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Re: Market
Posted By: neontek In Response To: Re: Market (Stephan Krasner)
Date: Friday, 16 July 2010, at 3:53 a.m.
> I knew I'd be opening up a can of hate, but
> attacking my integrity because I suggested
> something practical? Seriously?> I just spent a fortune and the better half
> of 2010 setting up a neon studio of my own.
> If I didn't care about neon I would have
> saved all my money and time and just bought
> a soldering iron or a stack of florescent
> tubes from home depot XD. If you took the
> time to Google my name (instead of just
> trashing me) you'd see that I don't use neon
> exclusively in my art either. I use a mixed
> media approach sometimes using LEDs,
> incandescent bulbs, phosphorescent powder,
> EL Wire, or a combination of two or more
> together.> The point I'm trying to make is that if
> people want LEDs, they're going to get them
> whether you sell them or not. From a
> business perspective it's very short sighted
> and stupid to shun a popular medium.
> Especially if it can support promoting the
> medium you care about more. Every time I
> talk with one of my friends in the trade,
> they moan and groan about how bad the neon
> industry is, and frankly I think it's
> pessimistic and petty. Some people even have
> the stupidity to tell their customers about
> the woes of the neon industry. Yeah, like
> that will give people confidence about the
> viability of neon... Neon ISN'T going to
> die. Anyone who knows their ass from their
> elbow knows there is nothing that can
> completely replace it.> Artists use all the resources available to
> create the best product they can. The good
> ones are also business savvy and won't look
> down a good opportunity for hire to support
> personal work. Sign shops that want to
> increase sales should do the same. Business
> is Business.*********
Oh, you just set up a studio this year.
That would explain why you don't understand those of us who do not care to work with led's.
Many of us have been fabricating NEON for 10, 20, 30, or 40+ years on a daily basis (and love what we do). To abruptly change and work with a product like led's that require NO talent or "hand-craft" is simply not an option or desire to many of us (led's are only an installers job as far as most people are concerned). I would pursue other avenues in different glassblowing fields first (or something else I have a passion for) before dealing with led's. That may make me a craftsman/artist first and business man second, but so be it. After all, if you love what you do... it's not work. I don't want to do led "work", sorry.
You predetermined any response would be "hate- based" in your first post.
There was none intended in my response.
I am only stating how I feel about led's (and/or working with them) since you admittedly stated you "can't understand".NO hate here.
Tony D.
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