{"id":578,"date":"2009-06-07T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=578"},"modified":"2016-04-24T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T15:19:09","slug":"a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting With John Babcock, Artist\/Papermaker\/Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 7, 2009<\/p>\n<p>My dad and I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babcockart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Babcock<\/a> at his studio in the Santa Cruz mountains.\u00a0 He hasn&#8217;t seen me since I was a two-month old baby.\u00a0 I learned a lot of new things about paper making like the kozo pulp and how to use a bamboo mesh screen.\u00a0 Also I learned about special machine that paper-makers use to make pulp called a Hollander beater.\u00a0 They&#8217;re kind of like bath-tub shaped blenders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_4149_weblarge-e1461510654715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_4149_weblarge-e1461510654715-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Babcock and Amelia\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I showed John samples of paper I&#8217;d made &#8211; he thought I&#8217;d done a great job and hoped I&#8217;d take one of his workshops in paper-making.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-578 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker\/img_4137_weblarge\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_4137_weblarge-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"John &amp; Amelia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-624\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-624'>\n\t\t\t\tJohn &#038; Amelia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker\/img_4144_weblarge\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_4144_weblarge-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Eeww...fermented kozo!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-685\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-685'>\n\t\t\t\tEeww&#8230;fermented kozo!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker\/img_4146_weblarge\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_4146_weblarge-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Checkin Out Paper Pulp\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-626\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-626'>\n\t\t\t\tCheckin Out Paper Pulp\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7, 2009 My dad and I visited John Babcock at his studio in the Santa Cruz mountains.\u00a0 He hasn&#8217;t seen me since I was a two-month old baby.\u00a0 I learned a lot of new things about paper making like the kozo pulp and how to use a bamboo mesh screen.\u00a0 Also I learned about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/a-visit-with-john-babcock-papermaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting With John Babcock, Artist\/Papermaker\/Mentor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41,6],"tags":[163,260],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-famous-people-ive-met","category-projects","tag-art","tag-famous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6775,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}