Creative Cogitation

I am largely over my funk from the last show, and I did another one last night.  Even though we had decent traf­fic, no one seemed to be buy­ing.  It is get­ting cooler at night around here.  I had a long-sleeve shirt on but I was walk­ing around with my hands in my pock­ets for sev­eral hours any­way.  Not that most folks would con­sider a balmy 50–60 F evening cold, but here in Phoenix AZ, which is located just this side of the blaz­ing fires of hell, we are used to the heat and it thins our blood down; when the tem­per­a­tures drop below body temp we start com­plain­ing.  Still it was a pretty nice evening, the vibe was good, we had a nice assort­ment of artists sell­ing wares, but like I said, no one was buy­ing.  This show is prob­a­bly my last for 2009 as I am going to Italy for 2 weeks for the Flo­rence Bien­nial, and after that I will have a week to get ready for Christ­mas and New Years.  I could do one more show, but it would require me to jump off the plane, catch a few Zs then pack up the van for a show the next day. I just don’t think I can do that.

As for the hor­ri­ble show last week, I will attend a meet­ing of the orga­niz­ers who were involved in that fiasco.  It’s not a bitch ses­sion, it’s a strat­egy ses­sion and I feel hon­ored that the orga­niz­ers actu­ally think I have some­thing to con­tribute to the ongo­ing dis­cus­sions.  I hope I can blog about it, but it is next Tues­day and I am get­ting into Holiday/trip pack­ing crunch time.

Any­way, the mar­ket must stink all the way around as I just watched a TV ad that I found hys­ter­i­cally funny.  It is right up there with my dark humor.

Santa goes god­fa­ther on his naughty list

James Pat­ter­son, crime nov­el­ist, whose char­ac­ters fea­ture the Women’s Mur­der Club and Alex Cross, came on the TV pro­mot­ing his new novel, I Alex Cross.  The mes­sage was short and sweet.  James Pat­ter­son holds up his lat­est novel and says, “Buy this book or I will have to kill Alex Cross.”  My spon­ta­neous guf­faw just about had hot tea com­ing out of my nose.  Although I pre­fer to read a book in print, I usu­ally do not buy hard­bound edi­tions; I patiently wait to buy paper­backs edi­tions. I am will­ing to hold out a good long time, I think I had to wait two years for paper­back edi­tion of the last Harry Pot­ter novel, but I did.  I do love the Alex Cross char­ac­ter, but I admit the threat of killing him of is not going to make me change my book buy­ing pat­tern.  So it is up to the hard­back buy­ing pub­lic to save Alex Cross’ life.  I wish him luck.

What are you doing to increase sales?  What do you think of James Patterson’s ploy?  Do you my God­fa­ther Santa car­toon?  Any other thoughts?

Carry on & yours in art,

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

PS. I am still look­ing for Spon­sors & Con­tribut­ing Patrons to help me pay the esti­mated $8000 it is going to cost me to attend this event.  Every lit­tle bit helps.

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