4 2004 |
A load of iron ore, twenty-six thousands ton more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty? Not quite...there's an antique shoppe in Milwaukee (Hales Corners, actually) who cleaned out a printshop. In his warehouse sits dozens of boxes of old printing cuts for advertisments, business documents, product labels, and books.
I've bought the whole lot.
When you spend a couple hours trying to sift through all the boxes, picking out the best plates, it's a reasonable conclusion. "Let's ask what he'll take for the whole thing," she says. What he took for the whole thing was still in our budget, and we'll have plenty of time to find the best ones on our own time.
What do we intend to do with our raw materials?
- Many will be sold to collectors.
- Some (after some edumacation for me) will be used to make new prints, to be sold much like a lithograph.
- Many will become clipart for my websites and upcoming print endeavors.
- Others are just so cool that they will be converted into t-shirt images, to be sold online.
While the price was higher than our usual purchase limit (he wants payment in cash, and there's a stack of hundreds waiting on my dresser; I best not forget to bring them with), I'm certain we can find something much more valuable in our half-ton of raw materials.
I'm excited to see these materials! It'd be great if you photographed and cataloged them all.
--David Vaiyne , 3/4/2004 11:24:03