http://rainyplanet.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:59:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bought this great little wood engraving print by Anna Hogan at this summer's Letterpress Guild / Museum of Printing fair, and really loved a lot of her other work. (I literally ran out of cash, or I would have bought another print or two from her). I was very glad ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2009/10/21/anna-hogan-wood-engraving-show-at-the-museum-of-printing/ It's been a while, hasn't it? The Rainy Planet Press has been more or less on hiatus for some time, because of a new Rainey in our life: Rainer Eli Wise Ball, born July 17. Just five short days before he was born, we rallied some friends and moved the press ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2009/10/21/rainey-the-rainy-planet/ This looks like fun. I thought of doing it last year, and might do it this year. http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/11/01/cake-pie-handcrafted-ornament-swap/ The University of Iowa has this nifty animated atlas / timeline of the spread of printing in Europe between 1450 and 1500. [via Lauging Squid] http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/09/23/the-atlas-of-early-printing/ I just posted some photos from the wayzgoose to Flickr. Check it out.         Much missed, at least by me, was Leslie of the Sea Dog Press (who sent along these Obama signs since she couldn't make it in person) and Kelley of ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/09/21/letterpress-guild-of-new-england-wayzgoose-2008-pictures/ The Letterpress Guild of New England's annual wayzgoose is tomorrow (September 20) at high noon at the Firefly Press in Allston. The Somerville Urban Country Fair is also tomorrow in Union Square; Shelley and the Albertine Press posse will be there, as will myriad other crafty people. The Boston Zine Fair ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/09/19/of-interest-the-weekend-of-september-20-21/ Wired reports that on this day in 1982, the emoticon was invented: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/09/19/the-victorian-emoticon/ I keep getting hung up on blogging about last Sunday's Print Arts Fair because I can't decide where to start. So this will just have to be the first in a series. I'll start with the two vendors who sat to the left and right of the Rainy Planet booth. Both ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/06/18/new-faces-at-the-print-arts-fair/ Just a reminder that the Rainy Planeteers will be selling schtuff at the Print Arts fair at the Museum of Printing in North Andover, Mass. this Sunday, June 15, rain or shine. Other highlights of the fair to make it worth your while: An Adams-Washington colonial-era hand press printing a faux ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/06/10/reminder-print-arts-fair-is-this-sunday/ This Globe article about local font designer David Berlow is sort of interesting. Maybe worth 20 seconds of your life. But it's ultimately kind of disappointing. Why does the lede assume you don't know what a font is? ("Unless you're in the design or publishing industry, David Berlow won't bother explaining ... http://rainyplanet.com/blog/2008/05/28/boston-globe-article-about-font-designer/