Another of the YouTube videos on art that I call Meditations has just passed its one thousandth view. This is no big deal given that when I typed 'kittens' in the YouTube machine, the first results had 707,000, 13 million, and 49 million hits respectively. But in my little world, I'm pleased that it did -- and surprised that it's the one I did on painter Cecily Brown:
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I've just finished restoring and assembling my large etching press -- a six week process involving lots of rust removal, scrubbing with steel wool, and repainting. Here is a photo of the same kind of press from the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative: And here is a short YouTube video of me testing the press, making sure the motor still works after nearly seven years of lying in storage: