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Re: I think we're in the wrong job if a photo of a spud goes for $1.5 million - Blankity Blank - 01-27-2016
$tevie wrote:One from column A...
He's not paying for the photograph so much as he's paying for this wonderful artist statement: “I see commonalities between humans and potatoes that speak to our relationship as individuals within a collective species. Generally, the life of a harvested potato is violent and taken for granted. I use the potato as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience,” ()
blooz wrote:
[quote=Lizabeth]
Seriously?????
https://www.yahoo.com/food/photo-of-organic-potato-sells-for-15-million-133620299.html
Apparently alcohol was involved. ... and one from column B.
Hung around the art scene for a few years as a yoot.
Silos full of BS on one side of the canvas. Oceans of booze on the other. And ego by the barrels full on both sides as often as not.
Not every single time, mind you, but at least having your hip boots in the trunk was never a mistake. :tongue:
Re: I think we're in the wrong job if a photo of a spud goes for $1.5 million - pRICE cUBE - 01-28-2016
Lizabeth wrote:
Seriously?????
https://www.yahoo.com/food/photo-of-organic-potato-sells-for-15-million-133620299.html
This is the kind of stuff that makes me question everything about art and sense.
Re: I think we're in the wrong job if a photo of a spud goes for $1.5 million - RAMd®d - 01-28-2016
This is the kind of stuff that makes me question everything about art and sense.
That applies to just about anything.
Everyone has a different sense of worth for different things.
Some people can't understand why we'd by anything made by Apple and spin it as fan-bio worship.
I'd like to peek into Spud-Nick's head and see why he felt moved to pay $1.5M for that pic. Will he sit in front of it from time to time, using it as some metaphor, contemplating some deep meaning that escapes the rest of us?
If it makes him happy and he gets his money's worth out of it, I'm happy for him even if I don't appreciate li'l Spud.
If he got Rufied and his checkbook was a victim, then not so much.