rogue blargue

Been working the hands around new effing projects, like Patrick Herron's Lester book Be Somebody. Lester is a sock puppet. The edition is printed and stacked and now we're binding the hell out of it. Release is immanent. Also we're proofing out the new effing magazine with editor Chris Vitiello and carving up blocks to use on its cover printing. It's a very

North Carolina

effing month.

Be Somebody copies under the cinder blocks.

We're taking some letterpress jobs too and have been banging out sweet two color prints for the U of Texas Writing Center and also for individuals to be wedded and for babies that have been borned. And coasters. Here's some scans of some of the UT Writing Center flyers printed - though the scans don't do the printing much justice:

prints are 7x10 on Crane's Lettra pearl stock, printed on the C&P 8x12. Designed by Suloni Roberts.

We've acquired a small AB Dick offset press and are tearing it down for cleaning and repair and hope to have it operational in the coming weeks. We'll use it for flooding paper stock with color and for underprinting on effing book covers and title pages and endpapers and who knows what else. We just need a little platemaker and we're good to go with the who knows what else.

We'll be in the studio all weekend making the paper fly.  If you are in

Austin

this Sunday this looks pretty interesting:

And if you're in San Francisco TONIGHT there is this with Austin's Hoa Nguyen and others:

Friday, April 4
Three Vietnamese Poets: Nguyen Do, Hoa Nguyen, and Truong Tran
In celebration of the recently published anthology Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions), three Vietnamese-American contributors will read their poetry. Nguyen Do who edited and translated Black Dog, Black Night with Paul Hoover, Hoa Nguyen, and Trong Tran. This groundbreaking anthology presents the true picture of a poetry that had been suppressed in

Vietnam

due to Soviet-influenced censorship. A discussion period will follow the reading.

and also this weekend in San Francisco, check out my bud's work at this wacky show:

Interactive, crank, prank, word house cosy house treehouse with a white picket fence… Sustained Simulacrum Quip is a collaborative installation piece that invites the audience to play with the monsters in their own backyard. Enter an environment where perhaps you are in control, perhaps not. Where you are not necessarily cogniscent of how your actions may play out and can only experiment…

Comments

[Printing Australia]

Thanks! You have given me a great idea for my brochure printing business in Australia