Art Investments and the Excessively Wealthy Patrons of the Fine Arts

[sidewinder]

why, onlooker non other than http://jacksonpollock.org/

Just click enter and proceed to create you own JP million dollar masterpiece.

[sidewinder]

Now this is my Idea of art ..........................



Dogs playing poker




Now before you poo poo it, this one called "The big bluff" and one of the other poker playing dogs by Coolidge sold a few years ago for $590,000 smackers.

I also like the ones with an old moonshine car parked next to a tobacco barn. 

Like you all say it's a matter of taste and I have friends in low places.   

YC, you know what I mean.   

[onlooker]

SW:

why, onlooker non other than http://jacksonpollock.org/

Just click enter and proceed to create you own JP million dollar masterpiece.

Thanks, Sidewinder for the unbelievably, easy and free JP art program for making my own Jackson Pollock-ish artwork.

Here are other variations of the JP art program by its creator, Miltos Manetas. 

http://www.ipollock.com/

http://vimeo.com/3099477

I suspect that when the current owner of No. 5 by Jackson Pollock sees these free JP art programs for the masses; he probably feels like a “there's a sucker born every minute”, instead of feeling like a savvy art collector for spending $140 million US to buy original artwork. 

[onlooker]

Wonders never cease.  And I am not talking about the cute 8-year-old budding artist with a dazzling smile, but the art investor who gave out $250,000.00 for her painting.  Sheesh. 

See: 

Autumn de Forest: 8-year-old girl dazzles art world

Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every day.'

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/videos/autumn-de-forest-8-year-old-girl-dazzles-art-world

[sunseeker]

Wonders never cease.  And I am not talking about the cute 8-year-old budding artist with a dazzling smile, but the art investor who gave out $250,000.00 for her painting.  Sheesh. 

See: 

Autumn de Forest: 8-year-old girl dazzles art world

Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every day.'

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/videos/autumn-de-forest-8-year-old-girl-dazzles-art-world

Hi OL

I can't get the link to work for me.

An influntual publication is tipping Wine Merchant (MJW) Majectic Wines.
http://www.majestic.co.uk/

Would that be your cup of tea?

Catch you later

ATB 

[onlooker]

Sunseeker’s quote

An influntual publication is tipping Wine Merchant (MJW) Majectic Wines.
http://www.majestic.co.uk/

Would that be your cup of tea?

Hi Sunseeker:

I am an abstainer for medical reasons. 

So, yes, any cup of tea suites me just fine.

And, I like your posting showing that good tasting wine can be brought at affordable prices or discounted prices.

Wine enthusiasts (including collectors, art investors) need not break their banks accounts over something they have a passion for.

[sunseeker]

Hi OL
That link is working for me now.
At any age and by any standard the girl is such a brilliant artist. A phenomenal talent. I'd a loved to have known about her before her work started fetching high prices. Although a high price today is sometimes tomorrows bargain price (look at gold). 

Sorry to hear about your medical problems. Although I am far from being an abstainer (you wouldn't have guessed that would you?) I always like to start and end the day with a nice cup of tea.

Wishing you the very best of health in the future.


ATB 

[onlooker]

S.S. quote: Feb. 12, 2012

Facebook. I neither see the point nor the valuation either.   

Plus

M.M. quote: Feb. 12, 2012

SW, that's a great video, thanks.  You might be surprised how much a street musician can make.  A few years ago, I was in Saint Louis listening to some friends play jazz and during the break I asked one of them what had happened to the sax player that used to play with them.  I was told that now he does some night gigs but primarily does the street gig and can pull in about 3K in a good weekend.  Of course I imagine a street musician can only work about 8 months out of the year here then minus inclement weather.  I was, to say the least, floored.  That's a potential of 39 weeks making 3K a week for about 12 hours or so of work a week.

Nice work if you can get it!

~     ~     ~

My mash-up comment for the above two thoughts. 

Graffiti artist David Choe certainly got nice work back in 2005 and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
 
See:

David Choe Just Made $200 Million For Painting Facebook Office with Erotic Art in 2005
Feb. 1, 2012

In 2005, Mr. Choe was invited to paint murals on the walls of Facebook's first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by Sean Parker, then Facebook's president. As pay, Mr. Parker offered Mr. Choe a choice between cash in the "thousands of dollars," according to several people who know Mr. Choe, or stock then worth about the same.

Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of Facebook was "ridiculous and pointless," nevertheless chose the stock.

Many "advisers" to the company at that time, which is how Mr. Choe would have been classified, would have received about 0.1 to 0.25 percent of the company, according to a former Facebook employee. That may sound like a paltry amount, but a stake that size is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, based on a market value of $100 billion. Mr. Choe's payment is valued at roughly $200 million, according to a number of people who know Mr. Choe and Facebook executives.

http://gawker.com/5881513/david-choe-just-made-200-million-for-painting-facebook-office-with-erotic-art-in-2005

[sidewinder]

It is likely that Facebook has more information about individual citizens than any government agency.  Or has the ability to create a dossier that would rival the CIA.   

[MetalMeister]

It's easy enough for the government to write a program that goes through Facebook page by page and extracts all that information into their databases.

A good programmer can write that to extract the information from any website that is public.

[sidewinder]

yep, gubmint good at extracting things.  Now, if they could only extract their heads from their ass we might get somewhere.