tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565179530147649549.post5698979672975431701..comments2024-03-27T06:29:45.627-04:00Comments on Art By-Products: Crystal City StormPyracanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889551823810311793noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565179530147649549.post-6061025019712098212013-02-15T03:07:52.301-05:002013-02-15T03:07:52.301-05:00Mary: I'm so glad you're still reading the...Mary: I'm so glad you're still reading the By-Product! "Crystal City," like any other image on this blog, is available as a custom print. E-mail me at pyracantha@gmail.com for prices and mailing.<br />Thanks for your thoughts on showing art. I put them in frames but the glass is hard to transport and I can't always get plastic sheets for the frame. Still debating whether to show art at Balticon.Pyracanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889551823810311793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565179530147649549.post-52998927473505078032013-02-14T11:42:34.486-05:002013-02-14T11:42:34.486-05:00By the way, how can I buy this piece, or a reprodu...By the way, how can I buy this piece, or a reproduction of it?MKShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495743183001881571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565179530147649549.post-10308755784645719192013-02-14T11:41:45.060-05:002013-02-14T11:41:45.060-05:00Okay, this maybe my favorite piece that you've...Okay, this maybe my favorite piece that you've posted. I am a fan of your city-scapes anyway (I think I've mentioned) but I am also a physicist who is all about the crystal planes, and I used to live in Chicago, and miss it.<br /><br />I would certainly buy this and hang it in my house, but I might be willing to pay more for a traditional medium original than for a digital medium print. Not because I think the latter represents less effort for you, but because there's something attractive about scarcity. Having the only copy (or even the *original* copy, to which all other prints are subtlely inferior) is somehow cooler than having one of many copies, just like the ones hanging in many other people's houses... And I know that digital prints are so easily reproduced that there's nothing stopping you from selling a digital print to many other people as well as to me.<br /><br />However, that would have a <i>small</i> effect on what I am willing to pay. Something that might have a larger effect -- I find I am much more likely to buy already-framed art than to buy something and have to aquire a frame for it myself, especially if it is a non-standard size. Something that's matted to a standard size is in between. I'll buy that, but I'm not willing to really pay any more for a matted piece than for an unmatted piece (it's just that I would be les likely to buy the non-standard sized unmatted piece at all!) I will pay a premium for a frame though. I mean, if I would pay $50 (and that is usually about my upper limit) for a matted piece, I might be willing to pay $100 for a framed piece, even if it's only a $10 frame. Just saying. <br /><br />(I don't think I've ever spent more than $100 on art, so in spite of what I said above, I don't own any originals really. Just prints of things.)MKShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495743183001881571noreply@blogger.com