Re: cyanotype question

[francis schanberger <frangst@gmail.com>]

Chris,

I was a lab assistant (but sometimes I tell people lab tech) in tissue culture lab (human cells) in the 1990's before I went back to grad school for an MFA. When it got to the point of me making cyanotype photograms of labware inside biosafety cabinets with the germicidal lights (18 hour exposures) I knew it was time to switch careers. 

Because of our basement lacking a sink, I have washed cyanotypes and van dyke browns in the bathtub, our only bathtub, when I print at home. I'm careful (using trays) but if you were to look carefully where the oldes scratches in the tub are, there is a hint of prussian blue. So no, the tub isn't blue. 

My wife is a painter and she has left traces of water based oils and acrylics on the carpet in what was our dining room but is now her painting studio. 

I have never experienced that kind of cold having relocated to the milder part of the midwest from sunny San Diego. You should find a way to record the sounds of your house. 


francis schanberger

www.frangst.com

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Christina Z. Anderson <zphoto@montana.net> wrote:

Francis,

LOLOLOLOL how clever.  Is that a self portrait?  I assume you can't wear that in the lab anymore then?  Is there some protocol that prevents that?  Do you have blue bathtubs, too? Whatever gave you the idea to do that? You seem to work lots with natural organics, is this because of your job or is your area of expertise in another form of cells?

Chris

(whoa--it is 15 below here now, and my house is contracting and popping loudly like gunshot--something probably not experienced by those lower than about the 40th parallel...I mean, the 15 below is certainly not unusual for MT so I shouldn't be so surprised albeit startled. And we have a department head candidate here for 2 days, poor man...he'll never want to move here.)

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