New online store

I now have an online store, through Etsy.com (mikemoore.etsy.com). Check it out and buy somethin' why dontcha!?!

The Future

I decided to forgo the business card on the previous post for a different one, but then got sidetracked and set the type for a Rainer Maria Rilke poem, called The Future. I haven't counted the edition yet, but it is somewhere between 150-250. They are each about 3.5" x 4". Let me know if you want one and I'll mail it to you!

Type Setting - Business Card Proofs

Here are some images of the proofs and type I set for my new business cards! I spent most of my time familiarizing myself with the layout of the type cases. The type here hasn't been used in a very long time, so it is somewhat disorganized. I proofed the type by hand, so the actual print is inconsistent--but it looks like I spelled everything correctly! Next step is to print them on the Kelsey platen press. I might actually go back and add some spaces in my name and maybe try to put my website address on it too.



This is the type set inside of the composing stick.


The type is surrounded and padded with wood pieces, called "furniture" and two metal wedge-shaped objects, called "quoins".


Here are a few images of the type cases. That piece of paper is my "cheat sheet" that tells me where the type goes inside of the case.

Kelsey Excelsior 5 x 8

Here is the second press I am learning about. This is the one that (hopefully) I will print business cards on:





Here is a page on the history of the Kelsey:
http://excelsiorpress.org/kelsey.html

Vandercook Universal 1

I just started learning how to use this:







It's a Vandercook Universal 1 Proofing Press. Val Lucas has been teaching me and some other people at Towson University how to use it. There is another press that we are learning, too, called the Kelsey Excelsior table top printing press. I will hopefully be making business cards on it this Thursday.

Hex House Photographs

Since I probably won't post new images for a bit, I thought I'd share some old ones, from my Flickr account. These are photos I captured while helping my friend Mike Zombek out with his documentary about witchcraft in Pennsylvania.

So, I finished up my first semester of graduate school in early May. I'm moving across the city towards the end of June, so most of my energy will be focused on packing for now. I am hitting the studio about three to four times a week, but I'm experiencing after-semester withdrawal and a minor case of the 'ol artist's block.

I have a few ideas for new work, so I'll post any progress as soon as possible. For now, I thought I would end with a really beautiful poem by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, called

The Future

The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.

Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices You to deepen
the absence that we are.