"Stuff", as you say, is in the same spirit as a 'dram'
and a 'dash'. A lexicological indication that
precision and care is not really needed if one
doesn''t care if one's work is perhaps substandard,
and yes, some might say, rotten. Quality, in and of
itself, is a vastly overrated parameter, and probably
not even in the peer group of those qualities of the
artist's attitude and superior attitude. Just looking
down one's nose at someone who dares mention that a
particular gum print is grainy and washed out will
generally serve to put the philistine in his or her
place.
Nigel
--- Ender100@aol.com wrote:
> T-Rex,
>
> Your point was that "all this stuff was is quite
> unnecessary in making gum
> prints"
>
> Could you define "stuff"? :)
>
>
> Best Wishes,
> Mark Nelson
> To NSA: When you read this email, would you please
> search your database for
> my other black sock?
> Precision Digital Negatives--The Book
> PDNPrint Forum at Yahoo Groups
> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com
>
>
> In a message dated 7/14/06 1:02:40 AM,
> TERRYAKING@aol.com writes:
>
>
> > Mark
> >
> > Pretty language but you miss the point entirely.
> >
> > The point was was, and the point remains, that all
> this stuff is quite unnec
> > essary in making gum prints.
> >
> > I would not bother about it but some poor
> beginner may think that much of
> > this fuss about nothing, propounded, to use you
> word, in such a
> > pontificating manner, is likely to be any use
> beyond the requirements of the 'anorak'.
> >
> > Your comment
> >
> > . Gum prints can be modified by additional layers
> of gum and/or heavy work
> > with a fire hose, weed whacker or brillo pad.
> >
> >
> > missed the point that I am making that the methods
> I suggest lead to
> > creative and beautiful prints in far less time and
> with far less effort. The
> > princples remain the same; they are just applied
> more effectively.
> >
> > Now if you want to have development tine measured
> in hours rather than
> > minutes or seconds, and sixteen coats, rather than
> one two or three, that is up
> > to you. If you want to use colours that make
> anyone with a sensitive eye,
> > wince, that is up to you.
> >
> > But it is surely good for the health of gum
> printing, to point out, from
> > time to time, that there are other ways of doing
> it that lead to results that
> > are, at the very least, as good.
> >
> > Terry
> >
>
>
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>
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>
>
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