laz

i know for a fact laz black lists a lot of people who continuously buy prints on there databases - watch out flippers!

great i just got mine
edition 1/1
title:Yes, Jesus is a member here, and he is a flipper

nope. nothing stateside. this is my 1st order from laz. do they send out shipping conf's?

if anyone is able to snap some pics that would be stellar.

Mine arrive yesterday but not had a chance to open yet

Invader lands in my front room! Just picked it up from the post office. Beautifully crisp image, the print style gives it a nice depth, almost 3D feel. Slightly disappointed with the Laz school of packaging though, one corner slightly creased but thankfully far enough away from the signature.








I like the fact on the orange and blue print that the colour yellow still just sneaks into the frame! Pretty sure this was the last one available on the website before selling out completely, and whilst I wanted one of the other colour ways this really works well up close.



Enjoy the sunshine all!

Looks nice, all!

is like making an image out of lots of little dots

Thanks...

Learn something new everyday...

Not a patch on the embossed invasion series..imo

yeah it looks like he has done it so it just fades into the colour better

signed over 3 months ago? wonder why the delay...

Well halftoning does give a 3d effect in so far as it is required to produce areas of light and shade in a photographic image printed using a single colour to give the illusion of depth.

It's certainly not pushing any boundaries though. The halftone technique was invented in the second half of the 19th century to answer a fundamental problem faced by the newspaper industry which was; how can we reproduce these new-fangled photographs on our printing presses?

To help explain the problem let me use the example of a pencil. A pencil is an incredibly versatile tool. By varying the pressure you use, you can create thick dark lines by pushing hard, or thin light lines by pressing lightly. You can also build up tone by using layers - ie going over a line you have already drawn a 2nd time will make it darker.

However, neither of these techniques are possible on a printing press, where the pressure is uniform across the sheet and you only want to pass that sheet through the press once - so how do you create different shades of grey (which are required to reproduce a photograph) using only black ink at a constant pressure?

To help answer the problem they looked back at how they reproduced drawings on the press - which was basically etchings (intaglio). One of the primary methods of creating different shades in an intaglio print (and before that woodcuts) was hatching (closely spaces parallel lines - the closer the spacing, the darker the tone) and cross-hatching (when lines are places at angles to one another in a criss-cross pattern.) Albrecht Dürer was a master of this technique.

Halftones work on the same general principle, except that they use dots instead of lines. without halftones it would not be possible to reproduce tonal photographs in print.

Very nice print and thank you for all the info on the halftone!

Still got my first Invader to get.

cheers

Ragnar