Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, tell us about the bowls :) Im in the market for some pottery... You just might want to wait for FS Friday. ;) - -Mark On Wed, 8 May 2002 Teresa299@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 5/8/02 6:09:50 AM, jbcollier@shaw.ca writes: > > << Pursuant to Dante's Hexar review, and in no way a negative reflection on > it: > > I would like to find out if any of us are NOT lawyers, doctors or > dentists. Not that it is wrong to be one of the above but I am tired of > hearing the same old "toys of the rich" refrain. >> > > > 60%Ceramic artist (potter) > 50% run a pottery coop up at UCSC > > I would venture that when sales suck, I easily make the least income of > anyone on this list. > > That said, when I decided to buy certain photo gear (Leica or otherwise) I > figured that at $10 profit a soup bowl, a Leica (for instance) could be had > for 160 bowls. I neglected my social life for a month and made extra bowls. > > The co-op at the University is under threat of being shut down because we > still have about $1,500 to make up for paying for a new kiln we needed > (safety reasons). In addition to soliciting donations, we're dedicating > ourselves to throwing 150 $10 bowls and selling them. > > In my previous life, as lawyer, a Leica could be bought at 10 to 15 hours of > billing. > > It would certainly be easier to purchase a Leica or set-up a darkroom or fund > a photo show or documentary series with a lawyer's salary, just how it would > be easier to keep a student oriented co-operative open with a single > university grant that is 1/10,000th of the cost of a new science building at > the U...but the other (slower more incremental) methods can work as well...if > one wants them badly enough and is willing to put in the effort. > > I like this thread, if for no other reason then I get to see how other people > (particularly the one's without financial windfall) manifest their artistic > visions and their equipment desires. > > -kim > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html