So a big thought this morning, on why art matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the first big idea is, at the end of the day\u2026 Once you got the Lambos, the Ferrari, whatever, then, what next? Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So a big thought on my mind is, if you distill it\u2026 Who matters the most? The artist, the art dealers, the galleries, the investors, the platform, who? The bloggers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think it\u2019s pretty obvious that I dominated the photography scene through my blog. What\u2019s kind of interesting for me is\u2026 I did this all with essentially like zero infrastructure. All I had to do is pay for my blog Web hosting which is maybe like $200 a month, rather than paying for some sort of insanely expensive lease on a physical space, and I suppose the upside of having a blog is, you essentially have infinite reach and freedom, instantaneously. Even in today\u2019s world, the admiration that I get for my blog is pretty great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think my honest thought is, the reason why you have art pieces selling for like $1.2 million for a painting is, it\u2019s like 99.99% speculation, investing, financial returns, and also\u2026 About 100% Social sociological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So to any fool who does not understand the art world, it\u2019s because you do not understand human nature or the sociology behind the art worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply put, there is a complex ecosystem of artists, collectors, galleries etc.\u2026 And it\u2019s kind of like an interesting game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course it matters. Why? It all comes out to art. Our clothes, shoes, homes, societies architecture media etc. Anything that humans make is art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well first of all obviously you\u2019re an artist. You might not have pieces selling for millions of dollars but that doesn\u2019t really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So my first big proposition is, if you just want to make a lot of money, the obvious strategy is bitcoin, MSTR. And then art, should be more of our autotelic passion<\/strong>?\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc That is, we have the will to art, artistic impulse to create art, collect art, become art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n So my first thought is, the most honorable type of art that we can have is, the human body. Until you have met really really beautiful people, like the 6 foot tall eastern European models, in the flesh, standing right next to you, you have not experienced true beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, I think this is where bodybuilders or weightlifters are impressive, assuming they\u2019re not taking steroids. My simple heuristic: \ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only trust weightlifters who do not have Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Any sort of weightlifter or bodybuilder who has social media Instagram TikTok or whatever\u2026 Or even YouTube, is probably secretly taking the juice because, they want to magnify their following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Better yet, only trust weightlifters who don\u2019t take protein powder<\/strong>. \ufffc\ufffc Why? Protein powder is also a scam, essentially just like hydrogenized pulverized milk powder, creatine is also the same thing but with like bones and flesh. It\u2019s like 1000 times more effective to just eat the meat and the bones itself. All this way protein powder stuff and creatine stuff is just pseudoscience to feed a $10 billion fitness industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it looks like Leica camera is selling out to the \ufffcChinese. It\u2019s kind of a tragic and to all these art world photographers who want to be fancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hasselblad has already been sold to the Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So who has not sold out? Ricoh Pentax, Fujifilm, the Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So why does this matter? I think there\u2019s a weird equipment fetish for us for photographers, that in order to feel important we must own some sort of expensive camera. And the truth is it works, if you\u2019re at a fancy art show exhibition and you have a film Leica MP, around your neck, people will instantly find you more fascinating than somebody with just like a Canon power shot. Hilariously enough if you see somebody at an art show with a Canon power shot, the deep interesting insight is, they\u2019re probably factually actually very interesting. \ufffc Also, if you\u2019re meeting a bunch of people, high net worth individual individuals, and somebody just has like a seven-year-old iPhone SE,.. probably also a very interesting signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another one, never trust anybody who drives a Tesla, only poor people drive Teslas. \ufffc the same thing goes with any luxury car, people only purchase lease and drive luxury cars because they cannot afford a good single-family house<\/strong>. \ufffc The true rich and wealthy, the people with $150 million home in HOLMBY Hills, just drive a silver Prius plug-in prime. Even to the people you see driving the Ferraris, they\u2019re often these like 82-year-old dudes \ufffcwho are about to die. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I\u2019ll give you the secret, I think the secret is going to be art world blogging<\/strong>. Because people are still going to be using ChatGPT and Google in order to analyze artists. For example, I\u2019m kind of fascinated right now by the artist Richard Prince, who seems to be right now the crown jewel of the art world. Using ChatGPT deep research, on any artist, posting it to your blog, will help you dominate search results, both on ChatGPT search and Google. \ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring is here! Bitcoin spring, MSTR spring, art world spring, and also\u2026 Richard Prince paving the way for us photographers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n So a big thought this morning, on why art matters. So the first big idea is, at the end of the day\u2026 Once you got the Lambos, the Ferrari, whatever, then, what next? 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