Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: You're referring to Damien Hirst. This is the same guy who could fool art critics, but not the janitor. Feli will identify with the story, I'm sure: http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/fromhell/16.html Here's Dave Barry's take on it: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jdavin/newsdayart.html --Peter At 04:46 PM 8/15/04 -0700, Ted wrote: >Hi Greg, >Do I ever! Apart from this one and one where the "arteest" made something >out of meat and left it rotting in the National Art Gallery and the same >damn over paid government art idiots called art buyers, paid him an enormous >sum for a hanging pile of rotting meat! > >As far as I'm concerned many of these fools are quite easy to pay out great >sums of money for all kinds of silliness and garbage while using "tax >payer's money." However, if they had to fork over a percentage of their >salaries when they make decisions of monetary magnitude, I bet they'd be >extremely careful at what stupid things they waste our money on.