Blurb Edit: Round 2

One reason why I can't seem to start this Blurb book edit (which is reminding me an awful lot of my aversion to packing early):



In addition to a cat in front of the computer every time I turn around, I can't understand why the aqua color on the cover of "Nine Swimming Pools..." printed bluish gray. I also think that I've procrastinated so long because editing is such a crap shoot in terms of how to edit. Do I lighten just five images or all the photographs? How much so when the one on the computer looks just fine but was printed so differently?



Love having "OK" on the pink post-it. It's a rare thing in this pile that must now be measured and chip board cut for the containers to be mailed to Nancy by Wednesday.

These books of ours...

(a quick shot of the ten on my office floor before shipping them to Houston)

Well there are many things to be said about making a Blurb book. It's far easier when text is not involved (formatting is more difficult). We have to reprint four due to images printing darker than acceptable (but four is far better than re-doing all ten). The book I was least satisfied with on the computer is by far the popular favorite in print - Conversation Maps. Motels does not live up to my expectations. I am in constant debate whether or not these should just be made as one volume because it would be far cheaper to produce and the point will still come across (also when grouped together, they aren't as significant as I had anticipated and with one volume it could be a hardback with text on the spine). I will be constructing a chipboard holder to contain all of them once arriving in Houston (as Texas Art Supply has far more options on paper than Muncie, Indiana). Overall the print quality looks good especially in Nine Swimming Pools and a Fake Doughnut and Car Games I: Geodomes. As soon as Nancy and I sort out a few things about these in person, they will go public on the Blurb website. In the meantime... here's to finishing the four before next week!

A Couple Conversation Maps

To celebrate the completion of ten blurb books (they will be sent to be published tonight), I am posting two Conversation Maps: Roden Crater & Lightning Field.

Conversation Maps...

... are generally made in the back seat of the car with no regard to North, South, East or West. A right turn features a line drawn toward the right and whatever conversation is taking place at the time is recorded alongside. If we are following the Green River, stories of the Green River Killer surface, mapping language as much as the terrain. It's drawings like these that interest me... those that are based in reality but introduce the element of personal experience, documenting exactly what took place at the time not just what it looked like.

The two images below are from Denis Wood's The Power of Maps.

MAPPING BEGINS: ROBERT MORRIS