“Yes, I agree that power corrupts, but I have found absolute power to be quite freeing” — MarkGraf Franz Eduard von Hohen und Mächtig “The Hierarchy of Angels” - Go to substack.com/@pandemonium... for more details #BookSky 📚💙 #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction

Writing is just putting one word in front of another… 90,000 times or so. Good writing is spelling them correctly. Great writing is getting them in the right order. #BookSky 📚💙 #HistoricalFiction

oops - I just wrote a book - coming soon to a kickstarter near you. #BookSky #HistoricalFiction #GreatHistoricalFiction

Finished with my obligatory printing for the year, so now I can get back to a project I started about a year ago. The type circle is 52 picas in diameter (which is about 8-1/2" for you non-printers). #Letterpress #Mandala #pandemonium.press

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Sunday was a busy day at the press - printing protest placards. #Letterpress

#letterpress when you have a protest sign to print for tomorrow, and you’re short that one letter…

View from the shop door - still life with Rose and Iris. I love Colorado in the spring. #Letterpress

Mr Bingley and Purcifer share a quiet moment (or three) #cats

Work in progress - some carbon proofs in a “proof-of-concept” assembly. Needs more detail, of course. #Letterpress #Mandala #HandSetType

Printing as Social Commentary - Episode 3: making the sign. #Letterpressq

Printing as Social Commentary - Episode Two #Letterpress

Printing as Social Commentary. #Letterpress

Haven’t used the expandable furniture in a while. Carbon proof looks good, printing after breakfast… #Letterpress #NoKings

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Should this happen, the event would be countered by a massive turnout of citizens protesting his birth.

What’s on press today. Carbon paper proof of a protest poster - work in progress. #Letterpress #MayDay #Resist

#Letterpress #Type #Typography Steve Matteson (my favorite contemporary type designer) has a new web site: mattesontypographics.com

OK - this apparently wasn’t finished yet. I think it is now. #Letterpress #Printmaking #Mandala

Could God run up a bar tab so big He couldn’t pay it? Asking for a friend. #Theology #Philosophy

In honor of Dr Eleanor Baker’s newly published book on Book Curses, I present here the curse currently attached to my personal books: #Letterpress #BookCurses #Anathema #Books

Sometimes I start another project before I finish the two I’m already working on. #Letterpress

Hopefully this is the final version. The Octagram (or “Seljuk star”) lockup resulted in an interior pattern that was lacking in elegance, so I went back to the previous version and tweaked it. #Letterpress #Design

I just posted this for Kate Watson‬ ‪@loreandordure.com‬ and thought it might be of general interest to printers for drying small card stock. Cost of materials outlay is ~$30, depending on what wood you use, and the cost of springs. #Letterpress #Printmakers

Apparently, Hades drives a red pickup truck. Kind of on-brand really... #WritingPrompts #Fiction #Writing

Test lockup - so I can measure for the triangular furniture I need to make. Also need to cut more small type metal triangles to fill in the form. Once I get a solid lockup, I still may opt to make some more custom furniture. #Letterpress #Typography #Design

Work in progress - now to figure out how to lock this up, proof it, and decide whether or not I like it. #Letterpress #Typography #Design

Still needs something… #Letterpress #Typography # Design

Brute force composition in metal type can be like driving somewhere without a map or directions - but It doesn’t matter because you don’t know where you’re going anyway. (I do go down a lot of dead-end roads before I find out where I’m going)… #Letterpress #Typography #Design

Mundus Sin Caesaribus

Still playing with the “Big Circle.” Now If I had a 10 line “@“ sort, I could print a 17” x 17” business card (because that’s my email address). #Letterpress #typography #woodtype

“The Big Circle” in place on a 17” press bed (image reversed for clarity). Cut on a circular milling table from 3/4” heavy plastic. This isn’t what I’m going to print on it - just playing. #letterpress #typography

So my friend Don took a short video of me at the Bridgeport today (I’m using two hands because I need a new left shoulder). Learning to make circular forms for a #letterpress project. Tomorrow - the BIG circle.

Learning how to cut circles on a Bridgeport mill with a circular table, in preparation for a printing project. This is easier than learning to use a metal lathe… #letterpress

Playing with borders - part 2 - the result of this mornings experimentation. #Letterpress #printmaking

Playing with borders (or, what you can do with a Rouse vertical power miterer). #letterpress #printmaking

Mr Bingley and Purcifer say hello to Flashes.

@sujac.bsky.social hola!

Hello to #PrintSky people! Traditional #Letterpress printer here, testing boundaries and having fun with my #Ouroboros print.

Hey #BlueSky tech folks - how do we sign up to beta test #Flashes ?

New Blog post is up at pandemonium.press/presswork-8-... #letterpress #typography

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We now have #TraditionalArt - how about #Letterpress and #Typography ?

New circular furniture to eliminate the tiny flat spots on this circular form - thanks to my good friend Don Hildred. Made from recycled 3/4” aluminum plate. #Letterpress

Can you say the same?! 🤚 Say. I. Stand. With. Her. ❤️✨

“Ouroboros” test print run. Now to consider it for a bit before I run an edition.

Work in progress this morning - “Ouroboros”

Good writing advice in 10 words or less: “Write what you know, if not, make something up.” #Fiction #HistoricalFiction #GreatHistoricalFiction

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