Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
But here is an example of Franco's real taste in art
Why is the guy with wings riding a horse? And how is the horse flying, when it doesn't have wings? Is it floating on top of Franco's billowing white fart?
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
His career, spanning almost 60 years, saw him covering conflicts in countries including the Congo, Biafra (Nigeria), Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iran, as well as being imprisoned in Uganda by dictator Idi Amin.
The 81-year-old recently said he would work until he “can't press that button anymore”, though probably not covering warzones.
“When I was young I was like a greyhound, I could really shift across those battlefields and now I walk across them which is slightly more dangerous,” he told the Press Association.
Witness wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:36 am
Care to clarify your claim in the meantime, as apparently I misunderstood?
Certainly. Disney employed and continues to employ incredible artists, whether what they produce in form of cartoons (whole or in part) is not necessarily indicative of their artistry.
Witness wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:36 am
Care to clarify your claim in the meantime, as apparently I misunderstood?
Certainly. Disney employed and continues to employ incredible artists, whether what they produce in form of cartoons (whole or in part) is not necessarily indicative of their artistry.
Thanks.
I get your point. Fact is that, apart from a handful of very successful ones, most artists have to make a living somehow. If it's more or less in their field, so much the better, but often it's just a "second" job.
And financial success doesn't necessarily mean Art™ either: among the best-paid photographers are the dudes who make commercial catalogs (e. g. the famous – in France – Catalogue de La Redoute).
(Catalogs which are in fact complete photo courses, and yet people continue to tale shitty pictures…)
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
*The school is a right old dump, but the painting is very nice!
"It is not I who is mad! It is I who is crazy!" -- Ren Hoek
"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.
It's one of the best private schools in the country. Being a right smart-arse, I won a free scholarship.
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s
LONDON — The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction.
The work, “Girl With Balloon,” a 2006 spray paint on canvas, was the last lot of Sotheby’s “Frieze Week” evening contemporary art sale. After competition between two telephone bidders, it was hammered down by the auctioneer Oliver Barker for 1 million pounds, more than three times the estimate and a new auction high for a work solely by the artist, according to Sotheby’s.
“Then we heard an alarm go off,” Morgan Long, the head of art investment at the London-based advisory firm Fine Art Group, who was sitting in the front row of the room, said in an interview on Saturday. “Everyone turned round, and the picture had slipped through its frame.”
The painting, mounted on a wall close to a row of Sotheby’s staff members, had been shredded, or at least partially shredded, by a remote-control mechanism on the back of the frame.
The website MyArtBroker.com, which resells Banksy pieces, said Girl with Balloon had enjoyed annual increases in value of about 20% in recent years. “Prices now are regularly exceeding £115,000 for signed authenticated prints,” said its co-founder Joey Syer.
“The auction result will only propel this further and given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02m they paid last night.
“This is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value, possibly as high as being worth £2m plus.”