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| DUNG DEALER Join Date: Feb 2001
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Calling all Artists & Craftsmen: Mycotopian Offerings & COOP
well, i'm making some good progress on getting ready to open up my little hippy store here and i thought- 'hey, why not ask and see if any of our members would like to form a kind of co-op with me, e.g. i could help sell your crafts/arts thru my store. you'd get free advertizing on a site that gets over 9 million visits a month and i'd just add a small mark-up on the price to earn my profit. kind of like consignment, where you give your goods to another to sell then he pays you the fee once sold. i wouldn't even need to have actual possession of the items to sell, i could just forward you the buyer's address once the sale is made. so, what have you got ? we're open to ceramic stuff, posters, t-shirts, glass, scales, just about anything and everything you'd see at your typical head shop. if you think it would sell, get with me. some pix of your merchandise would be good, i just bought me a new digi cam yesterday so i can start assembling a catalogue to post here. talk to me, people. we can make this happen and we'll all be better off for it.
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| Mycotopiate Join Date: Dec 1972
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i would be interested in doing a watercolor series. signed paintings of say 100 small paintings. my question is , do you have limits on what the images can be. for example. no paintings of a potleaf, no paintings of a magic mushie. dont want you to get into any legal type problems (although i cant see how). just trying to keep any unnecessary heat off of you.
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| Former Member Join Date: May 1972
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From another thread: "we're going to also be selling bad-ass incense burners hand-painted by my wife, dragons and demons and shroomy stuff." OK so I'm pretty sure the idea I am about to present has been presented to a person before now, I just can't friggin' find any, so I will present my idea here. I'm chaulk full of these, ya' know?!!! lol So anyway yesterday I was cooking bacon and I noticed that each time I flipped the bacon the spatula would get all greasy and I would have to set it down as one can't just walk around the house with a spatula. If you put it on the counter then you make both the counter and likely the spatula dirty; I wound up using a half-pint wide-mouth and the spatula fit fairly well. And I began to look at the spatula, it's design, it's angles and the way it flowed. It sent me good vibes, I'll be honest. And the grease slowly dripped off the spatula into the jar, sort of like the idea behind a drip shield in a terrarium. And I got to thinking, "What real remedies could be offered here?" The creation of small ceramic pieces is easy enough, so I set out designing with a friend of mine. We figured the most efficient design would be a piece about 6"x1"x1" either made of stone or ceramic. Best comparison I might be able to give is something similar to a pumace stone though obviously its porous nature would defeat our purpose here. So if it's ceramic you could get fun with it and it would be easier - you'd have to carve the rock; just make a horizontal line running the whole width of the ceramic that would just be a sort of groove to sit the spatula into. Then, around the edge, make a sort of moat so that any excess that drips off would just be retained there. It strikes me as a useful item that could be custom-made at low cost. And I can't find any on the internet (what do you even search for?), so I'm going to have to go to my school's Art Club to make myself a prototype. I have this other ashtray design that I'm prototyping that will revolutionize smoking pipes/bowls but there's still much work to be done there, but I'll keep you posted as developments develop. [EDIT: I had no idea where to talk about these ideas so instead of making my own thread I just slapped it here - hope you don't mind and that it might actually be somewhat useful lol] [EDIT: Yeah, another one. So no sooner do I say all this and continue to look and find http://www.cayneshousewares.com/cgi-...=Spoon%20Rests . I'm still making my own, though, because those fruit ones aren't my style and the stainless ones are too expensive. I can see this being an area to capitalize, though not necissarily with hippies...then again, everyone's gotta' cook, right?] |
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| Former Member Join Date: Feb 1971
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hi hippie long time no see... I have a aboundance of trippy music I wrote which I could offer exclusivley at your website.. everything is royaltee-free, original home grown vibes. New-age/ambient/downtemp/eletronic music is the genre of which.. What we need to do is create a way to play samples or lower quality copies of these songs directly in the store so cats can taste before they buy. What do you think? |
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| Mycophage Join Date: Mar 2005
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Do we have any glass blowers in the house? I want to start, but I can't seem to find any info on how to learn. So if anyone knows tell me, but besides that if we have some glass blowers here Hip, you could really do well selling those. Especially if you took custom orders, (that's if the glass blower is that good) Everybody wants something customized, especially your own piece!
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but i like thre concept.
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i'm confident that folks would like
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my incense stuff should be shipping out to me monday so i expect to be 'opening for business' in 2 weeks or maybe even less. looks like we will have many neat items from the friends here too. i wish chnop would see this, she made great ceramic pieces. anyone talked to her lately ?
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| Wanderer Join Date: Nov 1971
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ya, chnop hasn't been around in a while. I was lucky enough to get a wind chime from her. Beautiful! would you be interested in selling some peruvian gourdes hippie? a couple pics:
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| old hand Join Date: Mar 1970
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Hey Jasper. That's some nice stuff. I have a friend in Florida that makes similar pieces out of coconuts. I should try to see if he wants to sell something. There pretty cheap if I remember correctly.
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the more the merrier.
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we've been busy making candles, incense burners and our incense stuff just arrived so it won't be much longer. all interested parties should PM to confirm, in the short run i'll be creating a special forum here with limited posting privs to those involved, a mini-marketplace. so let me know if you want in. this is a standing offer to any artists/craftsmen here, we can help each other here.
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ok, i opened the old 'myco-offerings' forum http://forums.mycotopia.net/showthre...892#post173892 this is where we'll be trying to sell our & your products until a website offsite is built. any one can post in the new forum but only members of my COOP will be able to start threads. you'll need the password which i'll provide once you join. so lemme know, let's get this show on the road. thx
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ok, bipolar's 'in'. some pix of his candles coming today i hope. the more the merrier. this is not some cut-throat scheme, we're building a real COOP friends, and it's going to be around for a long time to come. so even if you don't have anything ready now, start thinking about this.
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right now i set up a special forum here, actually modified the 'topia offerings forum so folks can now post but only COOP members will be able to start threads. after we gain some members and have more to offer we'll host a real site here on my server space.
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oh, you mean a store in the real world ? nah, way too expensive. web-based is the wave of the future. we figure to visit our local head shops and markets to sell some but no store of our own. maybe someday.
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| Mycotopiate Join Date: Feb 2005
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sounds good. eventually maybe you can make a storefront, and if all goes well, branch out to different states. since the member base here is all over. if the right people invested, you could have a coast to coast chain. just a pipedream im spouting, but its doable
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here's our first offering- http://forums.mycotopia.net/showthre...260#post174260 i know the prices are a bit high but it does include packaging and shipping plus we're talking extra scent oil, hand-made with TLC by fellow freaks not some mega-corp like wal-mart.
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those are lovely.
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Hi, there, I'm a newbie here(but an old hippie) and I like your co-op idea. I also make my own CDs of head/ambient/space music. I have written for and done live concerts in our local planetarium.I'm trying to get my ish together and finally get a real cd up for sale, strictly home-made. Do you think I could offer it here? I can mail you a sample when its ready. BTW, thanks for all you do from one who appreciates the "culture" staying alive and healthy. Good luck to you in all you do. You can email me separately with a response if you have time. (this to Hippie3) peace, terry
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| Shared Animosity Join Date: Jan 1970
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This place just gets better & better. That Hippie is a smart feller...
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Hi, Hip!!! I would love to be involved in your store. I've been endlessly working on new things. I'll get some pics for you. And we can talk. ...I'm so excited to be back.
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i think that's fine work, you're welcome to join our COOP i'll copy your post there now. Quote:
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| Dobbsian Lotek ŰßěřŃęrđ Join Date: Feb 2006
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I can do custom neon (almost 19 years experience), I can blow pipes and stuff but I am not very good at it yet.
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| Dobbsian Lotek ŰßěřŃęrđ Join Date: Feb 2006
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I don't have much, I sold my old car (wouldn't make the trip) and moved out of Texas by bus taking only my (new to me) laptop & glassblowing torch. I do have a few cheezy sign pics (nothing cool that I did but you can see what kind of work I do.)
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neon is cool, familiar with el-wire ? so you would be making/offering glass pipes and ? i'd love to check it out, i'd suggest making a couple pieces and showing them here, pretty confident you'd find interest.
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| Dobbsian Lotek ŰßěřŃęrđ Join Date: Feb 2006
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back about '82 I used to make "flashy light jewelry" with the leds and the controlable sequencers, to wear while I worked in the nightclub with the lasers. Boy oh boy I love the trippy lights. Ohhh pretty colors! trypin' even sober, Glasshopper
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