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3d designs, cricketdiane, dart board, dart players, dart throwing game board, dartboard, darts, extreme designs, hypnotic designs, new designs
29 Monday Jul 2013
07 Sunday Apr 2013
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cricketdiane, cricketdiane art and design, extreme designs, extreme skateboards, skateboarding, skateboards
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Above is one of the seven hundred plus skateboards that I designed last year – but it would probably never be used by the skateboarders or licensed by manufacturers because of this – whether they ever see them, like the designs or not –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Skateboard_Companies
The IASC was established in 1995 by Jim Fitzpatrick, with the goal of promoting skateboarding, increase participation, saving its members money and educating the community about skateboarding. Its members include skateboard manufacturers, distributors, skatepark designers and contest organisers.[1]
Anti-blank-deck campaign
In part, the initial establishment of the association was prompted by industry concerns about the sale of blank (un-branded) skateboard decks. In 1994, during the months before the establishment of the association, representatives of various skateboarding companies met to discuss their concerns. In particular, companies were concerned about the proliferation of un-branded decks for sale in skate shops and other retail outlets that had not been produced by one of the major skate brands. These decks carried no logos or associated designs and were produced by manufacturers that (according to the companies) did not contribute to the sponsorship of skateboarders, venues or events.[3] The association was officially established the following year.
In 2007, the IASC released a report, produced in conjunction with Transworld Skateboarding titled, Under Fire: A special report on the skate hard-goods market.[4] In it, the IASC detailed the impact of blank deck sales on the wider industry and encouraged skaters to only buy and ride branded decks and to wear branded clothing at competitions. The IASC also resolved to encourage media outlets to only publish stories with images that included skaters supporting their sponsors’ brands.[4]
As a result of the campaign, a number of manufacturers discontinued direct sale of blank decks (though a number continued to supply IASC member companies).
(wikipedia)
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In any other industry, business or commercial enterprise, that would be called collusion and intentionally setting up unfair practices to monopolize and control the marketplace for one type of commodity. But not in this apparently – they can group together and determine to exclude all others that are not endorsed by specific skateboarding pros – hmmmm.
This was something I just found a couple weeks ago – not last year when I was designing all these extreme designs on skateboards at Zazzle. Oh well – they’re still nifty skateboards whether they have the approval of some “accepted” pro-backing manufacturer or not. What a shame that the world will never see them as a result of the industry’s willingness to exclude anyone else.
It looks like the snowboarding and similar extreme sporting specialties may be the same way – what a way to monopolize the designs and products that are available to those who might enjoy the sport – especially those who aren’t “professionals” in it. That is obscene.
They are, by agreement amongst themselves – insisting that no other skateboard deck designs are even photographed for the public to see – unbelievable.
– cricketdiane
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15 Tuesday Jan 2013
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cricketdiane, cricketdiane art and design, extreme designs, mad scientist, mad scientist in training tshirts, new designs
Just designing along –
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Added another geek tshirt for kids today –
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19 Wednesday Sep 2012
07 Friday Sep 2012
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cricketdiane, cricketdiane art and design, extreme designs, ocean art posters, Save The Sea, skateboards
In case you wanted to know –
I’ve listed the entire cricketdiane zazzle store catalog of copyrights / the business cricketdiane – for sale by 3-day auction on eBay this evening.
You can see the listing here –
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300775581044
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That zazzle store is here –
http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane
and includes the cricketdiane men’s ugly ties store (also at zazzle) –
http://www.zazzle.com/mensuglyties
and the cricketdiane store at cafepress –
http://www.cafepress.com/art_of_cricket
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And, I suppose – the cricketdiane.com site with its storefront and domain name, as well as the cricketdiane blog – not sure about the blog part – the listing intends the full catalog of copyrights displayed through the online stores.
The auction start price is set for $40,000 with a buy it now price of $120,000 and it will only be listed for the next 22 hrs and two days – for 3 days total. I know the value of the copyrights and their potential to be licensed is worth a lot more than that – but I just can’t deal with it anymore.
I’m working to move myself from Georgia to New York by the 27th of September and the rest of my belongings, artworks, studio supplies, personal “treasures” and household goods will be sold or I’ll be having to drag them along with me up to New York – which I really can’t afford.
Anyway, maybe in the hands of someone who knows business, there could be amazing revenues from these things I’ve designed or rather the designs I’ve created that can be used on a vast array of products. In license to manufacturers, the skateboards could be very reasonably priced to compete in the marketplaces around the world.
I haven’t figured out what to do with the other stuff I’ve designed and invented, the research I’ve been working on awhile and information resources that are sitting around my apartment from the last eight years of work as I have lived here. Since I don’t have any way to protect them while getting them into the market – maybe it would be better to dismantle and dispose of them for now. It probably wouldn’t be worth anything in their current form anyway. I’m still thinking about that part. I’ll have to do something with them.
As far as I can tell, the last two or three paintings that I’ve done which I’m finishing right now will be standing out next to the trash unless some way to sell them becomes evident fairly quickly. I’m not sure what that will be either. They are really not an eBay thing. And, craigslist is a nightmare for things like that. Maybe someone will see them at the yard / estate / apt sale this weekend or next at my apt and buy them. I guess it would be good to go finish them.
– cricketdiane
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Oh, an the number of copyrights on the ebay sale of cricketdiane exceeds 3,000 but they are displayed across more than 19,000 products on zazzle and a number of the earlier designs are on products at cafepress. Since some of them are so unusual, they should have a value for products going forward over the next seven or eight years for product lines, if they are marketed and licensed well. I just haven’t been able to do it partly because I don’t know what I’m doing and partly because I forget that they have to make money for me which is really an art in and of itself.
Anyway, wander over and see the offering – email it to anybody you know that could use a business to do – especially one that has a lot of it online already. That part is such an incredible time consuming part of it all and at least that part is done in this to a great extent. There is also a $100 google adsense coupon they sent me that could get that part started, though I don’t know how far $100 goes doing those ads.
There has been way too much in all of the business part of this that I just don’t get – from keywords to saying something about the product after designing it and listing it – to monetizing my online sites and blogs – It took me several years to finally get one of the YouTube sites monetized a couple weeks ago – and I still can’t tell if it is actually set up where I would get any of the money from it if there is any. I went in circles trying to understand all that stuff to set it up for hours upon hours – and it never did let me merge the accounts for the various youtube sites I have or get the others monetized with them or whatever else I left undone. It was very confusing.
And, all that said – it may be the value of all the copyrights won’t be as much as my used floor easel in the minds of business people. Certainly a possibility I’ve come to accept, although I know that is wrong. There is nothing I can do to change that. Here’s hoping it will find the right buyer.
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01 Saturday Sep 2012
30 Thursday Aug 2012
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cricketdiane, cricketdiane art and design, extreme designs, extreme designs skateboards, new designs, skateboarding, skateboards
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— cricketdiane
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Made a couple more extreme designs skateboards today -\and this one, just now –
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23 Thursday Aug 2012
10 Tuesday Jul 2012
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Creativity, cricketdiane, cricketdiane designer stuff, design, extreme designs, innovation, new designs
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These and the other products on my zazzle store were made hidden a few days ago to suit my children’s insistence that the store be closed and take the designs off of it because there weren’t thousands of people buying them. That is the telling factor in the world today – if thousands or millions of people want them and see them and buy them, they are valuable and if people don’t see them, find them, want them or buy them – then it is “bullshit” in my family’s opinion.
They don’t care that I designed them, of course. As far as my family, friends and my children are concerned it was a waste of time, money and efforts for me to have done any of it and demanded with every cuss word they know, over and over and over in hours of screaming at me, that I take the designs off the store. So, finally I did that and have spent several days absolutely miserable as I watched people come to see them and find nothing on the store. That was not only miserable, but it has to be wrong as well.
There are many uses of these designs and eventually maybe manufacturers will want to license some of them to use on their products – maybe. And, regardless – dumping years of my life’s work in design, art, innovation, invention and working to have a business – to suit my grown children’s idea that anything which isn’t selling like an air conditioner listed on craigslist will when temps reach 110 degrees – that is unreasonable.
It is also unreasonable to assume that the only sellable, marketable, worthwhile designs will look like Hello Kitty, Family Guy or some sort of puke on a canvas which is still being called fine art in America. There is no sense in that. If there is a place in the market for those things – that is great, but it doesn’t preclude everything else of value ever being available in the marketplace simply because those design styles are the fashion of the moment.
Maybe the designs that I’ve made including those in this post, will never sell to anybody anywhere – and maybe the public will never like them – maybe. It isn’t right to hide them, though. And I’ve known it only after having done it. That was the most miserable feeling – almost a black dismal despair – and now I understand why. Every fiber of my soul is saying that it is wrong to hide these designs and my efforts from the public, even if they never buy any of them because my voice and vision of design needs to be in the world regardless of what anyone thinks of it for no other reason than that it is mine, and, I am offering it into the world. I have every right and every reason to do that. It is the right thing to do.
– cricketdiane
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Where else can you get a cosmic armadillo?
– cricketdiane
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And, such a peaceful looking sailboat pin thing . . .
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25 Monday Jun 2012
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Creativity, cricketdiane, cricketdiane art and design, extreme designs, extreme skateboards, extreme sports, skateboarding, skateboards
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