I think we're in the wrong job if a photo of a spud goes for $1.5 million

[Lizabeth]

Seriously?????

https://www.yahoo.com/food/photo-of-orga...20299.html

[archipirata]

Here's your chance folks, today only, I'll sell you my photo of eggs in space for half price, only $750,000.


©2010 Scott Marx
Moon is an ostrich egg, ship is a goose egg, exhaust is fiber filling from a dog toy, stars are black foamcore with punched holes, spaceman is made of polymer clay, all held up by wire armature through the background.

[3d]

"I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world."
"I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges."
"His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit."
"He is a loathesome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away."
"He transcends time and space."
"He sickens me."
"I love it."
"Me too."

20 most expensive photographs of all time. A potato fits right in.
http://mashable.com/2014/12/11/most-expe...otographs/

[Lux Interior]

Think I could get anything for this snapshot I took in Germany?

(disclaimer for pedantics: I did not take this photo)

[$tevie]

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,” ()

[Lizabeth]

archipirata wrote:
Here's your chance folks, today only, I'll sell you my photo of eggs in space for half price, only $750,000.


©2010 Scott Marx
Moon is an ostrich egg, ship is a goose egg, exhaust is fiber filling from a dog toy, stars are black foamcore with punched holes, spaceman is made of polymer clay, all held up by wire armature through the background.

Love the photo but I like your ship ones better

[steve...]

Oh that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free.

[Rick-o]

steve... wrote:
Oh that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free.

Gawd, I remember well when that song blew up.

Fun times back in those days.

Me + art = ?

I have never quite understood what to do with it.

[Numo]

$tevie wrote:
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,” ()

Well, that puts it in a whole different light . . . :RollingEyesSmiley5:

[Black]

If I had the dough I'd be happy to make an artist rich now and then.