The Complex of All of These -- the video

Wonderful stop-motion video of the making of The Complex of All of These, made by Abigail Uhteg at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.

Gold writing fluids redux

Another year, another sampling of gold inks. It's amazing how different the gold inks and gouaches are from one another. I ordered some more gold inks after I did this sampler. Dr. Martin's Iridescent Cooper Plate Gold ink remains one of my favorites. For earlier posts on metallic inks, click on the metallic inks label in the sidebar (or this link).

Google Earth Netherlands: The Alphabet

homas de Bruin has uploaded alphabets composed of Google Earth images of Netherlands. I love it.

Shown below is his capitals alphabet. Click here to get to his flickr photostream, which includes minuscules and numbers-and-punctuation.


via BoingBoing

Milton Glaser on the importance of drawing

from C. Coy on Vimeo.

A game for all you turophilic typophiles

I'm amazed at how bad I am at this game. But I keep playing.

via Wise-Women

My kind of architecture

This is a photo of the library parking garage in Kansas City. Click on the photo to see the large size of the photo in Jonathan Moreau's flickr photostream.

via Book-Arts-L

More snow

... but at least it's October now, a more seemly month for snow.

I don't think we're in Florida anymore, Toto

Book arts exhibitions online

I'm finally settling in here in Bozeman. In the meantime, I've been collecting some interesting things to blog about, and now I've got a bit of time for it.

Several great book arts exhibitions are online. Don't miss these:


Marking Time -- a juried show under the auspices of the Guild of Book Workers. Shown here are books by Susan Collard and Bridget O'Malley. Clicking the images takes you to each of their pages in the online exhibit.


The Minnesota Center for the Book Arts has awarded their first annual international artist's book award: The MCBA Prize 2009. See the winner, the finalists, and all the submitted books here.



This past June at 23 Sandy Gallery: The Beautiful Book: Exploring the Allure of Artist Books. The image is of Susan Lowdermilk's book in the show, and clicking it takes you to that page of the exhibit.

Bozeman, Montana

Well, I'm here. My studio is not quite the pile of boxes it was earlier in the week, but it's still a wreck. I can't find my "real" camera, but here are a couple of shots of the chaos that is my new studio. It's a huge studio -- these pics only show 2 opposing corners of it.

It's been quite a trip. We drove from Tallahassee to Bozeman in a little less than a week. From Sioux Falls, Iowa, all across South Dakota, and into Wyoming we were driving through the Sturgis rally -- Harleys stretched that far along US-90. I got some pictures -- if only I can find my camera, which I'm sure I put somewhere for "safekeeping" (my standard method for driving myself crazy).