@shelley11 THE “TELL” of handmade arts is the imprecision at close inspection. This is, for example, how you determine which technique as used to produce antique furniture.
Never assume your ignorance is a source of insight.
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:46:52 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792407761396654
@shelley11 No but that’s because my undergraduate degree work is in the history of art and especially artistic methods. And yes I know how to carve stone. And I’m relatively good at it. (And FWIW the spoked wheel is an archaic technology.)
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:45:41 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792403096800451
DUTTON INTERVIEWS DOOLITTLE
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:38:49 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792376110190017
@shelley11 Shelly dear. If you had faith you wold not need to argue against those who don’t. If you did fine on your own you would not try to preserve the social construction and personal deceptoin (addiction) you depend upon. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:28:39 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792336095574547
@rfnarchive Yes we are working on it tomorrow morning. There is something wrong with the certificate, and so forwarding from propertarian insttute and propertarianism dot coms to http://NATURALLAWINSTITUTE.COM is failing. Just use the new url. http://naturallawinstitute.com 😉
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:27:21 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792331002793360
WHY THE CHANGE IN THE COST OF ART AND QUALITY OF ART?
@shelley11
What has caused the change in production of high art, especially monumental art, (as someone who has studied stonemasonry, sculpture, and medieval construction techniques), is that the price of human time has increased to where it’s no longer affordable to pay that many men of that much skill for that long a period of time. Even at the time something on the scale of 1/4 of regional GDP was consumed in the production of those edifices. So they were effectively jobs programs for skilled craftsmen – and we have few of those jobs programs remaining now that we have steel, concrete, and panel construction.
Worse, when the aristocracy (inheriting sons of nobility) and the church (non-inheriting sonse of nobility), sponsored the arts, they generated competitive demand between nobility for the status provided by the success of artists in their territory. We don’t think of this today, but just as the pyramids still draw tourists, and skyscrapers draw businesses, churches and cathedrals did the same – for obvious reasons. They were one of the primary forms of entertainment, information, and educastion of the day.
So, as for the price of labor, today, an painter for example must keep some number of paintings – say, six to twelve, in one or more galleries, at a price of 1500-3500 each (just as an average). That means a successful artist must turn over a dozen works per year just to make 40k in income, and only about two thirds of their works are likely to sell at stated prices – some just sit in inventory. So that means at best an artist gets 100 hours per painting including all the related work to that painting – including just thinking about sketching whatyou’re going to paint.. Just to produce enough supply to feed the channel. It’s not an economically viable job. For this reason, over ninety percent of artists lose money. This was’t true of craftsmen before 1880.
So all artwork looks like it takes less than twenty hours work for high production artists, and then the works of skilled craftsmen painters (realism etc that does not look like a photo projection) must be very expensive and only practiced as a hobby.
Economics in everything.
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:25:44 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792324629370839
WHY THE CHANGE IN THE COST OF ART AND QUALITY OF ART?
@shelley11
What has caused the change in production of high art, especially monumental art, (as someone who has studied stonemasonry, sculpture, and medieval construction techniques), is that the price of human time has increased to where it’s no longer affordable to pay that many men of that much skill for that long a period of time. Even at the time something on the scale of 1/4 of regional GDP was consumed in the production of those edifices. So they were effectively jobs programs for skilled craftsmen – and we have few of those jobs programs remaining now that we have steel, concrete, and panel construction.
Worse, when the aristocracy (inheriting sons of nobility) and the church (non-inheriting sonse of nobility), sponsored the arts, they generated competitive demand between nobility for the status provided by the success of artists in their territory. We don’t think of this today, but just as the pyramids still draw tourists, and skyscrapers draw businesses, churches and cathedrals did the same – for obvious reasons. They were one of the primary forms of entertainment, information, and educastion of the day.
So, as for the price of labor, today, an painter for example must keep some number of paintings – say, six to twelve, in one or more galleries, at a price of 1500-3500 each (just as an average). That means a successful artist must turn over a dozen works per year just to make 40k in income, and only about two thirds of their works are likely to sell at stated prices – some just sit in inventory. So that means at best an artist gets 100 hours per painting including all the related work to that painting – including just thinking about sketching whatyou’re going to paint.. Just to produce enough supply to feed the channel. It’s not an economically viable job. For this reason, over ninety percent of artists lose money. This was’t true of craftsmen before 1880.
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 19:24:14 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107792318766424046
@K_Hard_R_Jo I wasn’t wrong. That’s the thing. You were wrong to criticize us for not taking the bait and fucking up like you always did. Who did I ‘hurt’? Stupid fucks who wanted us to fail like cville and jan6th?
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 17:42:43 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107791919591478302
@shelley11 Wait. Let me guess. You’re an uneducated female. Right?
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 17:41:46 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107791915870700565
HOW ABRAHAMISTS LIE BY CLAIMING ATHEISM IS A RELIGION
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Dear @shelley11,
(a) Abrahamic religions teach you to lie, (b) they teach you the women’s method of lying (c) of those women’s methods of lying false equivalency is endemic among them (d) in the case of religion this false equivalency includes equating faith (theology), belief (philosophy), trust (empiricism). (e) to qualify as a religion requires a false, untestifiable, unwarrantable promise of freedom from one or more of the formal, physical, behavioral, evolutionary laws of the universe (f) humanism is a philosophy that implies but does not state that if we work at it, we can violate the formal, physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws of the universe. (g) atheism depends only on trust(empiricism), and requires no false promise of freedom from the formal, physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws of the universe.
Theology(faith) > Philosophy(belief) > Empiricism (trust)
Source date (UTC): 2022-02-13 14:43:01 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/107791212953135184