These guys called “drive by press” stopped by Lexington yesterday. It was an interesting idea, a press in the back of a van, printing t-shirts of their woodblocks. Maybe I’m older now and not so impressed with t-shirt designs because its been done so very much (I think it’d be more interesting to put the prints to paper and put more vision in the print) but it was still cool to see these guys doing a unique thing.

Their website doesn’t do “justice” to their, I guess its new, vision. They go to all the print conventions and get donations from whoever wants to give a print. They claim “the largest contemporary print collection in the world” because they have thousands from all over, in all styles and methods. It was cool to see so many prints, from so many people, on the road. The problem was the guy just jibber-jabbered on about how cool it was, what they were doing, and how hard it was on the road, and how all these people were his friends and how its o.k to be a d and d nerd…

He wouldn’t stop and, like at a concert where the musician thinks we came for stand-up, it didn’t help his cause (the only exception, in my experience, is The Dirty Three, Warren Ellis’ intros actually enhance the product you went to see/hear((i remember seeing them back in Chicago in the 90’s an he e’n spit into the air and caught it in his mouth and kep on playin’)), not to mention Jim Whites drums. Mick Turners guitar is top notch too! ooh!). This talking about the dubious dirty three has rekindled my interest… I know blogs are usually a drag precisley for this reason–train of thought rambles with no edits. BUT. I turn this into a post from Kentucky about the drive by press and how too much talking about nothing can 1) hurt your product 2) help your product or 3) be a blog.

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