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11-11-2011, 01:36 PM
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Mayan Time Lord
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cali
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: 10/12/2006
Business: [H]arsh Styles
Client: Always changing, and too lazy to edit. | New record high price for a photo: $4.7 Million Record for any photo sold at auction set in NYC - Yahoo! News Of course the first thing I wanted to know was, what was in this photo that made it worth so much? Well, a picture of a river, of course:  Right Click and 'Save as..." You're now 4.7 Million richer.  |
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11-12-2011, 11:31 AM
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| Situationally Obtuse        *SLU Supporter*    
Avec Chapeau
| That would look nice over my sofa. *counts his change* Hmmm, I'm a bit short. Maybe I'll just stick with the one I have... 
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11-12-2011, 12:45 PM
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| Senior Member  | THAT photo was $4.7 million??? I mean seriously I dont even think its a good photo...
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11-12-2011, 01:14 PM
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Mayan Time Lord
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11-12-2011, 01:45 PM
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I kicked your dog. TO THE
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    | What the shit? I can take that picture.
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11-12-2011, 01:47 PM
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sutatS tidE
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11-12-2011, 01:52 PM
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| 2つの文化の間立ち往生 *SLU Supporter*  
Watashi wa ocha ga sukidesu
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 11,793
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| This reminds me of "the voice of fire" painting that the canadian federal government bought for its collection back in 1989 for 1.8 million....  yes... its just a stripe.... Voice of Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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11-12-2011, 02:04 PM
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11-12-2011, 02:14 PM
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I am my business.
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11-12-2011, 03:42 PM
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Rocket Science Library - now
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: Jun 27, 2006 Client: 7 of them (I like testing) | It's a "chromogenic print" on glass, meaning it uses the color print dyes from the age of film photography, which usually were on paper. Some astronomy images before the digital age were taken on glass plates, but that was usually black and white. The advantages I can see for doing it on glass are: * Easier to handle and mount than a paper photographic print * Possibly longer life if it is on the *back* side of the glass, and the glass keeps out damaging UV that can cause photos to fade. Disadvantages are: * Glass is breakable * It has to be done custom, which is expensive. I can see maybe a couple thousand for this photo, not millions. |
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11-19-2011, 01:11 AM
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11-20-2011, 05:43 AM
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11-20-2011, 06:04 AM
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Checking Things Out
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: January 2006 Client: Firestorm  | Interesting. How rich must that person be to have wasted 4.7 million dollars on a picture he or she will probably only look at in passing every now and then, if that. Wow. There's such a huge gap between what's important to the wealthy and what's important to the not-wealthy.  I personally like the picture SimonLeo posted much better! |
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11-20-2011, 08:53 AM
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| Guess my gender *SLU Supporter* 
Not the droid yer looking for
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: September 11, 2005 Blog Entries: 4 | Well I'm almost certain that was bought as an investment strategy. However... it always surprises me when people say "I could have done that." Seriously -- you didn't. Some of the early Beatles tunes are ridiculously simple in every way. A person with a year's guitar lessons could have written some of those songs. But no one says that. Truth is that things are done in a moment of time and are the first, or different, or worthy of note for their time. And yeah, maybe you could have done that. But would you have? Would you have thought of doing that at that time in that way? Because that's just as much part of the artistic process as the actual execution. Of course, its entirely possible that the guy was just clowning around and is laughing his ass off all the way to the bank. And I don't get whats so great about that photo. But I guess someone is impressed.
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