Saying Goodbye to my Golf Blue .2GT3
08-03-2018, 02:43 PM
#151
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That was $86M back in 2012. God only knows what it would be today.
Rumor of a different one in a private sale to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $186M in 2014.
And neither of those are the darker works (more preferred in my mind) which would most certainly fetch a higher bid.
08-03-2018, 03:02 PM
#152
Race Director
Interesting story ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
08-03-2018, 03:20 PM
#153
Race Director
Interesting story ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
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I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
Attachment 1287003
Attachment 1287004
I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
08-03-2018, 03:59 PM
#154
Race Director
Originally Posted by robmypro
I will make you one very similar to that. I just need a few drinks before i get started.
I'll buy the beer, small price to pay for a piece of priceless art.
08-03-2018, 04:37 PM
#156
Race Director
08-03-2018, 04:38 PM
#157
It's a little more expensive to apply that philosophy to cars, but I think it still works.
08-03-2018, 05:13 PM
#159
Before a distracted teenager ending my riding career a few years back, I always owned 2-4 motorcycles at all times, including everything from sumos to track bikes to BMW tourers. After buying and selling for years and having some regrets, I realized that there was a very simple rule to ensure my moto happiness. Keep the bike that you keep grabbing the keys to and sell the one you don't. Don't try to rationalize your buy/sell decisions, don't turn it into a pro/con list, don't focus on aesthetics, and don't get hung up on sunk costs. I decided that the minute that I stopped grabbing the keys to a bike, it was gone. I never had any regrets after that and I had a lot more fun riding.
It's a little more expensive to apply that philosophy to cars, but I think it still works.
It's a little more expensive to apply that philosophy to cars, but I think it still works.
08-03-2018, 05:25 PM
#160
Rennlist Member
You won't save $. Click link in my sig. Just a different, more smelly, type of addiction.
08-03-2018, 05:35 PM
#161
08-03-2018, 06:21 PM
#162
08-03-2018, 06:34 PM
#163
Not directing this at anyone, just a good read on hypocrisy:
SHORT STORY :FUNNY HYPOCRITE SITUATION
Jaydip Kansara
In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar
business, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its
congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with
petitions and prayed daily against his business.
Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to
open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was
burnt to the ground. The church folk were rather smug in their outlook
after that, till The bar owner sued the church authorities for
$2million on the grounds that the church through its congregation &
prayers was ultimately responsible For the demise of his bar shop,
either through direct or indirect actions or means.
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all
responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to
the bar shop’s demise. In support of their claim they referred to the
Benson study at Harvard that inter-cessionary prayer had no impact !
As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the
paperwork and at the hearing and commented:
"I don’t know how I am going to decide this case, but it appears from
the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire church and its devotees that does not."
SHORT STORY :FUNNY HYPOCRITE SITUATION
Jaydip Kansara
In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar
business, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its
congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with
petitions and prayed daily against his business.
Work progressed. However, when it was almost complete and was about to
open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was
burnt to the ground. The church folk were rather smug in their outlook
after that, till The bar owner sued the church authorities for
$2million on the grounds that the church through its congregation &
prayers was ultimately responsible For the demise of his bar shop,
either through direct or indirect actions or means.
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all
responsibility or any connection that their prayers were reasons to
the bar shop’s demise. In support of their claim they referred to the
Benson study at Harvard that inter-cessionary prayer had no impact !
As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the
paperwork and at the hearing and commented:
"I don’t know how I am going to decide this case, but it appears from
the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and we have an entire church and its devotees that does not."
Interesting story ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
Attachment 1287003
Attachment 1287004
I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
Ummm..... now... I like design and art. Now, what is really the appeal and real talent here?? Just abstract boxes. Can someone actually discuss a piece and have more than 5 words to say??
Attachment 1287003
Attachment 1287004
I mean, talk about an ADM.
You can at least buy prints
https://www.art.com/products/p175728...J=&upi=F5MGXF0
08-03-2018, 06:35 PM
#164
Rennlist Member
08-03-2018, 06:48 PM
#165
Race Director