Tuesday Twos

Two Things:

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2 recent visitors to the nest arrived here from a google search for "Flounder Ally".  an ally?  or alley?  I looked for Flounder Alley and discovered it was at the intersection of Broad Street and Atlantic Avenue in Boston.  long gone alley, gone to urban renewal, fill, expressway.  have not been able to find it on a map, but found references to peeps that dwelled there.  I worked at 89 Broad Street back in the late seventies/early eighties.  Norm and I once shared a conversation about Boston Harbor.  we were talking about risk management.  he told me a story about his fears and lng tankers, and today the Yemeni Tanker made port in Boston.  and I saw the the profile of the lng terminal under construction, 3 miles out, as i crossed our Stacey Boulevard today.

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a big shoutout to Captain Joey and friends at Goodmorninggloucter!  coming up on a million hits!  Way to Go!  http://www.goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/. the brainchild of neighbor Capt Joey of  Captain Joe's Lobster.  He has created a terrific community resource that i am so pleased to be a part of.

best,
deb.

Miscellaneous Notes: Recipe for making Litho Crayons

A recent guest of the nest arrived from a google search for a litho crayon recipe, one of my drawing tags is litho crayon, that's the link to the search result.  I thought the inquiry interesting enough to track down a recipe for making litho crayons.  My first handy reference, always in my studio at hand, is Ralph Mayer's 'handbook'.  The handbook is well indexed with 5 references for litho crayon under lithography.  There are numerous recipes under miscellaneous notes page 580-582  (fifth edition) for the making of litho crayons.  the basic ingredients are wax, soap, lamp black.  the recipe need not be exact.  the instructions are straight forward with excellent information about the properties of each ingredient.

I'm not a lithographer.  I use the crayons for drawing on paper and glass.  William Korn's litho crayons meet all of my needs, and they are graded.  i prefer #3 and #4.