things i would post to lxy & jergins' board if i could

smoove u r into printing right?

yes i am, in fact right now i am sewing up some books

and yes you are in one sense right about this special day

which reminds me: lxy did i promise to send you a miniature book awhile ago? if so, it IS coming, just haven't had time to make it

ruby, whether or not you promised one, i'm certain i need one! yes, please

have a terrific time with our sister-in-jaffas!

did you like the jaffas?

<<<333 the jaffas!!!

what do u know about letterpress printing? ari is interested in it & i was thinking of getting her one of these cheap-ish ~$200 tabletop presses they seem to always have on ebay as a bday present... dunno if the quality is good enough? or how hard it is to cut & make ur own plates? any thoughts or is this outside yr area of expertise

i want one too max

max: i'm not really much of an expert on letterpress, not on the equipment side anyways. but a table top press is a good start for someone new to printing. the problem is you kind of need a lot of stuff to go along with it and you need a lot of space - does she want to do images or text or both? you can pick up type cases from junkyards sometimes for cheap, but they're really heavy and often missing a lot of letters. then you need frames and quoins and furniture, rollers and inks and spacers and composing sticks. to make your own plates you need to know how to make photo polymer plates (although i guess she could make wood cuts too, although i'm not really sure how difficult this). how much experience does she have with letterpress? if she doesn't have much, instead of buying her an actual press i would suggest offering to buy her classes where she could learn how to make plates or get more experience printing. are you in NY? in san francisco there is a place called the Centre for the Book, and after you've taken their beginner and intermediate classes you can hire their presses and have access to all their equipment for pretty cheap. there's probably something similar where you live. it's just really expensive to get started doing this otherwise, and this way she can learn heaps before making the commitment to buying her own stuff.

i don't really know much about the presses themselves, so i couldn't tell you if any of the ones on ebay are any good.

lxy: estela told me you have enormous boobs

well i know that first post was directed toward me but the second one sounds much more interesting

i actually said 'giant mcguffins' but let's not quibble.

anyway thank you--i sort of imagined that a class was a better way to go about it but i was hoping it would be easier to just buy a press since its always nicer to have a physical gift to give! she has no experience with letterpress; shes a part-time designer and i think she wants to expand and start making her own business & greeting cards and stuff, not on any kind of serious or large scale but just as a hobby, & she loves the look & feel of letterpress-printed material. i think the equivalent of the thing yr talking about is a place called the arm in NYC or at least its the hipster letterpress place... does $125 daylong workshop + $15/hr rental seem right? thank u again for yr help!

giant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

$125 for a day long class sounds good - here's the equivalent class at SFCB: http://sfcb.org/php/classes.php?id=T2-060509-PRT also, i think $12-15 p/hr is pretty standard, depending on how much equipment they have.

what about: buy her the class (like, make a fake certificate saying you'll pay for it) and as a physical gift buy her some really nice fabriano paper or cardstock (or some other high quality paper) she can print on?

a press is a big expense, like i said - the press itself is merely the beginning, and she won't be able to do anything with it till she knows how to use it correctly and has all the equipment. the classes will give her a grounding to decide if it's worth the investment. lino-cuts are also something she should look into - it'll give her more freedom to actually create a design block to print with and they're pretty easy to make, i think.

estela: i was trying to be a little euphemistic in my paraphrasing

maybe i was talking about lxy's sizable plot elements and you misunderstood me.

wtf is goin on in this thread

yeah i know shes done linocuts before--i think what shes interested in w/ letterpess is the texture u can achieve. but i shouldnt speak for her. thanks 4 the advice i will let u know how it goes--maybe we will send u a card in the mail

hey jergs were just talkin about printing presses and lxys plot elements what caught her viewers attentions

lino cuts can be run through a letterpress - it's the rolling of the press that forces the impression on the paper, and it also depends on the type of paper you use (it's thickness and softness)

see u are a letterpress expert!!!

and a lxys boobs expert

estela gave me:
lots of choc bullets
lots of jaffas
pineapple lumps
perky nanas
marmite (about 7.5yrs' worth)
jelly snakes

i don't think lxy's boobs are appreciating this disrespectful talk

i think u mean lxys "perky nanas"

or perhaps her "pineapple lumps"

estela check your email <3

tsk xp

tsk

looooooooolz xp

i mean tsk xxp

tsk xp

holy mother of god how did this spiral out of control in the short time i was on the telephone??!

we don't know but we are all very sorry.

also LOL xp

or xxxp perhaps?

yeah sorry for talking about yr choc bullets

ruby and ytth gave me a beautiful book they made.

and last week lxy gave me a beautiful stencil she made (well two really, they are a set).

<3<3<3 basically

i mean this week.

still wtf

ask the porch.

but only while on the porch, because otherwise no one's talking

well, except estela, about my boobs, apparently

it's the figure-8 of trust, apparently

ha!

it'll be funny when max meets lxy, he won't be able to look her in the eyes

lx plz wear your SAY HELLO TO THE TWINS t-shirt

lxy "i should get sweatpants that say that across the butt"

lol

just two bags of fun so lets be cool

i really came here to post about how much i liked meeting ytth and how nice it is to see him and ruby so happy but lxy's captivating chest mugged my typing.