Great parodies of vintage hunting and outdoor magazine ads

[Manedwolf]

Awesome.

 





http://www.blueloonfinearts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=GoldenAgeParodies

[Brad Johnson]

Awesome.

You think that's awesome, wait until you see the prices.

Brad

[Manedwolf]

Oh, those prices are reasonable for Giclee prints, especially signed ones.

People tend to undervalue art...when the truth is, when you break it down by the time spent to do it, a lot of artists end up earning close to a minimum hourly wage for commissioned pieces.

[Bogie]

Yup... Someone took the time to (a) think that up; and (b) make 'em... That isn't a fast process.

Giclee printing is becoming more and more reasonable - my 250 gram photo paper goes at $6 per square foot... And I charge $8/sq. ft. for the canvas I use... I can use other substrates, but I'm figuring on doing 'em on a case-by-case basis.
 

[wooderson]

Excellent, a couple of these should take care of Christmas for my father.

[Monkeyleg]

Bogie, you post sounds suspiciously like advertising.

[Bogie]

If it was advertising, I'd be telling you the web site...

Wanna know it?

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Oh, those prices are reasonable for Giclee prints, especially signed ones.

Heh, giclee prints...  <giglesnort>

How do you sell a glorified inkjet printer system to snobbish artists and the pretentious fine art crowd?  You slap a $10,000 price tag on the printer and give the prints posh French name, of course.  "Giclée" translates more or less as "nozzle" or "squirt", so it was a natural choice.  Thus was born the "fine art Giclée print".  Mash the print button on your PC as often as you want sell the printouts for $500 a pop.  Easy money.

Sadly, nobody told them that the term "giclee" is actually a slang term used within the French porn industry.  There it means... umm... the end of the scene... so to speak.

[Bogie]

Or you can tell 'em that a one off 2x3' chunka canvas either costs 'em $60, or $3,000....

[Monkeyleg]

C'mon, Bogie. Let's have the website address.

[Bogie]

Well, actually, now that you mention it, I've been working on www.creativeaccuracy.com past day or so, in between a buncha other fun... No, I haven't tweaked the metas, betas, zetas, or any of the other sorority sisters yet.
 
This is destined for advertising on Benchrest.com (if Wilbur ever tells me where to send the money...), Precision Shooting, SGN, and Gun List, or whatever else they're calling it this week... Graphics and advertising support for gun nuts, by gun nuts. Kinda like Fubu, but not racist...
 
Actually, got the giclee stuff (my Epson 9800 is one of those glorified 2800 dpi 44" wide 300 pound 6' long inkjets, so don't compare it to the thing you have sitting on your kid's desk, okay?) to work photo-quality research poster presentations (and been going nuts past coupla weeks contacting folks who are organizing conferences - Monkeyleg, if you think calling gun dealers is hard, try cold-calling PhDs...), and while I was in the joint, the HMFIC mentioned that they weren't gonna be carrying a vinyl printer line anymore, and would I like their demo for an insanely low price (I verified with a relative in the sign business...). The thing actually makes a mean bumper sticker... Has almost paid for itself already on banners.
 
So hey, it's here, and I can do banners, bumper stickers, door magnets, and all sortsa other fun stuff, so I'm a full-service niche marketer... Kinda like being schizophrenic, but paying your own health insurance.
 
Legsta, I think I told you before that you have a print coming. Ain't seen no bytes yet...
 

[280plus]

How do you sell a glorified inkjet printer system to snobbish artists and the pretentious fine art crowd?  You slap a $10,000 price tag on the printer and give the prints posh French name, of course.

Why does the name Thomas Kinkade "Painter of Crap" suddenly pop into my head? 

[Bogie]

Yeech - I just looked at his web site... Is that the guy who uses spatulas to smear?
 
Hey, if he can get the prices, more power to him. Free world, free market, all that stuff. He -does- have a lot of front-end going into something... He's doing a painting, which will take a bit of time. He then gets to pay to have the thing scanned -perfectly- (which that $100 thing that they sell down at Boxmart won't do...), and if he _is_set up with a print on demand system, it'll take a coupla hours for the thing to print.
 

[Monkeyleg]

Bogie, Thomas Kinkade paintings are mass-produced. IIRC, Kinkade does the basic painting, and then finishing touches are added by several of the many "artists" he employs.

[Manedwolf]

Most amusingly, there's now Kinkade-like crap paintings with the same "light and spatulas" method (they look very much like his, even the choices of colors) coming out of China and being sold for $19.95 at discount stores. 

[280plus]

Yup, everything in his stores are prints. Imagine prints with dabs of paint added here and there for texture by God knows who complete with exorbinant price tags. The wife's family went last year to the Kinkade store in the mall to buy one for my MIL/FIL for Christmas, I'd never seen his crap, uh, I mean work, before. In about 30 seconds I was totally turned off. I did everything I could to talk said family out of the purchase but to no avail, now everytime I go over there I have to see that Godawful $450 "painting" sitting on the wall. (and that was one of the CHEAPER ones!)

I love my wife and her family but sometimes they can take tacky to a whole new level... 

here's something interesting...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1739383,00.html

And a quote I found:

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.

That's one wild and crazy guy... 

[Manedwolf]

The Kinkade store at the mall here went out of business. It was a victory for art. 

[Firethorn]

The Kinkade store at the mall here went out of business. It was a victory for art. 

Gawd, don't let my mother know, she loves his stuff.

Personally, I won't bother trying to say that it isn't art, but depictions of village scenes just isn't my thing.

Now, a nice castle with a dragon in it...

Great, now I'm thinking about my idea to commission a piece of art again...

I want a personal avatar.  I'm thinking a techowizard dragon w/glasses.

[Harold Tuttle]

gotta love those clueless librarians and their fat pipe web "designers":
http://mclib.elkhart.com/Summer%20Reading%20Page/DRAGON%20&%20BOOKS.jpg
http://www.state.lib.la.us/empowerlibrary/WEB%20IMAGE%20TRP%2007.JPG

heres a scholarly with nerd glasses dragon:
http://raphink.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/konqi_kubudoc_hires.jpg

[280plus]

Apparently he screwed them all and they ALL went out of business. They sued the CRAP out of him.