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A few photos of my "Simple Wire Edge Binding" demo for the Book Arts Jam. Taken with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. It was also World Toy Camera Day.Jim stood on a table to take the first two shots. The film is Tri-X, respooled onto 620 spools. Processed in D-76 in my garage. Before the demo - looking at the samples.

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Some photos from the opening, taken with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. Ilford Delta 3200, developed in D-76.

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Tyrannosaurus photoventris, ©2009, 7 x 4 x 6.5 inches. That's a lens cap/shutter on his navel. He takes pinhole photos of the late Cretaceous using paper negatives. My two brass pinhole cameras, some of my old snapshot camera collection, my funky pinhole cameras and one of my father's cameras will be shown in the collections room of the Peninsula Art Museum until November 22nd. You can also see

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I am working on a project I want to finish by the end of the month, so I haven't been posting. But I wanted to tell you about the Book Arts Jam, which happens in Los Altos, California, US.The deadline to apply for a table at the 2009 BABA Book Arts Jam is July 31. Speaking as a member of BABA, I'd love to have you exhibit and/or sell at our eighth annual fun, educational, lively, interesting,

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The forecourt of the Zymoglyphic Museum. The Museum is in the yellow shed at the right, my studio is through the gate.Another view of the forecourt.My studio.Some of my dinosaurs and Godzillas.Some of our visitors. I loved getting to talk to people about the book arts. I have a new, and supposedly better camera, but it's too much for me. . . In these indoor shots I got a lot of noise, and I have

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Bird Life ©2009 - 2.75 inches high. My original drawing was scanned and resized in Photoshop. I used a Canon Pixma inkjet printer to print it on either Wassau Cottonwood or Balsa. The cover is museum board and Thai banana paper. $10. Click on either book title to see more views of the book.As part of the BABA book share meeting, we exchange simple books. The only requirement is that they are (

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The members of Studio 19 (myself and the Zymoglyphic Museum) will be participating in Silicon Valley Open Studios May 16 and 17, between 11am and 5pm. I will be giving away 20 copies of my one sheet artist's book, "My Studio" (shown above) to the first 20 people.We will also have some interesting stuff to give away: old books, found objects, old comic books, magazines, basically the kind of junk

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I'm working on this box. It's 3 inches tall and 2.25 inches on each side. At first I couldn't get enough heat from my acetylene/air torch to solder on the bottom.Here's the solution. The walls and base are solderite pads. I can build a lot of heat around the back left corner of the brass box.

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Recently we went to the de young museum to enjoy the ethnographic collection. Jim is particularly a fan of the New Guinea works. I have come to appreciate them more and more by seeing them through his eyes. I took my Gameboy camera, and he took our "big" digital camera. Photography is allowed, but no flash or tripods.My de Young flickr photoset is here. Jim wrote a very thoughtful blog entry

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World Wide Pinhole Photography Day is on April 26th this year. This poster will be available on the website for download. Now is the time to make sure you have your gear together. And it doesn't have to be a film image, you could make a solargraph. There are lots of links on the WPPD site under "resources." A few more links:Solargraphy on FlickrDiego Lopez Calvin's beautiful solargraphs. Memory

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Dreaming made Easy, included in Free For All, an exhibit of downloadable artist's books at Fiji Island Mermaid Press. If you have a computer and a printer, you can have, for free, books made by eight talented artists. It's a fantastic show - wonderfully varied and inspiring. Below is Marc Snyder's press release:"The Fiji Island Mermaid Press is proud to present “FREE FOR ALL”. This online

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From Sally Cruikshank's blog, here's a font generating web site that will make a free font in your handwriting. Download a template, write your letters on it, scan it, upload, and presto-chango! you have your own font. Imagine making a "handwritten" artist's book on the computer.There is a part 2 of the template that allows to to make unusual characters - like an "a" with a tilde over it. Instead

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Synasthesia, (check out his photo set Abandoned Haven) on flickr, asked me "I am curious how you came about your decision to experiment with your GBC (Gameboy camera). Are you a gamer?"Two Jennifers, taken in 1999, probably scanned from the Gameboy Color. I am a gamer, sort of. My gaming experience goes back to Pacman on my son's computer. When I tried my nephew's Tetris on the old grey brick

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Two chairs, taken with Japanese version of Gameboy camera.I put a five page Gameboy camera tutorial on my website. Since then I have discovered the Japanese version of the camera. As you can see above, the images are four shades of brownish orange, not the green and blue of the American version below.The sun creeping across the floor.Same image in greyscale.

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My first solargraph scan. Joanne Koltnow sent me a link to an site on solargraphy. It's such an amazing process. You expose a piece of photographic paper in a pinhole camera for a long time - weeks or months - depending on the size of your pinhole and your patience. Then you remove the paper in dim light and scan it. No chemicals! Repeated scanning degrades the image pretty quickly.The images can

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Karen takes a digital photo. The first Sunday of this month, Linda Stinchfield and I presented some techniques and gadgets -- ttv (through the viewfinder), Gameboy, Lensbaby, and zoneplate/digital pinhole -- to the Bay Area Book Artists. It was a fun day, and I think we piqued some interest.Karen, Meggie and Diane working on a set-up.Part of the enthusiastic BABA group.Joanne is an accomplished

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Thursday we met for the bimonthly book share meeting. Lots of interesting discussion, before, during and after the meeting.There is always a little time for socializing.We meet in a Foothill college classroom, this one seems to be a geography class.The hallway. Cubberly is a typical California grade school (now decommissioned). The halls are covered walkways, but open to the air. You can view

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Making a primitive wire edge bound book.My book arts group, the Bay Area Book Artists, is a volunteer run organization. We are affiliated with Foothill College, in Los Altos, California. Most of our classes and programs are presented by members. On Sunday I did a short workshop for them. First, as part of a series on content, we discussed using dreams as inspiration for artist's books. I was

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The new year starts with some grey and gloomy weather here at Studio 19. But it's cozy inside. I'm surprised how many people tell me they read (and enjoy) my posts. Thank you. I hope you all have a Happy New Year, with plenty of time to make art and plenty of time with the people you love.

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When I posted my last blog entry I thought I wanted it to stand with no explanation. However, I do try to stick with the topics of book arts and metalworking. So why is there a poem on this blog? Well, in the bigger picture it's potential material for a book. Or it's the background/inspirational stuff. The things that never come to fruition are just as important to me as the ones that do. There

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My mother holds me in her arms, smiling, squinting at her father, the photographer.She is very young, her hair in two braids on top of her head, her cheeks would be rosy if the photo was in color.I am 3 months old, gazing away from both of them.Behind us, a corner of the white clapboard garage, green trim around the window. A glimpse of roses, beech trees, and a compost heap full of big fish-bait

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Gameboy camera photos from a walk in the park on Thursday. The actual screen is 1.75 inches square. Except for the large koi, these are 200 pixels wide, about 2 inches. The camera has adjustments for brightness and contrast, and will store 30 photos. I import them into my computer by putting the gameboy on my scanner, then I increase the contrast and brightness in Photoshop.I think these have a

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I did an artist's talk. The audience was nice, lots of questions. I love giving my opinion, I guess that's why I have a blog.My books on display in the member's exhibit. It was hard to take photos, or I'm not an accomplished photographer. But it's a nice setting.More of the member's exhibit.The dramatic book with the prayer flags is by Lark Burkhardt.The crowd in the member's exhibit. Everytime I

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Yesterday morning I woke from my dreams hearing a song I listen to frequently in my studio. It was the Offering Chant on Rain of Blessings by Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rykiel. I'm sure it's well lodged in my head, along with most of his other music, but am still surprised to find I was dreaming it.Part of the text from the liner notes: "Offering Chant - Offering is an essential aspect of

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"The Starry Night over the Rhone" 1888, Vincent Van Gogh, 28.5 x 36.25. From a show of nocturnal Van Gogh paintings at the New York Museum of Modern Art. "The sight of the stars always makes me dream. Why should the spots of light in the firmament be less accessible to us than the black spots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to go to Tarascon, we take death to go to a star."

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