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My heartfelt thanks goes out to Ayin, Hannah and all the others who modded and helped out here, and that includes all the contributing members. Thank you. It's been a wonderful part of my life and a great inspiration for me. I hope that somehow it will continue here. "To every thing there...

We are going to get a lot of snow soon here in N.Y., so early this morning I did the requisite panic food buying. Many others were doing the same. Nothing like a snowstorm to bring people together. Supermarket socialism. One guy was almost running around. Probably had to be at work. I'm...

Yeah it's just the rule. I think that until the ID is scanned, the system won't even allow the purchase to proceed.

I was going to say that urinals aren't very pretty......but if looked at the right way: the glassy luster, the sculptural qualities, the unapologetic presence. Solid and unyielding but with the strike of a hammer will cease to be. I need to get painting again. When I start waxing...

Prove this. Putting you on ignore. A first here. Congrats.

u·til·i·tar·i·an designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive. I wonder if that first man that made the first marks with a stick in the mud knew this definition. What made him do it? He was probably very proud of how much his stick figure looked like his wife. But she smacked...

LOL, Maybe the first caveman would argue with him and deny that it's even art. That he was just doing it for fun. He doesn't know what the word means. The second would say "I'll buy it" . Then he would agree that it's art. Next thing you know he's in a NYC gallery. "Amazing! Reminds me...

It became art for art's sake when the Neanderthals make abstract lines, dots, and hand outlines. Everyone hung out in the caves. It was like house, bar, grill, art gallery and poetry meet all together. Way better than outside with the sabre tooth tigers. Plus, the drawings in the mud...

Why do you make art? I do it because it's fun. We need to have fun and create. It was the same back then. They would have had some spare time now and then to do it. They weren't always hunting or running away from sabre tooth tigers. :) Making art was a good indication that man was...

Sure it was.

Yup, everything is functional. If it was from pure wonder and creativity that the first man sketched a stick figure in the mud, that had a function. It filled a need for her creativity. It was an easy transition from that to decorating the pottery. Why not? You would practice in the mud...

Does not the bee find the flower pretty? Is the bird not happy to see the lovely ripe red berry? Was not early man overjoyed to see the marvelous herds of beasts and wonder about the sky above and the ache in his heart? Is not the beauty of a spiral galaxy inherent in all that is alive? Art...

Wowzer! Great job Joy!

Good points Wayne. Hadn't thought of the drug angle. I guess that's Altered Intelligence. :)

AI is like the new camera obscura. It's funny because some of my paintings are from photos and bit's of other photos pasted in and tracing of photos, which is cheating? But somehow this AI stuff seems like cheating even more. If cheating is even a thing in creating art.