03-16-2005, 03:24 AM
you hit the nail on the head when you said, "why take sides"
what\'s really hysterical is that people/kids/customers/whatever think we\'re all competitive when for the most part it\'s really not like that at all. At least from what I\'ve seen.
People write me and say they love my stuff but don\'t like Anders or don\'t like Boogeys. But the irony is, I DO!!!! I love Anders gloves and I love Boogeys gloves, just for different reasons. Anders makes a seriously hardcore heavy duty glove that could seriously put a hurting on somebody. Is it 100% screen accurate? No, but who cares? It\'s a bad ass glove. Same for Boogeys gloves. His gloves are the most perfect looking display pieces you can possibly buy. Are they hardcore? No, they\'re display gloves, you probably couldn\'t hurt a bird with one. But they LOOK badass. I try to make mine somewhere in the middle, they\'re \'real\' but I try to make them look as much like the props as possible, without looking exactly like a Kgear. (*I \'am\' an artist and don\'t want to churn out something that looks exactly like someone elses*)
Are my backplates 100% accurate? Nope. They look like RbR backplates. And I like the fact that someone can look at my gloves and know where it came from.
I\'m sure alot of the Hockey Mask and mask makers are the same way. I talk to Anders and Boogs and C.Granter, (*though not too much lately, I admit.) Why? Cuz all 4 of us love gloves and love to talk about them and all the little details in each one. It\'s not a competition, I refer people to Anders or Boogs all the time depending on what exactly they\'re looking for. In the end I want the person to be as happy as possible with what they recieve, and if I think what they\'re really looking for is an Anders glove, then that\'s where I send em.
We\'re all supposed to be friends and fans, not competitors. I would be absolutely shocked to hear that Mike was talking trash about Trav or something. They both make hockey masks, they both love hockey masks, they\'re both probably friends who talk with each other.
and like Mike said, the bad mouthing ALWAYS gets back to the person who\'s being badmouthed. At the end of the day, all this stuff is just that,....\'stuff.\' And alot of us value friendships more then \'stuff\'
err, kinda got off on a tangent I guess. But I know what you\'re talking about Mike, and it\'s ridiculous.
what\'s really hysterical is that people/kids/customers/whatever think we\'re all competitive when for the most part it\'s really not like that at all. At least from what I\'ve seen.
People write me and say they love my stuff but don\'t like Anders or don\'t like Boogeys. But the irony is, I DO!!!! I love Anders gloves and I love Boogeys gloves, just for different reasons. Anders makes a seriously hardcore heavy duty glove that could seriously put a hurting on somebody. Is it 100% screen accurate? No, but who cares? It\'s a bad ass glove. Same for Boogeys gloves. His gloves are the most perfect looking display pieces you can possibly buy. Are they hardcore? No, they\'re display gloves, you probably couldn\'t hurt a bird with one. But they LOOK badass. I try to make mine somewhere in the middle, they\'re \'real\' but I try to make them look as much like the props as possible, without looking exactly like a Kgear. (*I \'am\' an artist and don\'t want to churn out something that looks exactly like someone elses*)
Are my backplates 100% accurate? Nope. They look like RbR backplates. And I like the fact that someone can look at my gloves and know where it came from.
I\'m sure alot of the Hockey Mask and mask makers are the same way. I talk to Anders and Boogs and C.Granter, (*though not too much lately, I admit.) Why? Cuz all 4 of us love gloves and love to talk about them and all the little details in each one. It\'s not a competition, I refer people to Anders or Boogs all the time depending on what exactly they\'re looking for. In the end I want the person to be as happy as possible with what they recieve, and if I think what they\'re really looking for is an Anders glove, then that\'s where I send em.
We\'re all supposed to be friends and fans, not competitors. I would be absolutely shocked to hear that Mike was talking trash about Trav or something. They both make hockey masks, they both love hockey masks, they\'re both probably friends who talk with each other.
and like Mike said, the bad mouthing ALWAYS gets back to the person who\'s being badmouthed. At the end of the day, all this stuff is just that,....\'stuff.\' And alot of us value friendships more then \'stuff\'
err, kinda got off on a tangent I guess. But I know what you\'re talking about Mike, and it\'s ridiculous.