Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Letterpressed Facebook Status Updates: Typefacebook”.
This is my fifth year as a maker, and i’ve done these sort of interactive printing projects with people type. Facebook is a it’s a basically a little mini workshop in typesetting, letterpress, printing and bookmaking. So basically we take people through the whole process of making a book. The old way of gutenberg actually a little magnesium cuts of faces. You pick a man or a woman, and then you set your facebook status in metal type print.
It letterpress and then you bind this book and if people do it with their friends, you get several on a page. So you basically get your news feed on a page done with metal type. The things that i really like the best is um the typos, which the typos are real. I mean this is a real typo. You know, and as people start putting things away, the bs and the d’s get mixed up and the ps and the qs and the n’s and the r’s, so those are really fun to see the typos and just to see people’s reaction to that it takes. You know 30 to 40 minutes to go through the process, but you get the entire experience of what it would have been like to have made a book back in.
You know in the 1800s, and i feel like it, gives people more of an appreciation for what your computer can do for you and how far along books have come. You .