On Nov 17, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
*works of art are frequently made of rare or expensive materials
*works of art should be very time consuming to create (to
demontstrate that
the maker had leisure)
*even if a work of art is quickly executed, the skills to make it
should have
been time consuming and difficult to acquire
*the work of art may be more impressive if is remote from any
possible use
*a sense of waste, and therefore a handicap, is useful from the
standpoint
of signal theoroy
*works of art should require special intelligence or creative effort
Space shuttle.
Space shuttle.
Space shuttle, again.
Definitely the space shuttle.
Waste? That's the space shuttle, yep.
Special intelligence? Like rocket science? Ta-da, space shuttle.
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