payphone... unsuccessful: hope that the 12hr script at home is still posting the jpegs! The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.wco.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace + + + continuous ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace > News://alt.binaries.pictures.12hr / a.b.p.fine-art.misc > Mailing-list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg > Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html { brad brace } <<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> ~finger for pgp +100% commission
