Gosh, here we are already! I hope you’re geared up for a trip through the Light Fantastic, because we’re going head-first into comedy for our first dip into the parasphere universe — here goes!
Some of those Steven Wright gags might not have popped up in your reality before. Now here’s a fascinating explanation of how YOU can travel faster than light!
Now have fun watching the initial discovery of “Goldie Keif”, a bold reference to marijuana back in the day, played by Leigh French, who really was a hippie, and played that part in a number of roles, including the TV show “I Spy”, as Cobalt Blue.
She and Rob Reiner were in the cast of “The Committee”, which performed for my friend Jack Ryan at the theater in his Bel Air reconstructed Scottish castle. He’d have casts come over on Mondays, which is always “dark” in theater tradition and some actors refused to perform on a Monday due to this superstition.
Wasn’t that fun? Now here’s Azeem Banatwalla with his take on the upcoming war:
And now, I’d like to take a little time to answer some questions put to me by Leila Currah regarding art marketing:
Q: What drives you in your work?
A: My work is merely the expression of a complex wave of spirit. On another level, it’s to make a decent living doing something interesting and fun.
Q: What are the three most significant factors contributing to your economic success as an artist? Is it marketing coherency in your body of work (style) or having help?
A: Having help sure helps. My paintings sell for as much as $50,000.00 and sometimes a bit more, and it’s all due to the help I received. Everyone on the marketing team worked for more than two decades to get my work into the best places, and without them, I’d never have had a single sale.
Q: What is the most important marketing tool you use?
A: Without question, it’s KunstMatrix exhibitions combined with a shopping cart and supporting information on my websites. Yes, websites. It takes a lot of marketing to move just a little art.
Q: How do you find a balance between meeting the demands of the market and keeping your creative process alive?
A: Who says I keep it alive? It’s constantly out of balance and always trying to achieve balance. If it ever did get totally balanced, it would be static. Continual dancing is the result. On a practical level, I work at a job called art, and marketing is part of that job.
Q: What role do you think an artist should serve in society?
A: I’m of the opinion that without artists, much of what is called civilization would disappear. Artists have varying roles depending upon the nature of the individual artist — they’re all different, and serve different gods.
Q: Who are your customers, and how does that factor into your artistic decision-making?
A: My customers vary from Kaki Hockersmith who was Hillary Clinton’s decorator for the White House, the National Gallery and other museums, all the way to my friend Billy Barty, who collected my smaller paintings which I painted to fit into his tiny house. I pay close attention to what my patrons want, but they don’t control the brush, nor do I. My JazzArt paintings try to show how to get out of the way of the music, and art is the same.
Q: What was the biggest challenge in bringing your art to market?
A: At the time, we only had galleries, and you had to sometimes wait for three years between shows. Now, it’s possible to put your work up in a gallery online immediately and put new shows up as often as you like and your creativity allows.
Q: What advice would you give to an artist who wants to make a living as an artist?
A: Just keep doing what you do. Eventually, you’ll find your market or your market will find you.
Well, that’s it for now — have a great day, no matter what happens!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby