The Downloadables

apocalypse background forms new ZOOM game/activity

Here’s an application for the Godd™ Engine — a complete set of ZOOM backgrounds that can be used to create an atmosphere of commonality, meaning that everyone seems to be in more or less the same space.

This can work with Norton Street, too.

What you do is, when you have a good screenshot on your screen, COMPOSE it first, then when it’s EXACTLY right, press the “F4” button on your keyboard. This will send a screenshot to your screenshot file. Continue reading

New Way to Market Books!

 

Yep, I’ve stumbled on a new way to market books, but first, you have to try to understand that the #shorts are what make this world go around at the moment.

#shorts get the crowd, get plenty of views, far more than ordinary landscape videos, and surely more than the over-sixty-seconds group of videos, which is most of them. Continue reading

Your Website Will Get 1 Million Visitors in 15 Days!

That’s right, the first fiverr person that I’m listing below promises — money back guarantee — that you will get 1,000,000 actual non-bot “organic” visitors to your selected url page.

He’s listed as a vetted pro, and you’ll note many positive feedbacks. His total price for the premium package is, you’ll note, a mere $45.00, so even if it’s a total bust, you don’t take a heavy hit for it.

On the other hand, if he can deliver even a few hundred thousand visitors to a url, think how easy it would be to apply that to youtube, in order to grow a channel fairly fast — only 15 days to reach 1,000,000. Continue reading

A Rare Coin is a Lucky Coin

Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center with my painted “JazzArt” backdrops.

You can now buy almost any of my JazzArt backdrop paintings, even those used in performances with Nancy Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and many more world-class jazz musicians in concert around the world.

My JazzArt paintings must be safe, out of the hands and reach of those who would burn all art work that isn’t about Donald Trump, and that will happen soon enough, much sooner than you think.

Book burnings and art burnings are only the start — eventually it’s people burnings, and that’s when we want to be clear away from the source of pain that is Trump and his Minions.

I’m doing everything I can to get these paintings out of the Untied Snakes of Arnica, so the prices are absurdly low. Continue reading

Get Out of the Boat & Push!!!

Sugar Ray Leonard was a family friend -- he signed this to me, and it's for sale, to benefit the building project.
Sugar Ray Leonard was a family friend — he signed this to me when I ran “Jeff Gold Publicity” in Hollywood, and it’s up for sale, to benefit the building project.

Don’t forget that YOU DON’T NEED TO ACTUALLY WAREHOUSE ANY OF OUR PRODUCTS –we drop ship to your customer! No need to put a single penny out of pocket!!! You advertise the item, the customer buys it, you tell us you received the money and we ship the item, then you send us our share and keep your share or give it away, spend it, whatever — it’s YOURS!!!

You can earn big cash, but that’s not important — what IS important is GETTING THE WORD OUT THERE, and this is the program that’s going to do it. How do I know? Because it’s doing it now, and there are lots of folks benefiting from this important WORK ACTION that you could take. Continue reading

Your Museum Donation Could Make History!!!

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Original Signed Picasso Copperplate Engraving of Ballet Dancers, 1945.

I have several museum-grade collections just sitting in three bank vaults — important art historical art and literature collections that would be highly appreciated by any public institution that received them. They are of the highest caliber and significance. You might want to purchase one or more of them and donate them to your favorite museum, university or library or build a space to house one or more of these collections. All the collections are legal to own, and have been on public display in the United States for more than half a century.

Typically, museums don’t buy things — they expect them to be donated, and many people enjoy tax benefits from buying collections and then donating them to a museum, library or university, as well as other venues such as jazz schools, jazz clubs, jazz and art academies and even malls and shops, medical waiting rooms and hospital hallways, where the weight limitations are very important and easily met by our display team technologies, and several folks have donated their collections to local Elks clubs and other public benefit organizations.

There are many other benefits that might accrue for you or someone you know, resulting from the donation of an important art or history collection, not the least of which is the sheer pleasure you get from sharing with thousands of people the beauty that you have discovered in your life, possibly bringing love, joy and beauty to theirs as well.

In addition, if your gift is important enough, you might have a Hall or a Wing named after yourself, or a loved one in memoriam, or you might elect to donate anonymously or posthumously or both. I’d discuss Living Trusts and other instruments with my accountant and attorney before making any decisions, though — you never really know what your options are until you check with the professionals for professional advice that they can guarantee and for which they take responsibility. Continue reading

More Gift Basket Ideas From IDHHB

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My Copper & Brass Shop at the Thieves’ Market, Los Angeles, 1972.

Here are some great gift basket combinations that you might like to order as gifts or as reseller items for your shop, study group meetings, fairs or trunk shows. You can select any or all of the items below to create your own custom personalized gift basket. I put it all together with ribbons & bows, and you get the creative result!

A LA CARTE MENU OF BASKET GOODIES:

  • GOJI BALLS
  • TRAIL MIX
  • GRANOLA
  • LIME IN DA COCONUT DRINK
  • ASHRAM WELL-WATER DRINK
  • GORBY’S HERBAL DRESSING
  • UNCLE CLAUDE’S HONEY — BUMBLE BARF, HORNET HOOP & WASP WHOOP
  • SUMERIAN SALT, SEA SALT, IODIZED SALT, HIMALAYAN SALT
  • BLACK TEA, GREEN TEA, HERBAL TEA
  • MUNCHIE SQUARES

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ZOOMSHOP – Book Baskets

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Basketeer EJ Gold demonstrates the Famous Yogi Stare, 1971.

Gosh, do I have some good ideas for gift baskets for you! Here is a partial list of just a few ideas I’ve come up with for book baskets, which include a packet of my special Story Club Black Tea. The basket & packing are valued at only $20.

LABYRINTH READERS GIFT BASKET — $150 value for $79.95 — YOU SAVE $80!!!

  • AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD — $15.95
  • ABD GUIDE BOOK — $19.95
  • THE HIDDEN WORK — 15.95
  • ANGELS HEALING JOURNEY — $15.95
  • JOY OF SACRIFICE — $16.95
  • THE GREAT ADVENTURE — $15.95
  • THE BOOK OF SACRAMENTS — $16.95

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Entrepeneurial Enterprises

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This was my mother’s sterling silver example of her modernist jewelry teacher, Art Smith’s “Calder” necklace, 1953; Smith was inspired by the Alexander Calder show at the Modern. I’m currently engaged in creating Modernist Pendants out of copper, brass, silver and 18 karat gold (it’s very yellow, as opposed to 14k). There are just too many of them to photograph and put up on eBay all at once, but I’m heading in that direction. You might want to market my Modernist Pendants, Ancient Style rings and earrings, and more. Inquire of me if you’re at all interested. Stock can cost anywhere from about $100 up to whatever you want to fling in the face of fortune.

In addition, I’ve waded into my library of 7,000 volumes, and pulled out more than half for sale; here are the details: Continue reading

Circle of Johnson

If you’ve just recently arrived on Planet Earth, you’ll probably have no idea who Samuel Johnson was, literarily speaking. I happen to have a full beautiful and crisp collection in my library of Circle of Johnson, all in very closely matching 18th century bindings, to wit:

Female Spectator in 4 Volumes, London: 1748, by Elizabeth Fowler, one of the inventors of the modern novel, and one of the most important female literary figure of her time.

Miscellaneous Works in Verse & Prose in 3 Volumes with 4th volume Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, by Joseph Addison, London: 1767.

The Rambler in 4 Volumes, London: 1771. Published as a small periodical from 1750 to 1752, this is a fine, crisp set of the 1771 edition.

The World in 4 Volumes, London: 1772, by Adam Fitz-Adam. An important milestone in English Literature.

The Guardian in 2 Volumes, London: 1767, Addison & Steele’s major contribution to the Literary field, and one of the most important “Coffee-House” periodicals of its time.

The Tatler in 4 Volumes, London: 1764; the definitive contribution of three major Literary Figures of the 18th Century, Richard Addison, Joseph Steele and Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels).

This set is offered at a very modest $5000 to benefit the Ashram. You can donate directly to IDHHB, Inc. and I will carefully ship the books to you from my library, where they’ve been for the past 25 years. I still have the invoice from Ursus Books in NYC — I’m asking exactly what was paid 25 years ago, regardless of the fact that, although the books have retained their value, the money hasn’t.

I also have an incredible 10 volume set, to wit:

Diary of Samuel Pepys, Edited with additions by Henry Wheatley, 10 Volumes, with 10 frontispiece engravings, 30 illustrations, 3 fold-out pedigrees and one fold-out map not called for in the register. Bound in breathtakingly beautiful full green polished calf, London: George Bell & Sons, 1904, first unexpurgated edition and UNCUT!!!

I’m asking $1850 for this full incredibly RARE uncut set of Samuel Pepys. Again, it came from Ursus Books in New York City; Ursus is among the 10 most highly respected booksellers in the world.

These are only two of the items I have on my Antiquarian Bookseller’s Shelf. Would you like to know more? You have but to ask. I am hoping to pass on my book trader’s skills to someone who will take over the shop and run it, learning to buy as well as sell rare books and prints. No one I know who is in this profession hates to go to work in the morning.

See You At The Top!!!

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