I'm in the middle of three days of classes at MCBA's Symposium so I don't have a lot of time for posting. But Charlie Quimby has a good post on the class he was in with printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Every time we had a break over the past two days, I'd go downstairs to see what the printers were doing...beautiful, real and powerful work. (Pictures soon!) Amos was a happy presence everywhere in the last few days...gently kidding teachers and staff and teasing me (with my camera) about being stalked like Lindsey Lohan. He's also curated MCBA's current exhibition "We Too are Book Artists."
I loved my class with Daniel Kelm, but I think that there's a lot to learn from Amos.
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Thanks for the link to Charlie Quimby's post, RL. One of the very first exhibits I saw at BookWorks was an exhibit of very cool show cards (although I didn't know then that that's what they were called). I wonder if any of Kennedy's work was included?
I appreciate Kennedy's view that it's "variation, not consistency [that] makes things interesting," something that I like to remind myself of when I'm making books.
I've been thinking recently about editing and cleaner, tighter writing, both generally and with respect to blogs, so it was fun to get Kennedy's perspective that printing your own stuff may be just as helpful to your writing as Strunk & White ;-).
The Strunk & White comment was mine, not Kennedy's. If Amos does know Strunk & White, I don't think he'd let anyone know it. He plays the Alabama primitive pretty well for a guy who's studied with Walter Hamady.
Ah....well, it's a good one.
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