Corinabeads and challenges

You are too stalking me! I'm gonna cry!

I think auction psychology does have a lot to do with why art in general
sometimes reaches such high prices... fine art is, after all, very often
sold at live auction. Can you imagine what kind of prices we would be
seeing if beads were being sold at live auction instead of the
relatively low-energy online auction arena?

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Deepwood Art wrote:
In article ,
says...


From another perspective,
it's not that astounding; at least two people perceived those beads as
art from a well-known artist, and bid accordingly.


I wonder how much of it has to do with the "psychology" of
online auctions and bidding wars, however.

Not that it matters. I think the whole thing is way cool
for both seller *and* buyer.

(I'm not stalking you, Kalera, I promise lol)

I don't want to be a spoiler, but it's in the description for the beads
posted by Renee Holoubek (Mother Beads). It's not obvious in the
picture.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Lori Greenberg wrote:
All right, spill the beans. I looked at the challenge and don't see no hot
rats frit! )

It was fun to go back and look though.

It means... well, you know. Hot sh*t.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


starlia wrote:
Yeah, what is hot rats?

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Lori Greenberg" wrote in message
k.net...

All right, spill the beans. I looked at the challenge and don't see no

hot

rats frit! )

It was fun to go back and look though.

--
--------------------------------------
Lori Greenberg
www.beadnerd.com
ebay:


http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...id=lorigre en
berg


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...

I thought that as well, but she has an excellent point... the frit
challenge was earlier this year, and adding frits and metals practically
guarantees that there will be very few "regular colors" reactions
submitted.

If you think of the Challenges as information-gleaning missions, it
makes a lot more sense. At the end of this month, we will all know a LOT
more about glass reactions.

And if you want to know more about frit reactions, check out the Frit
Challenge page... there is a certain mention (not me) of a certain frit,
way back when, that is all of a sudden HOT RATS under a very different
name.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Oh. OH! Blush...not really but LMAO.

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...
It means... well, you know. Hot sh*t.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


starlia wrote:
Yeah, what is hot rats?

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Lori Greenberg" wrote in message
k.net...

All right, spill the beans. I looked at the challenge and don't see no

hot

rats frit! )

It was fun to go back and look though.

--
--------------------------------------
Lori Greenberg
www.beadnerd.com
ebay:



http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...id=lorigre en
berg


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...

I thought that as well, but she has an excellent point... the frit
challenge was earlier this year, and adding frits and metals
practically
guarantees that there will be very few "regular colors" reactions
submitted.

If you think of the Challenges as information-gleaning missions, it
makes a lot more sense. At the end of this month, we will all know a
LOT
more about glass reactions.

And if you want to know more about frit reactions, check out the Frit
Challenge page... there is a certain mention (not me) of a certain
frit,
way back when, that is all of a sudden HOT RATS under a very different
name.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Spoiler nothing. Have I told you lately that I love you? )

--
--------------------------------------
Lori Greenberg
www.beadnerd.com
ebay:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...origre enberg


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...
I don't want to be a spoiler, but it's in the description for the beads
posted by Renee Holoubek (Mother Beads). It's not obvious in the
picture.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Lori Greenberg wrote:
All right, spill the beans. I looked at the challenge and don't see no
hot
rats frit! )

It was fun to go back and look though.

You know, I really hate that word, "collectible", as well as the concept.
It really kind of means that the value is in the *resale*, and not the item
itself, not in the worthiness of the art.

In that context, I'd much rather pay $1,000 for beads for the art value, and
their value as good material for other art work, than pay $200 for a doll
because someone else might take it off my hands for a comparable value.

Tina


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...
It's the difference, in a real-market kind of way, between art and
craft. They may be one and the same to the maker, but the collector will
pay that kind of money for something they perceive as collectible art. I
think it's a wonderful step forward for lampwork as an art... we're
already there as a craft, but we have yet to be truly accepted as a fine
art. (I'm not saying that we're all artists, but there are some
lampworkers who are, and should be (and aren't) accepted as fine artists).

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Dr. Sooz wrote:
The auction that closed for over $1000: http://snipurl.com/8rg1 (to do
her
site and read about her reaction to it)


Come ON. This is insane.
~~
Sooz

Try to define soul in a way that everyone agrees on,
and then maybe we'll have a basis for defining art.

GOOD ONE.
~~
Sooz

F*CK! I could buy a 4 bedrom house here for $20,000!

*sigh* sorry.

"Dr. Sooz" wrote in message
...
You know what I think? (Otherwise known as "Who cares -- shhh!")

I think that money is a sliding scale thing. $1000 would be a teensy drop
in
the bucket to me if our household income were ten times what it now is.
It
would be one big shrug.

$1000 is *nothing* to pay for a pair of shoes, for instance, to some
women.
(To use an item we've been talking about in other threads....SHOES.) They
*collect* Manolos. Some women think nothing of spending $20,000 for a
DRESS.
So, maybe the buyer of Corina's set of beads -- and her bidding-war
partner
there -- have lots of money. Simply put.

It's all relative. (And I no longer think it's insane.)
~~
Sooz

F*CK! I could buy a 4 bedrom house here for $20,000!

Welcome to the world, girl! Here, in Sunny So Cal, it would take that to
remodel a bathroom! LOL...

and Sooz?..she's up in "bogglesthemindhowexpensiverealestateis" land! (but,
according to my dh who's a financial planner, and his real estate friends...the
market has topped, and we're headed for a "correction"!)

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Okay, I read the posts here, and I read the description there, and I'm so
losted. Help?!

"starlia" wrote in message
...
Oh. OH! Blush...not really but LMAO.

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...
It means... well, you know. Hot sh*t.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


starlia wrote:
Yeah, what is hot rats?

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Lori Greenberg" wrote in message
k.net...

All right, spill the beans. I looked at the challenge and don't see
no

hot

rats frit! )

It was fun to go back and look though.

--
--------------------------------------
Lori Greenberg
www.beadnerd.com
ebay:




http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...id=lorigre en
berg


"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...

I thought that as well, but she has an excellent point... the frit
challenge was earlier this year, and adding frits and metals
practically
guarantees that there will be very few "regular colors" reactions
submitted.

If you think of the Challenges as information-gleaning missions, it
makes a lot more sense. At the end of this month, we will all know a
LOT
more about glass reactions.

And if you want to know more about frit reactions, check out the Frit
Challenge page... there is a certain mention (not me) of a certain
frit,
way back when, that is all of a sudden HOT RATS under a very
different
name.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay