Mass Produced Michelangelos and ET Colonization:
Mass Produced Michelangelos and ET Colonization:
Dear Marcy, I wondered if you believe in Extra-Terrestrial colonization and the commercial appeal to the idea of mass producing Renaissance masterpieces. I’ve sent you some thoughts on the subject. Do you have any advice for me?...........An Art Student in Sarasota
Dear Art Student Making Plastic Dildos, try to remember the lesson John Delorean learned the hard way in making stainless steel automobiles. His automobile was used in the movie ‘Back to the Future’ as a Time Machine, and Delorean was busted by the FBI for money laundering. Delorean’s name has since been linked with the perennial quest to develop a real time machine. And in all honesty, yes, we here at Marcy’s Massage Parlor Emporiums do use mass produced vibrators for Happy Endings. So I will pass your little thought along to my one-handed readers……………..marcythewhore
From an Art Student in Sarasota:
Mass Produced Michelangelos: The theory behind mass production is to never have enough of something.
When it is possible to have one Pieta, have ten, or twenty, or however many the market will bear.
The problem with the degradation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is that over the centuries countless numbers of tourists have passed through the building leaving humidity to eat away at the paint. Think Cineplex architecture to spread the masses out. What? You think there is only one Disney World on this planet?
To have mass production is to certainly sacrifice something. In the case of the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel it’s anachronism. Nothing is free in the world of mass appeal. Cloning the Mona Lisa is sure to lead to certain disputes. Hell, a fistfight at an NBA game leads to endless rounds of dispute over who is right and wrong.
Buddha statutes have enjoyed great amounts of success from being cloned. If there was only one Buddha statue in all of China, and being that China won’t let anyone come into their walled in country, then no one would see a Buddha statue.
Some religions ban iconography altogether. No statues or likenesses of anything supernal. No tapestries depicting the likeness of prophets to lay over hardwood living room floors or depend from the wall over the sofa.
If you think Michelangelo did not understand the appeal of mass production then you don’t understand Michelangelo’s psyche. The prodigious artist chiseled away endlessly at Carrara marble to keep up with the demand for Medici style tombs. Michelangelo simply didn’t have air-compressed chisels in his day. Otherwise the maestro would have died an extremely wealthy man after having carved a tomb for every wealthy noble person in Renaissance Italy.
The other day a group of us art students gathered to discuss the potential reality of mass colonization of this planet Earth by extra-terrestrial beings.
This concept implies that life had originally been put on this planet to be observed in evolution as some kind of cosmic zoo.
My contention is, “Who on some other world has the time to watch us for ten or twenty thousand years until we blow ourselves completely off the face of this planet?”
Then I think of entertainment value. The desire for entertainment never quits, no matter what species. Here on earth, the gladiator games began with ancient Greece to be eventually sensationalized in the age of Imperial Rome. Today we have pit bull dog fighting, professional wrestling, Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, uncountable African civil wars and an international industry in the trade of drugs for military hardware.
On the brighter side, we as a gladiatorial species have been worth watching for the past ten or twenty thousand years. Whoever put us here in the first place, they’ve surely been getting their ticket sale’s money’s worth.
Yes, intelligent thinking ancient Greece who gave us Plato, Aristotle and Socrates also gave us the gladiator games, albeit in an unrefined form compared to what we have today. Because today we have worldwide satellite coverage of the Olympic Games, both Winter and Summer, whereas in ancient Greece the city-states had to call a truce to their ongoing wars to trudge their best soldier-athletes out onto a common playing field so that they could kill each other in fair-and-square sporting events.
And in the nude, too.
Rather than fight the traditional combat style of wearing armor, the ancient Greeks honored the Gods by having their athletic soldiers fight to the death in the nude.
You know that story about Hector and Ajax meeting outside the walls of Troy for a man en mano duke out, well, that was an early version of the Olympic Games.
The Greeks had their games every dozen years or so, since it took a lot of time to trudge everyone from the four corners of the Aegean Peninsula into a common arena. The Romans came up with the bright idea of mass producing bloody slave fights every weekend by constantly conquering and enslaving people for five or six hundred years of Pax Romana, Peace in Rome.
We’ve got cable, reruns, syndications and sports bars.
Ergo, while the Swiss gave us the cuckoo clock, the Italian Renaissance gave us the Hundred Years War that actually lasted a hundred and fifty years.
And a lot of churches.
Or, as Homer Simpson said, “I don’t know much about God but we sure made a nice cage to keep him in.”
I, for one, believe that we as a species have managed to earn our bread over the millennium keeping our extra-terrestrial colonizers entertained.
Possibly the most humorous entertainment we’ve been able to provide our ET forebears are the many sci-fi movies where we earthlings pummel the invading space aliens with our canons and tanks and automatic rifles.
ET colonizers must laugh and laugh and laugh at the sheer audacity of our fictive imaginations.
As an art student I don’t see what would be wrong with mass producing the Pieta or the Sistine Chapel ceiling for the entertainment pleasure of our benefactors.
Thank you, marcythewhore, for letting me vent:
An Art Student From Sarasota
Dear Marcy, I wondered if you believe in Extra-Terrestrial colonization and the commercial appeal to the idea of mass producing Renaissance masterpieces. I’ve sent you some thoughts on the subject. Do you have any advice for me?...........An Art Student in Sarasota
Dear Art Student Making Plastic Dildos, try to remember the lesson John Delorean learned the hard way in making stainless steel automobiles. His automobile was used in the movie ‘Back to the Future’ as a Time Machine, and Delorean was busted by the FBI for money laundering. Delorean’s name has since been linked with the perennial quest to develop a real time machine. And in all honesty, yes, we here at Marcy’s Massage Parlor Emporiums do use mass produced vibrators for Happy Endings. So I will pass your little thought along to my one-handed readers……………..marcythewhore
From an Art Student in Sarasota:
Mass Produced Michelangelos: The theory behind mass production is to never have enough of something.
When it is possible to have one Pieta, have ten, or twenty, or however many the market will bear.
The problem with the degradation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is that over the centuries countless numbers of tourists have passed through the building leaving humidity to eat away at the paint. Think Cineplex architecture to spread the masses out. What? You think there is only one Disney World on this planet?
To have mass production is to certainly sacrifice something. In the case of the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel it’s anachronism. Nothing is free in the world of mass appeal. Cloning the Mona Lisa is sure to lead to certain disputes. Hell, a fistfight at an NBA game leads to endless rounds of dispute over who is right and wrong.
Buddha statutes have enjoyed great amounts of success from being cloned. If there was only one Buddha statue in all of China, and being that China won’t let anyone come into their walled in country, then no one would see a Buddha statue.
Some religions ban iconography altogether. No statues or likenesses of anything supernal. No tapestries depicting the likeness of prophets to lay over hardwood living room floors or depend from the wall over the sofa.
If you think Michelangelo did not understand the appeal of mass production then you don’t understand Michelangelo’s psyche. The prodigious artist chiseled away endlessly at Carrara marble to keep up with the demand for Medici style tombs. Michelangelo simply didn’t have air-compressed chisels in his day. Otherwise the maestro would have died an extremely wealthy man after having carved a tomb for every wealthy noble person in Renaissance Italy.
The other day a group of us art students gathered to discuss the potential reality of mass colonization of this planet Earth by extra-terrestrial beings.
This concept implies that life had originally been put on this planet to be observed in evolution as some kind of cosmic zoo.
My contention is, “Who on some other world has the time to watch us for ten or twenty thousand years until we blow ourselves completely off the face of this planet?”
Then I think of entertainment value. The desire for entertainment never quits, no matter what species. Here on earth, the gladiator games began with ancient Greece to be eventually sensationalized in the age of Imperial Rome. Today we have pit bull dog fighting, professional wrestling, Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, uncountable African civil wars and an international industry in the trade of drugs for military hardware.
On the brighter side, we as a gladiatorial species have been worth watching for the past ten or twenty thousand years. Whoever put us here in the first place, they’ve surely been getting their ticket sale’s money’s worth.
Yes, intelligent thinking ancient Greece who gave us Plato, Aristotle and Socrates also gave us the gladiator games, albeit in an unrefined form compared to what we have today. Because today we have worldwide satellite coverage of the Olympic Games, both Winter and Summer, whereas in ancient Greece the city-states had to call a truce to their ongoing wars to trudge their best soldier-athletes out onto a common playing field so that they could kill each other in fair-and-square sporting events.
And in the nude, too.
Rather than fight the traditional combat style of wearing armor, the ancient Greeks honored the Gods by having their athletic soldiers fight to the death in the nude.
You know that story about Hector and Ajax meeting outside the walls of Troy for a man en mano duke out, well, that was an early version of the Olympic Games.
The Greeks had their games every dozen years or so, since it took a lot of time to trudge everyone from the four corners of the Aegean Peninsula into a common arena. The Romans came up with the bright idea of mass producing bloody slave fights every weekend by constantly conquering and enslaving people for five or six hundred years of Pax Romana, Peace in Rome.
We’ve got cable, reruns, syndications and sports bars.
Ergo, while the Swiss gave us the cuckoo clock, the Italian Renaissance gave us the Hundred Years War that actually lasted a hundred and fifty years.
And a lot of churches.
Or, as Homer Simpson said, “I don’t know much about God but we sure made a nice cage to keep him in.”
I, for one, believe that we as a species have managed to earn our bread over the millennium keeping our extra-terrestrial colonizers entertained.
Possibly the most humorous entertainment we’ve been able to provide our ET forebears are the many sci-fi movies where we earthlings pummel the invading space aliens with our canons and tanks and automatic rifles.
ET colonizers must laugh and laugh and laugh at the sheer audacity of our fictive imaginations.
As an art student I don’t see what would be wrong with mass producing the Pieta or the Sistine Chapel ceiling for the entertainment pleasure of our benefactors.
Thank you, marcythewhore, for letting me vent:
An Art Student From Sarasota
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