> Damned right. And now we have glicee prints and digital
> printmaking
????
> and any fool with photoshop can make an image
> using a scanner and the inbuilt 'features' of the program
> and call it art. (present company excepted) This has been
> the subject of many heated arguments on the printmaking
> lists.
> > You want to suffer, try writing an opera libretto. My hair stood on end
> > when i discovered that one of your compatriots (You Know Who I Mean) was
> > flogging off an opera she wrote (and I wrote the libretto for) for
seventy
> > five frigging aussie dollars. Really do wish i hadn't lost the contract
> > that guaranteed me 7.5% of the royalties ...
>
> I dont know who you mean,
Try a google-search on Boyd/Sidney/"Rose Garden". Or shortcut to Sidney
University.
UGH!!!
[Want the URL? I could SCREAM, ducky. I'm still smarting over the Opening
Festival Season of the Sidney Opera House Annex business. HATE SCREAM
RAGE.. And that was admittedly a time ago. ]
> but I recognise your anger and
> frustration, did you send out a 'contract' on her?
Do I buy in Crococodeiile Dundee or the Hamlet man? Mel Books? Nah --
really wouldn't pay £500 to call down either on her ...
> [funnily enough - mine own daughter gets occasionally
> called demon-spawn, are
> > > they related?]
> >
> > Almost certainly -- does your daughter knit?
>
> Nope, but I'm very proud of her this morning, she just got a
> job with a publisher!
K -- that makes yours older than mine (Demon Princess will turn 18 in a
couple of weeks)
> > > Not _that_ kind of printmaker *chuckle* How much is he
> > > payin?
> >
> > Paying? You're joking. I got lumbered for Chide as I have (for my
sins) a
> > laser printer and dave has an inkjet. Cost of consumables, and in an
insane
> > fit, I said, "I'll do it." But you could try him for a (free) >
cover-illustration.
>
> Nah, thanks but no thanks - too busy with other stuff - and
> supposed to be resting in bed, doctors orders
Chide seems to run to 68 pages. My long-arm stapler would seem to punch
through even that.
GROAN
Robin
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