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I see other sellers out, and check their sites, and they talk the talk, but their items don't walk the walk. And they don't even come close to the things I find. They all try to pick my brain when I'm out, and I don't tell them anything. I have to bid inconspicuous at auctions, cuz I've earned this reputation as someone who stumbles into gobs of money with anything I pick up, and if I bid on it, people just have to bid too, cuz if I want it, it's gotta be worth something crazy.
I would give my whole life to start a business with someone as a straight buyer, to bring as much art into people's lives as humanly possible, and I would make them millions, upon millions of dollars. My eyes are worth 5,000 times their weight in gold. That's no lie. Not bragging. Just being honest. If I could post my ebay site I would, and you'd all see. You'd see the love I put into it, and the pride I take in running it, and the loyalty, and dedication I provide to all my buyers, and the multiple hundreds of amazing feedbacks I get saying I changed someones life. It's amazing. The feedback makes me keep going, because I know I'm doing God's work.
That's what it's all about. It's the whole experience. It's not the profit. I'd rather be poor, and get to do what I love, than be rich and hate what I do. I haven't worked almost the whole year sealcoating, cuz I'm trying to get my ebay store up, and really going. I've already missed over $20,000 in work this year, just to focus on my love for art, and relocating it to the right people. It's not about the money. I'm doing what I love, and that is going to get me somewhere someday.
Woody..
"I am just having a hard time believing that you truly have an artistic appreciation and aesthetic affinity for everything that you buy (in hopes of reselling for a profit). It seems like you just see everything in terms of dollar signs. Perhaps that is not the case, but that is the sense that I get from pretty much all of your posts."
I am drawn to the weird, and unusual. I always have been. I love art. It is my passion. It is my life. Art, and music are my two greatest loves I've ever had. If I didn't have a love for everything that way, I would be selling 36" round wall shag hangings.. Hey.. Did I just write that out loud...? No, but really, I do.
Of course I want to make a profit, but the profit margin has never driven what I purchase, or don't purchase. I leave hundreds of things behind every week, that I feel nothing over, or unsuitable for my store, or as gifts for my friends, or myself. Even if I could make $100 on it. If it's anything I could make a decent profit on, but too new, or boring for my store, I give it to my gf to help her store make some money, cuz she's not as blessed as me when it comes to sniffing out things, and only makes little baby amounts on her stuff, and she'll sell anything. Most of the time when I'm out, I don't even have the time to look anything up while I'm pushing through a hoard of people at an estate sale, or auction. I have to think very fast, and make snap decisions based on my feelings, not profit margins.
I buy things that stand up and speak to me whenever I see them. I was at a flea market a couple months ago, and come across a 12" Abraham Palatnik lucite whale. I knew nothing about it, or him, and needed to get to the next booth fast, as a lot of people where going through. The price was reasonable, it was neat looking, so I threw it in the bag, and went on. When I got home I found out it was highly oversized, and worth over $1,000, when most of his items are tiny, and worth $200. I have the eye. That's all I can say. I have the eye. I have an uncanny, almost scary talent for finding the most unusual things around, and they just happen to come out worth what they do.
"That was real cool of you...
"That was real cool of you to tell me about how Monet would not even have been able to understand Warhol and everything (!!!) Really! OMG. OMG OMG!!!!!"
I said he may have loved Warhol, but would not accept his style due to the time period. You don't listen very well. I hope you're a better teacher, than student.
"But then, how later on, Warhol would still be great anyway! OMG!!!"
He was. Wasn't he?
"That is fucking awesome!! Thanks so much for pointing that all out. Especially since, like you know, I am a college teacher who has been teaching art as long as you have been alive, and doing art for longer than you have been alive, so this is a real eye opener for me!!!! YAY!!! I will have to hurry along and tell all of my students this new revelation! I understand now, and I guess I really didn't before. Thanks so much again for setting me straight."
No problem dude. Maybe next class, you can show them how smart you are by telling them about the "the thing with the yellow tube in it". I'm sure that'll help them understand you're vast sea of knowledge about art history...:) You're supposed to be an art teacher your whole life, but you didn't know one thing I showed you. That's pretty fuk'n lame dude.. That only shows how much you don't know, not how much you do. You might be a good name dropper, but you're def. no art historian.
I need to Spanky...
I've been fuk'n around all day on here. Too easy to get caught up in debates. I never even got one thing listed because of it. I need to get my priorities straight. I shouldn't argue about this shit, but as much as I respect EH, sometimes you need to pop someone's balloon, so they can re-fill it with new air. When you're green, you grow. When you're ripe, you rot.
You seem to be missing the...
You seem to be missing the obvious onegroovy, this forum is to discuss things related to modern and post modern design. That is not to say that many of us do not have broader minds and interests outside of this, but that is for other forums, although occasionally things here can and do veer off topic. I feel as though many here have extended a very cordial and patient hand to you, so there is no need to "rub" anything in anyone's face as you seem to be directing toward EH... there is never a winner in a debate about art anyway.
I say this in the best possible spirit of things: your personality is coming across like cheap cologne...entirely without nuance. Your manic bravado is revealing more than perhaps you're realizing. Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing... everyone brings something to the table, but graciousness is appreciated too.
Maybe cool your jets a little and get to selling off some of your massive hoarding problem... I mean inventory 🙂
a little common sense would be appreciated.
Wouldn't you just assume that me having had, oh, six or seven art history classes as part of my education, that I would be able to grasp such hefty concepts as "different eras = different art and art contexts" ?
Its rather insulting to lectured about something as painfully basic as " you know, they wouldn"t even understand Warhol in 1920"...
No kidding...!
Can you really sit there and tell me you thought I needed YOU to tell me that?
You have to be ridiculously out of touch and rather full of yourself to assume that even needs to be stated at ALL.
I have always presented all studio assignments against a background of art historical as well as contemporary contexts AND standards.
The standards part is what we were talking about before. But thanks for the lecture, twit.
Solange...
Eames has been bitchin me out all day long, calling me an idiot all day long, and you're telling me to be gracious...? Did you even read the posts, or just pick sides? When he tried to tell me that stuff was all junk, I fired back. And rightfully so. He's giving me a history lesson? I appreciate it, but he's not the only class in the building.
He needs to learn as much, if not more than I do. That was proven. I've only come here looking for info a few items in years. That's it. I'm not a dummy. I never came off cocky, or had anything to prove, until he acted like a walking history book, that was just faced with a whole slew of items he couldn't recognize, so in turn called it all junk. It just hows how much, and how little one person can know at the same time. I never claimed to know it all, and I welcomed classes, and all his suggestions. He just can't get off his prestigious high horse long enough to mingle with the idiots like me, so he called me.
EH...
"Wouldn't you just assume that me having had, oh, six or seven art history classes as part of my education, that I would be able to grasp such hefty concepts as "different eras = different art and art contexts?"
6 or 7. I've had oh...about 800. Everything I pick up is a history lesson.
"Its rather insulting to lectured about something as painfully basic as you know, they wouldn't even understand Warhol in 1920"
I said 1880..
"I have always presented all studio assignments against a background of art historical as well as contemporary contexts AND standards."
That's exactly your problem. You're so deep in studio assignments, you don't see the assignment going on outside the studio. I'm living a studio assignment, and not at a desk. You may talk historical data, but I'm interacting with it live. You may teach history, but I help write it.
"The standards part is what we were talking about before. But thanks for the lecture, twit."
There is no context-independent hierarchy of contexts or standards in terms of strictness or laxness. The irony is that the contextualist story of people is blocked by an unwelcome context-dependency. If there is a plurality of equally acceptable but mutually incompatible rankings of possible worlds in terms of remoteness and closeness, then we might, for instance, have to deal with two rankings like the one I've shown tonight.
You can deal with all that, and waste you and your students time, while I take in the important parts to help sort through the history of 100 new items a week at the estate sales, and flea markets. While their heads are being filled with 80% verbage, and 20% real history, I'm taking in 100% hands on history, without all the calories, and brain fat.
I'm running through building after building, finding, learning, studying, feeling, getting down and dirty with history. It's overflowing, and I'm fighting to save all of it, including Monet, and Warhol if they ever cross my path. I'm not just teaching history, I'm preserving it. It's crying out to be rescued, and I'm there like Unicef. Art doesn't have to run through my grubby hands to be deemed great? Do I look grubby to you?
Me in USA Today
I don't think so. We work in the same way, only in different areas. I'm here to learn, I'll admit it. But not from a James Bottomtooth.
Yeah...
Your right. He was Vulgar to me. I tried to prove points, and he belittled, and called me a twit, clueless, an idiot...etc. 99.9% of any cussing in my posts, are his posts to me in "quotation marks". That's actually being vulgar. I shook my hips a little like Elvis, and he turned out to be a pretty good guy. I don't think I was that vulgar.
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