This is a long clip, I was in two minds as to whether to show this, but it is pretty neat I think.
When Rich had finished the production of his bindings, he sent them to us. As Neil was in New Zealand and Gary was in Chicago, it wasn’t possible to send them over to them, so I made a personal film of me first opening the books.
The numbered edition interiors were printed using an ink jet print just to see how the book would look inside, NOT letterpressed, as Phil was deep into printing all the different editions. The paper, although the right stock, was printed against the grain; which means that the pages open stiffly and don’t lay open, which they will when we print with the grain of the paper stock correct.
It was only intended to show Neil and Gary, so things like the solander box being a couple of millimetres too tall, which meant that the artist’s original art plug moved, which it won’t, and our cat wanting to see too and my partners reaction to seeing Gary’s art for the first time are all in there. And my embracingly inarticulate ramblings, I was actually too gobsmacked by the books. That’s my excuse anyway.
But what it does show to Neil and Gary is what the productions will end up like, so I thought I’d show this. It is long!
Hope you don’t find it boring.
btw, I have very large hands!