Sorry for the lapse in posting. I had to eradicate the previous post — my flaky internet connection wouldn’t let me post anything for almost a week now. Claude insists that he has no idea why it suddenly works again, but I’m able to post right now, so I’m posting:

I’ll be conducting LIVE online fine art nonprofit charity fundraising auctions starting this very day — at 4 PM I’ll be conducting an experiment for the benefit of several folks who are interested in raising money for worthy causes, among which will be the museum of ancient and modern art, the ashrams and possibly a charter school and a children’s academy, a medical clinic and more. Watch this afternoon LIVE and I’ll give you a basic run-through on THE PLAN. Basically, it’s the sale of a large and important inventory of blue-chip artists such as Rembrandt, Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Picasso and Renoir, as well as modern and contemporary artists, plus gold & silver coins, antiques, daguerreotype vintage photos, gold & silver jewelry, diamonds,  high-grade natural gold nuggets from the Blue Tent Mine,  rare and important meteorites and fossils, exceptionally rare and important antiquarian books & manuscripts, important historical items, stage magic collectibles, handmade clothing by Jed, myself & others and a wealth of other items, including some rather extraordinary items from my Tibetan shelf. We’ll be doing a charity auction as often as I can manage it — getting the items is harder than selling them — probably once a week, a one or two hour auction, with the proceeds going accordingly: Continue reading →