jewelia (jewelia@erols.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:17:40 -0700
okay--you fellas are just Platine getting to me today--i don't buy the
humidity coat theory at all art folks--too expensive! i use a lot of
platine --coating it after it has been in both extremes of humidity
conditions. shall i explain--No!--.......well, ........i just think i will
anyway.....screw you (no, not you darlin--one of the other persons i am
talking to--another dangling p-p-articiple. damn! black snake!) editors
note: double meanings come easy when you recognize your dual nature.
i live in an area outside wash. dc--its more humid here than in wash dc.
some european diplomaticotypes--well, sometimes they throw a good
party--anyway--some of their countries still consider being stationed in dc
tropical duty, rumor has it--i think--because well, regardless, the humidity
here is like that in barabados. otherwise, we have a lot of presses around
here steaming up the joint session.
my darkroom is over 1000 square feet, in here, the humidity runs an average
of 60% plus or take 10, while outside it usually is 20-30 more than that or
worse--that is if you prefer drier climates--the space is actually divided
into 5 work areas--2 are wet rooms where i slosh around -- one of those has
both a humidifier and the jobo--turn it on an up if i need the whole room
drippy wet. 1 is my dry room full of electronic printing stuff that you
don't see often at neighborhood yard sales. the dry room has a whole house
dehumidifier in there that is just cranked all the way up so it will run
forever--i hope. it drains itself quite regularly--more often than i
do--via a tygon-type tube punched through the wall--goes into the big wet
room and into the side of the "low" sink--a cheap utility sink on one of
those stands -- you buy the sink and stand for about $50 new at any home
improvement store sort of thing--or i guess you could just rip one off
somewhere. (so i have the W. dehumidifier way up & high--so its name is
Lucky)--if it weren'r for Lucky, everything in there would be a rusted hulk
within 2 years, and, Lucky for me, i don't have to heat dry my paper any
more -- you dig? no more hair dryers, ceramic heaters, and stupid
rock-a-bye drying contraptions--don't believe me?--just make sure you're all
alone -- look at it --- and ask yours any easy question!@
my paper is generally stored at the far end in my big general work
space--there is a humidty meter within about 5 feet--says 62 percent right
now--but sometimes it says something else--but 50-65 is par usual. so this
is where i have a mountain of platine and other goodies stacked to the
ceiling. so on some occasions--i come out here and grab a sheet or two or
more and go coat something on it--othertimes i get lazy--always if i'm
printing for weeks as in during one of my streaks. right now there is what
sounds like an F-18 cruising 200 feet above my house--going in to land at
the air base few miles away and have lunch -- i guess? --i'm having tuna
fish myself--no idea what an air crew eats after a rigorous day learning how
to blow up the enemy--so artists can create their sentiments free--e-e-ly?
where was i? when? i dunno. wait....
anyway--sometimes i take 25-50 full sheets--enough for a couple weeks-- and
throw them in the dry room on the same table i use to cut paper, stack too
many negatives, and where i lay my dirty books--nobody comes in here except
me! so it works out just fine. there is a humidity meter right above the
table too--reads between 20 - 30 percent--26 now--really disagrees with the
other one don't it? sometimes for a little mean fun--i've switched them
when they weren't lookin' --haha! -- gets em' all confused and reading
backwards--(so they get to thinking they're eachs transuitorial
other--she!she!) anyway--getting to the point--i don't give a rat or any
other lizards where my platine was piled before i coat it--after--well now
that's another story but you'll have to beg me to tell ya that one.
i mean--platine is a very sensitive little paper and you gotta rub it just
the right way or it'll treat you rough too--but-t --s-seems a fair ideal to
mes. and like most of oversensitive mes--it just loves a lot of foreplay
before being exposed and dunked. wouldn't you? Sure.
otherwise, too little or too much jewelry metal compared to iron is in poor
taste these days--so watch your esthetiqes counting. I myself never use
tween for anything--its just a personal thing--i don't go near anything
whose last name is "een." hurts too often. i also prefer the number "92."
you figure that one out--screw you--no not you--just my own you again.
for now--chow--i'm hungry--want some? come and get it before i'm all gone!
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