Posts by merc
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We are bound by mysterious agreements as to what we can and can't purchase.
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Most copywriters here, arn't, too small a market, too low the pay, too little the need for NZ companies to compete with engaging and well written copy.
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Depends, OZ or NZ, NZ is infamous for using quotes (Sun Alliance building foyer) or reproducing works (posater, cover art) and not worrying about it, especially seeing as we have the worlds strangest coyright laws pertaining to photographic rights, thank Ms Tizard!
When I was first published everyone I vaguely knew and my family (bless em) all wanted a copy...for free...whadarya.
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Times were rough for Colin and his wife and family, insanely so (he did get a small inheritance through his wife and so could buy a little place at Muriwai), however it was the total rejection of his work in local terms (he was discovered by Australia) that fully embittered him. He has been called one of the greatest artists of modern times, in Germany. The quotes of those who derided him are very similar to those of Tom's.
I know John Gow, he is a good guy, I don't need an agent or patronage, but there are those who do, so let's discuss this as you said RB, it has merit, art has merit, hell if only to piss off those who would live like donkey's and count their empty days 'til coffin time.
BTW, NZ is littered with outrageous talent that has been derided, James K springs to mind, but artists like Philip Clairemont, Tony Fommison all suffered the same fate (suicide), not because of the prices, because of those who just refuse to even contemplate that for some the act of creation is...pure. -
Tom, I'll never ask you for anything, least of all to protect me, and as a bonus I won't even start to consider telling you how to run your life.
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Yup, that's me alright, and it's because of my poshness and refined lifestyle that I am an artist and poet in NZ, the greatest and kindest arts home on this good earth...and the lovely relics from the 50's. BTW Tom, I hold down a fulltime job, am married, have kids and still find time to surf, BOOM! cliche denied.
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Tom, respectfully, you need to get out more.
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I thank God, thus far, I have not made it to the second hand bin...
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Would NZ exist at all if the News didn't? Living overseas was brilliant, if only for the release of the continual stranglehold the News has here, it's like the partyline phone on a lonely Vigil farm, in Winter, and it's raining, cue Minstrel.
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Matiisse negotiated this system for himself, and more, Picasso picked it up from him. It's all in the negotiation and the clout you have, or could have. Dali used to do a good line on signed litho's. Whatever you can get away with I say. There's a book I read on how The Modernists, Picasso especially manipulated (with his agents) the market and prices, not what you'd think.
My brother left to play rugby in Italy, then France, he never came back, frankly, compared to Europe and South Africa, NZ rugby is headed for trouble.