Fresh from the Carmel Bach Festival: A pen for your thoughts

[Alyson Kuhn] The first event I attended at the 73rd annual Carmel Bach Festival was a one-hour lecture by singer/teacher/raconteur David Gordon preceding a performance of the St. Matthew Passion (1727). Gordon is indeed passionate about this subject, and his talk was not only brilliant but surprisingly, well, Alysonian. When I told my friend Vinz about it afterwards, he deadpanned, “Did he know you were going to the lecture?” Drole.

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07.29.10
In the pressroom: Printing John Madere’s photographs at Sandy Alexander

[Lynda Decker] I’ve been working with uncoated paper for the last 10 years — for almost every project in my studio, including annual reports full of photography. I’m quite excited to have rediscovered Kromekote. It boggles my mind to say this: The surface of Kromekote is so glossy, but it behaves like an uncoated sheet.

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07.28.10
Marian Bantjes: 3 questions by Sean Adams

[Sean Adams] In disaster movies, characters create tight bonds amidst burning skyscrapers, airplane crashes or earth-crust displacement. I formed a bond like this with Marian Bantjes when we both faced down a charging rhino in Africa. Really. This is a true story. Obviously, Marian is incredibly talented. She does work that, to me, is beyond the limits of human beings. And that’s all swell. But she has the most infectious and wonderful laugh you will ever hear.

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07.26.10

A swell Decibel from Volume

Our design friends at Volume in San Francisco are offering a really cool poster history of the San Francisco music scene to 100 people who say “Thanks” by mail. This is fresh news — partners Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman broadcast this deal just yesterday, in their terrific occasional newsletter, the Decibel (dB).

Says Volume, “We’re offering a signed, limited-edition 22 x 30 ‘SF Sound’ poster, which is a visual history of Bay Area music designed for a recent McSweeny’s project, San Francisco Panorama. The poster is printed by the printing Olympians at Blanchette Press on the super-duper Mohawk Superfine paper.

“The premise is simple, if a little backwards: mail us a handcrafted thank-you note for the poster, and we’ll send the poster to you. Don’t forget to include the address to which you want it shipped! Many will enter, only 100 will win, as we only have so many posters. So get cranking! Every thank you note we receive will be featured on our dedicated THANK YOU site and prominently displayed in the Volume studio.”

Mail your handcrafted thank you to:
Volume Inc.
2130 Harrison St., Suite B
San Francisco, CA  94110.[

[L.S.]

Felt & Wire’s own Alyson Kuhntributor plans to invite herself over to Volume to see (and describe) the thank-you notes from postal and politesse perspectives.

02.21.10

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