Walking, swimming, and biking can't hurt anybody but golfing, tennis, handball, etc. might do more harm
than the good eventually.
Heart rate, breathing, and lifting hands above the head are the bare minimum requirements it would seem.
I do fifty leg raises in my bed upon awakening - not because I like it I assure you :)
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by Terry ini don't know about you but as i get older (and older than older) my weight does not remain the same.when i was in my teens i wanted to be a (don't laugh) bodybuilder!i was too naive and over-eager to do it right.
i ate almost nothing.
i was six-four and weighed 160 lbs.yeah: scary.i lifted weights three times a day.yeah, knucklehead.. my firstborn daughter, on the other hand, will turn 52 in august and she has just started a youtube channel on fitnesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/ucwusgjsr925o4u5sfbkczmg.
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Margaret Keane' the one time 'big eyes' wt illustrator, RIP.
by waton ina creative person that got a lift from her touch and riding the wave of wt "first love" involvement, when living in hawaii.
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anyone knows what happened in her later life?
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road to nowhere:
Antique Road Show is about as "on the level" as Pawn Stars. It's a SHOW before
anything else.
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Margaret Keane' the one time 'big eyes' wt illustrator, RIP.
by waton ina creative person that got a lift from her touch and riding the wave of wt "first love" involvement, when living in hawaii.
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Some more or less interesting facts about the ART BUSINESS I worked inside for a decade.
The art world is divided into buyers who know art intimately; knowledgeably.
There exists an enormous gulf. On the other end people who "Don't know anything about art, but who know what they like;" speculate a fantasy scenario.Most fraud is perpetrated on people who gleefully "don't know anything about art."
“ I love it because it is good” may really only be: “It’s good because I love it.”
I met frauds, crooks, and flim-flam artists more than genuine artists during my ten years in the Los Angeles art community of galleries, private studios, design houses, and wealthy collectors
The problem comes down to how easy it is for certain people to dupe others.
There is considerable money to be made from the "know-nothings" who are easy to fool and manipulate.
I knew of a reputable dealer who bought 250 pieces of blank, hand-made, acid-free etching paper from Salvador Dali's personal art rep with only Dali's SIGNATURE on them.
Why?
The dealer paid a local atelier to run off lithos of Dali's earlier paintings . . . AS lithos and sell them as limited editions signed by the Master himself!
Incidentally, Dali would use actual flat-stone litho and not printing press style dot-matrix lithographs.
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I once answered an ad for this 'reputable dealer' who promised me a 15% commission if I could sell the "original" Dali lithos.
I asked if I could take a sample of the work with me for a few days before I accepted the job.
The dealer agreed.
I showed them to an actor (and Dali expert) Alan Rich.
Rich stared at the signatures for about ten seconds without blinking.
He immediately spat out the words, "Pathetic forgery!"
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As it turned out, Dali's art agent was the fraud having faked the signature after Dali (his client) had lapsed into a senile state of mind and reneged on paying money owed. This was the agent’s form of self-justice!
Ahhh the stories I could tell!
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I was working in an Art Gallery (Billy Hork Galleries) in Beverly Hills for a while.
Celebrities came in often.
I sold a set of paintings (triptych) to Donald Sutherland who returned them a week later saying,
"The voices told me they aren't right." Do I know if he was pulling my chain? No.
Jon Voigt and I had a long chat at the gallery the day after he was a presenter at the Academy Awards. He was a very affable and natural person without any pretenses.
I sold Ron Howard a miniature of a scrawny bird painted by an Amish painter. He and his wife were together.
I said something which made him laugh. His wife giggled.
John Travolta and Marilu Henner came in together one evening. Travolta was eating ice cream. He was followed by about fifty people pretending they were NOT following him!
Yes--I kid you not. These were people acting too-cool-to-be-excited about movie stars, but who WERE excited enough to be following them everywhere they went!
I asked Travolta if he and Marilu wanted to exit out the back way.
He grinned and told me, "Nah--we're having fun with it."
Responsible Art Transactions vs IllicitWhen you lead a person who wants to buy original art into Investing in mass-produced art, you are on the threshold of fraud unless you explain carefully exactly what it is they will own.
I observed some of the most successful art sales associates at work and their various levels of insidious coercion and manipulation.
The cunning sales associate advised or implied a particular piece "would appreciate" and become worth "more" the longer the buyer held on to it. This is not a claim that any art dealer can make factually. It is legal lying and opinion only.
I had many a buyer ask me if we (the Art Gallery itself)would buy back the art in the future. I explained why the answer was "no."
I carefully described the phenomena this way:"If anybody knew for sure this art would go up in value--why in the world would we let go of it in the first place?
Galleries are in the RETAIL art business. The gamble is yours. Galleries buy low and sell high. Galleries can’t speculate and risk bankruptcy.
Exactly what does “ORIGINAL” actually mean?
First of all, FINE ART is “finished” art and has no purpose other than to exist as a thing itself. It is not decorative by intention. A substantial public interest in the artist must exist and a history of impressive selling prices tells the tale.
ORIGINAL art is defined this way.
“At its essence, original artwork is the art that is produced by an artist's hand. This definition excludes mechanical or digital copies, prints, and other reproductions. However, fraudulent copies can also be recreated by hand, so an original must be produced by hand by the original, authentic artist
I can assure you this is a bad definition. Were his able protoges.
At best, it is a nice try. The fact of the matter is quite a different reality.
Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel, murals, and panels were often painted by others (based on his charcoal drawings.)
Bastiano da Sangallo, Giuliano Bugiardini, Agnolo di Donnino and Jacopo del Tedesco Were his able protoges.
Further, that ceiling has been constantly over-painted, restored, and touched up many times over the centuries by anonymous experts.
I worked in an Atelier with an artist who did not pull his own etching prints, hand color the plates, or watercolor the backgrounds. The rest of us did this.
His prints were not always self-autographed either. He taught an able assistant to do that chore when he was out of the studio.
High numbers or low numbers in a limited edition did not reflect the actual
The sequence of printed images either. All these matters are quite common among even the most famous artists in the world.A multiple image etching or litho pulled one at a time in an atelier is virtually hand-made duplicates of the image itself. Each and every MULTIPLE is an original because---
the images don't BECOME ART until they transfer to paper to be examined and proofed by the artist and signed/numbered as an edition.
Failure to explain what LIMITED EDITION will mean for a PARTICULAR studio and a PARTICULAR run of art image.
Example: Limited Edition of 250 etchings which is truly LIMITED will result in that etching plate being SCRATCHED and DEFACED at the end of the edition so no FURTHER images can be pulled. However . . . the artist may well ALSO photograph the etching and reproduce it as a photo-litho edition as well.
Just because a painting is painted does not guarantee ANY value whatsoever. Value is imputed by the market. It can be ASSIGNED a virtual VALUE, but that is merely an ASKING price. When art is INSURED, the replacement value is what is considered. This can be manipulated by an out-sized RETAIL price. The actual "value" is the materials (wood frame, canvas, stretcher bar, nails, liner, etc.)
Just because an artist dies it does NOT mean the VALUE of any purchased artwork by that artist GOES UP AUTOMATICALLY in VALUE.
A “no-name” obscure artist cannot generate public appetite resulting in demand._______________________________
When I worked at TRIANGLE ART company, we had artists who designed "original paintings." The design itself originated with the designer - but - the actual painting was executed by a crew.
Fictional artists' names were fabricated including extensive and colorful dramatic biographies.
The company certified bogus "certificates of authenticity" purporting to guarantee the reality of the art, the artist, and the limit.When Norman Rockwell died--the market for his artwork CRASHED and BURNED. Why? So-called “collectors” waited like vultures for the opportunity to SELL and cash in on that death.
Consequently: no buyers---only sellers!
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Margaret Keane' the one time 'big eyes' wt illustrator, RIP.
by waton ina creative person that got a lift from her touch and riding the wave of wt "first love" involvement, when living in hawaii.
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Check this thread out from about 8 years ago ...
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Fatness or Fitness?
by Terry ini don't know about you but as i get older (and older than older) my weight does not remain the same.when i was in my teens i wanted to be a (don't laugh) bodybuilder!i was too naive and over-eager to do it right.
i ate almost nothing.
i was six-four and weighed 160 lbs.yeah: scary.i lifted weights three times a day.yeah, knucklehead.. my firstborn daughter, on the other hand, will turn 52 in august and she has just started a youtube channel on fitnesshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/ucwusgjsr925o4u5sfbkczmg.
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I don't know about you but as I get older (and older than older) my weight does not remain the same.
When I was in my teens I wanted to be a (don't laugh) bodybuilder!
I was too naive and over-eager to do it right. I ate almost nothing. I was six-four and weighed 160 lbs.
Yeah: scary.
I lifted weights three times a day.
Yeah, knucklehead.
. My firstborn daughter, on the other hand, will turn 52 in August and she has just started a YouTube channel on FITNESS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwusgjSr925o4U5sfBKczmgI get a lot of bicycle-related exercises almost daily (except for bad weather) and I haven't driven a car as primary transportation for 9 years! Sunshine, fresh air, elevated hills, and two meals a day are keeping me from being as disgusting as I would probably easily become otherwise.
I see SO MANY JW's of my vintage and they are coffin-ready, listless, bloated, and it is frightening to think it could have been me.
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IMHO the finest TV interview with Ex-JW's ever broadcast!
by Terry inquite effective and enjoyable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzvt_jptx8&t=1306s.
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Watchtower July 22 - JWs being interrogated need to muzzle their mouths
by Listener inthe watchtower has printed a disturbing article about self control and gives this instruction to the r & f .
self-control also allows us to remain silent when opposers try to trick us into revealing things that could endanger our brothers and sisters.
this might occur when we are being interrogated by the police in a land where our work is banned or restricted.
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A phrase that can mean anything means nothing.
The SIGNS of the times are ALWAYS identifiable as NOW because they are always present
to be singled out and magnified for fear-mongering.
Jehovah's Witnesses have not seemed to notice that their leaders are resorting to an old retail trick
called the GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sale gimmick.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is a real grabber. The fear of End Times and Great Tribulation and Armageddon
is a sales gimmick.
The Kingdom Halls grow fat (for a while) and when a great big NOTHING happens - well, some leave but most
people have settled in and will not leave. Cognitive Dissonance takes hold and excuses are made.
I know about 50 JW's who are at least as old as I am (75) who are stuck like dinosaurs in the La Brea Tar Pit
who may struggle but who cannot free themselves.
They just "Wait on Jehovah" like "Waiting for Godot".
These ancient JW's have had practically NO LIFE AT ALL except the routines of meetings, service, self-reinforcement (fellowship), and overwork. They look awful and have no energy.
But you know what? The GB is still running that GOiNG OuT OF BUSINESS SALE like "this" time is different.
Last Days.
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"Jehovah God"
by Jeffro inthe expression "jehovah god" has always seemed strange to me.
even when i was a jw, i found the term awkward, and never used it myself.
both words are nouns intended to be synonyms of each other, unless the name "jehovah" is being used as an adjective, which is also weird.
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Once your ear adjusts to the constant rhythmic dit Duh dit Duh (Jehovah God) it becomes very natural.
Same thing with Christ Jesus instead of Jesus Christ.
Same as "torture stake" instead of Cross.
Same as Kingdom Hall instead of Church.
In fact, brainwashing wipes away what binds our conscious minds to a historical Christianity and REPLACES
everything with a CUCKOO'S EGG religious interloper cult.
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Why are Jehovah's Witnesses determined to be WRONG (about saying JUH-HO-VUH and JEE-Suss)?
by Terry inall throughout history in greek, hebrew, and latin languages - there was no j sound!
no jay sound.. .
why did christians start using a non-hebrew name for the son of god?
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Joseph Franklin Rutherford was an odd duck who pretty much replaced Jesus as the star of the show with
a completely novel throwback REBRANDING for Christianity as Jehovah-ianity.
Did Rutherford get anything right?
Complete failures:
1. Allowing and promoting THE FINISHED MYSTERY
2. Agreeing to promote war bonds
3. Millions Now Living May - no wait! not "may" let's say WILL Never Die.
4. Predicting 1925
5. Building Beth Sarim AFTER the failure of 1925 and pretending it wasn't for himself.
6. Continuing with the Pyramid teaching for over a decade and then suddenly flipping
7. Complete script-flip on interpreting Romans 13
8. Letter to Hitler
9. Bullying Moyle and dragging his dirty laundry out in the open
10. Making a fetish out of alcohol and bellowing about how PROHIBITION was backed by Satan
11. Strutting around with 2 12 cylinder cadillacs
And so on ...
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Why are Jehovah's Witnesses determined to be WRONG (about saying JUH-HO-VUH and JEE-Suss)?
by Terry inall throughout history in greek, hebrew, and latin languages - there was no j sound!
no jay sound.. .
why did christians start using a non-hebrew name for the son of god?
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Iloowy, goowy said: This silliness about insisting English speakers pronounce names in Hebrew not English, is for the birds.
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I feel that Jehovah's Witnesses IF THEY WERE SERIOUS scholars themselves, would make an "adjustment" toward being more accurate if, for no other reason, they have made a FETISH out of using the name.
Encyclopedia Britannica:
Early Christian writers, such as St. Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century, had used a form like Yahweh, and this pronunciation of the tetragrammaton was never really lost. Many Greek transcriptions also indicated that YHWH should be pronounced Yahweh.
More "respectful" and more nearly accurate are not, however, to be expected of this organization. They are contrarian in every way possible to the point of absurdity.
The instance of "torture stake" is practically pathological, IMHO.
The elite Governing Body has never, ever been afraid of "taking the Lord's Name in vain" as evidenced by all the false prophecies they've published for over a hundred years. Always in the "name of Jehovah."
