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What do you think is the most useless thing that costs a lot of money?
Well there is the $30,000 watch that tells the difference between night and day (that's all it does) that sold out in a few weeks.
My vote goes to the Cloaca Machine
You put food in the top and shit comes out the bottom
These turds are sold in Art Galaries (They have just had to double the price)
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It's a machine that mimics the human digestive system, from the mouth to the bottom hole. Delvoye feeds Cloaca normal human food and shit comes out the other end. The end product is wrapped in plastic and sold to adoring art collectors.
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Re: What do you think is the most useless thing that costs a lot of money?
The Iraq War..... Duh
I.C.B.M.s
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The Iraq War..... Duh
I.C.B.M.s
Well, armament generally. If you compare the amount spent on armament worldwide even the Iraq war in negliglible...
But Michaelangelica, you maybe meant not political things, I would say all the jewelries that cost millions, all the bloody expensive cars, etc. I do not think that there is a most useless thing, there are so many extremely expensive things that exist.
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Re: What do you think is the most useless thing that costs a lot of money?
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But Michaelangelica, you maybe meant not political things, I would say all the jewelries that cost millions, .
jewelries are a form of art !
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So? Additionally a diamond for a few milions is no art for me. And by the way the cloaca machine described by michaelangelica is art too...
IMO art is creative process of taking basic elements to a higher ordered state. Not every one can do this well. creating poop from food is the opposite process, and can be done buy anyone. The people that buy shit thinking it is art, well that's nothing new.
This piece started with a $20 boulder of Montana Moss agate and is now worth between 7-8 thousand dollars. From a few paints a piece of canvases a chunk of stone you get The Mona Lisa..... Michelangelo's David........... that is an art.
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jewelries are a form of art !
So is the shit producing machine (??)
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So is the shit producing machine (??)
HA HA
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Originally Posted by Thunderbird
IMO art is creative process of taking basic elements to a higher ordered state. Not every one can do this well. creating poop from food is the opposite process, and can be done buy anyone. The people that buy shit thinking it is art, well that's nothing new.
Attachment 2294 This piece started with a $20 boulder of Montana Moss agate and is now worth between 7-8 thousand dollars. From a few paints a piece of canvases a chunk of stone you get The Mona Lisa..... Michelangelo's David........... that is an art.
Now that is ART! Creativity is what makes us human and the type of extreme creativity portrayed in this sculpture is human to the nth degree. Creativity cannot be bought at any price but almost anything can be over priced. How about a Birck pocket book $250,000? I guess you could carry a million dollors worth of shit in it!
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What do you think is the most useless thing that costs a lot of money? 
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