RE: "speckling" v "staining " website reference page idea (ala Brubaker)

Jack, it is an excellent point and I'll volunteer my website for such
a task. I'm one who really likes to see something in the "flesh" to
understand.

Gummists/Gummers/ Gummies: Send me jpegs no larger than 400 pixels in
any dimension annd I'll group them into a reference page.

...also, I'll be out of the country for an extended period from sept
20 on.... so it's now or much later

Darryl Baird

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Brubaker [mailto:jack@jackbrubaker.com]
Sent: Mon 9/5/2005 12:44 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: "speckling" v "staining " (was New Orleans/glut)
 

Chris, Judy, Catherine, et all,

If we are to make real progress in understanding sizes, papers, and
gum
methods it seems we will have to resolve the terms used to describe
various
aberrant results. Clearly writing about it is continuing to be
confusing and
misleading. Remember the quote something like "writing about art is
like
dancing about architecture" (at the moment I can't remember who wrote
that).
We need a visual reference for the terms and conditions we are
referring to.
Does someone have a site where images could be posted from various
workers
where similar effects could be grouped together and given a clear
name. I'm
sorry to be proposing such a thing and not offering to do it myself,
but it
seems the time has come to have a visual tool to refine the discussion
and
move us foreword.

This is not meant as a criticism of those of you putting so much
effort into
trying to clarify this on the list just as a suggestion of the next
step.

Jack Brubaker