sophista-tiki orignals Dawn Frasier - Other Crafts

C croe67 Tiki Socialite Joined: Jan 05, 2003 Posts: 1202	C croe67 Posted posted on Tue, Mar 3, 2015 6:17 PM Dawn - I honestly do not see why you feel you have to "defend" anything. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but please hear me out & try to consider this from outside of the bubble that is tiki. You do now own the word "Sophista-" or "Sophisti-" for anything vintage/mid-century, etc. that might is somehow or someway cross over or touch tiki in some way. And that's what this is. They are making Gravel Art Kits for a mid-century audience. And a piece of Mid Century includes tiki. If they had called theirs "Sophisti-tiki" & you were "Sophista-tiki", you would have a point. But tiki is nowhere in the name & if you google "sophisti-" (the spelling they use), you do not pop-up at all. Yes. Really. Try - just for a minute - to step out of the tiki circle to envision a fellow artist who wants to make cool gravel art kits to people who enjoy mid century stuff. You think about what designs to make &, yes, with tiki being part of the larger midcentury genre, it would be natural to include a tiki in that. There's also a squirrel, birds, cats & a mermaid. & they want to come up with a cool name for their kits. So they come up with sophisti-kits. Are you suggesting that they should have searched in the mermaid-enthusiasts, bird-enthusiasts, seahorse-enthusiasts, cat-enthusiasts, tiki-enthusiasts & squirrel-enthusiasts to see if anyone was using "Sophisti-" ? Seriously?? If you step back & consider how much that doesn't make sense, maybe you can appreciate a little of the other person's perspective. And, not to belabor the point, but you are not the first "sophista-"/"sophisti-" product out there. Not even the first that would be of interest to tiki or mid-century people. Your work is very nice, Dawn, and I do own some of it. And these Sophisti-Kits are very nice, too, and I'll own one of the kits, too (just can't decide which I like best). This is not an "either/or" thing. Your art is nice. Their kits are nice. No one was trying to knock-off your art or get people to think it was you. You do understand that, right? I enjoy supporting TC artists. And I like to see them supporting each other and other mid-century artists. I really don't see that there's anything to "defend" here

Dawn -

I honestly do not see why you feel you have to "defend" anything.

I am not trying to be disrespectful, but please hear me out & try to consider this from outside of the bubble that is tiki.

You do now own the word "Sophista-" or "Sophisti-" for anything vintage/mid-century, etc. that might is somehow or someway cross over or touch tiki in some way. And that's what this is. They are making Gravel Art Kits for a mid-century audience. And a piece of Mid Century includes tiki.

If they had called theirs "Sophisti-tiki" & you were "Sophista-tiki", you would have a point. But tiki is nowhere in the name

& if you google "sophisti-" (the spelling they use), you do not pop-up at all. Yes. Really.

Try - just for a minute - to step out of the tiki circle to envision a fellow artist who wants to make cool gravel art kits to people who enjoy mid century stuff. You think about what designs to make &, yes, with tiki being part of the larger midcentury genre, it would be natural to include a tiki in that. There's also a squirrel, birds, cats & a mermaid. & they want to come up with a cool name for their kits. So they come up with sophisti-kits.

Are you suggesting that they should have searched in the mermaid-enthusiasts, bird-enthusiasts, seahorse-enthusiasts, cat-enthusiasts, tiki-enthusiasts & squirrel-enthusiasts to see if anyone was using "Sophisti-" ? Seriously?? If you step back & consider how much that doesn't make sense, maybe you can appreciate a little of the other person's perspective.

And, not to belabor the point, but you are not the first "sophista-"/"sophisti-" product out there. Not even the first that would be of interest to tiki or mid-century people.

Your work is very nice, Dawn, and I do own some of it.

And these Sophisti-Kits are very nice, too, and I'll own one of the kits, too (just can't decide which I like best). This is not an "either/or" thing. Your art is nice. Their kits are nice. No one was trying to knock-off your art or get people to think it was you. You do understand that, right?

I enjoy supporting TC artists.
And I like to see them supporting each other and other mid-century artists.

I really don't see that there's anything to "defend" here

Post #738671 by croe67 on Tue, Mar 3, 2015 6:17 PM