Ive become a sorta Minimalist due to same reasons as David... traumatic
episodes in Life...yet I am not sad
at all of it,, I feel freed and focused on what is important and the
richest part of Life.... I had several turning points However what made
me lose the interest in horeing things was that I owned a hofner
beatle bass like McCartney used.. it was from the 70s had its tags and I
only played it on recordings or in thhe house,, so eveyone nknew it was
my prize collectable.. and I loved it dearly... so one day I was looking
on ebay and i looked to see how much they were selling.....and mine was
better than the others...
so I told my son wowo look at what these are going for...! and as I did
I looked back... he was crying... I said what are you crying about????
he said " I dropped the Hofner" ! after i had convulsions -3 seisures
and pooped my pants,,, it dawned on me.. that the bass could be
replaced but the Kid couldnt
and if I could have smashed the bass to make him better i would have....
so after that I aw that its useless to get focused on the stuff....
My new attitude is " catch and release" its like be a steward and the
best part is the interaction with others and the stuff is just the means
to have some fun... as far as having a Image in your home office etc..
well.... thats cool,,, but to limit to one image or even 20-30... is
Like watching ONE FRAME of a Movie
as Life is a Movie ... a epic......with so many twists and turns....and
If you had to collect a Image of all the cool oarts or visul parts...
well You would need a place as Huge as the UNIVERSE to hold it all...
so seems frivolous to hold it in a box.. or wall or vault...and even
kinda humorous??
I had a revelation... LIFES based on Circles or Sphreres... think about
it,,, the eartn is round the planets
our EYES,,, the cells in the body.....and all relative to circles... all
wheels..... the wheels of Life...
Ironically the name of the Zoetrope.............. well.......there s
nothing wrong in all the visuals as I see it....
but think... the best memories you really prioritize and want to keep at
the forefront of your thoughts,,, are living things like people and
pets and life related........
Interesting eh Doc?? Ironically It was Mel Blanc 100th birthday...
mel Passed in 1989 However
his life impression on me has been permanet... and the other day I
called his son who is in Big bear lake , Cal...
Noel is just like his dad... and I feel connected to him like hes my
brother as in articles he was in awe
oh his dad also... well Noel returned my call and we talekd about mel
and I said.. I just need to
verify or aknowlede what I thought his message was to me...
mel told me this... there are some good guys and some bad guys,, in
showbiz and all biz... try to network with the good guys.... that simple..
and Mel an noel where super super collectors,,,, Mel had a watch
collection vlaued at over 4 million..
and noel had a car collection in HIS house on Rodeo drive in Beverly
hills.. next to Carl reineres house!
so these people knew about stuff
yet Noel lives in the family cabin that was built in 1946 and so.....To
me that showed that in the final
anyalisis Noels best memories were the simple ones with family and his
Dad at that cabin and thats why hes there.... the memories of being
there and all the friends like jack beeny and the PEOPLE are the Richist
part of Life......feeling you made a differance in someone s life is so
much more fufilling than seeing a static Image....however the Images
play a role to help us remember... hense the word
MEMOR -abilia - is rooted in Conjuring up memorys....... the circle is
complete..
David Kusumoto wrote:
** At one time, we had nearly 200 framed items on display, some art,
but most of it movie paper. Our home is modest but was built in the
80s when "vaulted ceilings" were in every home being sold in
California. As a collector (vs. a seller) -- I've always had the
"always display, never put away" attitude about posters. But things
got out of hand. Every space was filled. TOO MUCH "visual noise."
** The turning point was our first-ever evacuation during the fires of
October 2003 (and again in October 2007). Both times we took our pet
cockatiel, a binder of photographs, five one-sheets and two window
cards -- leaving everything else -- including my entire lobby card
collection -- behind.
** We said f*** it, this is ridiculous. Since 2003, about 100 posters
have come down and were traded or sold or given away. And it still
doesn't look like we've made a "dent." We've only owned THREE posters
bigger than a one-sheet -- 2 Beatle Quads and a three-sheet to "The
Quiet Man" framed by Sue Heim. That 3-sheet is nearly seven feet tall
and its top edge is 21 feet above the floor. It still looks
magnificent. I would've put up three more, but our house was already
looking less decorative, an assault to the eyes. Our home developed
an eccentric reputation with visitors because they couldn't focus
ANYWHERE. S***, even a museum leaves a little space between its
showpieces. I'm talking wall-to-wall garish, like at a restaurant
with so many frames that patrons stop caring about what's in them.
** Which leads me to a question that I think I covered before but
bears repeating. If you had just 10 minutes to get out of your house
-- what would you take with you? I'm not asking you to "out" your
collection, but to do an inventory in your head. I've gone through
this drill twice in real life and have since "ranked" our STUFF and
our posters, 1 through 10 and NO MORE. When you have only 10 minutes,
you'd be surprised how satisfied you might be with the finality of
your choices. People have said (jokingly) -- that if I had left the
bird cage behind both times, I could saved more one sheets. But I was
OK with our choices except one. In 2003, I left my journals behind,
everything recorded every day in my life since I was 12. I just
FORGOT. In 2007, they were the FIRST thing I took, since stored on a
small flash drive. Amazing.
** Finally, I leave you with this. Last October, Larry Himmel, a
veteran TV journalist (and humorist) here in San Diego, stood
helplessly in front of his burning home, AND BROADCASTED IT LIVE AS HE
AND VIEWERS WATCHED IT BURN TO THE GROUND. The heat was so intense
and firefighters were putting out other blazes. But he kept
reporting, describing everything inside that being lost. The next day
-- he was asked if he had any thoughts about losing 40 years worth of
memories on live TV. He said (paraphrasing), "well you know, when
everyone gets out safe and all you have left is what's in your head --
you've no choice but to be thankful. For us, it means life will go
on, but with a lot less clutter." By inference, this was a bad thing,
but not entirely since he had no control preventing a fire that few
thought would enter the city limits. I'd like to think I'd feel the
same way if I lost so much "stuff," but my heart feels this
consolation would be short-lived, despite knowing we can't take any of
this s*** with us when we die. It just gets passed down or sold off
by next of kin whose ideas of nostalgia are theirs, not yours.
-kuz.
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:36:27 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: displaying three sheets
> To: [email protected]
>
> I have a number of six sheets framed and up on the walls, some are
even 45 feet in the air in a center atrium. There really is nothing
like a 6-sheet on display - makes you feel like you can walk right
into it. I have up: Double Indemnity, Hollywood, Angels With Dirty
Faces, Movie Crazy, and Lives of A Bengal Lancer. The only downside to
a 6-sheet is the $2500 framing cost per poster.
Then, I also have displayed 6 three sheets, 20 1-sheets, 5 inserts, 1
Italian 4 foglio, 1 Italian duo, 2 small French posters, and easily
100 window cards. I still have a fair amount of room left...and I am
following my plan of displaying everything in my collection - nothing
is in storage.
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