May 22, 2005

textbook hughtrain

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Seth Godin wri­tes about a pain­ter who really made his day.

Two months later, I get an email saying the pain­ting is ready and has been ship­ped. I send him a check, made out to his new name, on faith. A day later, a pain­ting arri­ves by Fede­ral Express. From Israel. With a handw­rit­ten invoice.
The pain­ting is terri­fic – even bet­ter than the ori­gi­nal. But more impor­tant to us is the story. Not sure what you can do with it, but thought you’d want to hear it.

I know exactly what to do with it, Seth. Cite it as text­book Hugh­train: “The mar­ket for something to believe in is infi­nite.”
Exactly.

2 Responses to “textbook hughtrain”

  1. frosty says:
    May 25, 2005 at 10:24 pm

    For every Jeff Koons, there are a hun­dred artists like that. Or maybe a thou­sand. Let Jeff have (most of) the money, it sounds like Boaz has a lot more soul.
    Now where is the pic­ture of the picture?

  2. idiot says:
    June 4, 2005 at 11:43 am

    i am an idiot and i am lead by richard simmons