P3D show me the money

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

Dr. T wrote in P3D:
>
>Perhaps it's time for guilt-free sell-3d? (Like:  It's nobody's
>business why I sell 3d stuff - if you don't like my prices
>shop elsewhere? :-))
>
>I-failed-the-3d-litmus-test ;-)-- George Themelis

Hear, hear.  I am definitely into creative stereo imaging for the money.
No question about that.  I need the money.  I like to get the money.

But, you say, I am greedy?  It is true that I have only recently again
started dreaming of one day owning and driving a Porsche.  (I used to dream
such silly things before I became a taxpayer).  But that's not all there is
to it...

Money provides something even more important than physical comfort to this
artist: it is the most honest currency of praise.  Judges and selectors may
give out awards, friends and visitors may be astonished and lavish
compliments upon me, but not until I receive a payment from a purchaser
will I ever know who really likes my stuff, and how much.

This opens up a big can of worms: what is art?  Can fine art be commercial?
I often hear that to be a true artist, one must eschew the commercial
side, and not pursue sales - certainly not adjust one's work to the
"market."  Many a great artist died a pauper, and it is these critics of
"commercial" fine art who now traffic in the great works - at six figure
sums.

I love stereo imaging.  I feel that I have finally found an artistic
medium, into which I can pour all of my very disparate and eclectic talents
and experiences - technical, aesthetic, mechanical/engineering, etc.  I
also feel that I can make a difference in this medium - this makes for
additional motivation.  But I would likely have to give it up after a
little while, like other "projects" I've pursued in the past, if I did not
have people buying my work.

That's because I have bills to pay (okay, I promised not to whine!  I'm not
saying that to apply "guilt"!).  This is what makes the world go round!  If
I had no bills to pay, a free Porsche with mechanic included, a mansion
with pool and and airstrip and private velodrome, etc. etc. why would I
even bother to get up in the morning?  It's the challenge of staying alive,
and having fun at the same time, that motivates me!

Look at my Atlas Industrial Robot.  He is the essence of human
productivity, of human action.  His work holds up the world.  The money
holds him up.  Without money, his bearings could not be lubricated, the
bearing surfaces would degrade over time, fail, and the world would come
tumbling down.

As long as a person is not out to deceive or defraud his potential
customers, if he wants money for a service, this is the best thing for
stereo.  The money keeps him going, tells him how and where to allocate his
resources, how to improve.  Without it, the "free" service is more likely
to disappear some day.  Stereo imaging, like art in general, benefits from
the use of money as a medium of exchange, a medium of communication, and a
mechanism for the efficient allocation of finite resources.

And now, on to preparing another sell notice!

Respectfully submitted,



Boris Starosta            boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx
                          http://www.starosta.com
usa 804 979 3930          http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase



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