{"id":894,"date":"2007-12-17T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2007-12-17T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T20:19:13","slug":"its-a-gocco-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Gocco Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

With each passing year, I seem to pick up at least one additional freelance project doing Christmas\/holiday cards… which unfortunately means that I wind up with less and less time to put together cards for us<\/em> to send. It’s like they say, I suppose: The cobbler’s kids go shoeless (or whatever that expression is). At any rate, I finally–with barely a week until Christmas–got an afternoon to put something together, and though I was glad to have the cards done, the whole process was tinged with sadness. Why? Because I wound up using my very very last Gocco<\/a> screen and bulbs.<\/p>\n

If you don’t know what a Gocco is, in short it’s an incredibly cool, self-contained, no-chemical using, silkscreening machine that uses 70s-style flash bulbs to burn its screens. It’s manufactured by a Japanese company that announced in 2005 that it would cease producing them because of low sales in Japan. That, though, was just about the time a full-fledged Gocco “cult” was going in the U.S., with tons of crafty and\/or D.I.Y. types really embracing the machine.\u00c2\u00a0 There was even a campaign mounted (I’d link to their site,\u00c2\u00a0 savegocco.com, but it appears to be out of whack) to try to find a domestic manufacturer that would buy the rights to continue making the machine.<\/p>\n

When last I looked, it was getting hard to find new screens, bulbs and inks, and the online art supply giant, dickblick.com had dropped Gocco stuff entirely. Much to my delight, though, it looks like supplies have surfaced from parts unknown, with a number of<\/a> retailers<\/a> stocking them. Long live the Gocco!<\/p>\n

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With each passing year, I seem to pick up at least one additional freelance project doing Christmas\/holiday cards… which unfortunately means that I wind up with less and less time to put together cards for us to send. It’s like they say, I suppose: The cobbler’s kids go shoeless (or whatever that expression is). At … <\/p>\n

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