clennell on tue 3 feb 04
Mel wrote:
> and of course, it will be at some pals house...they
> got it out of your junk pile and they serve you
> food on it every time you come over with forty other
> people. `hey mel, you made that shitty blue platter didn't you?`
>
> that is when you say. `hey, let me help you with
> dishes tonight. ````oh, crap, i dropped that wonderful
> platter, i will make you a new for sure`.
>
> heh, heh. phew, got rid of that mess.
Mel: A good strategy, but for me to buy back the stuff i should be ashamed
that i made would cost me millions. I visit friends that proudly display
things I made 20 years ago, hell maybe 5 years ago and I think gee the stuff
I do now is so much better. Can I buy it back from you or drop it on the
floor? That is what we as the makers want to do, but truth is, it is what we
did. It is our history, our evolution, the best of what we were capable of
at that time. Sometimes you visit a friend and see something and think god
that's better than I'm doing today- those are all the ones you'd really like
to buy back and it probably wouldn't cost most of us too much.
I think I make a lot of good pots, but the ones I'd really like to visit
regularly ( the racers, the hummers, the ones that got the kiss of god) are
probably a few a year.
Wish my averages were better, but if that were the case, i'd probably be in
California lollygagging in a Rolls and drinking Pinot Noir for breaky.
Cheers,
Tony
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