Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press

we need c19 bolo ties

I like to drink outside, but obviously not a good move when professing. I bring this up because one time, as I was gesticulating wildly (indoors) with a cup of ice water in my hand, some of it flew out my cup. A student of mine said, "Dr. Mattes, you need a bigger crunk chalice." So true. So true.

good point - I'm betting a lot of college students who like the idea at first are leaning on their HS experience

Same, and i'm always a little damp from gesticulating wildly. I don't need to be *more* damp!

elite studenting

elite studenting

Jack and Diane but most of the lyrics are "suckin' on a chili dog" YouTube video by Tom McGovern

I watch this like once a week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX5...

go handwriting go!

Back on the horse!

"Thanks for the reader's copy. Have you checked your oil recently?"

Dm'd ya!

but what they don't realize is that Hot Brown Press ain't nuthin' da fuck with lololol!

It is lol...I was selling it on Etsy and got a cease and desist from the Wu's lawyers because they don't understand intellectual property law and fair use and just were dinguses about it.

I *only* had 102 notes LMFAO

Lol

He's a sweet boy. I can't stay mad too long.

a yellow cartoon character is typing on a coleco computer ALT: a yellow cartoon character is typing on a coleco computer

Ralph invented AI student papers

Oof. Yah.

You can bounce a buffalo nickel off of dat

Wooden buffalo nickel in Johnson county Iowa, reads "Don't tread on me. Vote for common sense."

Hits differently today than it did 16 years ago

Using a Star Trek GIF, post where you're at right now. 🖖🏻

I'm so fucking diverse over here

I'd always imagined applying for that fellowship later in my career after the kids were post-HS. Sigh.

Another Druksel print (type as shape, not semantic/readable unit) I made back in January—a person with an alerted ! over their head. (Planning to fill yellow space with text about goals for my press @wolfproofpress.com) #DHmakes

Photo of a letterpress print on yellow paper with layered red orange dark blue inked type forming non-word art. It says "typehound!" followed by what looks like a dog over an orange square background: sideways H body, Ts for legs, colon for eyes, period and apostrophe for eyebrows

Photo of a letterpress print on yellow paper with layered red orange dark blue inked type forming non-word art of what looks like a dog but way more minimally than the previous photo: stout H for body and legs, sideways T for head and upper back, sideways colon for eyes, apostrophe for tail

Photo of a letterpress print on yellow paper with layered red orange dark blue inked type forming non-word art. It's a lowercase h that looks like a dog in profile, with the two lower stems being legs seen from the side, and the top left edge of the h slightly serifed in a way that suggests dog nose and ears. An apostrophe has been added in the place a tail would go on a dog. There's also a lowercase t just kind of misplaced half on the dog composition

Photo of a letterpress print on yellow paper with layered red orange dark blue inked type forming non-word art. It's a lowercase h that looks like a dog in profile, with the two lower stems being legs seen from the side, and the top left edge of the h slightly serifed in a way that suggests dog nose and ears. An apostrophe has been added but missed the place a tail would go on a dog and instead hovers in the air nearby, so is not as readable as a dog tail. There's also a lowercase t overlapping the h on the dog composition closer to how I actually wanted that letter placed

A #DHmakes playing w/letterpress type as non-word art/Druksels (typehound! made of Ts, H, & punctuation) + some #DHtries (homely little dog-ish thing; & an h that looks like a dog when I add a comma-tail; but magnets kept moving, so I didn't get 3 letters all in the right place in any test print)

Anyways, brilliant work. Can't wait to see what's next!

And juice the commissions, etc

I mean, some folks are probably on the art fair circuit and plan to sell them, and the fairs juice the sales. My aunt was a professional art quilter for the last third of her career (started in drawing and watercolor, then mixed media 2D collage, then quilts)

I like this. Use! It's tricky. I'm staring at a flat file full of stuff I made and stuff I've received and I'm just like, if people visit for whatever reason, they get something to take hime because these prints won't see everyday use from me. Just not enough wall space!