AM.noted: Apr30’25

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The Good of others. Artists.
Ywahentetha’. “We put you before others in our spirits.” As curators, we believe our role is to bring artists and their works into dialogue with each other in such a way as to amplify their power, the love that resides in and emanates from them … VU, a place worth remembering ..

[ Since 1981, VU has foregrounded the diversity of artistic practices in photography, supported artists in the production of their work, and offered them the space and freedom to create. The centre contributes to current thinking about photography by encouraging the deepening of artistic experience through a program of varied activities. ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson

The Books of the past..https://coffeeandflapjacks.wordpress.com/2023/06/25/pattern-recognition-william-gibson-2003/

AND another bookmark: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/03/william-gibson-new-book-podcast-event/

— past names: Group signing with

The Bad — warriors in need of more tat. 

PART …. UNIFORM OF THE DAY --ranger

The new test is completed wearing combat uniforms and boots. In 14 minutes, soldiers must complete:
* An 800-meter run.
* 30 dead-stop push-ups.
* a 100-meter sprint.
* 16 lifts of 40-pound sandbags onto a 68-inch platform.
* 50-meter “farmers’ carry” of two 40-pound water cans.
* A 25-meter high crawl, 25-meter three-to-five second rush.
* A final 800-meter run.
After that, soldiers will change into their physical fitness uniform and run four miles within 32 minutes followed by six chin-ups.
By illuminating the plantation dynamics that make college football a particularly racialized form of exploitation, the book makes legible the forms of physical sacrifice that are required, the ultimate cost in health and well-being, and the coercion that drives players into the sport and compels them to endure such abusive conditions.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/

The Ugly: chabad cowards
Cowards’ insurrection: the perfect example a group of people who create or commit violence against a US citizen while owing allegiance and fealty to a foreign state, or members of that foreign state. This is terrorist insurrection. On tape by the hundreds. They captured their crime pridefully. How many have turned themselves in for reward. How many have been rebuked by their Rabbi… rabid mitzvahs

IF YOU CAN’T RECOGNIZE FRIEND OR FOE, YOU MAKE ONLY ENEMIES. have Merry Mitzvah in your Heimat.

It’s not Rock Science

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how those things come to be so. Become so, so, so complicated.

And making the new by asking new, or anew. Why can’t minerals think?

Theory based practice… meaning that thinking and looking are source material to the making.

The “electronic village” [McLuhan]. information is suspect. Evidence, not proof. Something presented not given. The owner of the channel, the wall, the palace of exchange is always in service. Never of service. Even the warriors wear costumes.

Nothing is here to advance understanding, knowledge, life. Everything is meant to be owned. Requires ownership, an author; an authoritarian standing. Every thing, All ideas. Pictures along with picture making are owned, distributed, managed under deed.

How could a philosophy build an artist? One person singly requires little. Perhaps without thought. I have never been that monk. Philosophy, thought, works better in and among other thoughts. They don’t have to be voiced in a room, during a walk. Frequently, they are picked off a page. The ancient serve, the current return.

Labnotes: Chemistry Scraps

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from discarded postings. The bits of partial notations from references

I am clearing bits from the stock of papers. Some of these were the base of a post made sometime. Some have never made it into a paragraph.

Gassen: notes on characterizing film

Paper grad: old p.13
p26— dilution paper developer
p.71 Highlight shadow separation & 72
parametrics:

p.78 modifying paper devs
p.92 screens
.75 developer components
Gassan - gum pigment print

Kremer Paint

approximation of process inks

30 ml gum solution ADD
K - ivory black — 15 g
C - phthalocyanine blue  — 1.8 g
M - alizarin crimson — 3.6g
Y - hansa yellow — 1.5 g


gum sensitizer
 ammonium dichromate …. 29 grams
hot water  ………………………..75 ml
dissolve, then cold water to 100ml

pigment to gum — 5 - 10 grams of pigment to 100 ml gum

watercolor  (W&N ///#5 tubes\\\) & Grumbacher provide grayscale approximation (middle) tones
gouach produce silkscreen type dense images

SHIVA or Pranq provide strong color

seps for gum and silkscreen look similar … 


tri-color session:
Y - cadmium yellow : 1 g + 13ml water
M - alizarin crimson: 1 g + 10ml water
C - windsor blue : 1 g + 13ml water
(print the C layer twice)

alternately, replace the C layer by printing a cyanotype layer FIRST, then Y & M layers
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Toning BW for Density
Henry, Controls in Black and White Photography

p 254: [his summary] “Selenium toning has two effects on a print: (a) Deepening of blacks, beginnin at about print zoneV (RD0.745)… maximum black is increased by about RD 0.2.
(b) The deepening of the blacks occurs rather quickly and may be the only effect desired. Depending on the concenteation of the selenium and the time in the reagent, a second phase begins to occur invovlving a color change towards reddish. This is more pronounced and occurs sooner with chlorobromide papers than with bromide papers but even most bromide papers eventaully experience some comlor change. There is evidence now in the photographic literature that selenium toning icreases the archival properties of the print.”
[p 116 ]
117 instructions:trays 
Kodak method
or
Adams method. no measurable difference
Gassen method (Horenstein, Vestal get similar results/advice )

Kodak,
— Quality Enlarging with Kodak BW Papers, PUb G-1, 1982
— Processing chemicals & Formulas for Black-and-White Photography, PUb J-1, 1973
— The ABC’s of Toning, Pub K-23, 1975
— B/W Processing for Permanence, Pub J-19, 1977
— Kodak White Reflectance Coating, :Pub JJ-32, 1980


Gassan 174 — Handbook for Contemporary Photography, 1977
Horenstein 216 — Beyond Basic Photography, 1977
Vestal 496, 506 — The Craft of Photography, 1972
Saltzer 409 bromide papers don’t change color
Hill 213 hardening fixer delays, mottles toning
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Gassan provides some recommended dilutions for a variety of films, but keep in mind a few things:
1. These dilutions are from the 1:9 stock solution to approximate dilutions from the syrup (ratios in the left hand column).
2. This data is from 1977 and films have changed
3. He finds that a "decade change of dilution e.g. a change of 1:50 to 1:60 approximates a paper contrast grade". (for Kodak films, see below)
4. The system works for Ilford films as well, but that they exhibit greater sensitivity to developer strength variations.
5. There is almost no loss of shadow detail with this developer, even at the extreme dilutions.
All film is developed in HC-110 at 21C / 70F for five minutes with standard agitation.
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Light Impressions Publications
x-- Handbook For Contemporary Photography // Arnold Gassan
o-- Photography: Current Perspectives // Jerome Leibling
x-- Photography Between Covers // Thomas Dugan
-- Perception and Photography // Richard Zakia
x-- the gum bichromate book // David Scopick
-- The albumen and Salted Paper Book // James Reilly
x-- Breaking The Rules // Bea Nettles
-- Flamingo in the Dark // Bea Nettles

About Arnold Gassan:

small section at Eastman house here: http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi3/gassan_sld00001.html

his words on his cancer here http://myeloma.org/main.jsp?type=article&id=342