RE: Banding w/ 2200 + thanks for the Biennial
Loris - "Wow, what kinds of meze you can find there in Chicago? Manti? Can you also find this also in Chicago? It's nice to live in a big city :)" Stores? I'm an ALT-PROCESS guy!!! We don't need no steenking STORES! I'm making this stuff myself - from scratch - using recipes I've found here and there. I'm even making Lahmacun. As for ingredients? That's what I did at the Spice Market: sumac, pepper, etc. Most of the other stuff is easily obtainable, and for the raki? I'm going to keep refilling a small Yeni Raki bottle (swiped on the plane!) with cheap Greek ouzo. Nobody will be the wiser. ;-) I haven't tried the imagesetter neg yet. Next week. What resolution did you say that sample was made at? Keith -----Original Message----- From: Loris Medici [mailto:mail@loris.medici.name] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:06 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: Banding w/ 2200 + thanks for the Biennial Hi again Keith, -----Original Message----- From: Keith Gerling [mailto:Keith@GumPhoto.com] Sent: 01 Kasım 2006 Çarşamba 02:32 To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: Banding w/ 2200 + thanks for the Biennial KG>"...Please keep a fire under those gum workshop participants. I expect to see complete portfolios when I return!"< You bet I'll do that... :) I'm opting on using imagesetter negatives (since they're so cheap here and not every student has a suitable inkjet printer). Have you tried the sample neg I gave you? KG>"...I'm glad you are having luck with the new primer option. I found that using Yupo I was able to use far less gelatin/CaCO3 than I previously thought, but then again before I was only coating aluminum and needed a brighter white. I'm still not very fond of the slick look of Yupo..."< Yupo is just fine for my current purposes. BTW, I noticed if you force dry the primer you'll get nice cracked texture! (Do you read this Camden?) I will just add sugar (as in making Carbon Tissue) to get a more flexible primer layer (= no cracks). I found a source for aluminum and will definitely try it. Price is $20 for a sheet sized 39"x78" (100cmx200cm), thickness = 20mils (0.02" / 0.5mm) - that makes $2 per 15.6"x19.5" (40cmx50cm) sized sheet. The material is considerably thicker than yours. I plan to print on then and then put plexiglass in front of the images (using UV curing glue - just like Michal Macku had done with his multi-layer gellages on glass). That would be very neat. My understanding is that this is the current fashion of presenting photographs as I just observed in works of other Biennial participants such as Gueorgui Pinkhassov, David Bate and Laura Padgett... I guess they call it "Diasec" - anyone with some info about this mounting technique? KG>"I'm still undecided on the inkjet option. I'm looking around for a throw-away printer so I can test it with cheap ink and paper. I figure that print size isn't all that important because I can just tape the paper together to get the big negatives I like. On the other hand, I was just given several large rolls of 30 year-old lith film AND winter is upon us, so another couple of months spent in the darkroom is likely in my future."< A new 1280 with 3rd party inks (and maybe using a bottle vacuum feeding system - CIS) can be the most cost effective method of making digital negatives using inkjet printer. Bigger print size will make your like easier (less paper to tape)... KG>"Next week I try CURVES with film recorder positives enlarges to lith film. Now, I'm preparing for a meze/raki party this weekend. I'm even making manti! I realize manti is not really meze, but I had to figure out something to do with the bag of sumac that I brought back stashed in my bags amongst the powdered gum and sodium metabisulphate. My only regret is that I didn't bring home a nargile setup. Those things are more expensive here than I had imagined!" Wow, what kinds of meze you can find there in Chicago? Manti? Can you also find this also in Chicago? It's nice to live in a big city :) Nargile is not cheap, but it's not expensive too - I got mine for $75. How that compares to the prices they've mentioned to you? Best regards, Loris.
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