Carolynn Palmer on tue 7 oct 97
Potters getting local chef's on tv cooking shows to use their work, makes me
think about all of the places I've seen my work in the media - sometimes just
a glimpse -and was surprised to see it there.
I was just working late in the studio and letting the tv play old reruns in
the background - "Simon and Simon" -remember the brothers who were in the
private eye business. Anyway, in this episode, they are sneaking up through
the backyard of an empty house that is listed with a realtor (I think the
realtor was the villan, but, I am not certain, because I was working while
watching.) And the camera shot pans the back of the house, and hanging there
on the back porch is one of my windchimes! I made it during the early
seventies. I know I sold it at a craft/art show somewhere in the midwest -
but it got out to Hollywood and there it was.
Has anyone else had this kind of exposure of their work?
June Perry on wed 8 oct 97
Dear Carolynn:
Yes, I had one of my pots in a tv movie. The rented mine and a few others
from the Clayhouse in Santa Monica. Nice deal. I don't remember the rental
fee but it was fun having one of my pots be famous for10 seconds!
Actually, I think it was very smart of them to rent the ware - helps with
their production budget, and gives exposure to hand made work.
Warm regards,
June (who is having pot photos digitalized as we speak and may yet figure out
how to get them up on the web page!)
VICTOR JOHNSTON on wed 8 oct 97
>>> Carolynn Palmer 10/07/97
07:15am >>>
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Potters getting local chef's on tv cooking shows to use their work,
makes me
think about all of the places I've seen my work in the media -
sometimes just
a glimpse -and was surprised to see it there.
I was just working late in the studio and letting the tv play old
reruns in
the background - "Simon and Simon" -remember the brothers
who were in the
private eye business. Anyway, in this episode, they are sneaking
up through
the backyard of an empty house that is listed with a realtor (I
think the
realtor was the villan, but, I am not certain, because I was
working while
watching.) And the camera shot pans the back of the house, and
hanging there
on the back porch is one of my windchimes! I made it during the
early
seventies. I know I sold it at a craft/art show somewhere in the
midwest -
but it got out to Hollywood and there it was.
Has anyone else had this kind of exposure of their work?
In Ogden there is a new baseball stadium for our farm team
(Ogden Raptors). It is a real nice facility - one of the nicest for a
farm team. In it, on the donor walls, are two brick sculptures,
one about 7'w x 3'h and the other 10.5' w x 4'h. I created those in
conjunction with the local Applied Technology Center's
Bricklaying department. I was to work as an instructor and have
students do the majority of the work. As things went, the
students were all sent out on OJT's and I wound up doing 95%
of the work. (My "real job" is as a counselor for the school.)
There was promised a plaque acknowledging my design efforts,
the school, the instructors involved (which I was one) and all the
students involved. Every other plaque was up for opening day
last June. Our plaque has yet to materialize. I was not alowed to
sign it because it was "the effort of the whole school."
I have seen pictures of it all over, promoting the stadium, and
heard many people talking about the sculpture with great praise,
but no one knows who did it. Of course, I tell them.
The main selling point pushed at me to get me do do the project
at such a low price was the exposure I would get. Live and learn.
Robert Compton on wed 8 oct 97
reply--
It is intereseting to see what comes up when you least expect to
see it. Back in the days of ACC Rhinebeck we had a number of customers
come up to us and say they saw the Hanging Stoneware Aquarium I made in
a movie. After about 4 different people came up to say they saw it in
this recently released movie, we finally got the name. It was called
"Creep Show" , made about 1981 and was a paradoy of horror comic book
stories, actor of note was Ted Dansen. Each short story started out with
a graphic comic book drawing that faded into the real characters, My 8
seconds of fame came with the opening storey view through the port hole
of one of the Hanging Stoneware Aquarium made, starting as a drawing and
becoming the real thing.
The funny thing was two years later we saw a TV ad for a Chinese
Resturant in Montreal, and the resturant ad started with a view of a
couple eating dinner, and the perspercive was the same kind of shot
through the porthole of another of my Hanging Clay Aquariums.
After 25 years I still make a variety of Watersculptures, but
only as a small part of my clay business, gotten more involved with wood
firing and vapor glazing vessels today.
--
Robert Compton Phone: 802-453-3778
3600 Rt 116 http://homepages.together.net/~rcompton
Bristol, Vermont 05443 rcompton@together.net
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> I was just working late in the studio and letting the tv play old reruns in
> the background -) And the camera shot pans the back of the house, and hanging
> on the back porch is one of my windchimes! as.
> > Has anyone else had this kind of exposure of their work?Carolynn
kinoko@junction.net on thu 9 oct 97
Carolynn, We returned to Nova Scotia from Nigeria after an absence of
several years,to find several of our bowls being sold at auction as
antiques....and at a much higher price than we originally charged. Again:"
Oh,Charles look at these coffee mugs. Don't they look like the ones we
bought years ago in,...where was that ?" "The Bleu Rock Pottery,in Nova
Scotia, madame." Says I. (and that conversation took place at Tsawassan in
B.C., 3800miles from Meteghan River,Nova Scotia. While it is gratifying to
be recognized as a person,the pot which speaks of the potter must have the
final word. Don & Isao>----------------------------Original
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>>>> Carolynn Palmer 10/07/97
>07:15am >>>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Potters getting local chef's on tv cooking shows to use their work,
>makes me
>think about all of the places I've seen my work in the media -
>sometimes just
>a glimpse -and was surprised to see it there.
>
>I was just working late in the studio and letting the tv play old
>reruns in
>the background - "Simon and Simon" -remember the brothers
>who were in the
>private eye business. Anyway, in this episode, they are sneaking
>up through
>the backyard of an empty house that is listed with a realtor (I
>think the
>realtor was the villan, but, I am not certain, because I was
>working while
>watching.) And the camera shot pans the back of the house, and
>hanging there
>on the back porch is one of my windchimes! I made it during the
>early
>seventies. I know I sold it at a craft/art show somewhere in the
>midwest -
>but it got out to Hollywood and there it was.
>
>Has anyone else had this kind of exposure of their work?
>
>
>In Ogden there is a new baseball stadium for our farm team
>(Ogden Raptors). It is a real nice facility - one of the nicest for a
>farm team. In it, on the donor walls, are two brick sculptures,
>one about 7'w x 3'h and the other 10.5' w x 4'h. I created those in
>conjunction with the local Applied Technology Center's
>Bricklaying department. I was to work as an instructor and have
>students do the majority of the work. As things went, the
>students were all sent out on OJT's and I wound up doing 95%
>of the work. (My "real job" is as a counselor for the school.)
>There was promised a plaque acknowledging my design efforts,
>the school, the instructors involved (which I was one) and all the
>students involved. Every other plaque was up for opening day
>last June. Our plaque has yet to materialize. I was not alowed to
>sign it because it was "the effort of the whole school."
>
>I have seen pictures of it all over, promoting the stadium, and
>heard many people talking about the sculpture with great praise,
>but no one knows who did it. Of course, I tell them.
>
>The main selling point pushed at me to get me do do the project
>at such a low price was the exposure I would get. Live and learn.
>
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** Don and Isao Morrill **
** Falkland, B.C. **
** kinoko@junction.net **
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Paul Lewing on thu 9 oct 97
Victor,
We've all at one time or another been asked to contribute to some
auction or display our work someplace where we know it will never
sell, but we're told we should do it because "it's good exposure".
Like your ball park sculpture.
To which I usually reply, "You can die of exposure". Or maybe, "I can
expose myself easier than that".
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Olivia T Cavy on sat 11 oct 97
Victor and others,
That's why written contracts became popular and should be used. People
remember "agreements" and "understandings" differently, and sometimes
they even hear the same words differently. Written contracts state the
expectations of both parties (hopefully) in clear terms, and provide the
basis for enforcing compliance. They're not always iron clad or perfect.
Bonnie Hellman in Pittsburgh, PA
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