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5 days ago
Laura Brown
backed a project
Screen Printing: On the Cheap Book by Screen Printing On The Cheap
This DIY book project instructs how to screen print out of your living space and design a semi-professional shop with a modest budget.
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88% funded $8,889 pledged
- 174 backers
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on April 28, 2011
Laura Brown
backed a project
The Language of the Birds by Meera Lee Sethi
The Language of the Birds is a little book of essays about bird science and mythology—written by the light of the midnight sun.
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280% funded $2,801 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded May 24, 2011
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on November 19, 2010
Laura Brown
backed a project
Moveable Type: cross-country adventures in printing by Kyle Durrie
Help build a mobile letterpress print shop in a truck! I'll tour the country, share the love, and make printing accessible to all!
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212% funded $17,010 pledged
- 350 backers
- Funded Jan 03, 2011
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on November 9, 2010
Laura Brown
Posted project update #6getting there.
i've been meaning to give you an update for weeks now, but there isn't much news. however, i've gotten quite a few questions about when the book will be done (rightfully so!), so i thought i'd at least give you some info.
binding the books has been slow going, but i'm working on it, i promise! it's gotten tough with other projects that have come down the pike this fall, but we're getting there--and i mean it. because i'm pretty stubborn and very optimistic (and new to making books), i thought for sure i would have been done many months ago with no help. but these babies need to get done and sent off to you, and i've finally recruited some help. so next monday, i have some great friends coming over for a book binding party, and i (again with the optimism) think we will make some significant progress! my goal is to have your books in the mail by the end of november. i sincerely apologize for the delay. i really didn't think it would take quite this long (the other update i have brewing in my head is a little list of "things i learned about creating a kickstarter project". maybe that will help shed some insight on why everything is taking a long time.
one other note: i was looking at my backer report today and realized that the words describing the $25 reward include "six poems and prints by me" or something to that effect. the $25 chapbook actually does not contain images inside, and i think that wording was the result of copying, pasting, and missing that wording in the final edit. i'm so sorry. in my mind, that version of the book was never intended to be illustrated (and is not, although it is quite a nice little edition). i literally just caught that description and i certainly do not want to mislead anyone.
and to end on an exciting note! i recently sold a copy of the artist's book (the $35 reward version) to the hennepin county library's special collection! which is quite exciting. when it opened in 2005, the hennepin county's central library housed the third largest collection in the united states. i'm not sure where it currently ranks, but it's a big freakin' library. i'm so excited that one of my books has found a home there.
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on July 18, 2010
Laura Brown
Posted project update #5you're invited, etc.
Post Commentthe official POEMS + PRINTS reading is scheduled for tuesday, august 3 at 7pm.
at the open book, second floor in the target performance hall
1011 washington ave. south, minneapolis, mn
more details can be found/you can rsvp on facebook if you like (though no rsvp is necessary):
http://www.facebook.com/event.php...
i would love to meet any of you who have been so kind to back this project and who are able to make it.
of course, this also means that the residency is winding down and you will be getting your postcards/books/broadsides soon! realistically, sometime in august.
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on July 2, 2010
Laura Brown
Posted project update #4chapbooks are done!
i have been posting more updates on my blog (www.laurabrownart.wordpress.com). just about exactly one month before the reading and presentation, which is scheduled for tuesday, august 3. more information to come on that. i'm pretty excited to have the chapbooks finished, i just think they are so adorable (it's okay to say that about my own work, right?). i've hit some snags with logistics as i learn the process (working with letterpress is--i'm guessing--like learning a new dialect of a language you already speak. i get the basics, but there are tons of tiny differences that make it challenging. which is good. i like it). i'm hoping to post more updates more regularly, although i'm also getting to the point where i don't want to show too much because i like surprises. . . .
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on June 13, 2010
Laura Brown
backed a project
Bicycle Portraits - everyday South Africans and their bicycles. A photographic book. by Stan Engelbrecht / Nic Grobler
Bicycle Portraits will be a photographic book about contemporary South African bicycle commuter culture. Pledge now and own a copy of your own...
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107% funded $16,074 pledged
- 245 backers
- Funded Jun 17, 2010
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on May 12, 2010
Laura Brown
Posted project update #3i have been remiss!
Post Commenti HAVE indeed been posting updates about poems + prints, but i have been posting them on my blog (since that's where i post all kinds of things). i do hope that you will come over and have a look. it is all very exciting for me, and i find myself thinking about each one of you (or wondering about those of you i don't know personally) as i work on the project. so please join me over at laurabrownart.wordpress.com for all the details.
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on April 1, 2010Funded!
Poems + Prints: A Book Arts Project in the Wild Midwest by Laura Brown
six poets + one printmaker = poems for everyone! pocket-sized, postcard-sized, hang-it-on-the-wall-sized.
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147% funded $2,205 pledged
- 68 backers
- Funded Apr 01, 2010
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on March 22, 2010
Laura Brown
Posted project update #2more papermaking progress!
Post Commentso. . . after the paper has been hung to dry (which is done in groups of four), the sheets get separated and then spritzed with water to make the fibers relax a little and then they get dried again in a big drying contraption involving laybers of cotton blotters, cardboard, and cinder blocks on top. and then the paper is all flat! and i have a big stack of beautiful, unique, imperfect sheets of paper sitting on my dining room table, all ready to be made into book pages and broadsides!
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Laura Brown
Minneapolis, MN
i make prints, paper, and books and i want to make more.
Laura, that is so cool that your book is in the library! :) Congrats! I also think it's great (and totally understandable) that you have been so busy with projects and things that the book project got put on hold. Business in the art world must be good. Hope so!
Love you!
Laura Jacobson