I just signed a lease on gallery space....

[alsih2o]

Congrats, Mark! That's a big step. I wish you were closer, or I'd make the road trip. How about doing a website, so us distant folks can order on-line?

In the works. I am sitting here eating a sandwich and doodling the screenshape with how I want it to look.

 

[HellHound]

and HH drives it home for the score!

Just want to make sure you know I'm only talking about pretending to be a businessman - the artist part is no make-believe. But it's a real game of make-believe to look and act like a businessman when we all know where our hearts are.

 

[alsih2o]

Just want to make sure you know I'm only talking about pretending to be a businessman - the artist part is no make-believe. But it's a real game of make-believe to look and act like a businessman when we all know where our hearts are.

I read the sentence as it was intended. Ful, of the bitter truth about pretending to be a businessperson and wondering the whole time what color that yellow brown under his eye REALLY is.

COMPLETELY understood.

 

[der_kluge]

Maybe we can think of a good marketing campaign for you. Does your store have a name?

 

[alsih2o]

Maybe we can think of a good marketing campaign for you. Does your store have a name?

After much consideration, discussion with older proffesionals, some creative work and a few debates it appears "Mark Davis Studio and Gallery" is the lame-ass boring name I am going with.

In my heart, wherever I work will always be "Cursing Dog Studio" but that doesn't do great things for walk in business.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

After much consideration, discussion with older proffesionals, some creative work and a few debates it appears "Mark Davis Studio and Gallery" is the lame-ass boring name I am going with.

In my heart, wherever I work will always be "Cursing Dog Studio" but that doesn't do great things for walk in business.

Hell, I'd walk into Cursing Dog Studio just because of the name!

You could always go for one of those really complicated names like "Cursing Dog Studio at the Mark Davis Gallery", and just put the gallery half on the sign out front.

 

[der_kluge]

How about:

"Sieze the Clay"

"Harry Pottery"... no, that'll probably get you sued.

"Pottery Barn" Oh, wait, that's taken.


Hmmm, this was harder than I thought.

 

[bondetamp]

How about "Mud"?
Or even "Mark's Mud"?
Ok, then, how about "Mark's manly miracle mud"?

That last one might be better if you want to open a health shop.

Which you could do, I guess ... Whene ever you get in clay that's to sub standard to use, just bottle it and sell it as a malady against malaria or maldigestion or something.

 

[bondetamp]

I have no idea how I am gonna advertise the opening. There are so many things I have no idea about still.

Make several small clay people wearing sandwich boards with your shop's address and opening day, and then place them out all over the city, taking special care to place them in hotell lobies etc. A nice way to show off your craft.

 

[der_kluge]

Make several small clay people wearing sandwich boards with your shop's address and opening day, and then place them out all over the city, taking special care to place them in hotell lobies etc. A nice way to show off your craft.

Ooh, even better, make some little clay people, and hide them around town in unobstructed places. Post clues on your storefront of where they are located, and each person that finds one, can get like a free lesson, or a free kiln firing or something.

I suspect in a small town like Bluefield, that kind of thing would be more excitement than most people there would have seen in a long time.