I got a print in a automotive art gallery and it made me sad

boo. nice picture though.

 

very well said

 

I am doing my part to keep the price of fuel down....4 vehicles insured, all gas guzzlin V8s. I buy as much fuel as a I can. If everybody drove 50 mpg cars, how much would gas cost? The price would go up. Supply and demand. And it's not Global Warming anymore it's Climate Change. Just like when the earth was in the Ice Age, it got warmer then too.

Sorry, Ranting, nice art work, love the car, I'd pull it off the wall and leave 2 black strips outside, that's art to me......

 

Actually I consider it "reusing"... and doesn't the order go "reduce, reuse, recycle"? At least that's what I've always heard. So what we do is one step UP from recycling, right?

 

Very well said I have no intention of pulling my art at all I was just disappointed with the outlook of my fellow artists.

Hey I am sitting here eating a cheese sandwich because we are trying to make a go of a Automotive photography business while I just saw a picture of a chair go for 5500.00.......the chair didnt cost that much lol.

The good thing with art and photography in general is no one can tell you that you are wrong as long as its your vision I just hate it when people use it to get political not because they love the art form
Its like when rockstars tell us who we should vote for lol

I haven't had very good of luck in the art gallery showings I donated a piece to the Gasoline Gallery a year or two ago for a good cause, and they wont even call me back or e-mail me back saying if it sold or if they are using it for a door stop lol

 

There is no drought what I would do. Get permission to display a few cars on their busiest day of opening. Then put out a call to all your friends and car people to fill the lot with a display in their parking lot to show just how depicting and evil cars are. Everyone put on their happy face and show them how cool car people are and how nice their rides can be. Wall-la the public will see the event as a positive experience and the promoters should have second thoughts on what they did. Embarrassment!

 

At least you get to represent the people who actually enjoy cars. Your photo is the counterbalance to all the extreme leftist artists.

Leave your photo in the show to piss off the people who were expecting the liberal influenced art.

Plus you may just influence some little kid and turn them over to the "dark side" someday.

 

wonder what they'd have made of an average turn-of-the-century city street, covered in horseshit from kerb to kerb and horsepiss running down the gutters? imagine the stench of the occasional dead horse cut loose from harness and left for the city sanitation workers to deal with. oh yeah CARS are gross polluters all right.... how about the Golden Age of Steam? hundreds of smoke belching, ash spreading steam engines winding their way across the cities, towns, and countryside.....
how about pre-indoor plumbing America? yeah THAT had to be fragrant.
fucking liberals. use them to power the electric plants.

BTW i'm actually quite fond of Steam Engines myself; right behind old cars in my book. just ahead of reciprocating engine aircraft.

 

Hey John , I too have a good friend who's art was hanging in the Gasoline Gallery. They wouldn't tell him where it went for over a year of persistant questioning, then they asked him to do a "free" poster for one of their shows. Yeah right? Beutiful photography as always by the way! Love the van, man!

 

John, Summon all the Houston area rodders, everyone that will answer, and make a rod run to the museum to see your work. Fill the house with the smell of exhaust and sweaty T-shirts, let the glass rattle and artwork tilt on the nails in the wall. Go to an art show!

 

October 15th and it's snowing here in NY. Global warming my ass.

 

I am working on a idea of a houston area hotrod art show and gtg when its cooler I just havent found a place yet

 

They put your work up front. Be proud of that. People saw it when they walked in, and out. Your work also reminds people that there is a lot of good that comes out of cars, too. Even someone who is not a car-lover could appreciate a beautiful piece of art like that (and your photography!).

 

We had a couple dozen Greenpeacers show up here in Northern Alberta.
They first went to the Fort McMurry tar sands and protested there,
Then they broke into a refinery that was under construction -
chaining them selves to the cranes.
That time they got arrested - what they wanted.
Our Premier got in trouble for saying that we should throw the book at them.
It was announced that half of these clowns were from Europe,
As one of our editorialist asked on TV....
"so how did you get from France...ride a burro??"



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In fact, environmentalism is just an excuse to use to take away your personal freedoms, by people who for some inexplicable reason want to control everyone else's lives. That's why they won't debate it - it's way too easy to poke a bunch of holes in their nonsense and when their followers actually think about it, they realize it's a bunch of crap. The only danger from man made global warming is all the hot air from the green crowd going on and on about it.

 

Was Manbearpig there ?

 

How many people would show up and spend money if it was advertised as a "I HATE CARS" exhibit?
How many people would show up and spend money if the event was "I HATE GUNS, DON'T YOU?"?

The answer is less than 10.

 

I wasn't there , but the I'm guessing it wasn't intentionally " I hate cars" , just those particular artists expressions of their thoughts . Otherwise , your awesome print probably wouldn't have been welcome . That's what's great about America ,everyone's entitled to express their opinion , even if it's wrong .