February 24, 2009

print update: “we need to talk” to be the next limited edition

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Dear Crazy, Deran­ged Fools,
After recei­ving a lot of feed­back from y’all about the three choi­ces, we deci­ded to go with “We Need To Talk” as the next gaping­void limi­ted edi­tion print.
Here are the basics:

1. The print will retail for $400 [plus ship­ping & hand­ling], once it goes to print. You can pre-order it for $250 [plus ship­ping & hand­ling], BUT ONLY if you’re already sig­ned up to the “Crazy Deran­ged Fools” News­let­ter [Sign up here if you haven’t already]. This pre-order offer only extends to the first 45 prints in the edi­tion.
2. The print will be a sig­ned, limi­ted edi­tion of 85, same as “Blue­train” Dimen­sion will be the same as “Blue­train” as well.
3. If you’re inte­res­ted, please email me at gapingvoidprints@gmail.com with your name, ship­ping address and a phone num­ber for the UPS deli­very guy.
4. The prints will be ship­ped flat, pac­ked by a pro­fes­sio­nal; not simply rolled up in a tube etc.
5. For more details, either e-mail me or go to yesterday’s blog post, Thanks.

This has been a pretty exci­ting 24 hours. Already a quar­ter of the edi­tion has been pre-ordered, even though “Blue­train” hasn’t even ship­ped yet.
Some­body emai­led me this mor­ning:

I believe the only via­ble future for artists (or most anyone else) is DIY, colla­bo­ra­tion and coo­pe­ra­tion. the exis­ting sys­tems, struc­tu­res, para­digms and rules don’t work (never have actually, except for a cho­sen few, who wor­ked hard to create the illu­sion that these things applied equally for ever­yone, lying bastards).

I wrote back:

Thanks. Yeah, the trick here is me trying to bypass as many esta­blished art-world sys­tems as pos­si­ble, in order to make [A] a point and [B] pro­fit.
I have a lot of artists watching me at the moment, won­de­ring if I can actually pull it off. It’ll be good for us all if I can.

We live in inte­res­ting times…
Thanks SO MUCH for your love and sup­port,
Yours in Crazy, Deran­ged Foo­lish­ness,
Hugh MacLeod

2 Responses to “print update: “we need to talk” to be the next limited edition”

  1. Ansgar John says:
    February 24, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Is this one avai­la­ble as a busi­ness card ? Seems like a funny card to give someone.
    John

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