P3D Re: NSA Auction --- Stereo Slides?????

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Talbot wrote:
> OK, I'll come out of the closet:  In the year or so I've been
> receiving SW, I doubt I've read more than 10% of the content.
> I don't anxiously await its arrival and wouldn't miss it if it
> never came.  

Hey Paul, I'll take all those boring old Stereo World's off your
hands, as a favor to a friend!  I'll even pay the postage!! ;-)

Seriously, some people get a kick out of the auction experience and
some don't, but George T's questions about the most effective way to
donate money are like saying "Why ride the Ferris Wheel...you just end
up on the ground again anyway!"

Donating to the auction is a good option for those who can't attend,
would like to make a contribution but are cash-poor and image-rich. 
Get somebody with a hole in their pocket to convert your creative work
into cash for the ol' NSA.  (Yes, I'm listening Bill.  My eyes are all
ears!)

I am a little surprised at Bill W's surprise at the auction's
attracting more cards than slides, given his well-documented arguments
for preferring the former.  If the following points were made
recently, I apologize.

   -  Prints are more readily made in multiples while the "original"
(neg)       stays with the maker - so no separation anxiety about your
work.

   -  Prints look more like the kinds of paper-based things people are
          used to collecting.

   -  Prints as collectibles can be displayed in the open for casual  
          admiration as conventional photography when folks are at
your house  
      for dinner, then you can hand them the viewer from the coffee
table.       Slides tend to live out of sight until showing is planned.

   -  Prints are easier to keep clean.

   -  The nostalgia of prints may appeal more to the retro-affections
of 
      the sort of people who spend money at auctions.

I could come up with more.  Now the suggestion that the thrill of
seeing your stuff go at auction is a little self-centered is barely
worth answering.  Ego gratification plays a role in everything that's
fun.  Like getting acceptances to exhibitions and awards in circuits,
right?  Since when are our economic, artistic, and self-esteem goals
supposed to be pursued in separate places?  

And I don't intend to scold Bill W. if I promise to donate something
next year, and I forget, and he forgets to remind me, and then scolds
me for forgetting my promise.  That's what my mommy is for. ;-)

That's all for now - I have stereocards to make.

Bruce (Help - There is excess Deviation in My Weltenschaung!)
Springsteen


 


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