Dayglo for a gloomy day (on the sunset block I recently lasercut)

Recent letterpress lasercutting pt 2: absolute unit of a sheep 🐑🫸 🐺✨ from historical photo to bamboo wood printing block. 2nd photo is halfway through the 2nd laser pass, so you see the top half that's already gotten 2 laser passes is darker (harder to see: it's also now in deeper relief)

Recent letterpress lasercutting pt 1: glitchy-fonted "glitch"; "vibrant"'s font is named Bangers??; PC keyboard shift key + blank versions I can label as I wish (1 w/space for a printers fist finger 👉 to be pressing it). Cabbage-texture border, from photo. Cyberwave sun from my WolfProof Press logo:

Got to share some of my recent letterpress with @uvalibrary.bsky.social digital humanities colleagues yesterday:

I regret(?) to share that a friend just pointed out what I thought was part of Historical Whale Friend's ventral fin is, in fact, likely a wavy penis

🏳️‍⚧️💜 always

Should be up at wolfproofpress.com's print store soonish (almost ready to open! just gotta weigh prints for finicky shipping calculations...).

1st print using an actual cabbage. Next one will use all the antifascist veggie puns, arranged around the cabbage print like layers of leaves (puns are inherently antifascist) #DHmakes

Speed typesettings! Working toward a goal of having printed w/every typefamily in the printshop, but the 1960s-ish calligraphic wood type was very hard to read backwards for m/n/u/w

Some quick DHy prints for @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social using "The March of the Intellect" automaton I lasercut. "What we talk about when we talk about AI". "textpocalypse, now :(". "disentangle the signifier, entangle the social & material of AI" (from Matt's bsky.app/profile/mkir...) #DHmakes

Almost done with this lil zine (from bsky.app/profile/wolf...)

4/4: Just beautiful. No jokes.

3/4: this revision/remix of Beatrice Warde's ode is an irreverent take(down) AND a celebration of printing in its own right and @ryancordell.org explains it better in his own appreciation post about @literaturegeek.bsky.social 's moves on this print, so go check that out!

2/4: With so many verbal and visual puns on bookbinding loaded into this print, it made sense to honor the work by incorporating some germane prop humor into this selfie.

A mostly irreverent appreciation thread about @literaturegeek.bsky.social 's fun and fabulous prints: 1/4: Just in case you are on megalomaniacal quest to kill a great fish, you might try looking for it in my duct work, because that's where he lives now.

#DHmakes because you can never trust that whale. Shows up in the most unexpected spots. 🐳

The cabbage prints are very cool but am holding photos as motivation to finish getting my print store online 🤞🥬🎨 Meanwhile here is traditional letterpress blocking... for typehigh red cabbage #DHmakes

👀 (the opposite of AI art is organic)

My memory is men were throwing these onto the court at women's basketball games intending to harass, but now these are being thrown at ICE agents; real method redemption arc there

I've various lil letterpress collections (eg historical queer blocks) but gonna go out on a limb & say this may be the "largest collection of dildo-related letterpress plates in the world"? Wanted to print @chebutykin.bsky.social's tweet but w/changes to quotes in purple bubble font, now here we are

What anti-ICE/antifascist signs have yall seen+liked in home windows+yards? Plan to print big fewer-word letterpress window signs to share. Seeking text more folks are willing to display, that isn't toothless? (Eg "fuck ICE"/abolish=👍, but only need help w/text for folks who won't display that) +

Lil' "prop cards" (get mailed to join the registry of proprietors of a letterpress press; this address-less version is for general sharing)

should this be a zine y/n

Soon?? 👀🎨🐾 wolfproofpress.com