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Keeping focused on only what I am capable of doing moment by moment. Meditating on a fair percentage of luck and available skill that may reveal itself as a useful tool. While balancing upside down in life on the head of a pin attached to a wheel the size of a dime. Ready for success or failure and being forgiving on occasion to the dumb asses who think they run this movie we call life. We have paint, they don't. Lets mark this town like we belong here...
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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not being negative, or hijacking this, but i am becoming obsessed(ok, just thinking about it a bit...) "what happenes to our "stuff" ie: brushes,tools, equip. etc, when we go to"the Big Sign Shop in the Sky, where your best brushes never go bad" ya know what I mean.
I'm thinking about having, in your will, specific instructions re: your stuff, so as to avoid well meaning relatives, having to figure out what 23k patent leaf is, or, Grumbachher 629's are all about, ya??
so, youse gals/guys over 50... i ask you to give this some thought...maybe you have, good... anyway, we don't want to be fillin' up the landfill with a bunch of lead-filled 1shot, gold leaf, primo quills n' sables, redwood mahlsticks, and all the other goodies that we have loved and used over the last 40-50-60 years!!!
yours in repose...john
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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To avoid the aforementioned problem with the executors of our estates not knowing the value ( not just monetary value) of our tools & supplies I have an agreement with a close friend & fellow letterhead in that he will distribute my work related possessions as he sees fit. He knows who would like what, what he should sell & what he should just give away to someone who would appreciate it. My wife will likely end up with a lot more $$$ & some cherished friends in the industry will hopefully appreciate what has became their's.
-------------------- Rodger MacMunn T.R. MacMunn & Sons C.P.207, Sharbot Lake, ON 613-279-1230 trmac@frontenac.net Posts: 475 | From: Sharbot Lake, Ontario | Registered: Nov 2003
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How about starting a new underground trend. When visiting a cafe or other public place, Maybe, we could paint something to show others we were there. Can you imagine if when stopping at a roadside cafe for a burger, you glance at the tabletop and see a design of somesort painted by "One of The Greats". That'd be great.Since I'm already known to be nutcase, I'm gonna start it. Gotta find the right joints.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3816 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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We were doing some of that for a while during the early 90's. Cafe and saloon owners would dedicate a table and chairs to our ilk.
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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After having all these people continually telling me I practice a dying trade,.... lately I feel like the outlaw in the old "California Highway Patrol" tv shows ,....there was always a guy with a fedora and an old revolver when told by Broderick Crawford,... "the house is surrounded come out with your hands up" then the outlaw would knock out the glass and yell "Come in and get me,... you'll never take us alive",...
Keep on keepin' on,...
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Jack, I sold three small paintings online yesterday. Some scattered folks are still spending a little money, you just have to find the audience.
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Way to go Mark,the shopping for art is up and running. There is always an audience.
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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