tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post755927197491231793..comments2024-02-29T03:31:23.301-05:00Comments on Jen Mecca's Pottery Blog: Those of you who could not open.......Jen Meccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745394371787335162noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-78950679307426652652009-12-19T23:07:38.971-05:002009-12-19T23:07:38.971-05:00Oh, yeah, if you look at his Xanadu website, you&#...Oh, yeah, if you look at his Xanadu website, you'll see that he does not carry ceramics. So he'll tell you how to get in galleries, just not HIS gallery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-65660924963561354442009-12-19T19:19:52.681-05:002009-12-19T19:19:52.681-05:00Wow. The crux of this article seems to be :
You, t...Wow. The crux of this article seems to be :<br />You, the artist, are an inept loser.<br />You make the mistake of trying to make what interests YOU, and something YOU have an interest to clal your personal vision.<br />You do not turn out work like a factory.START TODAY! But...<br />The quality better not suffer.<br />I am such a gallery wizard that I need to do these workshops to make extra dough. My gallery just ain't makin' it man.<br />YOU, the artist, are a LOSER.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-88681897139713970482009-12-18T23:26:16.804-05:002009-12-18T23:26:16.804-05:00Jen,
You asked about jars on my blog. Haven'...Jen, <br />You asked about jars on my blog. Haven't made many recently. Thanks for the idea. Gotta get back into that. And as far as this post goes, this person who wrote... well, I got to a couple of lines and thought it wasn't worthwhile to read. So judgmental. Glad you're doing what's best for you. Why do anything else?Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113529511743405120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-21327529239956942492009-12-18T22:41:51.462-05:002009-12-18T22:41:51.462-05:00Well I skipped right to the comments without readi...Well I skipped right to the comments without reading it so I can't say much yet. But I wanted to type something anyhow so I'd feel productive.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07960400186962033610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-59632672301622005922009-12-18T19:36:27.542-05:002009-12-18T19:36:27.542-05:00Jim is right and like I say, f### 'em....Jim is right and like I say, f### 'em....Gary's third pottery bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-37622489923573554242009-12-18T10:48:45.807-05:002009-12-18T10:48:45.807-05:00hate to dissent here but i felt like he was trying...hate to dissent here but i felt like he was trying to sell his workshop. my free advice (as if i know anything about being a successful potter) is don't spend money on workshops that have rules or guidelines that suggest that we all make the same type, size, amount of work that is decorated, fired, built the same way. discounting our desire to go off and experiment is kind of assaulting considering that most of us wouldn't be able to make what we currently make to if we hadn't gone down endless tangental paths pursuing ideas that seem really great in our heads and have to be executed to find out if it holds up in the physical world. the thing about having enough inventory so that the gallery owner doesn't suffer the inconvenience of being without something occasionally suggests to me that the inconveniences of the gallery/artist relationship are one-sided and we could really help by not being a nuisance and having work that sells out too fast. overall, i guess that he wouldn't have to resort to giving workshops if we would all just take his advice and stop keeping him from being a success. sorry if i sound like a curmudge but i actually do have many years of marketing experience and that's all this is. for example do we all not already know that technology is a huge distraction and keeps us from being productive?... i mean, here i sit typing this comment. telling someone something they already know and is so obvious that he even knows it and throwing it out like he's giving you a free sample of what you can learn is a typical marketing strategy. i guess this sounds cynical (you think?) but now you know how much i abhor advertising. jen, i liked your statement..."all these people who tell you what you should and should not do are just critique what they think is right"... right on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-28616484293300808012009-12-18T10:27:57.487-05:002009-12-18T10:27:57.487-05:00Jen, thanks so much for taking the time to post th...Jen, thanks so much for taking the time to post this; it was very helpful for me. I found more than a few nuggets.Linda Starrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364078667554676592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-40104528063947523252009-12-18T10:12:10.175-05:002009-12-18T10:12:10.175-05:00I'm always looking for the nuggets of gold in ...I'm always looking for the nuggets of gold in the piles of words... I think I found a few I could use.<br />Thanks!FetishGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-4435751760785051952009-12-18T09:09:24.156-05:002009-12-18T09:09:24.156-05:00Yup. I was turned off at the word "inept.&quo...Yup. I was turned off at the word "inept." Perhaps a link to these comments could advise him of his "blunder" of offending his audience in an attempt to make a point. <br /><br />And the "cold call"...bleh.Winchell Clayworkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570374694271087047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-49556255727990417982009-12-18T08:35:33.840-05:002009-12-18T08:35:33.840-05:00It sounds like this could be helpful for people wh...It sounds like this could be helpful for people who are just starting to get into galleries and really have no idea what they are doing (like me!). I think he does loose some credibility, though, by making his message sound exactly like an info-mercial. <br />"These tips and tricks will completely change your life, and I am the only person who knows them! So give me your money and you will be an instant success!"<br />I wouldn't be going anyway because A:I didn't get the e-mail, 2:I am cheap and don't have the time; but the whole tone of it was really off-putting.-Rob, Simple Circle Studioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08870433162485160315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-57966390899773237332009-12-18T08:02:29.850-05:002009-12-18T08:02:29.850-05:00Besides offending his audience in the first paragr...Besides offending his audience in the first paragraph (I saw your work online / I thought you could use my help / I wonder why so many artists are inept...), I really didn't see anything that isn't readily available (in much greater detail) in CM or Art Calendar articles, or reading the gallery's submission guidelines, or ::gasp:: actually -talking to them-.<br />And just as every artist and their work is unique, so is every gallery. He said it himself, being a southwestern gallery that deals in non-southwest themed work. His is only one opinion.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791283568073889587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-17976019237672506542009-12-18T06:18:30.357-05:002009-12-18T06:18:30.357-05:00he lost me at produce one or two items a wekk- I c...he lost me at produce one or two items a wekk- I could not live and pay bills off one or two items a week.<br />As someone who has made their living by making pots for about 30 years I find some of what he says could be useful.<br />But after the email I think I don't need the workshop.<br />It's like a movie trailer- did I already see the movie in the 3-4 minutes.<br />Maybe he has good things to say- but I think I will continue to stubble through my own path.<br />I think if any potter is not using internet for marketing and sales these days then they are missing out.<br />I am much nore interested in connections being made through blogs, FB and Etsy.<br />Gallery owners might need to be sure they are keeping up as well.cookingwithgashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456258592273328486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26270318.post-80235667831362757422009-12-18T06:05:23.594-05:002009-12-18T06:05:23.594-05:00I was interested to read this. I feel like the ar...I was interested to read this. I feel like the artist is the bottom of the totem pole, earning very little money, and everybody else like gallery owners are these morons who grab the biggest slice of the pie and leave us the crumbs.<br />That said, I typically have only gone with galleries and such that approach me. There is a guarentee that they want what I do and how I do it. I am not in the habit of applying to galleries.<br />F### 'em...I love internet sales :)Gary's third pottery bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com