Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
Now here’s something you don’t see every day, printmaking using a steamroller as the press. This took place at the Martha Street Studio Steamroller Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Might have to suggest that to the local transport museum. They do live steam days still.
p0wnsays:
My buddy does similar printmaking, he built a cool little print making machine and takes it to places and teaches how to make basic prints. The print screen is a flat piece of styrofoam that you draw with a pen, the indentations you make are what doesn’t get printed. Pretty cool, you guys should feature them. They’ve shown a lot of people the process of printing, and are really great guys.
Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
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So… Why don’t we have a steamroller festival in $city_name?
You do if you’re in San Francisco:
http://sfcb.org/events/roadworks
Roadworks Street Fair
Sunday, September 19, 2010
12-5pm
Rhode Island Street between 16th and 17th Streets
Cool, although technically that’s a road roller (we call them steam rollers here in NZ too though).
I found this where it was done with a real steam powered steamroller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXC6pdgdqTE
Might have to suggest that to the local transport museum. They do live steam days still.
My buddy does similar printmaking, he built a cool little print making machine and takes it to places and teaches how to make basic prints. The print screen is a flat piece of styrofoam that you draw with a pen, the indentations you make are what doesn’t get printed. Pretty cool, you guys should feature them. They’ve shown a lot of people the process of printing, and are really great guys.
http://www.craftandconcept.com/pfphotos.html