Cow nipples!
 

Now with 10% Yak!

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But now a dress, fashioned from 3,000 cow and yak nipples (90 per cent cow and 10 per cent yak), has caused even more outrage.

The provocative piece - created from patches of cattle hide recovered from tanneries - was revealed at London Fashion Week by British designer Rachel Freire last Monday and is now set for the Paris catwalk.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...w-nipples.html

Pete

I just had to look. The world of art seems to be deteriorating. That thing is hideous even if one didn't know how it was made. There are standards of beauty that are timeless. Everything doesn't constitute art despite the yearnings of our leftist friends.

I suggest that bad taste is bipartisan. Just remember that you guys have to claim Ted Nugent and Wayne Newton. The left is claimed by Lady Gaga (although I'm not sure it claims her). I'm sure there are examples throughout the political spectrum of both hacks and geniuses who call themselves artists.

Regards,

D-Ray

Hank Williams, Jr., anyone?

I didn't think much of her, but hearing her with Tony Bennett I now think she is talented. I would like to hear her sing more classic song book stuff, rather than her pop stuff. Ted I still enjoy. I saw him in Oakland Stadium back in the seventies. I sort of remember that concert, but a lot of it remains quite fuzzy. I do recall an argument with my girlfriend Donna in the parking lot. I still play some Ted and the Amboy Dukes on occasion.

The fashion world has always been ridiculous and bizarre. Remember the "surgical craze"? Skinny models strutting up and down the runway wearing surgical gowns and face masks as stupid rich people stroked checks for insane amounts of money to buy the crap?

The dress of nipples is just the latest example of what those lunatics really do with their money-----create a handful of jobs employing cocaine snorting, gay fashion designers.

Dave

Oh shove it bh.

It looks like you and Kathleen Parker might be on the same piece of sheet music. I suppose that you have heard Linda Ronstadt's work with Nelson Riddle (You have to concede that Jerry Brown had good taste). Of course, she sounds good whether she is covering Cole Porter or Mick Jagger.

I would also recommend to you "De-Lovely" the musical bio of Cole Porter with the supremely talented Kevin Kline in the lead role. There are plenty of talented folks performing his songs in the film, including Natalie Cole, Elvis Costello, and his old lady, Diana Krall. Besides the great music, Ashley Judd is stunning.

Regards,

D-Ray

Ronstadt and Riddle are excellent INHO. OOOh, Ashley Judd. I likeher then she ran off and married a race car driver.

Are you defending the cow nipples or the leftists? :)

Just getting a little tired of you self proclaimed ability to always know what lefties are thinking, you never miss a cheap shot, do you.:rolleyes:

Funny but I never recall once making fun of democrats in the whole or calling them names for their beliefs. That seems to occur frequently on the democratic side. Sure I take a shot at left wing belief systems. Primarily because they have been so effective at inserting their morality and cultural relativism into almost every aspect of daily life. I have the ability to know what they are thinking because their actions and verbal and written positions usually foretell their beliefs. It's just as rare to find an unopinionated left winger as a right winger. Obviously, I do not know what any specific individual may think, but one can make some assessments of the general mindset. The left is prone to call anyone on the right a Teabagger, Whack Job, Wing Nut, etcetera, including the group as a whole. I do not see this generalized name calling from the right unless you construe lefty or leftwing as derogatory or pay attention to extremists blogs.


Now, at what point did cow nipple clothing become acceptable as art.

Loincloths never go out of style.

Pete

So what was that but an attribution of lousy art to the yearnings of the left.

He may be right in a way he didn't intend. Virtually all artists (who are worth a chit, anyway) seem to lean left. I can hardly think of much good contemporary art done by conservatives. Commercial Nashville dreck is a case in point.;) And Mel Gibson.:p

Come now, Mel was good till he fell off the Evil Jew Banker wagon.

And you'll always have Mapplethorpe :eek:

Pete

Damn, your're right, I can't think of a right wing artist. I was just pointing out that today virtually anything can be considered art. Perhaps, it has always been this way, but I'm firmly in the geometric and classical beauty side. Anytime I tried my hand at art it came out looking like a geometry proof.

As a visual artist I can tell you...beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
I have done maybe two landscapes in all my years...and found them too confining.
As for cow nipple dresses...there's a sucker (pun intended) born every minute. :D

I can.
Chip Foose, Troy Trepanier, ...

Chip Foose is a hack that ruins nice cars with shaving door handles, taking off emblems and putting those stupid ass big ugly wheels and tires on classics.

Pot, meet the kettle........

Yeah right.

Dostoyevsky, in "The Idiot," described the frustration of the Russian Middle class (at that time). Its members were intelligent enough to recognize genius, and at the same time to recognize that it was beyond their reach. I can recognize beauty, wonderful music, amazing photography, stunning architecture, and talented writing. Unfortunately, even with writing, which my profession requires in abundance, I am able to see the limits of my reach. (On the other hand, I am blissfully ignorant of the limits to my son's musical ability - if they exist - and I am able to offer him unqualified encouragement.)

Regards,

D-Ray

I drew the plans for our new playroom, in fact I also revised and drew the plans for this house, but I cannot draw a human, a still life or a landscape to save my life. Musical talent stopped after my sister, the other brother and me are audience not performers.

I can work with wood to some effect and diagnose and restore electronics, listening to that monster CR-3020 as I type this. The Lord did not equip me for sports but to compensate He did stick a goodly number of wet cells betwen my ears. I can write reasonably well and also develop networking concepts, one of the reasons the admission board cited when giving me a full membership in the IEEE.

Our son has musical talent and our granddaughters are showing good signs, the eldest (5-1/2) is studying violin and we got them a proper 88 key Yamaha "piano" last Christmas.

There is a program on one of the local PBS stations where the host and guests rave over this and that latest art or performance. Frankly I find them as phoney as a three dollar bill. As for the idiot Pete mentioned someone should have stuck him headfirst in it.

The whole point is attributing some taste or talent to a whole group is rather pointless unless that group has publically espoused that taste or talent.

GROOOOOOOOOAN :)

They really don't look bad, not what I'd have thought, and they are scrap products. Don't care for the dress overall though.

Pete

When you come right down to it some of the "fashions" I have seen on TV and in the media were not a heck of a lot better. It strikes me that the designers must really hate women to come up with some of the designs hat they do.

I've heard from friends...their husbands watch "Dancing With the Stars" because they like the costumes. :D

From the photos of DWTS in the magazines I have to ask;

What costumes?:p

What do you mean "scrap products"?

They could have ground them up with the assholes and eyeballs and made more Ball Park franks.

Chas

As far as that goes, they could have ground up all of the "stars" on DWTS, along with the assholes, eyeballs, and cow nipples and made even more Ball Bark franks.

Chas

WHOOP!! There it is!!:D