"I don’t think I ever paint the color accurately. It’s a funky color. There is a whole debate over the color of tennis balls. Are they yellow or are they green? I think that every tennis ball shifts between that range in the course of their life. They start off neon, like a toxic sludge, but once a ball starts to lose its fuzz and pick up the residue of whatever surface you’re playing on, they get dull. I would say they start off neon green and go more toward yellow over time."
Said Eddie Martinez, quoted in "7 Questions/75 Artists/1 Very Bad Year" (NYT).
Lots of pictures at the link but none of Martinez's tennis balls! I went looking and found this video of him painting:
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Day glo gets its brightness by converting UV light into green (or orange), producing a green plus the green of the ball itself that adds up to something more than naturally bright, which is the effect desired.
Its overall color is going to depend on how much UV there is at the moment, as the two colors involved won't exactly match.
Day glo doesn't work at all at night since there's no UV, which is why there are reflective strips. You could use them on tennis balls too.
The balls Bunny and I use at the club are white. Sniff!
This guy seems to obsess about tennis balls at least as much as a typical golden retriever.
So over the last year the Elite have engineered a fake pandemic for the purposes of killing off small businesses old people and anyone competing with their big tech allies but their indiscriminate lust for power to say “stay home peasants!”!has accidentally killed off movie theaters live music education and anything that gathers people together. A year spent driving us apart and feeding us lies has resulted in suffering coast to coast. And I’m supposed to care about a guy who paints fuzzy green balls? LOL.
I read most of that looonnngg piece of artists blathering about how they’ve dealt with the pandemic, isolation, etc. Blecchh! We are truly in the New Dark Ages. The “artist” class is terrified of life. They all must work within the walls of the The Church of SCIENCE!, led by St. Fauci. It's a repeat of the morality plays of the Middle Ages, boring, moralistic, false.
A great gaping chasm of potential stands before them in which one of them could be a real age-turner. Like when Obama was president and no jokes allowed, a true comedian could have emerged to really define the moment. Alas, none arose. and none of the so-called artists in this piece will make a single dent in the culture, in our age. Oh, they'll win awards that they bestow on each other like soon-to-be former Governor Cuomo got. But they are hollow men and women, enslaved to Wokeism.
There must be a very large percentage of tennis balls that never get used to play tennis.
Pickleball players are forced pick up the neon lint left on the courts by the miscreant tennis players. Distracting but at least easy to spot. Nothing but litterbugs they are.
I haven't paid any attention to tennis since they did away with the requirement for all white balls all white shorts all white shirts all white culotte style short skirts for the girls. Although I would have to say the first sign of the coming apocalypse was the two-handed backhand. Chrissy Evert is the devil.
And they say there are no talents like Michelangelo anymore...
What does Mr Tennis say?
These paintings are too large-scale to be appropriate in my home. If I want a picture of tennis balls, I want it to be a still life, more or less in the manner of Adriaen van Utrecht, except with tennis balls instead of all the fruit. A good title would be "Vanitas," or similar.
"So over the last year the Elite have engineered a fake pandemic for the purposes of killing off small businesses old people and anyone competing with their big tech allies...."
A bit of friendly advice: You should avoid posting comments that clearly reveal to all and sundry that you are insane.
"A bit of friendly advice: You should avoid posting comments that clearly reveal to all and sundry that you are insane."
I think the virus was released accidentally from the Wuhan lab.
But in the spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste, the Dems and the left leveraged it to its fullest extent.
Fair?
This isn’t painting. It is the anal stage of psychosexual development, arrested version.
This is all just a run-through, Cookie. The elite wanted to see how far they could push a panicked public into obedience with a range of stupid illogical and ascientific orders. “Stay at home” was a novel approach unmoored from any science or experience. All the effects have been negative unless you believe extending the pandemic was the goal, then it was wildly successful. There was never a reason to close schools yet they are still closed. Well only govt-run schools. Private ed is doing fine for those motivated or rich enough. There was no reason bars and restaurants closed but airplanes kept packing them in. No logic there. Cmon Cookie. You can think your way out of that box Canyon. Cant you?
Everything about this pandemic has been repeated from all the previous pandemics, including the conspiracy ideation and denial.
The researchers found that increased conspiratorial ideation was associated with lower levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, inquisitiveness, and intellectual humility; and higher levels of self-centered impulsivity, entitlement, grandiosity, negative affect, detachment, psychoticism, depression, and anxiety
"I think the virus was released accidentally from the Wuhan lab.
"But in the spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste, the Dems and the left leveraged it to its fullest extent.
"Fair?"
No. What reasons would "the Dems and the left" (sic) have to create a crisis? How have they "leveraged it to its fullest extent?" To what purpose?
"The researchers found that increased conspiratorial ideation was associated with lower levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, inquisitiveness, and intellectual humility; and higher levels of self-centered impulsivity, entitlement, grandiosity, negative affect, detachment, psychoticism, depression, and anxiety."
Sounds about right, insofar as observation of the anti-social behavior of anti-maskers shows.
“To what purpose?” LOLGF you disingenuous asshole. Joe us called President now, right?
“'To what purpose?' LOLGF you disingenuous asshole. Joe us called President now, right?
Your rhetorical question/word salad does not provide any information, useful or otherwise.
"No. What reasons would "the Dems and the left" (sic) have to create a crisis? How have they "leveraged it to its fullest extent?" To what purpose?"
I thought you were one of the smarter ones...I was clearly wrong.
How about the push for mass mail-in ballots?
How about politicians wielding unheard of power?
How about passing bills with trillions in spending?
The purpose was to go balls-to-the wall to oust Trump.
It worked.
Everything else followed.
What color is the sky in your world?
I think his little dog is his sharpest critic-
No wonder she’s so fecken depressed.
Concrete and scribble- All. Day. Long.
I like his paintings. He steps back because he's satisfied with the composition then, just as he is about to leave, sees something that does not work. I can relate. I do that frequently.
"I thought you were one of the smarter ones...I was clearly wrong.
"How about the push for mass mail-in ballots?
"How about politicians wielding unheard of power?
"How about passing bills with trillions in spending?
"The purpose was to go balls-to-the wall to oust Trump.
"It worked.
"Everything else followed.
"What color is the sky in your world?"
You seem to assume that simply by reiterating a series of (unbulleted) Trumpist bullet points that you have proved a reality. You haven't.
Joe Smith: for your conspiracy theorem to work, Trump had to be 100% complicit in totally Fucking up the pandemic response.
I can hear your response already: Trump, the seven dimensional chess stable genius, was completely and totally fooled and played by Fauci and the CDC working on instructions from DNC and CCP handlers
"You seem to assume that simply by reiterating a series of (unbulleted) Trumpist bullet points that you have proved a reality. You haven't."
I can't deal with a simpleton...I clearly gave you too much credit.
Remember, I didn't say the left created the virus or realized the virus. But once it was out there they weaponized it to the hilt for partisan political purposes.
If you can't see what the Dems did to leverage the 'crisis' then you are too far gone...
"Joe Smith: for your conspiracy theorem to work, Trump had to be 100% complicit in totally Fucking up the pandemic response."
You honestly don't think the Dems leveraged the shit out of the virus? Really?
Maybe a stupid question as lefties lie about everything if it helps gain political power.
The response was not perfect but getting the vaccine in record time was a 10/10.
Presidents are not dictators. They cannot command the states to comply with anything absent martial law.
Had Trump declared martial law, he would have been impeached yet again.
You really need to up your game.
Joe Smith it seems like us libtards according to you have up our game to the total complete Max.
You can't have it both ways, bucko.
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"Joe Smith it seems like us libtards according to you have up our game to the total complete Max.
You can't have it both ways, bucko."
When did I ever say you didn't have your game firing on all cylinders?
You fuckers are killing it!
I only wish the morons on the right were half as ruthless.
Republicans aren't called the Stupid Party for nothing...
But 'Bucko'? Do you have some strange cowboy fetish?
Joe Smith said...
"But 'Bucko'? Do you have some strange cowboy fetish?"
It's a Richie Cunningham fetish.
"Joe Smith it seems like us libtards according to you have up our game to the total complete Max."
Actually we like you just fine as the giant steaming pile of absolute retardation that you are, Nitschke scholar. You know you are an incredibly stupid human being, right Howard? You do realize that, right? An absolute flaming dumpster fire of stark raving idiocy. So please, don't change one bit.
"I can't deal with a simpleton...I clearly gave you too much credit."
Florida Radical Man Cookie a simpleton??! Perish the thought - his point of view actually has an entire dimension if you look carefully. Did you know he lives in New York, by the way?
I thought I posted a snippet of what I thought this artwork was worth- to me...
I said: his dog is his sharpest critic- no wonder she’s so underwhelmed. Concrete and scribble-
All. Day. Long.
Oh geez- my comments are as easy to see as fuzzy captcha bridges.
Guess I feel strongly enough about his art to post twice. I don’t mind the whistling- that’s nice.
destroying the great economy was paramount. for team D.
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