Andrew Wyeth...

I was browsing some art sites that sell stuff from my favorite artist, Andrew Wyeth.  He's fabulous.  My grandmother bought me a print of his master's bed.  It was expensive but not as expensive as one of the limited addition print I want... $15,000.  For a PRINT.  This is not an original.  I was like wow.  And here I thought almost $300 was steep for the print I'll be getting soon.  The cheapest one I found that I liked was $5000.  Oh, but those were hand signed by him as well.  I would kill, literally kill, for an original Andrew Wyeth piece.  There's a private collector that's thinking about splitting up some of his collection but they're nothing that I'm interested, nor could I afford.  It's funny, when I was a kid, I thought people were insane to go nutty and spend millions on original paintings.  Now I realize it's like owning a piece of history.  A piece of history you can see, touch and smell.  If only I could win the damn lottery.    Too bad we don't buy tickets. 

 

This is the front of his autobiography, and the picture is the night sleeper, the print I would like to someday own.

Tags: Andrew Wyeth, expensive art, history

A little more

I find it slightly ironic, if not upsetting that we (humans in general) can discover a fish that is said to be up to 157 years old and instead of preserving the creature and respecting her right to live on, we kill her and disect her body to learn more about her.  (I say her because she was full of embryos when they cut her open) I have so much respect for anything in the wild that manages to survive to an average lifespan, let alone something that far outlives most humans and then to kill that animal?  I just don't understand that.  Why not let her live out her life in an aquarium where she is safe and then we she dies you can take apart her insides.  Or the colossal squid that was said to be one of the biggest ever caught.  What'd we do to that poor animal?  Killed it and then took pictures of our "find."  I think we need science and all that it brings us but I also think that we should respect the earth and the beings that were here before humans ever entered the picture.  We ravage the earth with our roads, cars, and technology.  What are we giving back?  We take take take and no one seems to think twice about it.  I'll admit, I drive more than I should just because I get sick of sitting at home but I also recycle every damn thing that comes through my house.  If it CAN be recycled, then it is.  This summer I will start a compost in my backyard just so that's one less thing that goes into the garbage.  People throw their crap out the windows of their cars just because they can't seem to wait till they get home to put it in their garbage can.  They don't think, well now I wonder what happens to that and who ends up cleaning it up after I carelessly toss it out into the world.  Why can't we all do a little more?

Tags: 157 year old fish, colossal squid, earth, recycle

Losing it

Last night, after getting out of the shower, I went to clean my ears and suddenly couldn't hear well out of the left one.  Since then it has gotten steadily worse.  If I wake up in the morning with no hearing, I will be calling the doctor.  Actually, if I have ANY symptoms at all, I will be calling the doctor.  I wasn't concerned initially but then I started doing a web search and found that it could be very serious and I may never fully recover my hearing.  After reading that, I broke down crying.  I have always valued my eye sight (what I have) and my hearing.  I could never choose whether I would rather be death or blind.  You want to be able to watch your children grow up but you also want to be able to hear their voice.  I wish I had just went to medpoint to begin with but I didn't want to seem like a hypercondriac.  How stupid will I feel if this is something that could have been helped if I had just went to a doctor immediately?  Something I think is good, is that it was getting better for a while if I pulled on my earlobe.  It seemed to be a wax thing so I had Shawn go to CVS and buy me some ear drops.  After using them, I feel worse.  The ringing in my ears is deafening in and of itself.  This is going to be a really long night.  I just want to wake up and have this all be over with.