To put it bluntly, and briefly, on our first night upon receiving all of the supplies in the mail (which come to find out, the warehouse is literally 11 minutes from my apartment) we completely wasted a gallon of emulsion. A whole fucking gallon.
Exposed it? Accidentally mistook it for gooey candy? Tried to coat the walls with it, mistaking it for paint?
None of the above. We were advised to buy emulsion by the gallon and mix it by the quart, as this would be the most cost efficient way of doing things. Well...apparently, if you're off just by a little bit, you'll throw everything completely off. So after messing up a quart of the stuff, we attempted mixing the rest of the gallon and ruined it. A whole gallon.
So.
Day two and three, we actually go out and buy a cheaper, pre-mixed emulsion and use it instead. Though our screens still look mesy as shit, everything apparently works, and we are able to print flyers for Bellafea, Fromanhole, and Master/Slave. These two nights turn out to be a lot better than the night before.
Wrapping it up, we're sitting here waiting for a screen to dry, so we can start printing out the flyers for Human Host, and looking proudly at our stack of These Are Powers flyers. It's been a decent night, even though we ripped one of the hinge clamps right off the fucking table.
Also, i think we'll have to re-mesh our 230, as there seem to be emulsion remnants that bother us a great deal.
Such is life.
It's our current goal to really flood the scene with well designed, hand-screened flyers and just keep busy making and printing cool art. If for some reason you really really like prints that only use black ink (because we don't have anything else) you can email us, and we can...send...you one? Or you could wait for us to do cool shit.
youcrumbling@gmail.com
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