Check out, literally, like from a library, but online and free, NASA publications. Ton’s of them here.
Conestoga Press – AAPA Bookmark
Jeff, Print Shop Committee Chair (left) and Randy relax between visitors during the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley Christmas Tea.
In December I was able to print bookmarker’s with a lincoln quote, an interesting cut I found in the Historical Society’s collection, and an arrangement of borders into a design that was probably put together by Harry Stauffer, founder of the Conestoga Press. Copies were given away at the annual Christmas Tea and a special edition was printed and provided to the American Amateur Press Association and be mailed in packets to their over 200 members. For those who have followed the web address on the back to this site, welcome and feel free to comment below.
Magical Mystery Tour # 5 – The Bear Hunt
We traveled to Hershey this time and found where all the bears hide out during hunting season. Our destinations in order of visit were:
Turned Artist’s Sketch or Woodworker’s Pencil
I have a couple kits around to make these. They are a nice sketch pencil that has a replaceable lead you can find in many art supply houses.This one is made of lacewood and has some nice grains in it.
History of Printing in Lancaster County
There’s a great site about printing in Lancaster County called THE BLACK ART located at www.lancasterlyrics.com which includes valuable information about Harry Stauffer (shown here) and his Conestoga Press which I now help operate at the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley.
(Image: Harry Stauffer at the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County. With Joseph Bauman’s Ouram Printing Press. Photo by Mel Horst. From BLACK ART site.)
At the Scheherazade
At the Sheherazade – a windowless, slant-floored hall, with a siding of tin sheets stamped to resemble bricks, an interior decorated by a few Chinese lamps and Art Deco stripes, an outside ticket booth containing the owner’s gray-haired wife, and a marquee whose lights attracted masses of moths in the summer – the rich, played by Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, Joan Blondel and Katharine Hepburn, Charles Coburn and Eugene Pallette, were projected in an affectionate silvery light, as stars in a comedy of misunderstanding eventually remedied by sexual attraction and a limitless reserve of lightly taxed money. What a triumph of capitalist art that was, deflecting the poor from hatred of the rich into a chuckling pity for them! With a flick of changed fortune, the poor might be rich themselves, as foolish and happy.
John Updike – Villages
The Geography of Government Benefits – Interactive Map – NYTimes.com
Building Great Sentences 3: Propositions & Meaning
The style of a sentence is the way its words represent and organize underlying propositions. . There are thoughts both stated and implied in propositions that underlie its structure and syntax.
Assignment: Choose a long, complicated sentence. Identify the base clause and count the number of modifiers attached to it.
Building Great Sentences 2: Grammar & Rhetoric
Examines key terms concerning sentences like: effectiveness and elegance, and grammar and rhetoric comparing and contrasting each. The concern of grammar in this course is only to the point that it helps with expression, the focus being on how sentences work rather than how to label each part.
Assignment: Pick an opening sentence from a newspaper or magazine and rewrite it in a completely different style.
Building Great Sentences 1: A Sequence of Words
Introduces a number of assumptions upon which the entire course rests. Explores the vertical ladder of abstraction, how the same words in different order have different meanings, that the way sentences convey information adds to or changes the information, and that there’s no difference between style and content.
Assignment: Provide sentences of varying lengths that give you pleasure.