Done properly you could market as high concept art, under that rubric you could probably get someone in the New York art consuming community to give you much more for it. But then you wouldn't be selling a turd would you.
At 01:35 PM 1/21/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Har! > >I think I will harden a turd, polish it to a high gloss over many hours to >give it high >Marxist value, photograph it, submit the photo to the PUG and put it up >for sale on ebay. >I could put 20 hours into the collecting, drying and polishing of this >turd, so I should >be able to set a "Buy it now" price of 180 Marxist dollars! I would at >least have to have >a reserve of $115 to insure I get at least minimum wage for my labor and >therefore it's >minimum Marxist value. > >Regards, >Bob... >-------------------- >"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, >and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us >from the former, for the sake of the latter. >The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls >for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, >and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we >suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, >we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' >It is a very serious consideration that millions yet >unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." >- Samuel Adams, 1771 > >From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > At 10:46 AM 1/21/2002 -0500, Rsw wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Bob Blakely Wrote > > > > >>The value of any item is whatever two reasonably knowledgeable > > >>persons >are willing to exchange it for. In general this is governed by > > >>the >supply and demand. Usability or quality of an item is > > >>irrelevant >except in that it may generate more demand. There are few > > >>other ultra >fast 135's available and fewer still in K-mount, and only > > >>one made by >Pentax. [Bob Blakely] > > > > > >This is one very narrow definition of value conditioned specifically by an > > >unquestioning allegiance to capitalism. There are many other definitions, > > >such as the Marxist definition which takes into account the amount of > > >labor that went into making the item. There are many better definitions > > >of value as well which take into account more than just the crude dollar > > >quantity of exchange at a given moment and locale. > > > > > >RSW > > > > Oh be quiet. The only use of a definition of value is prediction. The > > Marxist definition cannot predict in any way what value another person will > > put on an item. The best refutation of that argument can be posited in > > this way, no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd. Please > > give a definition of value that doesn't fall apart with so simple an > example. >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
