Comments for forgetgutenberg

Comment on And yes, I do know better. by megan

megan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:52:18 +0000

I haven’t dampened my paper before printing anything but etchings, but I definitely printed with too much pressure the other day on my Poco. Expletives ensued. I was using my only set of woodtype and was super freaked that I smashed it… I’ll find out soon I guess :/

But they do look awesome from the front (yours not mine)

Comment on Why I wear men’s pants, or, Reading “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” by reject sheep

reject sheep — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:30:34 +0000

Oh. Yeah. I definitely want to read that paper. Since material culture (specifically embroidery/tapestry/textile art) was kind of my Thing For A While.

Comment on Why I wear men’s pants, or, Reading “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” by Eilonwy

Eilonwy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:38:31 +0000

It took an academic reading of Mansfield Park for me to enjoy it (and I generally like those kinds of things.) It’s my least favorite Austen. If you dig in, though, there’s some interesting buried things in there about slavery. And I like to think I wrote a pretty good article using MF and some other concurrent works using material culture (namely, fancy sewing) to (further) point out the objectification of upper/middle class women of the time. (You can read the paper, if you like. The professor for whom I wrote it actually encouraged me to try to publish it, but it’s not my field so I worried.)

I know that’s not actually the point of your post– which I quite enjoyed– but I thought I’d share.

Comment on Going to … by Julia

Julia — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:05:46 +0000

*hugs* Hope you sell all your stuff and have fun at Webs. *hugs*

Comment on Public transportation theater by Peggy Riehl

Peggy Riehl — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:54:28 +0000

I don’t know for sure, but maybe having a giant stuffed panda sitting on the sidewalk is something to worry about. I’m checking the scene out my window now.

Comment on Gosh, I’m so productive it hurts. by Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:42:48 +0000

Specifically, would the historical significance be of cheap, widely available paper? I mean, paper’s way older than the printing press. Would you also have to account for clay tablets, bark, stone, or animal hides? And do these things promote literacy, or do they follow in the wake of demand created by literacy? (I haven’t the foggiest. It just seems like a good threshold question.)

I guess you could argue that the printing press competes with the labor of scribes, and various supply/demand circumstances could make scribe labor pretty cheap for some purposes.

Also, yes, some people read what you write.

Comment on Changes in planning. by Eilonwy

Eilonwy — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:22:10 +0000

Heh. It’s the only obvious thing to do.

Comment on Still standing. by reject sheep

reject sheep — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:07:30 +0000

Oh, I can probably spare one or two. If you think you can sell them.

Comment on Still standing. by megan

megan — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:59:15 +0000

you gonna send some for clean cut?!?

Comment on I knew this was going to happen. by Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:44:52 +0000

Some things like your tomato problem can be fixed by fiddling with the camera — use a tripod and a longer exposure so the colors are more saturated, for instance, or endless fiddling with the white balance.

My guess is that some of the problems with digital cameras vs film are due to stupid things where the designers tweaked things in one direction to compensate for something most users would do wrong, but did so in a way that seriously messes up certain other situations. For example, sometimes camera manufacturers anticipate that and really overdo it on the red. The effect is that that you see bright reds as very flat — right up to #FF0000 and stopping there over a large area, because they have pumped it up (I don’t remember why they do this).

My camera is also sometimes weird with violets, which makes me really want to find objects that are truly violet to test it on (i.e. high-frequency wavelength, not a mix of blue and red).

Really, it’s a technology-still-distinguishable-from-magic problem. My fear is that the restricted gamuts of monitors are covering for the restricted abilities of cameras, and consumers are just putting up with it.