Hi All
GREAT ... this kind of detective work on VMIPBs gives me orgasms !
I think we have a definite closed loop on Du Qing Tao = Du XIAO YU
All that's missing is the chinese characters for XIAO YUThe facebook pics are superb ! Thanks
Steven . I have downloaded them all to my data base , attributing them to DQT's facebook page. By comparison, the nude bottle IPBs look to be in a much lower league
Charll could you please email me the David Osborne pic -set and - if possible the cover email re the Sept 7 2010 DQT bottle? If it's signed Du Xiao Yu it will certainly have the Chinese characters on the authentication card.
Cheers Peter
PS : I think all of you out there on this loop will by now have got a copy of my data base. Some have a copy made in late 2011, and some a later update in early 2012. Now I guess you are uploading your own stuff to the data files because that's what I would do. I designed the DB so that
anyone who has it can manipulate it as they wish But the day will come when we should all merge what new stuff we have, which means you all should send me your updated personal versions of the DB on USB sticks, I merge the whole lot and then re-distribute the whole new master DB back to you on USB sticks.
But there's a practical catch ! ... the work involved to go through 500 - 600 data files from about a dozen sources and look for the new material will be impossibly large . So I either just merge every contributors files with new names , which will lead to an enormous number of duplications in the master DB ( i.e the same pic from the same root source eg CIPMA but included in the DB under a dozen different source names/ titles ) OR WE DO SOMETHING MORE CLEVER....
SOMETHING MORE CLEVER
is that every time you add something to an artist's file, you create a
parallel file with a suffix eg " X"
and COPY the update to that X- file. Then finally you only send me all the X-files on a USB. That means that if eg Charll sends me 35 different artist X-files I know that EVERY PIC IN EVERY CHARLL X- FILE is
new to the DB. So I just re-code all Charll's X-files as "new pics from Charll for artist XYZ ( date of adding to DB) " and add to the master file of artist XYZ .
If we follow this simple rule , then there's :
a)
no duplication of original pics from the DBb) everyone can see that all the new pics come from Charll ( and Charll can quote the sources of all his new pics in the pic titles or sub-file titles eg own collection/ face book pages / auction/ whatever in his X-files
Let's now suppose Steve does the same for artist XYZ and some of
his new pics in
his X- files duplicate some of Charll's new pics in Charll's new X-files.
OK - so what ? Chances of this are less than 1/100 and such a minor level of duplication can be tolerated . Each collector has his own focus artist, and so far I have seen very little overlap (biggest overlap is Bill and me )
So KISS : Keep It Simple Stupid !
If anyone has a better idea then please tell me. But my objective is a major update for general issue to everyone on my DB distribution list MINIMUM every 2 years , but I welcome intermediate X-files whenever you have some to send to me