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the artist trading card started with van

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cease tournament in Switzerland and he

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made a series of these cards that fit

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into the sheet the plastic keeper sheets

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for sports cards and he put he has a

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bookstore a lead he did I don’t know if

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he still does was called ink ink and art

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or ink art or something like that in

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Basel he put these designs cards that he

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had done on display in his store and

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people wanted to buy them in his rule

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was there not for sale if you want some

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you make your own bring him back we’ll

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trade and so that was the start and then

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Don maybe also known as chuck steak from

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Calgary he visited van see at some point

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in this whole you know a lot of there’s

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been a lot of tourism by the way in

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within the network a lot of North

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Americans have gone around here not so

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many Europeans come here but lots of

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North Americans anyway Don maybe Chuck

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snake was in Switzerland saw the cards

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loved the concept and he brought it back

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to Calgary and he started doing trading

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sessions they’re introduced the cards

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and I attended one and i was just amazed

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at the frantic speed at which everybody

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wants look what have you got lucky no

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enemy people would develop their their

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favorite artists approach and they would

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be there so then I got involved I

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actually was at one of the trading

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sessions in in Calgary and well that was

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what impressed me so then I brought it

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to see shelled and meanwhile I think

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Bill Thompson and ginger Mason and

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what’s the other woman’s name started

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some trading sessions in Vancouver some

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of which are still going on now to this

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day I did it for at several years

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actually we had and the rush was always

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the same people come in with their

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binders with their stamps and you know

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you’d see the person who’s what work it

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really like can you sort of rush over

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there Giada train and it’s just a very

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wonderful free exchange of art and

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appreciation of what the other people

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are doing and small so you can actually

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you know actually part with your

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originals although I got to making color

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copies of my favorites because I didn’t

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always want to let my originals go so it

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was you know depending on who it was and

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what they wanted from mine and so on

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anyway it was it would but in its spread

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I mean there’s I say there’s still a

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group in Vancouver that doesn’t end I

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learned from that that Richmond art

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gallery had a phase of doing Trading

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Cards sessions and shows and there’s

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this group that continues in Vancouver

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and I’ve learned that there are other

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groups still going so for me it was like

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I had to have about four binders of

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artists trading cards with this kind of

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okay this is you know all of its it’s

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all art and what do you do with it sits

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on my shelves and binder so except for

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Duff be some in the show I think

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