Don’t Read this Post…Unless you Prefer Profundity. Please Do Not.

[JohnBarleycorn]

I have noticed that a few of us sometimes become irked by posts which lack adequate forethought, wisdom, insight, depth, excitement even!

But it isn’t easy for the average poster to attain this high level of output, time after time, come rain or come shine.

Yet, still, many members wish to stay in touch, and this causes a conflict. Do I post and risk antagonizing somebody, or do I not post and risk becoming even more of a hermit?

Maybe there is a happy medium that we might follow more steadfastly. But I am not sure what that might be. For one, I know that I will never think of something profound, something that one of you has not already thought many times. Yet, if each of us were to wait until we really had something to say that none of us had thought of before, or that no one wanted to see written here, then we might be waiting for a month of Sundays, and still not see even one post.

OK. I can understand that some people are not able to scroll past even one post without clicking on it. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and then they become slightly annoyed and miffed.

So this is why I made it very clear, both at the beginning of the post heading, as well as at the end of the post heading, that you would only see something profound here.

And I am good to my word.

You will see something very profound here, which is one of my favorite Jackson Pollock paintings.  Some people think he is not profound, but simply dripping paint all over the place.

I am not one of these people.

I find Pollock’s fractals very beautiful.

And this is one of my favorite paintings done by Pollock.

Well, what do you think?

Is this profound enough for you?

Edited June 10, 2020 by JohnBarleycorn

[nightfox]

I think someone has to much time on their hands. I miss the bars too....

[champers]

So you're an intellectual. Congratulations.

[AlexRich]

The only thing I admire about Jackson Pollock (and several others) is that they managed to convince art intellectuals and serious buyers that their output had some artistic merit ... and make millions. 
 

 

[mr mr]

it's called mescaline, it's the only way to fly. 

[Kadilo]

Pollocks

[worgeordie]

I could do something like that, so that cannot be called art,

as I dont have a creative bone in my body.

regards worgeordie

[sammieuk1]

You say Pollock I say a profound and emphasized "B" ????

[sammieuk1]

7 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

I could do something like that, so that cannot be called art,

as I dont have a creative bone in my body.

regards worgeordie

I have a creative bone once or twice a day and can now consider myself an old master???? 

[twocatsmac]

I like art, I think we all do, poster art or whatever but I’d neither have this nor Congo the chimpanzee art on my dunny wall. 

[JohnBarleycorn]

By the way.......

 

I just noticed something quite beautiful about the ThaiVisa software, too.

It so happens that when you click on the above Pollock painting, TV forum software opens it in a very wide frame, which is a perfect color for showing off Pollock's painting.

I am NOT joking.

Very beautiful.

Thank you, TV; you did it again with a very wonderful website design.

I mean that the website designers did not choose a solid-black background to open up images...

Instead, the web designers chose a perfect color for this, very dark brown.

Great attention to detail!

I am NOT joking.

[talahtnut]

You must be on some really profound gear mate.

My gas meter looks more interesting than that.

Edited June 10, 2020 by talahtnut
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[JohnBarleycorn]

1 hour ago, talahtnut said:

You must be on some really profound gear mate.

My gas meter looks more interesting than that.

Why settle for a gas meter when you can have a can of soup for USD12 million?

 

[Metropolitian]

3 hours ago, JohnBarleycorn said:

In the midst of the day

The pitch dark forest is
In the middle of the day
Where end meets the begin
Pitch black, very dark, dark

The pitch dark forest is
A truly wondrous place
The gloaming always is
Pitch black, crawling dark, dark

When you try to see
You won't be able to feel

Is it near or is it far
Pitch black, how dark, dark

The pitch black forest is
A image from your feeling
Run fast, it's growing slow
Pitch black, very dark, dark

The pitch black forest is
Something that keeps on moving
Is it near or is it far
Pitch black, crawling dark, dark

[JohnBarleycorn]

6 minutes ago, Metropolitian said:

In the midst of the day

The pitch dark forest is
In the middle of the day
Where end meets the begin
Pitch black, very dark, dark

The pitch dark forest is
A truly wondrous place
The gloaming always is
Pitch black, crawling dark, dark

When you try to see
You won't be able to feel

Is it near or is it far
Pitch black, how dark, dark

The pitch black forest is
A image from your feeling
Run fast, it's growing slow
Pitch black, very dark, dark

The pitch black forest is
Something that keeps on moving
Is it near or is it far
Pitch black, crawling dark, dark

Yes!

The gloaming!

You hail from Scotland, perhaps.

I LOVE the word gloaming.

 

"There were sourdough waffles to start the day and tuna sandwiches for lunch, a few hours of everyone reading novels in separate corners before a long solitary walk in the gloaming, accompanied by gloved waves across generally empty streets."

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by JohnBarleycorn

[KC 71]

3 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Pollocks

A pair of Pollox

[CorpusChristie]

Thanks , but we enough posters on this forum posting Pollocks without you need to add to it .............

[daveAustin]

Op, you're skipping over the heads of most niks on this site. They're a bunch of thickie bogans .

Pollock awesome, btw. 

[Advocatus Diaboli]

Looks like what may be designed on the footpaths when the bars reopen....... colour depends on what was drunk that night ????????????

[sirineou]

I found  no Profanity in this thread at all !! and trust me I looked.

All I could find was  a satellite picture  of Google maps,  of the OP's village, but  tried as I did, I could not zoom in to find the  OP's residence. 

All and all a very disappointing thread

Edited June 10, 2020 by sirineou

[JohnBarleycorn]

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

Op, you're skipping over the heads of most niks on this site. They're a bunch of thickie bogans .

Pollock awesome, btw. 

Strangely enough......And in fact.......I have spent many, many hours staring at Pollock Paintings.  I find them beautiful and amazing. The painting I posted above is one of my favorite.

 

Anyway....what is life without both music and art?

[JohnBarleycorn]

Also, for that matter, what is the cello without Rostropovich?

 

My love for the cello is surpassed only by my love of JS Bach, which is almost equaled by my deep respect for the erhu, a Chinese string instrument with that many strings.

Er = two

 

So, erhu must mean a two-stringed instrument.

 

So many days has it been that anyone has played my poor instrument.

 

This is why, these days, I just like to listen.

 

I just wish that I could, again, have some sort of cello between my legs.

 

Unfortunately, due to my age, I have given up cello playing, and also twiddling.

 

I no longer expect to twiddle women.

They, also, have no interest in twiddling me.

 

 

 

 

[JohnBarleycorn]

Music is the best of all arts.

Music also came first.

Even before there was painting, there must have been music.

 

For example, the Rolling Stones music is basically 50,000 years old.

Mick Jagger, even today, looks 50,000 years old.

He should stop hobbling around on stage.

I hope he doesn't.

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by JohnBarleycorn

[Boomer6969]

7 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

I like art, I think we all do, poster art or whatever but I’d neither have this nor Congo the chimpanzee art on my dunny wall. 

Everyone has his own tastes..

 

[JohnBarleycorn]

9 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Everyone has his own tastes..

 

Van Gogh, although he painted peaches, never painted pussies.

 

Also, I would be surprised if your submission were not taken down.....very soon.

 

Still...art is art.

 

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Of course, your submission should not be taken down without a good reason.

Edited June 10, 2020 by JohnBarleycorn

[gunderhill]

Needs a  second  coat it's  still patchy.

[JohnBarleycorn]

Here is something fairly profound....

 

 

Lance Bombardier Des Bettany depicting the futility of attempting to having some peace and quiet in the crowded library at Changi prison camp in Singapore

[Boomer6969]

2 hours ago, JohnBarleycorn said:

Van Gogh, although he painted peaches, never painted pussies.

 

Also, I would be surprised if your submission were not taken down.....very soon.

 

Still...art is art.

 

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Of course, your submission should not be taken down without a good reason.

Man,  "L'Origine du monde", by Gustave Courbet, is on display in the "Orsay museum" in Paris. To be admired by tourists of all ages.

[PGSan]

10 hours ago, JohnBarleycorn said:

Thank you, TV; you did it again with a very wonderful website design.

I mean that the website designers did not choose a solid-black background to open up images...

An interesting observation!  But it is not clear that these features arise from anything more inspired than the website implementors correct use of the (very clever) routines in the OS to display

a high-resolution image.  

 

But I could have been misled here!

Can anyone provide further insight on thus technical details in play here?

[talahtnut]

The art is in the fooling the gullible.