Prints made with steamroller

Raphael Uhrweiller and Mayumi Otero of France's Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs (ESAD) made huge woodcut art prints with a 17 ton steamroller. Link (via Drawn!)

• [Takuan]

  remember that Malcolm in the Middle episode where the dad keeps sneaking away with a variety of strange objects?

• [Anonymous]

  mmm … techincally … thats not a steamroller, if anything, it appears to be diesel powered.

• [eiderfarmer]

  I took a college class many years ago from Mick Sheldon, who would print woodcuts with the front wheel of his old van.

• [demidan]

  oooooooh, Cool prints, and fun for the big child in you!

• [Aloisius]

  The Center for the Book in San Francisco did the same thing a while back. The prints had a really nice transfer.

• [Aloisius]

  Actually it looks like the Center of the Book does it once a year:

  http://www.sfcb.org/html/roadworks.html and you can see the prints they auctioned off last year at http://sfcb.org/2007steam/

  They are quite neat.

• [djlicata]

  The Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo did this in April. Flickr photostream here http://tinyurl.com/458z76.

• [Fritz Bogott]

  Some folks here made dynamite ones for Dia de los Muertos a couple of years ago.

• [Lilith999]

  The college I go to, University of Montana, has been doing this kind of thing for years.

  http://umnewsmontana.blogspot.com/2007/11/art-at-university-of-montana-now.html

  It’s all part of this Day of the Dead thing that Missoula does every fall.

• [powermatic]

  Sadly, not a true ‘steamroller’, which would have been awesome beyond compare, adding whole layers to the artistic construct. Still and all, cool.

• [mdpaustin]

  The printmaking department at the University of Texas at Austin does this once a year as well. Check out pictures from this year:

  http://www.brandonboyle.com/Steamroller%20Madness%202008.html

• [chumprock]

  I suggested something like this for a project in my commercial art class in high school many years ago and got yelled at for not taking the project seriously.

• [noen]

  Very cool!

• [Bookyloo]

  So basically if you want to open a book-arts center or art printing shop you have to factor in the price of annual steamroller rental.

  I wonder how that meme got started? Who did the FIRST “print by steamroller” annual street party?

• [Pablo Defendini]

  Printmaking instructor Dennis McNett organizes a steamroller print day at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn every year, as well. It’s a whole bunch of fun! Here are some words and pictures from last year’s event.

• [Anonymous]

  i’ve seen them do this in san antonio, tx quite a few times. it’s so much fun to watch!