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Of Woodblock Printing, Early Storage Technologies, and other amusements.

Dearest Snarklings[1]

Today’s discussion will be of woodblock printing and storage. And of clickies. But first, a short story…

Yesterday, while at a Faire at which I was commenced to slave labor, I experienced pinchy-bugs, shiny wears and various goods, and Chinese Woodblock Print. I had wanted to purchase a lovely piece of art from a wonderful woman by the name of Leah “Locks” Barrows, most of which were in the Thirty and Forty dollar ranges. The original prints were done in a Chinese woodblock style, the pieces costing around one-hundred and fifty dollars.

Kellianna: singer/songwriter.

Upon entering a raffle ticket drawing at the last minute (I had previously been running around with 75-pound boxes, meeting Kellianna, and yelling at small children to not stick their glittery crafts into electric outlets…), I commenced to pick out the winners of the prizes. After watching numerous people win double or triple prizes, I picked out of the bag for a rendition of this particular print that I had coveted for seven hours. As the DJ read out the winner through a microphone, I realized that I had won a beautiful piece of work: a Buddha print, with shades of purple, blue, and grey with eighteen karat gold and silver leaf adornments. After the glee of receiving my prize evanesced, I felt compelled to research woodblock print when I had gotten home. Of course this did not happen, so I made a mental note to research this when I had free time in Shop.

Upon entering shop, I realized that I had a project that I was late in turning in  (and I was working my stripy tail off), and that part of it was to research an old storage technology. Of course the one I chose was woodblock print…

 

The lesson

As we travel back in time to a world where entertainment is a sacred gift, of these are oral storytelling traditions- stories that are passed down through generations. Chinese woodblock print was invented in 200 A.D. during the Han Dynasty, as a means of visually recording these stories, myths and tales of old. Mythological records are entitled “Ukiyo” in Japanese and translated as “Tales of the Floating World”. There are very early scriptures in woodblock, most widely know are the Buddhist Sutras (or aphorisms- parts of

Earliest printed Chinese book. 868 Han Dynasty

manuals, Scriptures, and Laws.) [2]There are many teqniques and various styles, but I will stick to the most popular.

·         The earliest prints from the Han Dynasty are found only on fragmented pieces, and are of silk printed flowers in the three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow).  They are neatly preserved due to the dry weather conditions of the area. In comparison to this advanced civilization, Egyptions didn’t start cloth printing until the fourth century.

Creation of Prints:

New York woman creating raven prints.

Ukiyo-e prints were made using the following procedure, which was perfected by the Chinese. It spread to Europe with Westward expansion and is still used all over the Globe today.

1. The artisan produced a master drawing in ink.
2. An assistant (hikkō) would then create a tracing (hanshita) of the master.
3. Craftsmen glued the hanshita face-down to a block of wood and cut away the areas where the paper was white. This left the drawing, in reverse, as a relief print on the block, but destroyed the hanshita.
4. This block was inked and printed, making near-exact copies of the original drawing.
5. A first test copy, called a kyōgo-zuri, would be given to the artist for a final check.
6. The prints were in turn glued, face-down, to blocks and those areas of the design which were to be printed in a particular color were left in relief. Each of these blocks printed at least one color in the final design.
7. The resulting set of woodblocks were inked in different colors and sequentially impressed onto paper. The final print bore the impressions of each of the blocks, some printed more than once to obtain just the right depth of color.[3]

Basic Teqniques

1.    Stamping

{ The earliest form of printing, from 200 AD, popularly used after 630 AD. Used for many fabrics, and most early European woodcuts (1400–40) These were printed by putting the fabric or paper on a flat surface with the block on top, and pressing (or hammering) the back of the block until desired results appeared.

2.   Rubbing

{ The most common for Far Eastern printing on paper at all times. Used for European woodcuts and books in the 15th century, and very widely for cloth. The block goes face up on a table, with the paper or fabric on top. The back is rubbed with a hard pad, a flat piece of wood, or leather.

3.   Printing in a press

{ Presses have been used only in recent times (1480 and after). A man of Mechelen, Belgium in Flanders (present-day Netherlands) in 1465 owned "unum instrumentum ad imprintendum scripturas et ymagines ... cum 14 aliis lapideis printis" ("an instrument for printing texts and pictures ... with 14 stones for printing") This is much earlier than Gutenberg’s type printing press.

I haven’t created one of these beautiful pieces of art in years. The last time was way back in Secondary School in grade seven.

 

Art project challenge FOR ALL OF YOU: create a print- best winner gets a prize. Are you going to try?

 

This is the picture that I one. How many faces can you see? How many dragons are visible?

SD for Briana

Hello bloggers! Do you know about SD cards and what they can do for you? SD’s came out in 2001. SD cards are about the same size as a postage stamp but they can run smaller. They can be switched from different products. You can use them in cameras, phones, computers, mp3s, and even video game consoles. There deigned to store data and to allow the transfer of data between devices equipped with SD card slots. There easy to lug around. The expense of an SD card ranges from how much memory you want to store. Do you own an SD card? What do you use it for?

Memory Sticks

Are you looking for a better way to save your work and always have it handy with you? Then you should get a memory stick! They are a great way to save your work and always have it when you need it so you're not going crazy for something that you need or that is important. They fit into any laptop or computer. You can use it for other things and not only for work or business. It holds data files, pictures, music etc. If I didn't have one I would be lost without my work and important files that I needed. I think that everyone should have one so that they can always have what they need when they need it.

Cave Paintings!

What do you think of when you hear the words "cave paintings"? I know that I automatically think of fascinating artwork inside of caves. Cave paintings go way back to 40000 BC and were located in Africa, Australia, Europe, India, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia. Who would've thought that there would be that many different locations. It is known that there are over 350 caves filled with these amazing paintings. I think cave paintings went obsolete because nobody lives in caves anymore and people go around doing graffiti and many greasy substances have got on the caves to ruin all the paintings. There's so much to learn about cave paintings.

8" Floppy Disks

Have you seen 8 inch Floppy disks?? Well whether you have heard about them or not they were the original "memory sticks." A floppy disk is a thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage in a square or rectangular plastic case. A floppy disk is a data storage device that was introduced by IBM in 1971. David L. Noble and his team developed a read only, 8-inch-diameter flexible disk, which could hold 80 kilobytes. IBM first started developing them in 1967 and it was developing for a more simple and inexpensive system for loading microcode. Microcode is coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory. It cost customers around $5. Floppy disks were read and written by a floppy disk drive. But in 1976 the 5 1/4 Floppy was introduced and the 8 inch Floppy disk was quickly replaced. The 5 1/4 floppy could hold 110 kilobytes and were cheaper to buy.

Music Tape

You might of heard of a music tape back in the 90's, but what was so great about it? Best known as a cassette tape, this invention was originally intended for recording devices but became a popular way to record, and listen to music. Did you know that in 1979 Sony created a Walkman that helped the format become widely used and popular for all ages. You may remember using cassette tapes in the car instead of Cd's when you were a little kid. Those were the good old days, until we started upgrading our technology and cassette tapes became unpopular. To this day company's still make cassettes but it is very rare to find one being used. For a picture or more information about cassettes check out the website below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette

Paper!

Hello fellow offspring. I am blogging about Paper, and its wonderfulness. Did you know paper was first made in 100BC. Paper is made out of compressed fibers and is super thin. The fibers are usually based upon cellulose and natural products such as trees. Other than trees, cotton, linen, and hemp could be used in the paper making process. I found a 8 step process for making paper from trees: debarking, chipping, pulping, bleaching, paper machine, blade coater, supercalender, and sheet converting. That is only one way to make paper from trees. If you want to make some you could Click Here!

- Jaimie Neville

Cave Paintings

I've been reading into Cave Paintings and I can't even explain how interested I am! Cave Paintings date all the way back to over 32,000 years ago. Unfortunately we don't know the purpose of the cave paintings. I believe they were made to educate themselves and for future references. The way I think about it is why do we draw pictures? Why do we write down what we have on our mind, for example blogging. The most common paintings are along the lines of large animals such as bison, horses, and even deer. This shows us the evolution of animals over the change of time. When you look at cave paintings you can learn a lot more than just the evolution of animals. You can learn about our past as humans. This includes how we survived in the past, and adapted to our environments. There's so much more to learn about cave paintings and if you are interested in learning more you can click the link below!

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cave.html

USB

The USB in my opinion is one of the most useful pieces of storage technology ever. We all know what a USB is and if you don't than to bad there gonna be staying for some time. USB's come in many different styles, some have a higher amount of storage while others have custom styles. I in fact have three one looks like an eraser [Link], another that I use for school work and the last that I use as my Xbox memory card [Link]. So ya as i said if you don't have one you might want to look into one since there here to stay. I soon want to buy a custom one from mimobots [Link].

-Ryan

Papyrus!!!

I, Andrew Sotelo am here to educate you about the amazing technology known as papyrus. Papyrus is the considered by many to be the first form of paper. It was believed to have originated in Egypt, although it was used in other countries such as China around the same time. Papyrus is very similar to paper. Its texture is known to be very rough, and it is much thicker than paper. Although revolutionary, this technology wasn't perfect, as it was known to crack and break if folded. Papyrus plants are used to create this primitive form of paper. Papyrus is still used in very remote sections of the globe.

THE DVD

The DVD is also known as Digital Video Disc and Digital Versatile Disc. This is news to me! DVD's were invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner in 1995. They're the same dimensions as compact discs, but capable of holding just under 7 times as much space! That's a lot more space for the same size disc! Variations of the term DVD are based on the way data is recorded on the disc. DVD-ROM can only be read and not written. DVD-R and DVD+R can only read and only written on once. DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM can all be written on, erased and read as a DVD-ROM. Pretty good stuff right??

The Telegraphone

Have you ever heard of the telegraphone? I know i haven't! It was invented by Valdemar Poulsen in 1899 although no one heard about it until the late 1950's. It was the first device that could record sound. It could record with either tapes, wire, or disks. Did you know that? It was a very popular with businesses and just regular housing. The Telegraphone was mostly sold as consumer technologies after World War II. But then in 1948, the magnetic tape recorder was invented and put the telegraphone off of the market.

Yay!!!

Open your eyes I see
Your eyes are open
Wear no disguise for me
Come into the open

When it's cold outside
Am I here in vain?
Hold on to the night
There will be no shame

Always
I wanna be with you
And make believe with you
And live in harmony harmony oh love

Melting the ice for me
Jump into the ocean
Hold back the tide I see
Your love in motion

When it's cold outside
Am I here in vain?
Hold on to the night
There will be no shame

Erasure- Always

Tech Time with Royce Taylor

Hey everybody, this is Royce here giving you a bit of a history lesson. Now, if you didn’t already know HD television sets appeared on the scene in 1998, however, there was no medium with the storage required to either record or play HD video. After a joint venture between multiple companies, Blu-ray was born. Using a short wavelength blue laser to read and write data, this laser allows for over five times the data capacity on a single layer than a DVD. This allows a single layer Blu-ray disc to allow room for 25GB of information. Furthermore, continuing advancement allows for up to 400GB of information with work underway on a Blu-ray disc that can store up to a terabyte of data. The huge storage capabilities and major film studio support allowed Blu-ray to surpass HD DVD in the format ware. As the only HD optimal disc available after HD DVD’s demise, it is no question that Blu-ray will be around for a long time. In conclusion, engineers’ ability to continually increase the Blu-ray discs storage ability will allow Blu-ray to have an unpredictably long life.