HOLY GRAIL!

I wouldn't try to defend myself at an art venue as its gonna be filled with all those either fooling themselves because they spent insane amounts of money acquiring the "art" or the ones who want to be associated with the rich self important art expert/critiques
and who wants to face the truth and admit ones sillyness to another?
splotches of paint is not art it is not and we all know it. sure you can call someone with no talent an artist because they do stuff and put it out there but that doesn't mean they are creating art . I have made an art form out of goofing off at work.

I really don't think this knife will sell for $75000 I think the whole thing is a marketing ploy. all media focus is good marketing whether good/bad/true or false . as someone said earlier in this thread if a bunch of people see that it supposedly sold for $75000 and then they have an inventory of knives in the $1000-$5000 range they will rope in customers who want to be on the bandwagon but cant quite afford the Rolex or $75000 "work of art"
 
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ponykid said:
I wouldn't try to defend myself at an art venue as its gonna be filled with all those either fooling themselves because they spent insane amounts of money acquiring the "art" or the ones who want to be associated with the rich self important art expert/critiques
and who wants to face the truth and admit ones sillyness to another?
and splotches of paint is not art I don't care who says it is . it is not and we all know it. sure you can call someone with no talent an artist because they do stuff and put it out there but that doesn't mean they are creating art . I have made an art form out of goofing off at work.

I really don't think this knife will sell for $75000 I think the whole thing is a marketing ploy. all media focus is good marketing whether good/bad/true or false . as someone said earlier in this thread if a bunch of people see that it supposedly sold for $75000 and then they have an inventory of knives in the $1000-$5000 range they will rope in customers who want to be on the bandwagon but cant quite afford the Rolex or $75000 "work of art"
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How many knives like that do you think William Henry sells?
 
Oh a lot!!! I actually think a lot of those knives are beautiful .

I really just don't think they are gonna get $75000 for that knife. I don't dispute people pay a lot for fancy knives and truthfuly the Henry knives are worth every penny from the looks of it and for the time he spends on them he probably isn't really making that much profit . and hopefully he never starts gluing diamonds and rubies to the handles and charging 75000!!!!
 
Since it's ugly and doesn't make any sense, it's sure to sell for the asking price.
 
ponykid said:
splotches of paint is not art it is not and we all know it. sure you can call someone with no talent an artist because they do stuff and put it out there but that doesn't mean they are creating art . I have made an art form out of goofing off at work.
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I disagree with your blanket statement that splotches of paint aren't art. I for one like Jackson Pollocks stuff visually quite a lot. Compare it to Keith Haring, which is more Art? Stick figures aren't all that difficult to paint, but subjectively more difficult than paint splotches. Does that mean one is Art and the other isn't.
 
My intentions aren't to insult anyone really. I apologize if I have. I just don't see something that anyone can do as "Art" and that stuff anyone can do .
I am gonna check to see if anyone has bought the $75000 knife every day . sad thing is it will one day disappear and we will never know for sure if it was sold for the asking price :(
 
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It will probably end up selling. But more importantly, this is one of those things that you do to show off that you can do it. That knife isn't just a show piece for the person that buys it, it's also a show piece for the brand.

Out of curiosity I looked up if people were talking about it, and sure enough it's in Forbes, The Robb Report, etc.... That's good publicity. And even if someone doesn't buy your $75,000 model, you could hook them on your others.
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Yeah....that's a "Look at what we can do" piece.
 
I was thinking about buying it until I noticed it doesn't have a pocket clip.
Pfft...:rolleyes:
 
Did a favor for some folks in Chinatown & they are taking me to lunch Sunday. One of them makes jewelry & I'm going to ask her for an estimate of the cost of the materials & how long it would take her do something similar. Not the knife itself, but the decoration.
 
Ha. Now we are arguing over what constitutes art. Art is in the eye of the beholder. What you call art, I may call crap and vise versa. Really who cares? If someone buys that knife for $75000, then all the more power to them, I hope they enjoy it.

BTW, I just got in my Spyderco Positron, and I paid considerably less than 75 grand.
 
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