Well, Johnny, now you see why I told you to stop jumping on the bed!
Interesting bit, that.
Nice....But I don't get it!
I guess it is all entirely subjective. I found the link when checking out Tim Warris' CNJ blog and clicked on his Twitter profile.
Some of the pieces are dark and disturbing in different ways. Incredible work, I only wish the photos were bigger as there appears to be more detail the closer you look. I found myself squinting at my monitor trying to look deeper into the scenes in an effort further unravel the message behind the title of each one. I'd love to see them in person.
There is a lot to look at there guys, a couple links at the top showcase two other themes the artist has developed.
If Picasso were a model railroader, I'm sure his work would look something like that...
Yeah, him and Salvador Dali.
That first one reminds me of some of the building attempts by the rich folks out here in Cali building on cliffs too close to the beach! Seeing our annual fire, flood, and mudslide disasters and the attempts to rebuild in unbuildable locations has convinced me that common sense seems to exist in inverse proportion to one's financial position-i.e. rich people seem to be stupid about where they want to live!
Quote:That first one reminds me of some of the building attempts by the rich folks out here in Cali building on cliffs too close to the beach! Seeing our annual fire, flood, and mudslide disasters and the attempts to rebuild in unbuildable locations has convinced me that common sense seems to exist in inverse proportion to one's financial position-i.e.
My folks owned a summer cottage on Noyac Bay, eastern Long Island. Every year, the bay, with help from the weather, would cause some kind of damage that we would then have to repair.
The benefit of having the cottage was the relaxation we had being there (after the work to repair it was done), the fun, swimming and fishing in the bay, and the good memories of those things.
The weather damage was the consequence of owning that cottage.
For as long as the benefit was worth suffering the consequence, we stayed, and kept up the good fight with the bay. We did, finally, reach the point where the benefit no longer was enough to make bearing the consequence worth the effort, and we sold the cottage.
Common sense? If we had exercised common sense, I wouldn't have all the great memories I still have, and there was a really good lesson there in having to fully understand consequence, before choosing the benefit. There's something deeper, that keeps people in the flood planes of great rivers, or returning to New Orleans, after Katrina, a connection to "place", that overrides common sense. It may simply be that we can put aside "instinct", for personal satisfaction......that we
can make that choice.
I think there is a difference between judging the benefit as being worth the hassle of repairing damage. What I was getting at is a mind set that may be unique to rich folks living in California. We had a housing development in the hills of Orange County. The developer built 3/4 million $ homes at the bottom of the hill and million$ and multi-million $ homes on top of the hill. Then they discovered that the hill was not stable. The really expensive houses on top of the hill slid down the hill and destroyed the merely expensive houses at the bottom. The developer lost nothing because the County signed off on the projects, but the people who bought are out of luck because the County found some loop hole to get out of responsibility. They also are prohibited from rebuilding, but the insurance companies refused to cover the losses because it was caused by a natural disaster. I could take you along the beaches of So Cal and show you hill sides that are eroding out from under houses. The houses are not in danger of falling right now, but they have lost 1/2 of their back yards over the course of the last 50 years. They are sitting there, perched on a cliff, hoping that someone will figure out how to stop the erosion before their house succumbs to the elements. That first house in the picture that is 3/4 suspended in air, would have fallen long ago. If you build in such a place, there is no "hassle" of repairing damage to out weigh the benefit of living there. One day there is simply nothing left to repair and no land left to build on.
In the early 1900's, the city of Seattle, WA removed an entire hill by using hydraulic sluicing (large water jets) to level and fill the waterfront area. There were several homeowners who wouldn't settle with the city and consequently were left on elevated parcels which could only be accessed by steep stairways from the newly created street level. There was not however; any overhang of the buildings as shown.
Russ, I have visited San Diego, spent 10 weeks there in "company training". In less than a couple of weeks, by simply listening to locals talking, I learned that Southern California has a "cycle". It rains.....Every plant known to the area proliferates, and the the world is green. Then....The sun comes out and bakes everything into tinder. Then.....The fires come, and the land is stripped bare. Then. the rain comes again,and the hills turn to mud and slide into heaps of rock, house remains, and mud........and every plant known to the area proliferates again, and the world is green. Then....The sun.......
When you grow used to that, the earth does a dance like a bowl of Jello, on a table being jackhammered, to remind you that the land is unstable.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: Is simply living in Southern California, really worth putting up with all that??...or is it the "adrenalin rush". :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
and yeah, I grew up with hurricanes, and Nor'easters, and I now live in close proximity to tornadoes, and not quite far enough away from the New Madrid Fault, that changed the course of the Mississippi River.
I think that the only people who truly appreciate the value of a dollar, are the ones who don't have many of them.
