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FramerDave

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Ok, this has to be a first. I have HGTV on in the background. In this episode they're renovating a basement into living space and a guest bedroom.

They needed artwork for the walls and the hosts were in a store purchasing four small plates. One had the idea to frame them in a shadowbox as art objects.

Guess where they went? A custom framer ! Yes, you read correctly. No readymades, no Ikea, no 3rd-grade level "art projects." Each of the four $9 plates got an individual Roma frame (I could see the label on the sample) and was floated on a white mat with probably a good 5" of mat around them. No Museum Glass, but hey. I wonder how they mounted them?

The even had shots of the framers joining the frames, cutting the mats and building up the tray mats.

Maybe there's hope.
 
This sounds just wonderful. However, every year, the geniuses who come up with programing seem to want things that are super easy to understand and comprehend. They have now reached the point that a person with severe brain injury, no education, and acute attention deficit disorder, can easily understand their most complex offerings.

Sadly, this has resulted in many people who have just the bare rudiments of intellectual capacity, such as being able to read and comprehend the meaning of a traffic stop sign, to drift away from television as a source of entertainment and information, simply because they do not find it mentally stimulating.

I honestly doubt if the average television viewer is part of any of our customer bases. I just seems to me we should be more interested in folks that have the ability to actually have a job, and could afford what we have to offer.

John
 
Fantastic News!

David,

What show? Last night or today?

I'm only aware of two designers on HGTV that have used custom framers: Candice Olsen of Devine Design (You never see her in the shop itself), and Vern Yip from Design Stars. On his older show, you'd see him in a frame shop in Atlanta.

We need to find out who was patronized (Shop) and how this came together! :)

John
 
Artrageous said:
I'm sure they hit the frame shop for free framing in exchange for some sort of advertising. Sadly, most of the time it's just a blur of your name as the credits roll at the end.
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Probably so, but considering how badly custom framing is treated (when it's not ignored completely) I'm trying to see this as one tiny bright spot of positive exposure instead of dwelling on the negative.

John, I could kick myself now for not paying closer attention. Of course it's been too long and I've changed channels so I can't rewind on the DVR. I'll keep looking for it.

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video.
 
JRB said:
They have now reached the point that a person with severe brain injury, no education, and acute attention deficit disorder, can easily understand their most complex offerings.
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Except for the understanding part, that would seem to be the case in their show "Renovation Realities".

Have you seen that one? It's where people who have virtually no clue about home repair or mechanical ability try to work on their home.

I don't know how the cameramen can keep themselves from yelling at the people "Don't do that, you're going to kill yourself".
 
I gave up on TV years ago. I do watch the evening fluff now and then. More for background noise than anything else when I get home from work.

I do get a kick out of the ED commercials during the news. They always point out that if you have an erection that lasts more than four hours, you should see your doctor.

That is the most important part of the whole commercial. Everyone wants a woody that would last four hours. That's even better than the rinse and repeat instructions on a bottle of shampoo when it gets down to making money.

Shear brilliance on the part of whoever dreamed that one up.

John
 
The "framing" starts at 15:30 into the 'project'.

may have been a custom framer.... but black frame and white paper mat. :vomit:

Even on budget they could have at least had a hint of green in the mat. As it is they just lay as big drawn squares on the wall... with tiny plates... the proportions were way off. and a bamboo face on the frames would have echoed that kickass $70 hutch.
 
Who are you people?!! there`s always something to see here...It`s called digital cable! I can always find Ufo`s, or Mythbusters, or a forensics show of some sort....Or horror on Chiller...or SOMETHING...Grant it I don`t pay that much attention, its background chatter in the workroon, but hey... l.
 
Luddite, got yer back! I agree! We now have the capabilities to see what is happening in the ENTIRE planet!

The rest of you--CATCH UP!

Wendy
The Art Corner
Salem, MA
978-745-9524
 
JRB said:
That's even better than the rinse and repeat instructions on a bottle of shampoo when it gets down to making money.
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I always thought the person who came up with the idea of "Lather. Rinse. Repeat." was the all-time genius of marketing. Add one word to the usage label and double your sales. Brilliant!
Framar said:
Terrific - another American broadcast denied (er, I mean they "cannot find it") for me! Carp!
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That's really ironic since most HGTV programming is produced in Canada.
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick
 
Positive? Really.... the little semi star in a frameshop.... not talking to a framer... never mentions that he even went to a framer, just 7 seconds of a choppervnailermatcutter . . . giving each of the two framers exactly 1.3 seconds each air time.....

Positive is Martha Stewart "visiting her favorite custom picture framer"...... with a 20 minute segment as they talk about different approaches to the framing.

Positive is Norm Abrams visiting "his favorite Custom Framer and Historical restorer and spending 10 minutes talking about the history of mirror frames and looking at several and where they could be used today."

Positive is Sunday Morning doing a 6 minute segment on Eli Wilner making the new frame for Geo Washington's Crossing at the Met.

But I'll take steamy turd.... so wonderfully graphic and erudite.
 
Thanks for telling us about it, Dave. I like to hear
when custom framers are supported, especially
when the act happens with a media spotlight. :thumbsup:

In my living room, I have two little frames, with
really cool magazine ads in them, and then a
big empty frame around those. It's big enough
that they're staggered in height, and it gives
a great look.
 
Baer Charlton said:
Positive? Really.... the little semi star in a frameshop.... not talking to a framer... never mentions that he even went to a framer, just 7 seconds of a choppervnailermatcutter . . . giving each of the two framers exactly 1.3 seconds each air time.....

Positive is Martha Stewart "visiting her favorite custom picture framer"...... with a 20 minute segment as they talk about different approaches to the framing.

Positive is Norm Abrams visiting "his favorite Custom Framer and Historical restorer and spending 10 minutes talking about the history of mirror frames and looking at several and where they could be used today."

Positive is Sunday Morning doing a 6 minute segment on Eli Wilner making the new frame for Geo Washington's Crossing at the Met.

But I'll take steamy turd.... so wonderfully graphic and erudite.
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Baer, we all recognize your significant contributions to our industry and this forum, and of course, your all around sheer brilliance on most matters. However, I feel that Dave was simply trying to introduce a thread we could all respond to and enjoy.

Taking all of that into consideration, and the spirit of the opening post, I would like to respectfully suggest that you lighten up. No one gives a pile of steaming turd how much time was devoted to custom framing on the segment in question. The point is that our industry did receive some much needed exposure. Dave was just trying to bringing that to our attention.

John
 
Agreed. Thanks for pointing that out FramerDave. I always cringe when they are doing 3rd grade art to put on the wall of a million dollar home to help sell it.
 
Thanks Dave. Great show BTW!

Maybe, just maybe, someone watched that show, and thought about that plate they had, and didnt know what to do with it.

I thought the simple black frames around those plates were perfect for that room.
 
There was just a picture framing joke on The Simpsons!

Lisa pointed to a framed copy of the Constitution and asked, "Is this what the framers of the Constitution would want?" and a guy in overalls got up and said "I'm Wally the framer and it is what I wanted!"
 
I think there was an episode of the Simpsons where Bart had taken control of an Army tank and was about to fire a shell at a building and he pointed at one shop and Homer said "Not the frame store, you monster".
 
Picture frames always get play on the Simpsons. One of the original writers is/was married to a picture framer.
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Framing shows up more in Springfield than on any Battle Star
 
Fix please...

Editors / Moderators,

Kindly remove Baers 4,000 pixel wide image or his post.

Just annoying!




OK Somebody Fixed It - Thank you! :D

JER
 
The Cylons were not so big on framing, but the Colonials were.

  • In the miniseries Adama is given a framed picture of himself as a young man standing in front of his Viper. Complete with an octagonal frame, colonial style.
  • Adama's quarters are decorated with a large oil depicting the First Cylon War, framed in a beautiful antique frame.
  • Kara Thrace's mother has her medal and certificate from the First Cylon War beautifully framed in her house, featured prominently in some pretty intense scenes.
  • In multiple scenes Adama is shown looking at a picture of Lee, Kara and his dead son Zack.
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Also notice the small framed picture under the lamp to the left.
 
On Star Trek TNG, there were framed pictures (nothing fancy, though) in some of the crew members' quarters. Also, Data often painted pictures, which somehow ended up in frames. (I never noticed a custom framing shop aboard the Enterprise, so I assume the frames were "replicated".)
:popc: Rick
 
Rick Granick said:
On Star Trek TNG, there were framed pictures (nothing fancy, though) in some of the crew members' quarters. Also, Data often painted pictures, which somehow ended up in frames. (I never noticed a custom framing shop aboard the Enterprise, so I assume the frames were "replicated".)
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Actually, the Enterprise was a huge space ship of gargantuan proportions. The frame shop was way down on the lower levels, just a few doors down from the shoe repair shop. The present day aircraft carrier Enterprise would easily fit into one of it's storage bays.

They never paid much attention to the thousands of people living down there in the series. Every once in a while, when they needed a fatality, they would bring one of those unfortunates into the script.

John
 
JRB said:
Actually, the Enterprise was a huge space ship of gargantuan proportions. The frame shop was way down on the lower levels, just a few doors down from the shoe repair shop. The present day aircraft carrier Enterprise would easily fit into one of it's storage bays.

They never paid much attention to the thousands of people living down there in the series. Every once in a while, when they needed a fatality, they would bring one of those unfortunates into the script.

John
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Psst...Hey, Entreprise resident....DON`T wear the new RED gift shirt...it`s a TRAP......L.
 
Stop the presses.....

OK Dave,

Forget about all those great and creative Canadian Interior Designers who actually use custom framers.....

We're in the Movies!!

Check out this video clip trailer for The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, and Jeff Goldblum.

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:D :D :D John

John
 
Must See...

Mar,

I'm not sure...but the corner samples appear three times in the trailer...

My guess is that Jeff might be a framer / gallery owner???

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Opens August 20th...

John
 
I guess we'll have to see the movie and find out.

Let's not forget the first past of Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis was admiring the framed award he had just received. It was a Larson Stradivarius. And isn't the father in My Name is Earl a framer?
 
Well if Jeff Goldblum is the one he must be the gallery owner and not a real framer - I mean he's wearing a suit! The other character looks more rumpled, more appropriate to being a real framer.

Good grief, you mean I am going to have to dig up some cash money to see a Jennifer Aniston movie? Please don't tell my friends.......
 
I wonder if that is a real frame shop or a set? The corners are sure arranged in a kind of interesting fashion. Displayed by a bonafide framer or thrown on the wall by a set designer?

Where is Marc Lizer when you need him?
 
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