This is a cool idea. Capitalizing on the rebirth of letterpress, Kyle Durrie wants to buy an old bread truck, put a printing press in the back, and drive around the country, giving workshops and selling prints. Oh, and showing off the whole idea of a letterpress, and letting people have a go at it themselves.
She has a kickstarter page, where enough people have kicked in financing that she is guaranteed to get started. Whooo! I hope she comes to Canada, though I admit, I have no idea the legalities of bringing an art-project-cum-business across the border. I suspect she should talk to some bands about that.
You may also like her Power and Light Press website.
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7 comments
Andrea Antoniuk says:
2 December 2010 at 5:29 pm (UTC -5)
I’ve never heard of Kickstart before, and I really like the concept. It solves the biggest problem with donating to non-profits - that sometimes projects tank after money has changed hands, and donors are left with the feeling that they flushed some money down the toilet.
Grant Hamilton says:
3 December 2010 at 8:46 am (UTC -5)
It’s also a really great way for tiny projects to get global support, and for just about anyone to come up with an idea. All you have to do is put up a video! We’re actually looking at using it at The Quill, to try and get sponsors for digitally scanning the archives and putting them online.
Matt Goerzen says:
3 December 2010 at 10:27 am (UTC -5)
Beautiful idea, well both hers and especially The Quill’s. As in the New York Public Library pics you wrote about earlier this week, unless someone takes the time to archive material, it can be lost for good. Using a video like this to drum up support is going to get some attention, methinks.
Grant Hamilton says:
3 December 2010 at 11:09 am (UTC -5)
My biggest concern with the scanning-for-archiving thing is that it is destructive. The old issues are sliced into individual pages, then scanned. Yes, they create archival-quality tiffs (I think they are scanned at 2400 dpi) but the “feel” of the original is lost.
Is that better than seeing old issues crumble away to dust? Yes, undoubtedly. But I can’t help feel that we’re archiving a copy, not the true thing. It’s even worse with hard-bound things, like old university yearbooks, since the bindings are just cut off. Who knows what interesting information a future researcher might find in examining the type of glue in those bindings, or the DNA of the plant pulp used to make the paper?
I know of some very interesting research done into air quality from the 1800s that required vintage telescopes and microscopes. Centuries-old air had been sealed between their lenses. The information printed on the pages will be preserved, which is great, but the information *of* the pages will be lost.
T. Keith Edmunds says:
3 December 2010 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5)
This from the guy who admitted to reading less paper and more online materials. You can’t have it both ways, buddy!
Grant Hamilton says:
3 December 2010 at 12:45 pm (UTC -5)
Sure I can! Online/electronic for quantity, but letterpress for quality.
Andrea Antoniuk says:
4 December 2010 at 5:42 pm (UTC -5)
I think that’s a neat idea for the Quill. It would be a fantastic way to get alumni donations, and expanding the scope of the Quill is very, very interesting.
By the way, I instinctively searched with my mouse hand for the “like” button and was forced to use whole sentences instead. I kind of liked it.