Another Choreographed Experience
2012
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A blog, like any other on the tumblesphere. Content revolves around art, literature, theatre, cool photos of beautiful androgynous people, dog butts, TV I don't have time to watch, rants about a student life, and some other myriad crap that comes long my interwebular experience. COME, let's procrastinate together.Made Up Stats Letterpress
Facts are usually true, so I never question anybody when they start referencing them. This collection of some of the most interesting facts in history come to you from the minds at Made Up Stats, which seems totally legit to me. The cards are available from Sapling Press’ etsy.
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Intricate Japanese Movable Type Sets
Dark Roasted Blend provides some history and great photos on the subject of early Japanese (and Asia) printing:
Craft letterpress companies are experiencing a revival in recent times, and nowhere it is more evident than in Japan. Most of you will be familiar with the ancient Chinese and Japanese art of woodblock printing, but masterpieces created with wood and metal movable type are somewhat lesser known, although they show craftsmanship and attention to detail similar to fine woodblock prints.
The first movable type and printing presses were invented in Asia, not Europe.
…but their development stalled because of the extreme complexity and sheer number of Chinese and Korean characters (the same problem that the Asian cultures faced with the transition to typewriters and the internet). We can thank the simplicity of Western alphabets for the rapid development and adoption of the printed word in Europe, which quickly lead to the Renaissance and further advances in culture and education.
It is a widespread misconception that Johannes Gutenberg created the first movable type system and the printing press, around 1450 A.D. It’s true, Gutenberg was the first to make his movable type from a certain alloy of lead, tin, and antimony (which was more efficient than iron, used in Asia) - but movable type itself was originally invented in China around 1040 A.D. by Bi Seng (during the Song Dynasty). The new system was badly needed to replace the labor-intensive woodblock printing technique, where a single wooden block was carved to represent a single page.More interesting information and great photos on the subject can be found at Dark Roasted Blend here
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Untitled, 2011
Screen Print
interesting.
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MAY
Inspired by the famous Czech writer and poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his poem ‘May’. I created an illustrated alphabet, in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters, which now represent the concrete stories.
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