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From Idea to the Marketplace — The Smaller Picture pg245
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
2004
Winding up the first Willows Theater set I mentioned my idea for a festival booth. Adam started sketching and I hired him. Within a month my display booth was designed, engineered, welded together and laminated with luan. It was clamped, hinged, riveted and fit together perfectly as a seven-foot tall room under a 10x10 canopy, and came apart to move in six fairly heavy, yet manageable pieces. It could also be clamped into various configurations for different size spaces.
Between gigs that summer I painted faux marble and a dancing corinthian column on it to also promote my decorative painting business. — From Chapter 13
Luck, magic and generous friends with brilliant skills are the only way a sole proprietor with hermit tendencies can ever hope to catapult an idea into the world. I’m talking generosity that goes far beyond monetary remuneration, and what it takes to sketch a map through an impenetrable labyrinth of dead ends and past mistake monsters to help make that idea come true. Computer whizzes, philanthropists and Adam the amazing builder helped me turn a field of rocks into a castle.
