Do you think shag is selling out? - General Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 7:46 PM I just find it funny that when you're basically set for life, you still are marketing pens and soap and trinkets(SP?). To me, it's really presumptuous to make judgements about when someone else has "enough" money, or what choices they should make based on this arbitrary line of being "set". I think it sounds like a dream-come-true for Shag to be able to support his family with this. And as an added bonus his brother gets to make an enterprise out of the merchandising. What a great, lucky opportunity! But who knows how long it will last? What if he becomes another Nagel (hopefully without the dying young part)? I guess the other point was that these things seem like trinkets. But pretty much every Shag product I've seen has been nicely done, I thought. Good materials, good manufacturing, good esthetics. In fact, that's what's so damn frustrating - I'm all ready to think the latest thing is gonna be junk, and then I see it at someone's house or something and think, "Damn, that Shag soap is actually kinda nice." But I'm a sucker for packaging. It's just fine to hold the opinion that a product like a business card holder damages an artist's integrity. But maybe it's a little surprising to see that kind of high standard for artistic purity here on TC, where a lot of us have especially warm "cockles" for the thrift-store, swapmeet, secondhand esthetic. Why assume that Shag is any different? And isn't it kinda cool that he does other things beside zippos, stickers and t-shirts? -Randy

I just find it funny that when you're basically set for life, you still are marketing pens and soap and trinkets(SP?).

To me, it's really presumptuous to make judgements about when someone else has "enough" money, or what choices they should make based on this arbitrary line of being "set". I think it sounds like a dream-come-true for Shag to be able to support his family with this. And as an added bonus his brother gets to make an enterprise out of the merchandising. What a great, lucky opportunity! But who knows how long it will last? What if he becomes another Nagel (hopefully without the dying young part)?

I guess the other point was that these things seem like trinkets. But pretty much every Shag product I've seen has been nicely done, I thought. Good materials, good manufacturing, good esthetics. In fact, that's what's so damn frustrating - I'm all ready to think the latest thing is gonna be junk, and then I see it at someone's house or something and think, "Damn, that Shag soap is actually kinda nice." But I'm a sucker for packaging.

It's just fine to hold the opinion that a product like a business card holder damages an artist's integrity. But maybe it's a little surprising to see that kind of high standard for artistic purity here on TC, where a lot of us have especially warm "cockles" for the thrift-store, swapmeet, secondhand esthetic. Why assume that Shag is any different? And isn't it kinda cool that he does other things beside zippos, stickers and t-shirts?

-Randy

Post #8786 by aquarj on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 7:46 PM