To all,
I'm sure we all had a strong passion for something in our lifetime. What we have in common is the passion for bonsai but we may like other things. Someone likes cars, or art of sports... you name it.
Me and Harry Greer really like cars. We talk a lot about it. I prefer the design of it. He likes the engine, the performace. I can name the model of a Ferrari just by looking at one detail of the body. I can tell you the year it was made, the max speed and all sort of info.
I love the work of Jackson Pollock. I can name a painting just by look at a part of it and for the ones who know what kind of painting Jackson Pollock made, you may understand that for the majority of the people they look pretty much alike one to another. Every time I go to NYC I go to the Moma and I pay a visit to the Pollocks there. Every time.
I love Ferrari and I'm very proud of them. I love Pollock. I have passion for it. I'm driven to discover anything I can about what I have passion for. I like to know things. I like to know how things are done. I DONT'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HOW MUCH A FERRARI OR A POLLOCK COST. I REALLY DON'T.
When I fell in love with a girl I didn't ask myself: " how much she is gonna cost me?" i just followed my heart.
Now let me ask you something.....
How many times in both ICHIBAN threads on bonsainut people have been talking about the price?
How many times someone asked me how ICHIBAN works? why I designed in that way? how can a bonsaist really benefit from it and why I tried to solve my lower back problem by creating a tool that now can help many other with the same suffering?
If you don't have the money to buy it too bad. I don't have the money to buy lots of things like a ferrari or a pollock but I always try to understand them.
Yes my testimonials did receive ICHIBAN as a present, but I'm sure that Michael Jordan payed for all his NIKEs, or DiCaprio all his watches, George Clooney for all his Nespresso, Kimura for all the Kinbon and so on. Come Vicky, you are smarter than that. Or maybe not.
I'm driven by passion and so I'm driven away from this bonsai blog once for all. I wish you all the best.
Goodbye
marco invernizzi