Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The notta thread
From: Mark Cohen <markc@binaryfaith.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:22:21 -0700 (PDT)

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
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