[5846] in APO Printshop
Re: Reorganized the silkscreening closet, please read (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Thu Sep 10 10:51:47 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:51:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Rebecca Krentz-Wee <rkw@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-om@MIT.EDU, apo-silkscreen@MIT.EDU, apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <1f7ea3c00909100742v6665f32biaf33c068e2211e7d@mail.gmail.com>
fine
i'll do it as i have time
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:42:05 -0400
From: Rebecca Krentz-Wee <rkw@MIT.EDU>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: apo-om@mit.edu, apo-silkscreen@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Reorganized the silkscreening closet, please read (fwd)
Swapping silkscreening and letterpress stuff sounds fine to me.
--Rebecca
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> fo rkw et al:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:27:03 -0400
> From: Grace Kane <clyde@MIT.EDU>
> To: catherio <catherio@mit.edu>
> Cc: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>, ahailes@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Reorganized the silkscreening closet, please read
>
> Yes! I am more than cool with that.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:21 AM, catherio <catherio@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I say we check with the office manager and silkscreen chair, but I'm all
>> for it.
>> Dearest silkscreening chair and outgoing office manager... is this cool
>> with
>> you?
>>
>>
>> Quoting "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>:
>>
>> catherio
>>
>>>
>>> as i have time,
>>> would you like me to swap silkscreen stuff in the APOffice
>>> for letterpress stuff in the silkscreen room?
>>>
>>> thanx either way
>>>
>>> yiLFS -len
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:31:25 -0400 (EDT)
>>> From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
>>> To: Catherine Olsson <catherio@mit.edu>
>>> Cc: Ellen Kranzer <ccrazy@panix.com>, epower@mit.edu,
>>> apo-silkscreen@mit.edu,
>>> apo-tools@mit.edu
>>> Subject: Re: Reorganized the silkscreening closet, please read
>>>
>>> * there are definitely screens, fabric (aka mesh, aka silk), some
>>> tubes that might have old stencil making materials, and a rack for
>>> screens on top of the red stained monster wooden shelves in the rear
>>> APOffice.
>>>
>>> walk along the windows and turn the corner along the windows
>>>
>>> maybe this stuff belongs in the silkscreen room now?
>>>
>>> * there is some silkscreening stuff on the top two shelves of the tall
>>> grey cabinet in the front APOffice, along the wall separating the
>>> rear and front APOffices. the grey cabinet is closest to the yellow
>>> wall
>>>
>>> maybe this stuff belongs in the silkscreen room now?
>>>
>>> * the APOster Letterpress Shop has a book on screen printing in it's
>>> library
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:54:39 -0400
>>> From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
>>> To: Ellen Kranzer <ccrazy@panix.com>
>>> Cc: epower@mit.edu, apo-silkscreen@mit.edu, apo-tools@mit.edu
>>> Subject: Re: Reorganized the silkscreening closet, please read
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to write on the mesh of each screen with, say,
>>> sharpie, with the mesh size? That would have been helpful trying to
>>> find one that looked okay for white.
>>>
>>> there use to be a nifty tool that identified mesh size by moire
>>> patterns
>>>
>>> it was grey edged small rectangle of ruled clear plastic
>>>
>>> yiLFS -len
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Grace M Kane
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Class of 2011
> Department of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
> US: 1.617.308.9922
> UK: +447941199404
>
--
Rebecca Krentz-Wee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class of 2012
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
rkw@mit.edu
