tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44151300389651493272024-03-13T16:57:22.351-07:00LETTERPRESS SHANTY Home of The Shantyquarian<br>The Letterpress Shanty is home to Northern Spark’s communally authored letterpress broadside, The Shantyquarian. Combining social networking with old-fashioned hand-printing from moveable type, The Shantyquarian turns socially generated text (sourced from social networking platforms) into a hand-typeset document laid out and printed on a letterpress and distributed to visitors throughout the night. Tag your tweets with <b>#shantyQ</b> or fill out our online form.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-4593687522768076212012-05-25T18:15:00.000-07:002012-05-31T20:01:45.553-07:00Letterpress Shanty @ Northern Spark!The Letterpress Shanty is coming to <a href="http://2012.northernspark.org/project/letterpress-shanty" target="_blank">Northern Spark</a>! Stay out all night with us, from dusk 'til dawn, on <b>Saturday, June 9th, 2012</b>. Northern Spark is a city-wide, overnight arts festival inspired by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Night_festivals" target="_blank">white night festivals</a>, otherwise known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuit_Blanche" target="_blank">Nuit Blanche</a>, originating in Saint Petersburg, Russia.<br />
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We'll be located, along with our fellow <a href="http://2011.northernspark.org/partners/art-shanty-projects.html" target="_blank">Art Shanties</a>, on Main Street, in the area known as St. Anthony Main in Minneapolis, on the banks of the Mississippi river.<br />
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Back in January, during the 2012 Art Shanty Projects, we hand-printed a daily broadside paper, sourced form social networking platforms, and distributed copies on the ice of Medicine Lake. We're at it again on June 9th. We'll be printing a document pieced together from bits of text submitted by people from all over the world, including (we hope) you!<br />
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This time, we're engaging you in a collaborative writing exercise inspired by surrealist games such as exquisite corpse. Participants will contribute bits of text (phrases or entire sentences) without full knowledge of what other participants are contributing.<br />
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<b>To contribute, follow prompts from <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquaria</em></span></a> on Twitter, or <a href="http://shantyquarian.blogspot.com/p/contribute-fill-out-our-online-form.html" target="_blank">fill out our online form</a>. Submit early and submit often!</b><br />
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We'll take all of your entries and bring them together to create a unique collaborative text. We'll print this document on an old-fashioned letterpress, set in metal and wood type, and distribute copies to visitors to The Letterpress Shanty during Northern Spark. Last year, over <i>ten-thousand</i> people participated in Northern Spark. We won't produce anywhere near 10,000 copies, but we'll be operating the press all night.<br />
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Come visit us on June 9th to get a copy, or visit us online to check out the downloadable PDF.<br />
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<em>Follow </em><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-74341790941453776482012-05-23T19:54:00.000-07:002012-05-23T19:57:48.597-07:00Volume 3, Issues 1-2 now available online!<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/94626317/Shantyquarian-3-1-Saturday-1-28" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Shantyquarian 3-1 Saturday 1-28 on Scribd">Shantyquarian 3-1 Saturday 1-28</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.647058823529412" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="1050" id="doc_72537" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/94626317/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1ushco628aivs7f7w7y4" width="100%"></iframe>
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What happens when we juxtapose an overheard conversation in Dublin with an ongoing snarky fight between a dance shanty and a fashion shanty, a string of genetic code pulled from a message in a bottle frozen in the ice, poetry and observations from NYC, Iowa City and Tuscaloosa, a monster advice column, haikus from art-car creators, an ice condition report from Oshkosh, and a recommendation for some great carne asada in St. Paul? We don't know yet, but we hope to figure it out by our 9th and final publication.<br />
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Check out our fourth and fifth issues below. See if you or someone you know has been published:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">It's no wonder we had so many typographical errors. Sigh. But we're letting go the gross imperfections and embracing our cockamamie </span><span class="Apple-style-span">project. One of our visitors said that we reminded him of <a href="http://discoverypress.com/trampweb/contents.html">tramp printers</a>, and we''re flattered by the comparison; they were known for a high level of precision and artistry to which we aspire. Plus, many of them were drunks! Our team is guided by experienced letterpress printers and book artists who are learning just how exhausting and exhilarating it is to try to turn around a letterpress paper from start to finish in just a few hours.</span><br />
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Take a look and see if you've been published. If not, don't despair: we still have 6 more issues worth of tweets and messages in a bottle print! That's over two more weeks to submit and three more weekends to come visit us on Medicine Lake. We'll be announcing your published tweets on Twitter.<br />
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Take a look and see if you've been published, or just enjoy the sweetness and absurdity of what we've done so far:<br />
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<em>Follow </em><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-29772690856975699492012-01-18T23:03:00.001-08:002012-01-19T21:53:36.696-08:00Social<div class="mobile-photo">Whiteout conditions on Medicine Lake tonight. 40 mph winds. Booming ice. After a lovely pot luck hosted by The Department of Everything Else, with hot toddies and shanty-cooked squash and garlicky noodles, we settled into our shanty to print the deluxe edition of Monday's paper. Like our other deluxe editions (printed on nice paper, with ink), we printed by candlelight and headlamp, accompanied by members of Audio Adventure Shanty.</div><div><br />
Here's a copy. </div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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We rounded out the night with a dance party in our shanty and a sauna with friends from the Department of Everything Else, Audio Adventure, School House, Reflection, and Naughty shanties, hosted, of course, by Sauna Shanty. Perfect.<br />
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<em>Follow </em><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-42627749037916294072012-01-17T22:00:00.000-08:002012-01-19T22:15:57.457-08:00The Shantyquarian in print!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We had an amazing first weekend! We printed three issues of <i>The Shantyquarian</i>--one per day--and gave away over 600 copies of our paper. We lived in our workshop on the ice for almost 36 hours, enjoying the light and warmth and the company of friends, family, artists and engaged visitors. A major success! Our volunteers were amazing and we were all pretty much delirious.<br />
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If you visited the Letterpress Shanty, we want you to know that we loved meeting you and talking with you. We're looking forward to the next three weekends.<br />
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We're thankful for all the great submissions we've had so far (and they keep on coming), and we'd like to especially thank our early adopters on Twitter for setting us up with so much great content right out of the gate.<br />
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All of the shanties and performances are amazing this year (as we've come to expect) and we enjoyed walking out our front door into a carnival of visual art, music, and performances--a cornucopia of the unexpected.<br />
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Here are some photos, highlighting what we did in the Letterpress Shanty these first three days.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MC teaches our Day 1 morning volunteers how to set type. We have great light throughout the day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of our content comes from Twitter, and many visitors and shanty artists use our paper forms, but we also publish a few messages in a bottle, written by patrons of The Shanty of Wonder, and submerged in the lake below the ice before they are collected and given to us at the end of the day. It's OK if none of this makes sense to you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each submission is hand set in metal type and placed into the bed of our press.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JUwthfQEwy8/TxO62yI0zzI/AAAAAAAAAWk/75TvqPPK3SE/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JUwthfQEwy8/TxO62yI0zzI/AAAAAAAAAWk/75TvqPPK3SE/s400/3.jpg" width="400px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We couldn't do it without our amazing volunteers. And our enthusiastic visitors. Who is that dude?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having set all our type, it's time for an editorial meeting. It's good to have experienced book artists and printers up in this shanty.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MC and Regula review the proof copy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our second issue is laid out and ready for print. "Oh no! It's backwards," hundreds of people joke every day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IuZaM_cUh2U/TxZKGi99HyI/AAAAAAAAAcs/QYWwtAFKyq0/s1600/Jon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IuZaM_cUh2U/TxZKGi99HyI/AAAAAAAAAcs/QYWwtAFKyq0/s400/Jon.JPG" width="400px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon pulls prints and discusses our publishing concept and the letterpress process with visitors. Our first run is printed on carbonless paper. We have hundreds of people walking through each day and ink takes hours to dry. So we're basically handing out the part of the checkbook that you never bother to use to balance your accounts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvatNM73o-0/TxO64ymgmuI/AAAAAAAAAW8/kGu7j2EeWOw/s1600/IMG_6256.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvatNM73o-0/TxO64ymgmuI/AAAAAAAAAW8/kGu7j2EeWOw/s400/IMG_6256.JPG" width="400px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also have a tabletop Platen press on which visitors can pull their own prints.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two young printers teamed up to pull the lever and make postcards. Our shanty is just like Upton Sinclair's, <i>The Jungle</i>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jill Waterhouse of The Postal Shanty (sadly, not on the ice this year) models a postcard she printed on our Platen press.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of the day we print with ink and set these copies aside for visitors in the morning. Sara hand-inks the press.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MC pulls a copy of our morning edition while Jon prepares to eat a small child.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeff posts <i>The Shantyquarian</i> in the middle of Shantytown. The Department of Everything Else and Capitol Hill shanties can be seen in the background. What does Capitol Hill Shanty look like to you?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Team members and volunteers distribute the paper to other shanties and visitors, and read aloud from the paper in the tradition of the town crier. One of our volunteers told us her grandfather was a town-crier in the Swiss Alps! The beautifully designed Sit and Spin Shanty is featured in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MC reads <i>The Shantyquarian</i> aloud at the Shantytown meeting, run by The Department of Everything Else.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After Art Shanty Projects closes, we print our deluxe edition by headlamp and candle light, because we are crazy. </td></tr>
</tbody></table><em>Follow </em><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-43055127159252978702012-01-14T21:55:00.000-08:002012-01-15T22:17:10.534-08:00It was a wonderful, weird, and long first day.<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aOf_0KFUSI8/TxJqfRLLwoI/AAAAAAAAATo/_qQXnGR-oD4/s1600/photo-773099.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697733563995898498" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aOf_0KFUSI8/TxJqfRLLwoI/AAAAAAAAATo/_qQXnGR-oD4/s400/photo-773099.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We promise to give you the full update soon., including pictures, but <br />
we are so (happy) sleepy.<br />
Pictures forethcoming, plus, scans of our first issue coming soon. <br />
Good night, shanty!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-74769081028028329122012-01-13T22:16:00.000-08:002012-01-15T22:17:40.159-08:004PM, Friday the 13<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1LYklflRyPY/TxEd37WXWoI/AAAAAAAAATY/9wPZZkkYrpY/s1600/photo-723303.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697367850261895810" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1LYklflRyPY/TxEd37WXWoI/AAAAAAAAATY/9wPZZkkYrpY/s400/photo-723303.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-18942084947189461962012-01-09T13:00:00.000-08:002012-01-09T13:03:20.285-08:00This is where your tweets go:<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TlNaS-1Jigg/TwtVn6VDlLI/AAAAAAAAATM/_g-xWh226bU/s1600/photo-778953.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695740297900954802" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TlNaS-1Jigg/TwtVn6VDlLI/AAAAAAAAATM/_g-xWh226bU/s640/photo-778953.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="mobile-photo"><br />
</div><div class="mobile-photo">This is our baby, Sarah's sign press. The Shantyquarian will be a single-sheet broadside, measuring 11" x 17".</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-8994806415226712772012-01-09T10:01:00.000-08:002012-01-09T12:27:17.310-08:00LETTERPRESS(,) the sign.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We decided that the best way to make a sign for Letterpress Shanty was to build our own type and print it ourselves. We designed the front wall of our shanty to be both letterpress and print so that visitors will get their first introduction to our craft as they approach the shanty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We printed out one-foot-high letters to scale and traced them on masonite. We chose Helvetica as our font. It's a classic and the letters are about as close to proportional as you can get without resorting to monotype. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sara traces our typeface onto the masonite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Jeff cuts out our typeface with a jigsaw.<br />
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Jeff and Jon Gorilla-glue the letters to blocks, cut uniformly to allow for a 1/2" margin around the letter "R" which has the widest dimensions. Notice that the letters are backwards. Text and images are reversed when transferred to the printing surface.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jeff and Jon fasten the type to the press bed of our sign.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The lower half of our sign--type and press bed--is complete.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Sara paints the type black, before we ink it, while Jon and Jeff mount the printing surface on a stretcher to lower onto the type for printing.<br />
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Sara prepares the ink for our print.<br />
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MC, Jon and Sara hand-roll ink onto our type. The stretcher is ready to be flipped over onto the type for printing.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Having lowered the printing surface onto the type, we hand press the plastic with dry rollers onto the inked type.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The moment of thruth! We carefully lift the stretcher from the type and we have our first print!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The team is relieved and excited that this process worked. This is a great print for such large type on plastic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">MC fastens the top portion of our sign to the front wall of our shanty.</div><br />
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We wait to attach the lower portion of our sign until we assemble our shanty on the lake.<br />
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And this is where our LETTERPRESS sign now lives, on Medicine Lake. The front wall of our shanty is both letterpress and print.<br />
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We look forward to seeing you in print and on the ice, starting this Saturday, January 14.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><em>Follow </em><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-2563084607726569912012-01-09T06:49:00.000-08:002012-01-09T06:52:57.012-08:00Shanty Raised<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Saturday morning, having crammed our shanty into the moving van, we prepared to depart to Medicine Lake. The cabinetry, the sign, and everything else went in Jon's truck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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We used our floor sections as sleds, loading them with lumber and tools and skating them out over the ice to our new home on the lake.<br />
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Assembly begins! MC, Jon and John attached the floor.<br />
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We enjoyed blue skies, 45 degree weather and no wind. Not great for the ice, but a perfect day for building.<br />
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Raising the walls and screwing them into place went quickly.<br />
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The roof went on almost without a hitch.<br />
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But one of our rafters bowed, so Jon walked the roof, while Jeff screwed it down.<br />
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MC and the Jo(h)ns cut some internal posts by hand on the ice.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Why, hello there.</div><br />
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Four walls and a roof!<br />
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Emerging from the chrysalis.<br />
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By Sunday night, 12 of the 20 shanties were installed on the lake.<br />
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Almost done! Our shingle is hung.<br />
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We'll post more photos of the interior when our presses are installed.<br />
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It was a perfect weekend for an install. We couldn't have done this without Jon Peterson, our foreman and carpenter. We'll see you out on the ice, starting next Saturday, the 14th.<br />
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The shanty will break down into 8 sections for transport to the ice for final assembly. We just hope there's ice on the lake come early January.<br />
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Come visit our shanty: <a href="http://shantyquarian.blogspot.com/p/hours-of-operation.html" target="_blank">open weekends, January 14-Feb 5</a>!<br />
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<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">On each page of the poem, there's a long, hand-cut rectangular hole--it's like one line of that page’s poem was removed, and a line from the next page’s poem is drifting up to replace it. These holes are erasures (or they're pretending to be erasures), but they also create a different kind of path through the book than we're used to, where you get to re-read the same line in different places.</span></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-59jGauCO1HA/TvDEctxC7-I/AAAAAAAAAME/zwsLUbt1glg/s1600/photo-777699.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688262326969626594" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-59jGauCO1HA/TvDEctxC7-I/AAAAAAAAAME/zwsLUbt1glg/s400/photo-777699.jpg" width="291" /></a></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 32px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book’s colophon says that “K. Abigail Walthausen wrote <i>The Internet</i> to test her faith in things.” The press’s </span><a href="http://www.fractiouspress.com/catalog"><span style="font-family: inherit;">website </span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">adds:</span></span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Internet is a series of poems, connected both physically and thematically, that explores digression of thought. The (actual) Internet, its hypertext, its menus, its links have supported the aimless navigations which act in caricature of the human brain's unexpected associations of ideas. In trying to learn about specific words and terms, the resulting answers sometimes broaden, sometimes dampen the spectrum of connotations. Meandering searches divert to unfamiliar reframings and reflect back again on familiar territory. Words can fit exactly where one expects them, as in a search for a famous quote or a plagiarized phrase, or find new meanings in diverse and surprising jargons.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The idea that someone could "test [their] </span><span class="Apple-style-span">faith in things" by </span><span class="Apple-style-span">trying to simulate the experience of “linked” digital reading in a printed book is exciting: a lot of the theoretical writing about print culture emphasizes how "stable" and "closed" printed books look: tidy pages, indexes, etc. Some people (like <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K5eDQkGWkTcC">Walter Ong</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span">) have even pointed out that printed books seem so "complete" that it can sometimes be hard to imagine there's information about their subject that they don't include or acknowledge. That <i>The Internet</i> is full of holes is the whole point: there's no final product--there's only the process of reading, changing things (ideas, understandings, and actual arrangements of words) as you go.</span></span><em><br />
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</div><i>Follow </i><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5fbcff;"><em>@shantyquarian</em></span></a><em> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em>mchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03926773629064483086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-44420808821887018172011-12-18T22:15:00.001-08:002011-12-19T11:31:34.165-08:00Framed!<div class="mobile-photo">We finished framing the Letterpress Shanty this weekend. Now onto hanging the walls and building the shelving.<br />
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Which is why we noticed this little gizmo, from the design consultancy, BERG. It's a micro printer and a personalized publishing service that allows users to create their own receipt-sized newspapers, culled from social media sites like Facebook. <br />
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Of course, we're less interested in marketing a consumable product then we are in creating a temporary interactive art form, tied to a specific location and event, the 2012 Art Shanty Projects. But BERG's ideas around Little Printer resonate with us. BERG's CEO, Matt Webb, was recently interviewed by <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665514/a-newspaper-for-the-twitter-age-the-size-of-a-sales-receipt-and-edited-by-you" target="_blank">Fast Company</a>, and had this to say:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">But why paper? Isn't that so 20th century? Webb disagrees--in fact, he thinks that paper is an ideal interface for social media. But not the kind of "social media" that pings you with meaningless updates about people you're not sure you even care about; Webb's talking about social interactions between small groups of real people in the physical world, like families. "We love physical stuff. What's great about paper is that it's made for sharing," he explains. "You can scribble on a puzzle and give it to a friend, or stick birthday reminders up on the fridge for your family to see. Paper is basically a technology tailor-made for a home full of people."</blockquote>All of us, by degree, are becoming more acclimated to online socialization and production, but we are no less physical beings for it, and we delight in processes that express the physical and that make a special connection to our minds through the tactile. That's why we're doing what we're doing out on the ice this coming January. <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"What we concentrate on now is density of information or delight."</blockquote>That sounds about right. <br />
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We hope to see you on Medicine Lake. We'll print for you our little broadside newspaper of liberated tweets form the cloud. <br />
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<em>Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Shantyquarian" target="_blank">@shantyquarian</a> on Twitter. Tag your tweets with <strong>#shantyQ</strong> to get published on an old-fashioned press on the ice.</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415130038965149327.post-16355067562539636072011-12-14T13:50:00.000-08:002011-12-14T13:50:12.766-08:00I Heart Paul RennerFutura is pretty much the awesomest.<br />
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Sarah's books are cerebral, but her conceptual mapping draws us into a very tactile space that is emotionally satisfying. We're also fans of her book, <em><a href="http://bigjumppress.com/artwork/687509_ab_landmass.html" target="_blank">ab[landmass]:</a></em><br />
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The Shantyquarian is a broadside newspaper published by the Letterpress Shanty, a participating member of The Art Shanty Projects 2012. We will begin printing the Shantyquarian on Medicine Lake this January.<br />
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The editorial staff of the Shantyquarian will be choosing from tweets to #shantyQ. Submit as many entries to #shantyQ as you want, starting today. More details to follow soon!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0