Hi all,
PK wrote:
>If you see one of these "stamp club" machines in your area,
go for it. For $5 u.s. it can produce a self-inking rubber
stamp of your face (or whatever) in postage stamp format
within 5 minutes. Several different colors of ink. It can
even incorporate up to 7 letters of text; i.e., fluxus. We
found one in Japantown in San Francisco and used props
(hats, flowers, masks) - had great fun and got some nifty
stamps.<
I can verify the fun obtained from these machines. There was one in the
photographer's gallery in London a couple of years ago as part of a special
exhibit so we got a couple of stamps done. They're not that high-quality but
pretty cool from a machine. I was hoping to see some of these machines in
Tokyo when I was there at Christmas but I didn't see any despite our
trawling many many arcades in the hope of finding one...we did however find
various sticker machines including a Hello Kitty one and one which put your
picture next to a picture of the giant buddha at Kamakura, also we found
another machine that made trading cards with your image on them...of course
all the instructions for these machines were in Japanese so it was a case of
trial and error to get the background/photos we wanted..a lot of fun though.
PK are there a lot of these machines in your part of the US or only in
Japantown and other venues like that? The related "Print Club" sticker
machines like NeoPrint etc. are in a lot of places in England.
cheers,
Sol.
