[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Monday, 7 December 1998 Volume 05 : Number 366 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Stones" Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:11:25 +0900 Subject: [Baren 2254] RE: Comments ... Dear All, Just to add a few comments to the comments on Sirizaka and record keeping: For jean, I also can find no reference to this name. I tried several different spellings (Shirizaka, Serizaka for example) but came up with nothing. Sorry can't help. As for record keeping I also went overboard when we bought the first computer (one with no mouse)... customer lists, print details and, of course detailed accounts etc. But it just took so much (woodblock print) time to keep all this up to date that I now keep hand-written records of the prints/editions and a list of the people who purchased each print (also hand-written). The prints themselves have a production log which contains the colours/block orders etc. I've found that the computer is useful but for the size of our business and all the rest, there's no need to log everything onto a disk... very valuable creative time gets all too easily used. So, my advice would be to keep things to a minimum and keep those hands off the keyboard as much as possible for record keeping... (For the newbies out there, a computer without a mouse means an awful lot of finger blisters to even copy a sentence ... Control+BB+up/down/left /right keys+Control+BE). Times are easier... Re good accounting though, I do have the best. My partner, an abacus wielding ex accountant who tracks every transaction and gets the pile of Japanese paperwork cut right down to size without any keyboard. I also don't know of a computer yet that makes tea at the same time as working on the accounts... Print on. Dave S ------------------------------ From: Matthew.W.Brown@VALLEY.NET (Matthew W Brown) Date: 07 Dec 98 06:38:24 EST Subject: [Baren 2255] Taxes Richard wrote: > The one merit derived from this way of living, is that I have never in my life > paid any income taxes to any government, a fact I am quite proud of. Like Dave I am amazed by this confession. But it makes me really smile (so much faith to be able to put such news into cyberspace!). I didn't conclude, however, that Richard you are a tax-evader, but that rather you don't pull a significant income (which I agree is something to be proud of). This is great news ( in my humble opinion), especially if you are living a life you are happy with (for you help pay to keep our society afloat in other ways, in sales tax, by buying products, etc.) But in the argument as to whether or not to edition prints your lower income perhaps weakens your position . . . ? Editioning prints is a sales gimmic (I believe), one that may be pretty key, in the U.S. at any rate, to getting those sales figures into higher territory. There is of course at least one notable exception to this assumption . . . our generous host, David Bull! Matt ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V5 #366 ***************************