Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Around the Web 4/28/09
Cornell University Grad Student Mixes Digital Printing and Handmade Paper in Art Installation
It’s always exciting to hear about people using digital print in
innovative ways.
Cornell M.F.A. candidate Elliott Hess’ recent art exhibition at the
Hartell Gallery in Ithaca combined handmade papers and digital
printing. The review of the installation in The Cornell Daily Sun
highlights the effect created by combining the “ye olde” art of
papermaking with the emerging medium of digital print.
Check out the full story at The Cornell Daily Sun.
Coming Soon (to Print): Popular Webcomic xkcd
At the other end of the art spectrum, the New York Times ran a story
last week announcing that Randall Munroe’s popular stick-figure and sarcasm-laden webcomic xkcd will soon make the transition from pixel to
page. The 10,000 books planned for the initial press run in June will
only be available for sale on the xkcd webpage and will contain 150 to
200 strips from the comic’s 500-plus archive.
The Times article opens with a tone of surprise that the comic, which
it describes as “wildly popular with techies the world over,” will be
turned into a print anthology. Then, as a way of addressing this
surprise, the article quotes Munroe, described as an avid Kindle fan,
speaking about his undeniable desire to see his work in print: “I have this urge.
You want to print them out and put them up on places. There is
something good about collecting them together.”
Here's the NYT article.
And here's the xkcd homepage.
The Fallacy of the “Print is Dead” Meme
Finally, Michael Josefowicz posted an interesting article on PBS.org’s
MediaShift blog yesterday pointing out the logical fallacies that
underlie much of the “death of print” rhetoric found online. Whether or
not you agree, Josefowicz makes a number of salient points, and the
article is definitely worth a read.
You can check it out for yourself here.
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