Most people don’t walk around in a necklace made with genuine antiquities, and most folks don’t know the difference between an antique and an antiquity, and furthermore, most folks don’t know that they’re even allowed to own a genuine ancient item. Continue reading
It’s all about the mathematical patterns. It doesn’t look like much from out here in the Einsteinian Universe, but in Quantum, those little ridges are mountain ranges, and the flats are deep valleys, Going deeper within, the patterns of zig-zag & swirl create momentary and persisting vortex & gravity well Negentropic clustering points. If you’re not following me on this, you need to read the countless blogs and view the numberless videos on the subject of Quantum Effects. Continue reading
We had a slowish day at the fair, but managed to squeak by with a total of $420 in sales, mostly from fellow vendors, with a few wandering shoppers here and there. Cost of the booth was $30. If you bring in ten times the booth fee, you’re doing well these days, they tell me. The beautiful display stands were hand-built by Wayne, and they fit four standard jeweler’s pads precisely. Continue reading
Yep, 191,653 views on this video — almost a quarter of a million hits on a simple guitar lesson. Monetize your videos for additional income!
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I first met Paul Frees when he started at Gamma Studios in Mexico City on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. He is best remembered as Boris Badenov and Inspector Fenwick in that Saturday morning non-kids’ television series. He played the character of Ludwig von Drake for Disney, plus the Ghost Host at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Paul had an astonishing career.
I was only periphally involved in the production of this gem of sixties put-ons, and you can find more “Paul Frees & the Poster People” on youtube . Here’s one more that you might find fun — of course, if you’re anywhere under the age of seventy, you might be in some wonder as to how good his impressions were.
He was known as “The Man With A Thousand Voices”, and it was true, he did everyone, more than Rich Little, more than Frank Gorshin. He was the master of the off-camera voice, with a four-octave range and the ability to mimic what he heard, including bird-calls and mating calls of various woodland creatures.
You heard his voice a thousand times in cartoons, off-camera and in commercials. All the people he imitated are gone and long-forgotten. If he came up in the comedy circuit today, he’d have no one to imitate, because this generation of stars has no memorable qualities, just face value.
LIke I said, if you never heard the originals, you won’t relate. If you have, you’ll be amazed at the ability to keep in character and tone throughout the three minutes of a musical cover.
Okay, you talked me into it … here’s a third one:
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It’s very simple to keep your prices fair to you and to the customer, but you’ll notice that people will try to beat you down just to see if you’ll give way, and most jewelry crafters do give way and lower their prices down to almost nothing, just to see the customer smile and nod and walk away, knowing they’ve had you.
The thing to do to prevent being beaten down for a bargain price is to establish your prices in the first place, and keep them rigid — HARDEN your price list, and KEEP THE FAITH.
What I mean is, look at the sign that announces your prices, point to the sign, say to the customer, “Those are my prices. I’ll give you ten percent off if you buy this today.”
Special fair prices are okay, but PRINT THEM, don’t tell the prices verbally, because then they can change — the customer sees vulnerability there and moves in for the kill, so you must anticipate this by PRINTING your price list and if possible, photographing a few models with your creations and using them in a flyer, announcing your great SALE prices, but that’s as low as you go.
If you leave yourself wide open as a target for bargaining and discussion and rationale and mental one-ups and emotional jumps, you won’t have a good experience. “It ain’t me that decides the price” is the concept that you hold in your mind as the sale proceeds. Never be the one who determines price, or you’ll lose the ballgame.
FEAR of REJECTION is what causes you to lower your prices when you KNOW you shouldn’t, and it’s a fact that lowering your price won’t change the sale. It’ll happen if it’s going to happen, and it won’t if it isn’t. If the sale isn’t “Meant to Happen”, it won’t happen, and if it is MEANT to happen, it will. Stay confident, even if you aren’t. Never let them see you sweat.
Sounds horribly Existential, but it isn’t, and that’s not the right interpretation of Existentialism anyway. It’s impossible to believe it, but there’s nothing YOU can do to alter the FACT of the sale, determining whether the sale happens or not … but wait … there IS something you CAN DO, if you’re ABLE to do it, which is doubtful.
HEISNERIZE IT. Continue reading
The IDEAL Gemstone size-range for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is 5mm up to 10mm. Lightweight stones or beads can be as large as 14mm, but it’s not recommended. Can smaller stones be used?
Smaller high-grade expensive Gemstones can be used by doubling the stones in the vertical plane, or adding them as dependents, drops or loops. Two small stones add up to more visual impact than one larger stone, even at the same carat-weight, not sure why.
The ONLY acceptable drill-hole sizes for JAL Stone Age Jewelry is what can fit on a .16 gauge or .20 gauge COPPER wire. Larger drill-holes don’t necessarily help, and very large drill-holes can make the bead or the bead arrangement unstable and wobbly.
When you work in copper, it’s your work the customer is buying. When you work in silver or gold, you get the same pay for your work, but you must also sell the precious metals, and the customer NEVER understands that they are getting back a cash rebate in the form of precious metals easily exchanged for cash at the current melt-value.
So you become a metal salesperson. Continue reading
I woke up this morning at half past four
Hesitation blues came knocking at my door.
Tell me, how long, do I baby, have to wait
Can I let you know? Why must I hesitate?
Ain’t no use in me
Working so hard,
Got me two good women
Workin’ in the rich folks’ yard. Continue reading
Betcha you can’t listen and not laugh, but this is what most human conversations actually sound like, if you listen really carefully.
Had not Stan Freberg done this “Broadway show without a stage” — meaning that it might have had a chance as a stage show, but it never made the grade or found the sponsorship, I suspect, as it was wildly advanced thinking for its day — you’d never know the real stories behind the United States. At last, you can hear the truth, as only Freberg can tell it, and there’s adequate and funny music, too. As a matter of fact, there’s tap-dancing, and considering that this is a record, not an actual show, it might be the first time someone danced on an audio-only product. We did it on KVMR a number of years back, with sacred dance and music on radio only, no tv, but we did have a live audience of over 350 that day.
There are AT LEAST 11 parts from this first volume of Stan Freberg’s United States of America on youtube. Find out more about Freberg…who was he? What did he do? Why did he do it? Then what happened?
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