Why Can't This Happen To Me?

[MailGuru]

Ok, some wise guy taped a banana to a white piece of poster board with duct tape.

It sold at Sotheby's auction yesterday for 6.24 million dollars!

I could have done that! I could've been a contender..........

 

[gordo]

You can slip away to watch the auctioning of that banana here: Duct-taped banana artwork auctioned for $6.2m in New York

 

[jwheeler]

I'm convinced those ridiculous art pieces that go for millions are just some sort of tax evasion/money laundering trick that the wealthy use. I was an graphic design/art major, and we had to visit the Museum of Modern Art in LA. I couldn't believe some of the pieces that they called 'art'. There was one presentation of a looping video that had a guy wearing super long pointy shoes walking down the street. He would kick someone in the butt right between the cheeks, and it started over again.

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Ok, some wise guy taped a banana to a white piece of poster board with duct tape.

It sold at Sotheby's auction yesterday for 6.24 million dollars!

I could have done that! I could've been a contender..........

Justin Sun is a crazy guy.

 

[MailGuru]

You can slip away to watch the auctioning of that banana here: Duct-taped banana artwork auctioned for $6.2m in New York

I have so many questions......................

First of all, the people bidding on the duct taped banana all seem so normal. What is wrong with them?

Secondly, how long is the banana good for? Do you have to get a fresh one every two to three days?

When you do, what do you do with the old banana? Make banana pudding?

What is the message? What is the artist trying to convey?

 

[prwhite]

What is the message? What is the artist trying to convey?

Maybe it's: "Life can be more than a bowl of cherries"?

 

[keith1]

What is the message? What is the artist trying to convey?

Whatever the artist could tell you he was trying to convey, it can't be that much more confounding than what I've heard from some design agencies to describe their logo creations.

 

[MailGuru]

Ok, I've thought long and hard about this.
Pondered...........Contemplated.........
I think I understand.

"You can fix anything with a piece of Duct Tape"

 

[jwheeler]

When you do, what do you do with the old banana? Make banana pudding?

No...everyone knows you make banana bread with old bananas!

 

[bill kahny]

Is that a banana taped to your wall or are you just happy to see me?

 

[MacTwidget]

I'm convinced those ridiculous art pieces that go for millions are just some sort of tax evasion/money laundering trick that the wealthy use. I was an graphic design/art major, and we had to visit the Museum of Modern Art in LA. I couldn't believe some of the pieces that they called 'art'. There was one presentation of a looping video that had a guy wearing super long pointy shoes walking down the street. He would kick someone in the butt right between the cheeks, and it started over again.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly (Gadfly Saga, #1)
There's a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum
Choose one or the other...

 

[MailGuru]

There's a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum

"If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep" (From the movie "The Magnificent Seven")

(I had the movie wrong - edited to credit the quote to the correct movie -- my bad....)

 

[namelessentity]

Art is for laundering money. You just need the right clientele and you can sell anything.

 

[InDesign_Jockey]

I'm convinced those ridiculous art pieces that go for millions are just some sort of tax evasion/money laundering trick that the wealthy use. I was an graphic design/art major, and we had to visit the Museum of Modern Art in LA. I couldn't believe some of the pieces that they called 'art'. There was one presentation of a looping video that had a guy wearing super long pointy shoes walking down the street. He would kick someone in the butt right between the cheeks, and it started over again.

It is definitely a tax evasion trick; You buy art, you get one of your art appraiser buddies to claim it's actually worth millions of dollars when you bought it for a few grand, then donate it to a museum or some cause so you can claim those millions on your taxes and write it off.