A little late but this was on my pulse show day will update other days later today as well as catch up on films.
Thoughs on pulse fringe festival 2010:
I find myself unusually shy averting gaze from people being polite but selling like my own shop. Its funny how anything a little bit of the normal deserves little to know interaction.
However i am finding because the object in question is on mass (which let face it is odd) and nostalgic for some people i am getting more interaction than it would a painting or picture. There is a trigure for someone people where there mind goes i must know more. This by no means a huge group of people and is perhaps drastically decreased since the figure is not instantly recognisable to people to be from HE MAN and even if they do they want remember his name.
This is not a mistake and was a well thought out decision for us, although finally settling on ram man was a bit of chance since it was just that we saw 4 at one bootsale. It was because we couldn’t afford to make a dent in the price of key figures in HE MAN, HE MAN, Skelator, Man at arms, Evil lynn, all aready cost to much, we would not be able to buy the volume to affect the price and even if we did it would be hard to measure. Were as Mr Ram Man was a cheap “B” figure that anyone collecting Masters of the universe would not go out of there way to get.
On top of this there was the visual element, we i feel needed to be able to get alot of figures in order to look visually interesting.
So here in this show the third showing we have to classify into caitogries according to ware with ones who springs do not work to with axe arm bands and no pint scratches essentially mint.
Tally so far:
3 Mint
10 Near mint
21 Good-Great
25 Poor
17 Fair
Total 76
I found on youtube alot off people filming their collections on the internet. Especially Masters of the universe (MOTU yes it was not actually called HE-man). This gave me an idea i was going to make a film of my collection as a document of this show talking through how I display them. These videos have had quiete alot of views and may result in people discovering what i am doing which might encourage collectors and sellers to put more value in RAM MAN. Now i feel comfortable enough heavily to show it off and be proud of my collection. Anyway if this cause a price rise now i would be in for a major winfall. After all we picked because it is a small cult market. So the film today is that as well hope you enjoy.
Final thought
Sucseeded to much people are seeing it as a shop or seeing it as a museuem “why would anyone open a museueem to that figure” ( I did find myself like a defensive mother almost shouting I WOULD!!!)
Film of YOU WILL BE RARE @Pulse fringe