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  • ilovetypography.com 2 years ago
    Firefly Press: the magic that is letterpress.
    Be sure to visit their web site.
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  • delarge 2 years ago
    What a great video - quite moving in a strange way
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  • ilovetypography.com 2 years ago
    yes, you're right it is. Had a lump in my throat when they talked about letterpress one day disappearing. Great though, that there are those keeping it alive--and with such passion.
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  • Robert 2 years ago
    Good stuff! :)
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  • Pixel Grease 2 years ago
    Wonderfully poignant .. I think that the filmmaker, Chuck Kraemer, deserves a big hug.

    elsa.photo.net/kraemerfilms.html
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  • nshack 2 years ago
    This is awesome! I agree this film is a great documentation of why we need to hold on to crafts like this process.
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  • ilovetypography.com 2 years ago
    @Pixel Grease
    'poignant'--that's the word I was searching for. Indeed it is.
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  • Tyler Dickey 2 years ago
    This is great!
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  • Aaron 2 years ago
    My uncle in the Philippines had a two letterpresses... amazing... Seeing the motion and rhythm of the pressman and the machine is almost hypnotizing.

    We shouldn't let this be a dying art form
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  • Martin Korner 2 years ago
    Very interesting. Thanks :)
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  • kruzer 2 years ago
    Dude, that's one cool video!
    Nicely photographed and shown real DEPTH in the printing results.

    Wow, this piece of documentary is excellent !
    The printer and his philosophy is BRILLIANT.
    What a humble dude.
    Sure hope someone will carry on with this ART.
    That's what it is... and art.

    Lynotype machine is another invention that simply amazing, considering when it was introduced. A mechanical 'robot' without software :)
    Oh yeah... the people were the software.
    heh

    Facinating stories and I hope you keep making more of them... since you're an ARTIST as well.
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  • UriĆ” Fassina 2 years ago
    Awesome!
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  • Enes Kesk 1 year ago
    simply amazing.
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  • christian carlsson 1 year ago
    That's cool. He seems dangerously close to choppin of the hand tho!
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  • alek one 1 year ago
    that's really an interesting piece of video
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  • Zoltan Garami 11 months ago
    amazing!
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  • FIVE5IVE 8 months ago
    saw this on youtube and it made me sad :-(
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  • Joshua Gerken plus 7 months ago
    Great photography! Those old presses are amazing. Here's a letterpress poster printed in Cleveland. Cheers.

    vimeo.com/2170116
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  • Tyler Ashcraft 6 months ago
    This is the best video on letterpress that I've seen. Thanks!
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