"Pip" wrote in message
From: "Gary Peach"
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That is exactly what I’m complaining about, "most people don’t know what
they
like" and the commercials tell them what is good and how they are
supposed to
respond, "The opiate of the masses"?
O.K., you may have a point about that, But I doubt that they have any concern about their being led.
Obviously, they are as happy as the proverbial butcher’s dog and about as intelligent.
That sounds terribly arrogant, probably because it is, I just want to shake them and say use the brains that you were given, life will shortly be past and you will have missed the opportunity.
Maybe it’s laziness, maybe it’s just that
they have little energy left in their lives to devote to the subject after putting in a hard day working. I certainly understand the lack of
enthusiasm
to study after working my 10+ hour days.
Golly how do you get away with such a short working day?
OTOH I do manage to motivate myself for the sake of my own soul, career, and happiness to keep up my hobbies, and attempt to keep my mind
active.
Indeed, of course you do.
Just think of the ten to twenty plus others for each one of us that doesn’t.
Can you give me an example of a simple painting?
Or are you refering to Christmas card and chocolate box art, (and we get precious little of that now); or are you thinking of matchstick men?
That’s a hard one… I guess I’m thinking of mass produced Kincaid (sp?)
Jamaica?
cottages or the art you see on the walls at Pier One Imports.
I am unfamiliar with Peir One, is this some form of store like Walmart?
Not much in the way of symbolism,
more ‘art as decorating accessory’ than for art’s sake.
In colours to match the curtains?
Besides, what’s wrong with Christmas card art?
Some of it is fine, overpriced, but fine.
I make Christmas cards every year. 😉
Next year, (perhaps this), give a thought to Santa :-
AN ANALYSIS OF SANTA’S GIFT SERVICE
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million according to the population reference bureau).
At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, which comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second.
This is to say that for each Christian household, with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second — 3,000 times the speed of sound.
For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself.
On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times that normal amount, the job can’t be done with eight or even NINE of them—Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance – this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each.
In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.
Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 mps in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g’s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s now dead. [RIP over worked]
Merry Christmas!
I have to admit that they certainly aren’t my idea of high art, but I still get compliments and enjoy making them.
This year if you are still fishing for compliments why not try an Inuit sitting by his hole in the ice with Santa bringing him his Christmas present, "a mirror.
An anagram of ‘Santa’ is ‘Satan’; the mirror can reflect a rear view of Santa with his costume cut away to reveal his scaley tail and firy breath. All is to be drawn on PSP.
Most of the masses are just as intelligent as I.
Of course they are. I’m not implying stupidity, just a lack of interest.
One day, when it is too late, they’ll all regret that individually.
They are quite capable of making their own observations, in the abscence
of a
suitable explanation sadly I must put down the fact that they don’t to laziness.
I guess what I’m saying to you is that there was a point – YOU
appreciate it
don’t you?
I’m afraid that I did miss it, what was it?
The point is, those who do appreciate art are reason enough for art to exist.
The size of the potential market does little for the price to the living artist. 🙁
Art has no value beyond what we place on it.
True, but softly, if the masses hear that then that is exactly what they will be prepared to pay for it.
It isn’t useful for anything in any practical terms.
I had a big book that under one leg of the table just made it level, and an old painting that blocked the hole in the window excluding the draught.
That may be why people with little time for
anything more than their own survival have such a lack of concern about
it.
Should we be concerned about art?
On the other hand, art could be the only worthwhile thing in the whole of the universe.
just my $.02
I suppose you want change Chuck :?o
Gary Peach
Yeah. I’m not sure I can spare any of the leftovers. 😉
Do you have pudding or dessert?
Gary Peach