Grandma, you just destroyed $6.2 million and the money to paint the walls.
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But it's now as some statue or painting you can have at home for centuries. The banana is going to rot soon. Unless it's a plastic banana. Then they're 6 millions well spent.
Edit: the artist suggest to change the banana once every week. The buyer has said he'll eat the banana.
Thus, the banana is pointless in itself. The real thing is the panel and the duct tape. Those are the things actually bought. The banana? It's just like in toys where it says "batteries included". But you know you're going to change them. So in the end, those six million are for a very luxurious artsy banana holder.
This reminds me of the scene in The Holy Mountain where Christ (second coming) goes to the throne and an alchemist converts his poo in gold. That's art too.
*I heavily suggest you to not watch such movie unless you like Jodorowsky self-aware surrealistic nonsense. If you've read The Chronicles of Alef-Thau then you know what to expect, just with a very bad story.)
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I read a book once called Killing Critics. The author is a novelist but also a painter and she had quite a few things to say about the art world and how corporate "collection" and hype changed it. The novel in itself is a pretty good crime/mystery story with interesting characters but it's also very informative about how all this BS started unfolding in the 80ies. Now we have crypto BS on top of it.
In the novel there's an "artist" who collects trash and spills it "authentically" in the exhibition space but gets mad when the gallery owner has the trash coated with resin so it doesn't rot. Reminds me of that.
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Sadly it's not in spanish, and it's been long since I've read a book in english. I can be all day reading forums, articles and whatnot in english without problem. But literature? Headache after a few pages. Maybe it's because a more refined and extended vocabulary than what I know, trying to guess word meanings by context. Maybe it's grammatical constructions, more varied than I'm used to. Maybe it's the excess of phrasal verbs (my #1 english enemy). But yes, headache.
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And spanish is the 3rd most used language in the world... But they think about markets. I have a friend who is a writer. She translated her first book to french, but it never took off. After five years, the rights of the translation came back to her, just when she finished a crash course in marketing for self-publishers. Now in France, in less than one year, that book is selling more than it has sold in all Spain + Latin America in more than one decade.
Probably publishers know better what books will fit better in each market. Also think that if the series of books really took off in the 2nd or 3rd book, they have to publish the less successful and unknown previous books too.
Or you can go like Mad Max, where the sequel was marketed as a first movie in EEUU. And what was the shakesperian movie which failed so much? Henry V? People thought "why watch this movie when I've not watched, not even heard, of the first four". Maybe it's an urban legend, but I digress.
It's all because humankind.
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And spanish is the 3rd most used language in the world
Right??? I mean... the book was translated in Dutch and Italian but not Spanish?!
Now in France, in less than one year, that book is selling more than it has sold in all Spain + Latin America in more than one decade.
I'm not surprised. Publishing is all about pushing books and publishers have agendas, just like streamers and networks do, or the music business. They promote and push what they believe will sell more but also what they think of as more profitable in the long run. Are there going to be other books? Are movie rights likely? Is it going to get some organic publicity with controversy or social media catchphrases?
And just like the music business, self publishing is hard but you are pushing your own product, instead of having someone who is supposed to work for you but is actually working for your competition.
Also think that if the series of books really took off in the 2nd or 3rd book, they have to publish the less successful and unknown previous books too.
Not the case here because the first book in the series, Mallory's Oracle was a NYT best seller and won a lot of awards so it was a big start right out of the gate. I'm just surprised that even that one wasn't even published in Spanish. Not even in a kindle format, which is just weird to me, when you think of how much costs it saves publishers, and on the other hand there were multiple editions in languages nobody speaks outside their own country.
And what was the shakesperian movie which failed so much?
lol all of them I would say but that's a good story.
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Oh yeah I recommend the entire series, well up to Book 7. I'm pretty sure the books were not written by the same author after that and while they remain entertaining, they are definitely not up to the same standards of writing and characters.
I don't think it's necessary to have read the first two books to appreciate Killing Critics because O'Connell does a great job at re-situating the recurring characters but you'd definitely appreciate it more if you have read the first two.
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Got all the materials at home for a replica...
But i dont want to be charged for counterfitting :p
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decided to go with a broken visual of the Do It Yourself kit.
placed the ductape in the garage and the fruit in the fruitbasket.
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I'd go the greener route and sell invisible art.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002018211/italian-artist-sells-invisible-sculpture-for-real-money
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And I was just mentioning a book I read that's a satire of the art world and where there is an "artist" selling tickets with stamped numbers.
Each number corresponds to an idea he had for a project that could never work... like a football arena filled with marmalade and great white sharks or a half a mile steel beam.
I guess the author wasn't far off the mark.
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Every year.
Invisible art has been around for centuries. Sometimes we are happily abliss until virtual reality interrupts our reality Matrix style.
Side note, been really fascinated lately with Dr Timothy Leary trying to disconnect from computers before he died.
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This is just a tiny tip of all the stuff in 2024 that makes me smh.
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They exploit the labor and life of the buyer by making something that is not really valuable into something that is valuable.
It happens all the time.
Jewelry is no exception.
There was a time when too many well-made gems were thrown into the sea and diamonds were sold for their rarity.
Similar nightmares are common in the language of birthstones and flowers, or in the commercial anniversaries of calendars.
If you want to call it art, let people buy paintings drawn by an AI that takes these things into account.
Of course, let's keep the fact that you let the AI write it a secret at first.
If we let the AI write, we can exploit more people, and the exploiters who buy them can use them to fleece other exploiters.
Later it will be more expensive just to claim the drawing as the first winning drawing of a pioneering attempt to have an AI write it.
Is that kind of thinking art? Or is it just twisted? I wonder which it is.🤭
However, only the pioneers who were the first to do so should be honored accordingly, no matter what their deeds. They should be put on record as having taught us a good lesson or a bad lesson.📝
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I wouldn't be surprised if things like that are at least sometimes used as money laundering. Would be a way to transfer large sums of money out in the open without legitimacy being put into question. And it would make more sense than the complete nonsense of someone really thinking something like that is worth millions.
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Well AKshully, "Sun purchased a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it Comedian." So it has lasting value!!
I think of it as a publicity stunt for getting recognized. His name and picture are now in every major newspaper around the world as he spends money recklessly. That should be a big help in every nightclub everywhere. I surmise it was all about getting lai... er, getting ladies to recognize him. No one wants to use a NYT article about an SEC investigation to confirm their bona fides.
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That a banana duct taped to the wall sold for $6.2 million as art. That is all. My life is now complete.
Now if you will excuse me I must go duct tape various fruits to the wall as I partake in my aspiring art career.
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