home cooking: he brags about steak from his freezer sushi isn’t thawed-- beef isn’t frozen. farm to table isn’t a home path way the most nutritious meals aren’t made at home. uniform cooking is what the fast food industry provides. working to a standard is what a best lab achieves. that standard is set-able by the client. not in some “fresh-water” fantasy way, but in a work to example print. difference between hand lab and machine lab AIM points It was natural that he should care nothing for any abstract speculation or inquiry; he was an artist throughout, desiring only the refracted light of human imperfection, never the purity of colourless reason. – Percy Lubbock on Henry James, Introduction to The Letters of Henry James (London: Macmillan & Co., 1920), Vol. I., p. xxvii ½ teaspoon hot chile powder, preferably Thai or Lao 4 teaspoons fish sauce (nam pla) 5 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice ¼ cup slivered red onions 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro 2 tablespoons sliced scallions 10 whole mint leaves, more for serving Lettuce leaves cucumber spears, for serving sushi is never frozen there is no “authentic Chinese” from Oregon realism has a past abstraction never happens better to have birthday on fresh friday than leftover thursday smug ass not smart. often, similarity is familiarity. losers flock around QTs play pool They don’t share, they show off. they best you, not better you.
Category: overnight notes
8Mar23: Overnights
Loosely connected thoughts. Coming together — only partially. As they usually do, things happen without much control. It takes noticing them as they are arriving. I never know what that noticing is; just that it happens. I see, hear, read things and then they seem to have been planned. An agenda from somewhere.
William Kentridge: drawings for projection
Pablo Inirio: printing for others
The Night Albums: Kate Albers :: Alphonse Hubert
Labnotes–Feb 24
two ways of minimizing dye bleeding. We always dried our
prints on a drum dryer. The other was not to condition paper for more
then thirty minutes. Any left over paper was used for test prints. — dye transfer
Other notions collected this week
Early reference made to Three-color methods and processes with special detail about Jos-Pe and Pinatype.
I’ve been going through notes on matrix making along with tanning methods: why developer replaced bleach.
finding the person behind the process leads to much more information about the process. These two people were the keys to Kodak’s emulsion coating discoveries. Nadeau and Starck are on many patents that would be key to making matrix film or Flexichrome emulsions.
While digging into the past there is the challenge of staying focused, limiting attention, and missing serendipitous materials such as:
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