We've
Discovered YouTube and We're Delighted
We've learned that anybody can make a video-anywhere from cellphone
to professional quality-and publish it on YouTube.
From there you can capture it and publish it on any website or
blog. And it's simple; just follow the step-by-step instructions.
We did a trial run the other day, interviewing Maureen in her
studio. We had some fun and published a 10-minute video on YouTube.
From there we imported it into Maureen's
site, World Printmakers
and my own blog, The
Gringo Chronicles.
Having
discovered how easy it is and how informative it can be, not to
mention fun, we've decided to open a new section on World Printmakers
called "Printmaking Videos." We've put Maureen's interview
on it as a sample, and we'd like to invite all of our printmaker
friends to make their own videos, post them on YouTube, then let
us know by email,
and we will consider them for the World Printmakers Printmaking
Videos section.
Your
videos need not be only about printmaking techniques. They can
also be anecdotical, personal reminiscences, workshop or residency
reportage, whatever you think might interest that vast public
which we call "print people:" printmakers and other
visual artists, print collectors, print educators, printmaking
students, museum curators, art activists, and the like.
This
is your opportunity to share your enthusiasm and your experience
with the entire world. P.S. It's also an excellent new medium
for giving some extra exposure to your work, if you're interested
in that sort of thing(!)
Here's
Another Free New Service for World Printmakers Artists
We've been looking for ways to enhance the experience for our
World Printmakers artists, and we're enthusiastic
about the new possibilities offered by the Web 2.0. This term
refers to all those new social websites which are open to free
participation, sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Bebo, YouTube, and
a thousand others, with new ones appearing daily. Since printmaking
is about images, we've started with the photography site, Flickr.com.
As a pilot experience we've uploaded the
images of a few of the World Printmakers artists. We'd like
some feedback on this new service. Do you think it's worthwhile?
Do you think we should pursue this initiative, and develop others
along the same lines? If you're not included in our first sample
group, and would like to be added, just drop
us an email.
Fancy a Six-Month Residency in London?
We
received an email the other day from John Phillips at the londonprintstudio
announcing a major artist's residency in London for an artist,
printmaker or other visual artist, from abroad (i.e. outside the
U.K.) The essence of John's email is this paragraph:
About
as Far as One Can Get from Ireland
We want to welcome our newest World
Printmakers artist, Irish
printmaker Brian Devon. Brian worked in photography studios
in Dublin and London before making the logical leap to Montana(!)
It's evident from looking at his prints that he has been fully
assimilated there.
Take
a Look at the Spencer Museum of Art's Online Printroom
We'd like to recommend the
online printroom of the University of Kansas' Spencer Museum
of Art. It's a beautifully presented website with interesting
features we haven't seen before, such as interesting notes on
print connoisseurship and "image maps" of prints which
permit you to magnify details of the prints in order to examine
the techniques closely. A fascinating and worthwhile visit.
Andy
MacDougall's New Screenprinting Collaboration
Before I go I want to recommend a visit to the TMI
Screenprinting Equipment site, as it's a Mexican manufacturing
company which is being advised by our old Canadian screenprinter
friend Andy MacDougall,
aka Nanook of the North. Besides getting up to date on the latest
in screenprinting equipment, you will also see on this page another
example of the use of YouTube videos. This one Andy recorded on
the spot with his cellphone, and I think it works very well.
See
you next summer. ¡Viva el grabado!
