I Am Still Alive

Here’s an overwhelmingly boring video overview of the steps involved printing on the new SP15. In the video, I am making the first test print on the press; it’s a kind of bastardized synesthesia I overheard not too long ago (more accurately described as a cross-sensory metaphor, I reckon).

Observant viewers will notice I accidentally printed onto the tympan paper (d’oh).

Noticeably absent from the video are any shots of cleanup or typesetting (both as necessary for printing as the printing itself, I’d say). Maybe if we are all lucky, I will make another equally engaging video focusing solely on cleanup (and somehow try to communicate in that video the peculiar joys of California Wash – the extraordinarily noxious solvent used to remove the ink).

The music here comes courtesy Van Dyke Parks – if you haven’t, it’d behoove you to listen to Song Cycle.