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  I read Seth Godin's post about 1,000 Paintings and frankly, I didn't get it.Truth is, I still don't get it and I am betting that no one really gets it, but a lot of people are blogging about it and people are buying it. That means (whatever it is) it's working. That, I get. And later people are going to be blogging about how stupid it was to buy a spray painted number on a canvas for 200 bucks. I wonder if my house number is available? |
Just goes to show you that stupid people will pay for stupid things... and that the clever ones reap the rewards.
To me, there are a "1,000" better ways to spend a few hundred bucks, and none of them include buying cheap canvas art.
But, as with anything else, the people who bought them don't "feel" stupid. They buy the story, the idea, the feeling of being a part of something. I bought a number when it was still about 50 bucks, not for the investment or because i think it is necessarily a breakthrough piece of art, but because the story behind it "works".
I graphed the sales history of One Thousand Paintings and posted the results at 2000 Bricks. It's interesting stuff.
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My house number was still available last I looked, but the way his sales are going it may not be now. I'm fascinated by how concepts like that gain traction and take off. It reminds me of the 2000 Bricks project, which is also starting to get some buzz.
Posted by: Brian Baute | May 31, 2006 1:17 PM | Permalink to Comment