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Amazing Discovery

October 24, 2018Uncategorizedbardo, cards, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, pls, rebirth, reincarnation, tarot, telepathic, telepathy, third bardogorebagg

Photo by T. of Gorby practicing guitar at Red House, 1971.

When you realize that the so-called “simple” Guitar Practice of 5 Minutes a Day, which eventually turns into maybe a half-hour or more per session, sometimes four or five guitar sessions a day when you get into it, can produce miracle internal results, it’s an amazing discovery.

Just five minutes a day practicing the guitar, seems like nothing.

At some point, the guitar practice seems to go better, then worse, then better and better, up and down for a number of months, maybe years, before you relax into it.

That means stop trying to control it, to make it into something that resembles your mental picture of what guitar practice ought to look and and sound like.

That picture of you playing guitar is totally wrong. As I said, at some point, you’ll let go of that picture of yourself and let the real thing just be there. Continue reading →

EJ Gold New Graphics — Photo ArtPrints of Nevada City

February 19, 2015Uncategorizedart, california history, cards, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, greeting, greeting cards, nevada city, photo, phototraphicgorebagg

“OLD FIRE STATION, NEVADA CITY, CA.” by EJ Gold

PHOTOGRAPHIC FINE ART PRINT LARGE SIZE GREETING CARDS — $8.95

These Fine-Art Photo Greeting Cards come in a fantastic resale pack with high-quality archival 100% rag pastel and cream shades. Card, envelope & packaging look incredible, totally professional and 100% better than Hallmark. The high-grade paper card is imprinted with “EJ Gold” actual embossed signature. There is no card on the market like this card. It is clearly handmade, artist-crafted, and the photos were taken in the worst weather, to get that great “look” and “feel”. Most photographers would not do that just to get a better photo. For some shots, I waited a month to get the “right” shot. The $8.95 price-tag is the retail. These were created for my resellers to work from — you can order photo cards of anywhere in the world, and I can do it — don’t ask how, unless you’re prepared to attend a couple dozen workshops to learn the secret.

These cards are expensive as hell to produce — each card makes about 25 cents profit, at the wholesale price of only $3.95 apiece, if you buy in quantity, at least 24 cards, and you can mix & match between over 500 pieces of original artwork and photographs. Continue reading →

Ready-For-Framing Fine Art Gift Notecards Embossed Signature Series

July 20, 2014Uncategorizedart, cards, ejgold, embossed, fineart, framing, gorby, gorebagg, multiple, notecards, print, signatureseriesgorebagg

Ready-For-Framing Fine Art Gift Notecards Embossed Signature Series — quite a mouthful, eh? But that’s exactly what they are, what I’m producing tonight. This is my “Signature Series” Gift Art Prints. They’re ready to frame; just pop one into a 5″x7″ frame and hang it on the wall or place it on a desk or dresser or shelf, and you’ve got instant art! I make an RSVP version as well. The embossing stamp cost me $350 and is good for 10,000 impressions, but I’m not. It’s hard to press that thing through the thick stationery paper, and there’s no motor behind it, just my bicep and carpal stuff putting on the pressure, so there’s a built-in limitation to the number I’ll be releasing.

Technically, the art prints are: READY FOR FRAMING FINE ART PRINT GIFT NOTECARD with embossed signature, on cream textwove stock with choice of matching or kraft paper envelope. This is an “open edition” but is signed with the signature blindstamp embossing to ensure that it comes directly from the artist’s own hand at the artist’s atelier (studio). These prints are also available as full-sized wall art, through Heidelberg Editions International. The ready-to-frame notecards retail for $19.95 — more about this at the ICW this morning, 6:30 on the dot, be prompt — I will be there on the open, so be ready to see and hear!

See You At The Top!!!

gorby

Great Response!!!

July 19, 2014Uncategorizedcards, cash, dunn, ejgold, fundraising, gorby, gorebagg, greetingcards, money, notecards, wine, winerygorebagg

In town yesterday for the art class — we talked about the cards, how an artist can bring his or her art to the public quite easily and accessibly with fine-art greeting cards that are produced and marketed by the artist himself or herself. There are a variety of ways to sell greeting cards, but the very best is on a table on the street or in a mall. Be ready for a rush! My vintage cards went out the door, and I never intended to sell them. Here’s what happened: Continue reading →

Oh, NOes, More About Greeting Cards!!!???

July 18, 2014Uncategorizedcards, charity, children's, craft, ejgold, fundraise, fundraising, gorby, gorebagg, greetingcards, stationery, tarot, villagegorebagg

New-Pet-Tarot-Deck-created-by-E-J-Gold-completely-handmade-in-studio

Yes, more about greeting cards. Why all of a sudden, greeting cards?

1. First of all, it’s not “all of a sudden”. I’ve been creating and selling greeting cards, artist trading cards, color wall prints and calendars for decades, starting back in 1954 when I made potato-stamp and linoleum-cut cards for my school projects and Christmas Fairs.

2. Secondly, whaddaya mean by “more”??? I haven’t even hardly begun on the subject. Continue reading →

Fundraising Secrets

July 17, 2014Uncategorizedcards, ejgold, fundraising, gorby, gorebagggorebagg

When you’re standing out in front of the supermarket or strolling down the busy street trying to sell greeting cards, the people you encounter don’t have time to know what you want, don’t have the inclination to help you unless they can instantly understand what you want and how you’re going to use their hard-earned money, and most of all, the people you meet are BUSY, far too busy to listen to your sales pitch. The point is, on the street, there is no time for a sales pitch, none whatever. You have at best 1/30th of a second to make your sale. That’s why, in spite of the fact that we have tens of thousands of fine art graphics available to us, we settle on the kid’s art for first conact, period.

That’s also why we make our cards at, by and for, the Children’s Craft Village. Continue reading →

Michele de Paris Secret Recipes For Sale Here!!!

June 30, 2014Uncategorizedangel, angelic, bake, cards, cook, cuisine, desserts, eat, ejgold, food, gorby, gorebagg, greeting, kitchen, michele, micheledeparis, recipes, restaurant, secret, sufigorebagg

Here are our Secret Angels Cuisine Recipes — this is the stuff we make here for ourselves and our guests at workshops, seminars, retreats and healing circles! Each one is handmade (at the moment by me) with a genuine color photo on the front and an insert within, describing the techniques for making what you see on the front of the card.

The cards retail at the 2014 industry standard for handmade Kraft-Cards, which is $6.95. I thought it would be around $3 or so, but heck-darn, I’m living back in the Stone Age, strictly Paleo. Anyhow, that makes the wholesale $3.50 per card & matching envelope.

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Fresh Fish Sold Here Today!!!

February 27, 2014Uncategorizedashram, cards, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, tradinggorebagg

In-between bouts of GODD® level programming, I’ve been creating a rather large & complex line of trading cards. Complex, because they range from fine art to sci-fi and there’s even some girlie shots in there somewhere — I decided to share some of my vintage pinups from 1790-1910, most of which are albumen prints, magic lantern glass slides, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and more. I also plan to put together a collection of sci-fi, fantasy & horror folks with souvenir relics included in the extra-thick collector cards. Something I’m developing tonight for presentation tomorrow morning at the ICW is a line of non-triplex trading cards. They’ll be a LOT cheaper to produce, wholesale and retail out at very low customer cost, anywhere from $2.95 to $9.95 depending on scarcity, demand and marketing strategies.

What this means to you is that they are just a few pennies more than a color business card, so PROMOTIONAL, RETAIL MERCHANTS, ART DEALERS and WEDDING PLANNERS alert!!! Front side is typically in color, backside typically is black & white although for a bit of extra cost, it could be two-sided color. The new card is THINNER than the swatch and relic cards, much thinner, so it can be mounted in the standard top-loader, of which I currently have 2,000 on hand.

Trading cards such as these can be used for simple branding, marketing expansion, giveaways, tuck-ins (you put one in every order you ship out) and more. One great use for these is to familiarize yourself to your neighborhood.

Another great use for the less expensive non-enclosure cards is as gifts for weddings, birthday parties, souvenirs of various family events, giveaway promotionals for parking lot or signing parties. They can be used as a sales incentive, placed at register, even handed out at special events, talks, lectures, etc.

They can be loaded with almost any type of image; the catch is, you have to own the publishing rights to anything you put out there. I own the images I’m using, so no royalties or ownership issues are going to pop up.

About the title of this article — the story is short & simple: back in 1964, as an art student, I got a few commissions for signs and such, around Hollywood. One such commission was for a fish store on Melrose Boulevard around LaBrea, as I recall. The guy wanted to know how much I’d charge for a sign that read “Fresh Fish Sold Here Today!!!”

I told him I charged by the word.

“Hey, wait a minute,” he exclaimed. “I don’t really need the word ‘fresh’ in the sign, because what else could it be? And I don’t need the word ‘sold’, because obviously I’m not in business to go broke giving things away. The word ‘here’ is also redundant. Where else would it be? And ‘today’ doesn’t need to be in there either. When else? That leaves the word ‘fish’, and that’s obvious from a block away.”

See You At The Top!!!

gorby

Hot for Puja

February 5, 2014Uncategorizedashram, baseball, cards, ejgold, hot, hotforpuja, puja, sportsgorebagg

I’ll try to explain. I was searching on eBay for the values of baseballs — I have a bunch from Jimmy Piersall, thought I’d keep one and sell the rest along with photos of Jimmy from my photo journalism days, 1964-1972, when I worked for Chuck at Tiger Beat / Monkee Spectacular Magazines, edited MOD Teen Magazine, and was official photographer at RCA and Columbia Records. I made a photo record of the sixties, I guess you’d say. Anyhow, I was ploughing through the “for sale” junk on eBay and I came across a weird “baseball” card…it contained a clipping of Abraham Lincoln’s hair. Knowing about braided widow’s lockets, I wasn’t surprised. Also for sale on that day were a lock of hair from King George III (that’s the “Georgian” Period of furniture & architecture, get it???), George Washington (George vs. George?) and a number of others, including several hundred thousand (I’m not joking or exaggerating) clippings, lipstick kisses, lingerie swatches, bikini swatches, high heel cut sections and you wouldn’t believe what-all these folks will sign and sell.

What folks, exactly, you ask?

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A Guru Tarot Deck???

March 18, 2013Uncategorizedcards, deck, ejgold, guru, shaman, tarot, tools, workgorebagg

I dunno. The idea struck me a while ago. Here’s an Experimental Tarot Card I made just a few minutes ago. It isn’t the internet, it’s a tarot deck. A physical Object of Daily Use for some. For many, it’s a mystical journey into the Realm of the Unknown, whatever that means, anyway. In any case, it ain’t the Internet. Heck, it’s not even a computer game. Alice knew the Truth: “Why, you’re nothing but a deck of cards!!!” So here’s a First Offering, a suggested possibility for one of the cards, but why this one in particular? Because I happened to have the photo models in my orb-maker at the moment, that’s why. It coulda been anyone as the gurus; I haven’t decided yet whom to include. I’ll try to be fair, but the deck must be actual and useful, so it might contain more exotic gurus from other dimensions, although who could be more exotic??? Or…or…who knows what, just yet???

See You At The Top!!!

gorby