thethedew

My main motive for my CAF gallery is shameless self-promotion of the things I'm looking for. Trying to be entertaining and organized in my postings is my honey to draw in views. Yes, I went there. Just keepin' it real. (But... has that arguably-slightly-obnoxious strategy actually, y'know.... helped? Jury is still out on that one.)

Did someone say 'focus?'

I still maintain that we aren't going to see much change (except for continued upward movement) anytime soon. I will just point to the Great Recession, the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression, and the barely noticeable blip it had on OA markets. For OA to be affected, a lot of High Rollers would have to feel that their War Chests are truly at risk. For that to happen, we'd need another Great Recession, only this one would have to last three or four times longer. There's still too much money on the sidelines, ready to pounce... in both the Stock Market, and the OA market.

I don't use GIMP but maybe it has a similar merging feature. A quick Web search would find out.

I always use the Photoshop 'Photomerge' option. See if your version of Photoshop has this: ...after which you should be prompted to navigate to the directory where your individual raw scans reside. Select the ones to be stitched, and see if the automated process works to your satisfaction. It still won't be perfect, I stress. If you insist on zooming in closely and taking a look, you'll probably find minor imperfections and faintly blurry blended lines here and there. But it's better than doing it manually. In general, I've found it's sufficient for graphics for the WWWeb, and for 'personal' printing. I'd guess professional printers or publishers may well turn their noses up at the results. YMMV. Hope this helps! Andrew

I'm an old hand at prepping scanned pencils for blueline. If you can't do it yourself, or can't find a local Graphics guy to do it for you, I can try to help out.

If you had the time to scan, convert, and print out nicely, I'd suggest asking him to ink a blueline print of the pencils, and keep the pencils untouched.

Feeling a little dim today; so a question: I understand that NFT's are a digital product, ideally a one-of-a-kind-digital-only product. Does its status as a sold NFT grant the file some sort of legal status/exclusivity which drives the pricing? Otherwise, you're paying that much for a file which lives on a drive, with a 'I will be good and will not copy' promise from the artist/author? If so, ah..... no thanks. Easy call.

This actually dovetails with something which occurred to me this weekend. Everyone understands that the VAST majority of 'comments' on any particular piece are left probably in, say, the first 48 hours after a piece is added to a gallery. (This excepts Comic Book Royalty-type additions, which will attract comments at a more-or-less steady pace for the whole of their gallery life) After that, it usually quiets down. EXCEPT... the 'views' tracker still keeps ticking over, ever growing. SO... my question is: WHO are these fans who continue to view pages steadily, but are very, very unlikely to leave comments? A few suggestions: 1) Non-CAF viewers, who, having no CAF account, don't have the ability to comment (probably brought in by Google searches?) 2) Automated processes, (perhaps within CAF but more likely external) i.e. bots whose attention still counts as a CAF view 3) The Cabal, quietly lurking in disciplined fashion; typical. Now that I look at my list, I don't know if there is much to discuss after all. Will post anyway, in case anyone has anything to add or correct.

I directed him to this forum once, so he's aware of it.

Not in my experience. B always firm with me but I've got a target on my back. So.

I liked it when it was at the Holiday Inn Express (the one with a part-time comedy club)

Have also heard back from the Sears camp. The art has finally been located after much sifting through moving boxes, and will be enroute to me this weekend.

EDIT: ART HAS ARRIVED AS OF SEPT1. THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN! Ordered a finished prelim directly from him through CAF in late April. After communicating that a) he'd moved and then b) entire family was ill, he subsequently went radio silent... since May. I've been upbeat and left weeks between communications, so I know I haven't been a pest. I've even offered to ship him a toploader and prepaid packaging. He would just need to schlep to a Post Office. Crickets. Three months of silence for an already-completed piece (not a commission) is a little disappointing. Has anyone here heard if he has any further difficulties?

Success stories from Focused Collectors always make me smile.

Hmmm. According to my financial records: I purchased the interiors of Marvel's Micronauts #11 on April 10, 2008 I located and purchased the Cover for same on June 25, 2016, completing the book. So, a touch over 8 years? Since the interiors were still all together, not as mighty an accomplishment as pulling it together from the four corners of the earth; but, still a goal achieved.

Knowing (where) IS half the battle.

That should be no trouble at all for an experienced paper restorer.

I will comply.

Thank you for laying it all out like that. I do appreciate the support. ...but we could also go with Door 3, the suggested ceasefire. He's gone, nothing left but everyone's opinions scattered all over the place. I think we can be done now. Sometimes, you just can't please everyone.

A reasonable suggestion. Up to him, but I'll point out he was the one slinging untoward descriptions, which is generally frowned upon. Happy to interpret his silence as conceding the correction.

'Creepy?' No, no, no. Deputy, I invite you to find a comment, post, or email between us that is in any way objectionable or even particularly noteworthy. Should you find any, I authorize you to post it here for all to see and judge for themselves. I'd suggest manning up and starting a dedicated thread, this one has been hijacked enough, as Rick has noted above. If you do, I'll engage. I love teaching Good Manners.

You didn't 'shame' him. Don't take too much responsibility for someone who's clearly feeling a little thin-skinned right now. Lets all hope things improve for him.

We all have different experiences with the OA hobby. Who knows what terrible, awful, horrendous indignities he's suffered to bring him to this pass.

Marcus never, ever has a negative thing to say. The hobby needs more like him. With that in mind, I note that Race now appears to be... gone.