I checked out your site, and it's a good start. I could write the
quickstart guide for cyanotypes, but I haven't done them in several years.
I am in the process of getting the chemicals and paper to start cyanotypes
again and could write it up after I start doing some. Not that I couldn't
BS a quickstart guide based on the few books I took out from the library...
>Philip, what kind of ideas do you have? I myself don't think about video
>or audio much since the speed of most of our net-connections is ludicrously
>slow. But let me know what your thinking!
I think it would be nice to have an artist draw pictures of the equipment
and materials, and diagrams of the different techniques.
I think it would also be benficial to create a comprehensive bibliography
on the processes, so for example I could find the article in the August
1995 issue of Camera & Darkroom that explains, in detail, the Van Dyke
printing process.
(BTW, the above article happens to have some very useful tips, such as how
to evenly coat your paper and how to build an inexpensive UV light source)
I'm just toying with a new multimedia authoring program and would be more
than willing to do a project on Alernative Processes as my first program to
test out the system. In order to do so, however, I need the assitance of
people on this list. I need diagrams, articles, references, sample
pictures, etc. The same thing you need for the web pages, but of course I
can use more graphics and even video and sound.
There must be artists on this list that can spare a few hours to do the
diagrams...If you are such an artist, please let me know.
I have access to a slide scanner, so if people want they can send me slides
of their prints and I will scan them and send them the graphic file(and
hopefully use the picture as a sample for the multimedia app.
Philip Trauring
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Brandeis University MB1001 summer phone -> (617) 232-0780
P.O. Box 9110
Waltham, MA 02254-9110 "knowledge is my addiction,
information is my drug."
home page -> http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~philip/home.html
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