Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
I did 20 of those this week. Black 2001 American Apparel with a red-pigmented discharge through a 180, discharge-white through a 160 and a grey mixed from Matsui 301 trans white, opaque white, and spot black through a 160. The red started to misbehave and not lay down cleanly towards ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A while ago someone from Columbia emailed and asked about the positives and negatives of printing with discharge inks. I'll go over some of them here.
Positives:
Cool effects. This is why most people seek out discharge printing. Virtually no hand after the first wash, you can see the weave of the ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
I always thought that Twitter was dumb, but I was reading an article in Wired magazine that made Twittering sound like a good idea. I started one as a creative outlet, just to be silly, then a friend with whom I was having coffee said that I should use it ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I did some really cool shirts for a soccer team in New York City. They were Alternative Apparel blue Ocean Wash shirts, and I printed them with Matsui's fantastic Metallic Binder (silver) ink, straight discharge, and red-pigmented discharge. But there was lack of communication from ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The current economic situation is definitely affecting my business. Last week I kept busy because I had a lot of contract work to do. It was all completed a week ago and now I have pretty much nothing to do. I did only one small order this week. I have ...
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