Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Activate!

Come on, everyone! It's a neato thing that will go completely extinct unless we help! Gocco is a sweet little compact and efficient setup for screen printing that was wildly popular in Japan in the 1970s. As home computers and printers became more popular, the gocco fervor gradually declined to the point that production stopped.

This legendary craft-tacious goody is still useful and relevant for people doing home art prints, printing on fabric and handmade or otherwise non-printer ready paper, and a million other ideas that spring from the minds of the crafty. It's a shame to see it become relegated to Ebay and junk shops.

Like the LOMO (a keen but temporarily discontinued Russian camera), perhaps the company can be convinced to continue making goccos on a small-scale basis.

Let us cross our fingers and hope, 'cause I want one of these puppies. Bad.

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