Post something just for the heck of it

[pat grimshaw]

^ We have become trash!

 

[belamyi]

^ We have become trash!

Yes: you have no sense of humour left

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ That confected, bleached American took it.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Someone paid $70M for a head by Titian surrounded by someone else's more mediocre work.

OMG the "Leonardo"!!

By far the most incomprehensible, annoying, ridiculous and undeserving 'artist' rolleyes on that list is Mark Rothko, whoever he is.

I think people must have lost their minds to pay tens of millions of dollars for a 'painting' of two or three primary colours daubed in a line, something that a three-year-old could do.

Insanity.

 

[bankside]

By far the most incomprehensible, annoying, ridiculous and undeserving 'artist' rolleyes on that list is Mark Rothko, whoever he is.

I think people must have lost their minds to pay tens of millions of dollars for a 'painting' of two or three primary colours daubed in a line, something that a three-year-old could do.

Insanity.

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The National Gallery bought one a few years back.

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=41892

It's called Number 16.

We also bought Voice of Fire from Barnett Newman.

Hmmmmmmm....


Hmmm.....

 

[belamyi]

By far the most incomprehensible, annoying, ridiculous and undeserving 'artist' rolleyes on that list is Mark Rothko, whoever he is.

I think people must have lost their minds to pay tens of millions of dollars for a 'painting' of two or three primary colours daubed in a line, something that a three-year-old could do.

Insanity.

Rothko is good, just that his work listed up there, like those of Rubens, Titian or de Kooning are mediocre or, simply, not THAT extraordinary... because the good stuff is in public collections... and they couldn't afford paying something remotely similar in quality to The Demoiselles d'Avignon or the Mona Lisa.

Anyway, the biggest WTF joke on that list may be Eakins.

 

[belamyi]

I think people must have lost their minds to pay tens of millions of dollars for a 'painting' of two or three primary colours daubed in a line, something that a three-year-old could do.

Insanity.

You don't read me, do you. Today I posted, for the -nth time, on that very subject, related to elite sportsmen. You don't actually pay for the real stuff that you are supposed to be buying, but for a brand and all the insanity around that.

Even when you apparently pay for quality, for the "real stuff", as in the case of Adele, you only pay for:

1.- either the hammering part of it, like Rollin in the Deep, which is musically, and I mean on score, apart from Adele's rendition, as annoying as Wannabe... and people may consider it more "serious" only because of the topic of the lyrics... which is precisely what makes it, to me, even worse than the Spice Girls tune.

or

2.- you are interested only in the money shot, like in Someone like you, when people put up with the whole song only because they find that waiting for the chorus is worth waddling through the musical stuffing leading to that moment.

 

[vacancy3]

I'm pretty sure my dogs are smoking crack somehow while I'm away at work

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

Ever wonder what the word for dots looks like in braille?

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

I'm pretty sure my dogs are smoking crack somehow while I'm away at work

lol darn dogs
I would have given you a +1 for that one, but that's a different web-thingy altogether

 

[belamyi]

I am moving house. I am moving from the spacious flat I have lived in for 19 years, a corner house, very bright and full of windows, a place of flights of stairs and landings and hallways, no room on the same level as another. There has always been space for more books, you could tuck in a few shelves in all kinds of places. I had some built by a carpenter when I moved here. "These aren't going anywhere," he said, as he applied brackets to the wall.

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Source Link: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/17/linda-grant-author-killed-books-library-murder

(c) Linda Grant 2014 / © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^

 

[belamyi]

^

I beg your pardon?



Anyway

 

[JPGhost]

Sir.Where's my package?

 

[belamyi]

 

[bankside]

The fun part about not speaking any romance language other than French is that I get to just guess whatever I can calque from la Langue de Molière.

And that video appears to be called "Franco holds the white arse."

 

[belamyi]

The fun part about not speaking any romance language other than French is that I get to just guess whatever I can calque from la Langue de Molière.

And that video appears to be called "Franco holds the white arse."

"Has a [squeaky] white ass"... the fun part is when we all often complicate what can be better kept simple

 

[belamyi]

Comprendo que enoje e inquiete al Otro este hombre que anda siempre por detrás de las cosas y que él mismo no es cosa, sino algo fluido, ígneo, magnético.

 

[belamyi]

If you use Google translate, it will lead you to the exact opposite sense of the original text

So that's why those people quit on the brainy things and seem to be now so interested only in the teen gadget stuff?

 

[belamyi]

The fun part about not speaking any romance language other than French is that I get to just guess whatever I can calque from la Langue de Molière.

And that video appears to be called "Franco holds the white arse."

So you calque from mediocre but funny alexandrins, and even more mediocre but charming prose from a funny and charming thespian of the mid-XVIIth century.