Kitchen musings..... shelving vs. cabinets, notions of design....

[Existential Angst]

And because he's a good shot?? LOL

I can't cite the exact Picasso painting, drawing, but whatever it was showed superb draftsmanship -- at least to me. It showed that this was not some guy riding the Pop Cultural Magic Carpet Ride, 'spressin hisself -- he really knows what he's doing. Dali is another one, iirc.

Andy Warhol was another -- he actually eked out a good living as a working commercial artist -- cereal boxes'n'shit.... Very inneresting bio. Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side was in fact about Warhol's li'l cabal:

[krw]

My wife found some wipes that work really well on stainless. They're expensive but I was amazed how well they polished the sink (I lived in the house six months before she moved - she gets the honors now ;-).

I don't have a problem with Windex but it does have to be taken off before it dries. A last swipe with a little Windex on a paper towel takes the last bit of streaks off. Watch the paper towels, though. Some of the pretty printing dissolves in Windex and makes a mess of paint. DAMHIKT.

Interesting. I'll have to try it. It does make sense.

Like I said, our appliances don't show finger prints at all. There seems to be an oleophobic coating on them (the non-contractor grade ones).

[The Daring Dufas]

Take a look at the link. ^_^

TDD

[Ed Huntress]

I thought I'd include that because Gary Cooper once gave Picasso a revolver.

Dali was a great draughtsman.

Oh, yeah. I was a Village Crawler in those days. I was a big Velvet Underground fan...well, a Nico fan.

[krw]

It's amazing. Those who whine most about Chinese crap are the same people who refuse to buy American when it is available.

[Norminn]

Why bother reading it? Then, why in HELL bother writing about it? :o)

[Norminn]

Hudson River School?

[Jim Wilkins]

In the late 60's I was the technical assistant to an artist-filmmaker who looked like Warhol, but better, and somewhat imitated the Factory in an apartment house populated by all his entourage. I was more-or-less Billy Name, with the theatre friends, minus the drugs which they respected their brains too much to use.

I left when their side became too wild for me.

[Norminn]

Well, dipshit, how about "just kidding"?

[Norminn]

The section on "computer equipment" was real interesting.

If we blockade China for fooling (I've used "f*ck" too many times today) with our networks, we won't have diddly-squat to make stuff with. Wonder what that would do for employment.

[Jim Wilkins]

I thought I liked Mary Travers until we followed PP&M around to make a music video of them to circulate on the 16mm art house circuit.

I started prowling the Village on weekends off from Ft Monmouth in

1970 and missed that scene. I ignored two fine musicals I later worked on, 1776 and Jacques Brel, because I didn't like the names. (kicks self)

The USO even had free tickets to them. I must have been the only GI in New York then who liked theatre, because those were the only free tickets they always still had.

[dadiOH]

Yes. If you haven't seen it and get a chance to do so, the Dali Museum in St. Petersberg, FL has a great collection.

[Jim Wilkins]

And a hypercritical one who is outraged when they get it back.

[DerbyDad03]

Define "buy American".

If I buy a product in which the $50 worth of parts were all made in the US and the final product was assembled in the US by a $1,000,000 robot that was made in Japan, does that constitute "buying American"?

This is an interesting site related to "Qualified 'Made in USA' claims":

http://bus "60% U.S. content." "Made in USA of U.S. and imported parts." "Couch assembled in USA from Italian Leather and Mexican Frame."

Buying American isn't as clear cut as it used to be, and certainly not as easy.

[Ed Huntress]

Yeah, I saw it around 25 years ago. And Dalis show up from time to time in the big NYC museums, which I've seen several times.

The work is impressive. The art -- or what it says about Dali's mind

-- is...a little scary.

[dadiOH]

Ya hablo espaol. La escribo y leo tambien.

[ChairMan]

but, but........I'm right and everybody else just doesn't understand me

[ChairMan]

PKB

[The Daring Dufas]

It's a shame that so many government policies have run manufacturers out of the country. I mentioned to someone else that people vote with their feet and corporations and manufacturers vote with their moving vans. O_o

TDD

[jim]

Or mabe you're just another loon who thinks this is a room