Little did I know

 For 35 years I was involved in the wholesale art industry basically supplying art to Furniture and Department stores as well as to catalog houses and Interior Designers.  I went to shows in High Point, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta and Tupelo.

I had no idea that at those shows there was always an element of HIGH END DESIGN being displayed at various showrooms within shouting distance of the "regular" showrooms.

The knockoff business within the Furniture Industry is not a secret and probably 90 percent of what is made and manufactured is the direct result of someone stealing an idea and then making production pieces so that sales can happen on a large scale.

In the art part of that industry there are original ideas that are mass produced....but to be honest the quality of the work, when mass produced, is done quickly and without much intensity or creativity.

I just watched a video on PAUL EVANS who died in 1987 and designed product for Directional Furniture.  His concepts of mid-century contemporary and brutalist designs were quite different and today those pieces sell at prices that designate the work as unique pieces of Art.

This cabinet sells for around a hundred thousand dollars.....

EVANS

The artists that worked for high-end clientele had very little exposure to the mass market unless their pieces got knocked off and made with inferior materials.

I'm bringing this up because I think that's exactly what has happened to our present political situations.

IT'S A KNOCKOFF

AND

IT

IS

OBVIOUSLY

INFERIOR

We need to replace IT with something that is functional and original and looks beautiful....and appeals to 80 percent of the population.

I'm looking around and so far I'm not seeing anyone who can fit that bill.

How about you?

See anything and anybody that might work?

SO FAR SO GOOD

 Baseball playoffs have gone extremely well so far.....Dodgers have a chance to repeat which is very hard to do.  Four more wins.  I'm worried about champagne poisonings.

MORE BASEBALL

 It's the NEXT part of the Baseball season......good time to tune in if you haven't been paying attention.

It;a time for a memory

 Baseball and SEAN

Hopefully

 I've really been humbled by the latest Trump election and then I realize that the last ten years have been the Trump decade.  Even when he was out his name was mentioned every single day.

The Trump Decade has basically shut me up.

Hopefully I will rebound.....and hopefully it happens soon.

Please scroll down the archives on the right and read some past articles. 

 I started Mind Jazz on the last day of 2006.....why not start there?

Heather lets us know

Richardson 

Facts

Epstein Diversion 

Something to be said for re-wiring neuropath ways

 SERIOUSLY

IMMIGRATION

 Apparently John McCain and Ted Kennedy introduced a WORKABLE Immigration bill back in the day and it was rejected.

Maybe we should take a look at that bill......

Immigration

The soap opera in the White House

This current show taking place between two very wealthy men should be ignored but of course it is very hard not to watch.

I am leaning toward a staged ruckus.

It would make sense that a grifter and a showman would arrange to have a fallout simply to confuse the American public regarding the BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.

The defense budget goes up and the budget for social programs goes down

Poor people are Donald's least favorite type of human being.

They sure don't drive Tesla's.

Knowing how both men like the spotlight I will not be surprised if there is a huge reconciliation and it dominates the news while the Senate approves the bill and sends it to the White House.

It's another slight of hand trick that the greatest grifter in political history will pull off.

The fact that 75 million people still support him is the real story.

He wasn't kidding when he said he could get away with ANYTHING.