David Barker's "Charles Bukowski Spit in My Face"

Rekrab

Rekrab

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Yikes! Stuff happens fast here. I'm gone at work and an edition is born and sells out. Bill's in charge. This will be great. Thanks to you all. Painting tomorrow...
 
mjp

mjp

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It's because your paintings are good David, that's why it happened fast. Plenty of things have happened very slowly around here. ;)
 
bospress.net

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I may offer a total of 26 copies of the clamshell edition. Please let me know. I have had people contact me after this was already fully reserved. I will have full details later today. Anyone that has made a clamshell (like Strangegirl) can attest to the amount of time that it takes. I'll probably take a couple vacation days at work to make these.

I'll announce a price later today. It will be heavily discounted from the list price. I am able to discount these because we need to raise the money to pay for the project, so we ask that payment be made with Paypal or through the mail before pretty quickly. We are looking at 10 postcards. All buk.net members will get a letterpressed card that will not be available elsewhere. Once we receive the postcards and start clamshell production, they will go back to their list price.

Details shortly...

Bill

p.s. Anyone that is interested in a clamshell, please e-mail me. You are not confirming that you are buying one, just expressing interest. You can back out, but if you wait until it is too late, it will be too late. I cannot make more than 26 of these. As it is, this is a MASSIVE undertaking.
 
hank solo

hank solo

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hoochmonkey9 said:
got mine a while ago but forgot to mention how great the artwork looks in person.
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I PM'd David to say thanks, but wanted to post to say how happy I am to have one of these special chaps.

Black Swan said:
Great watercolors ... The piano one is my favorite.
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It's really really nice :)

bospress.net said:
p.s. Anyone that is interested in a clamshell, please e-mail me. You are not confirming that you are buying one, just expressing interest. You can back out, but if you wait until it is too late, it will be too late. I cannot make more than 26 of these. As it is, this is a MASSIVE undertaking.
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Bill, you 'am the man'. Am I right that those who have expressed interest in the first offer are already on the potential clamshell list?
 
willrodgers

willrodgers

i was going to suggest a collection of David's paintings a few weeks ago, but kept it to myself. wow, was i wrong for not doing it earlier!
 
bospress.net

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I have 4 copies of this release in the Clamshell edition still left. I just sent out PMs to all those that I have on file for wanting one. If you did not get a PM from me just now, I need to hear from you asap, or I will not have a copy for you.

I am working on designing the postcards and hope to have the orders placed within the week. Then it will take a week to get them and a little time to make the clamshells.

Thanks,
Bill
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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When Bill talks, stuff walks.

Success, even on this limited scale, is a frightening new concept for me. I am soooo comfortable being utterly ignored. I don't know if I can live with myself now. Well, maybe I can.
 
bospress.net

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We are taking suggestions on the name of this release. Please post ideas here. David and I will decide on the name, but both of us agree that it would be very cool if the buk.net members suggested titles.

Whatever the title is will be letterpressed on the cover of the envelopes and on the clamshell.

Thanks,
Bill
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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I bet someone here has a better idea than I do. I'd probably call it "Quick watercolors for Quick Bucks" or "Bukowski Doesn't Want To Be Painted But He's No Say In The Matter Now." See; you can do better.
 
chronic

chronic

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How about A collection of ten water color portraits of Charles Bukowski by David Barker.

Yes, I know... sheer genius. How do I come up with this stuff?
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

How about "The douchebag that spit in my face." ;)

OK; tasteless, but very topical, don't you know. I'll come up with a serious one tomorrow.

Alright; a serious one:

"The Form Appears: Bukowski Watercolors by David Barker."

And props to chronic for the suggestion of the simple, clear message. Something that imparts due deference to both the poet and painter. All I did was to add the last three words of Art and juggle the words a bit. Funny though, use of the poem Art didn't occur to me to be so obvious until after I had mulled it over a bit. Is it too obvious?
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
Purple Stickpin said:
"The Form Appears: Bukowski Watercolors by David Barker."
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Has a nice ring to it, but in the poem, once the form appears, the spirit has already waned.

...and David, I received my copy today and the watercolor is really nice. Very vibrant color. You got ya some of that talent stuff there. Thanks for the broadsides as well. When my tooth stops hurting so goddamned much (can you say "root canal?") I'll sit down to read the book.
 
mjp

mjp

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I like Stickpin's. But I keep coming back to:

no Cagney, me

No that anyone would know what that meant.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
To follow Purple Stickpin;

Bukowski: "Burning in Watercolors" by David Barker.

Black Swan's:

Bukowski: "Watermarked" by David Barker.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

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Chronic and Purple Stickpin's are both classy, but maybe too classy for the likes of me. I like best so far:

Greetings From Nowhere In Particular (Magick Stallion), and

Cezanne Never Did This (Bill)

I was thinking last night how cool it will be if I find one of these postcards, used, with an address, a goofy message, a cancelled stamp, and "light edge wear," on eBay for $2. I'll feel like I've arrived.
 
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