Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation
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imomusMe: Wow, is that what you've been knitting all this time?
Hisae: Yes, it's a woolen cable cover.
Me: It's good, I like the colours! And I always like that combination of folksy and tech styles. Like when Bless did their N°26 Cable Jewellery thing, "to transform undesired appendixes into desirable objects". And does it stop the rabbit biting your power cable?
Hisae: Yes, it does.
Me: We need a lot more of those! For the rabbit's sake and ours. Hey, you should sell them online! Why not?
Hisae: Yes, I was thinking of doing that. I spoke to Naoko and she said I should charge €90 for each one.
Me: Wow, €90!
Hisae: It sounds a lot, I know, but each one takes a week for me to knit.
Me: I think €50 sounds reasonable. The euro's pretty strong just now. That's about $75, you know. How about €50 including postage? I could announce it on Click Opera and people could pay via my Paypal account! Do you want to try?
Hisae: Okay!
Me: Okay, I'll do it tomorrow. People can order them by sending me a mail and telling me how long the cable to be covered is. Let's shoot some pictures!
Hisae: I already shot some, I'll mail them to you. What shall we call the operation? I want a good name.
Me: Hmm... Psychedelic Python? Rainbow Power? Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation?
Hisae: Yes, it's a woolen cable cover.
Me: It's good, I like the colours! And I always like that combination of folksy and tech styles. Like when Bless did their N°26 Cable Jewellery thing, "to transform undesired appendixes into desirable objects". And does it stop the rabbit biting your power cable?
Hisae: Yes, it does.
Me: We need a lot more of those! For the rabbit's sake and ours. Hey, you should sell them online! Why not?
Hisae: Yes, I was thinking of doing that. I spoke to Naoko and she said I should charge €90 for each one.
Me: Wow, €90!
Hisae: It sounds a lot, I know, but each one takes a week for me to knit.
Me: I think €50 sounds reasonable. The euro's pretty strong just now. That's about $75, you know. How about €50 including postage? I could announce it on Click Opera and people could pay via my Paypal account! Do you want to try?
Hisae: Okay!
Me: Okay, I'll do it tomorrow. People can order them by sending me a mail and telling me how long the cable to be covered is. Let's shoot some pictures!
Hisae: I already shot some, I'll mail them to you. What shall we call the operation? I want a good name.
Me: Hmm... Psychedelic Python? Rainbow Power? Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation?
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Pricing the priceless
Date: 2008-01-30 01:56 pm (UTC)Reminds me also of the knitted digestive system (http://www.strangebuttrewe.com/knitGI.htm):
Talking about pricing and patterns as digital data, I think we touch interesting issues here:
although I am/"feel" too poor to pay 50 euros for this, I think the initial 90 euros or even more would be appropriate (hisae worked a week, or at least some days on it right?)
Thinking of the object in terms of an art piece and not as a commercial product with practical functionality (frightening off rabbits, flammable) it seems somehow unpayable to me, whereas the knitting pattern - as a technique - then in turn could also be free...
Re: Pricing the priceless
Date: 2008-01-31 03:22 am (UTC)