THE TITANIC PICTURE

The rage in art galleries (when did it start?) is big prints. Really big prints. While I was printing some of my 5 x 7's for a portfolio, I wondered (as is I always do): why? And it struck me: it's the same phenomenom as the BIG MOVIE SCREEN and the BIG EFFECT and the LOUD SOUNDTRACK.

You can't get it at home on t.v. - though that is changing too. One of my friends has a t.v. which takes up half his living room.

Anyway - the idea is the same.

And according to my theory - the BIG CRAZE will get worse because you can't print that size at home.

A second corollary: JEEZ, IT MUST BE GOOD. THINK OF THE COST TO PRODUCE SUCH A PRINT. JEEZ. Think of the square footage. If you took it down and put it outside on the lawn you could play football on that thing.

If it follows the same path as cinema, there should be 3-d prints soon, but no one will like them much because of the stupid glasses.

Hold on a sec. Let me get these on. Wow - is that Half Dome? Gives me vertigo just to look at it.

Good Bye Old Cart

I fell asleep thinking about the whole cart aspect and decided: what the hell I'm going to switch to paypal payments. Too many problems with my own cart, with the merchant account (they take a monthly fee whether I sell anything or not for an idiotic report that I usually rip up and toss in the garbage). Their transaction fees aren't low either.

I don't want to pay another $300 or so bucks for the SSL certificate. Plus it pissed me off that Thwarte didn't notify me the thing was going to expire.

Plus - this way I don't have any part of the site that relies on ASP.

But the clincher was: if Paypal does "go down" - I won't be the only one complaining. I should have the Paypal cart in place by end of day.

Well - good bye old cart. You were nothing but headaches.