Carolyn Jack
Editor and CEO, Geniocity.comA project of The Genius Group LLC
Creative Nerve
Someone now owns a bit of creativity
Breakthrough!
A little one. So little, you’ll probably snort and inhale your coffee, but it feels important to me: Somebody finally bought something from The Geniocity Shop on this site.
And it only took six months. Six long, terrifying months in which I secretly suspected the store software of not working right (yes, we tested it, as if that made a dent in my paranoia) and worried that visitors thought the pretty pictures I’d posted were just to decorate the pages. Half a year of feeling hexed.
But now that someone has actually purchased a one-of-kind pair of Mary Lou Sneyd’s lovely handmade earrings, I know 1) that the process works, and 2) I probably won’t be able to breathe properly until another someone plunks down plastic for something else.
So while I’m turning blue, I’ll distract myself from incipient asphyxiation by working to find lots more artists and inventors whose stuff is so creatively cool that no one will be able to resist buying it (assuming they have anything to buy it with, thank you World Economic Collapse).
Forget hyacinths – buy art to feed your soul. Oh, and you’re allowed some bread and peanut butter, too.
Progress you can see
We entrepreneurs spend about 99.99999 percent of our time chipping away at brick walls with teaspoons. And bent teaspoons is often all we get.
But every once in a while, we dislodge a whole brick. At those moments, we have proof that we’re getting somewhere and renewed hope that, someday, we’ll actually break through.
That’s how I feel right now, because – after months of work – I’ve added two great artists and about 30 pieces of art to The Geniocity Shop on this site (click on the store name to the right of this post to check them out). And more are coming.
I hope you’ll take a look at Michael Zelenka’s gorgeous, handmade glass pieces and Keith Berr’s glorious photographs. Both artists imbue their work with a long, rich experience of craft, vivid intelligence and the fresh perspectives that only imagination can supply.
You’ll also see that The Geniocity Shop’s list of creative categories is growing. We now have separate pages for glass, film/video, painting/drawing and photography, and we’ll keep adding new ones.
That thought makes me want to just jump around the room and yell, preferably to some incredibly loud rock and roll (“Black Math”!), but it’s late and everyone else is asleep. So I’ll just quietly go to bed with a really big smile on my face and hope that I can jab another brick out of the way in the morning.