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Blue Pizza

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The New Dye group, as it changed names with almost every meeting of a growing group, they gathered impressions of their growing community. What, if anything, do we call this thing?

… because, for a while one of the printing tests was to turn a pizza blue ..

–here’s an Ektachrome transparency of a pizza. Standard Manhattan pie. Print it so that it’s blue.

My, (we), asking that inner self about your result: do you find an interesting way to do it, or do you print it blue, like a good student would do.

Do you make an ashtray — piece of clay, shaped roundish, with dimples for the cigarettes.

This answered the question that wasn’t asked directly: are you a printer or a printmaker. Is there a question you can answer we haven’t asked. A question interesting to the group. This was always the second round of matriculation interview..

DYE TRANSFER: learn to tell time before taking the watch apart.

TODAY, soup is getting cold, salad getting warm. It is a film day. Stay away from the endless thread pullings.

How about a strange brew of two songs:

— success with few bars, fewer words George Strait https://youtu.be/x_JL_hMBakk?si=WjxBAt5iTWS6JQHn

and only because it seems a counter fact: Dire Straits https://youtu.be/jhdFe3evXpk?si=xsBHpViV4c3VMACc

Both would be/were played at Blue Pizza tables. With dance, discussion, delight.

sunday Glitch 123123

Posted on Posted in the fora, the Lab, the meta

// words and wonders. patents, again. travel between times.

subtractive failures. colorant layers. Kubelka-Munk — stuff posted in the past month.

Cost of Film

Portra 160. coated by Kodak for Kodak Alaris(4×5) $700 for 100 sheets
Kodak Aerocolor IV. Kodak can sell rolls direct(4×5) $400 for 100 sheets
Cinestill 4×5. Kodak coats ECN, sells to Cinestill(4×5) $400 for 100 sheets
cost compare Kodak to consumer; Kodak to KA to consumer.
Kodak patented everything. This is early backing paper. It was based upon carbon-paper.
the home of photochemistry for Freestyle, Kodak, Cinestill…

The telling point, to me, is the relative size of the industry. A local cabinet maker is much larger than PSI. The dollar volume is almost that of a Waffle House.

absolutes in changing times

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“… fans won’t work..” forcefully said. Why so strong a statement. Does the speaker keep current with that field? Not likely, since they made their fan decision last decade . 
They are defending their prior commitment, as well as pushing for dominance of the topic. 
These are the positions that stop knowledge as they halt group growth.

landscapes format formula
misread to interpret our bias. we read though our eyes
why does he do it
why do you let him — it hurs; but who, and how
a mis-reader: wiley is very widely mis-read.. suffers from wide misreading of such items as the Carmel Pinecone
DW: freshman scan .. a QC crit..
If yo have a point, make it.


craft can’t be difference [defense] — no elite

Dogleash Mysteries

We begin in gasps for air & become capable of words and walks

are poems are backlit [projections]
some people turn every answer into a polemic— making the forum a pandemic of polemics

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state.” – Paul Outerbridge

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank