Hideous Entropy

Ysarex · Feb 24, 2014

Been so busy with two classes this semester I haven't had time to take any photos -- until this past Friday when I made a startling discovery. My wife took me along on a hunt for juice glasses and we headed for the local antique mall.

As all of you know the 2nd law of thermodynamics specifies that entropy increases. Simply put heat/energy dissipates until it reaches a state of thermodynamic equilibrium (frozen dead). I discovered Friday that the same process is operative culturally vis a vis hideousness and that in fact we are already dangerously near a state of hideousness equilibrium happening right under our noses at the antique malls. I got pictures if anyone's skeptical.

Joe

charlie76 · Feb 24, 2014

Items are deteriorating in the atmosphere.....law obeyed....gotcha!!!

robbins.photo · Feb 24, 2014

So that's what happen when a tacky bomb explodes. Cool. lol

The_Traveler · Feb 24, 2014

No, there seems to be a hideousness concentration right there, an unnatural situation that clearly signals impending doom.

AlanKlein · Feb 24, 2014

Well there's no accounting for taste.

That fish! Is that the one that flops around when you pass by and talks to you?

Derrel · Feb 24, 2014

Yeah...surprised you didn't jump on that vintage tarpon mount...I mean, what man-cave is complete without a mounted tarpon?

BrickHouse · Feb 24, 2014

I'd love to hang that fish mount in one of my exam rooms. Oh the conversations that would start!

terri · Feb 24, 2014

I'll take the fish, and those 2 wooden carving thingys on the wall...the lamp by Marilyn...and the ceramic pig in the last image. There! Future basement/rec room done!

Can't pull the trigger on those boxer paint by numbers, though. I have my standards.

jenko · Feb 25, 2014

Kitsch is fascinating in its own way. Some of the first sculptures were of animals. It is interesting to me that we still have this attachment to figurines of animals, only our "stories" are a bit different because of cultural differences. Where a paleolithic person may have kept a mammoth for good luck on the hunt, we keep a mass-produced pig decorated with flowers. The easy rendering sort of reflects how out of touch we are with how food is actually obtained and the detached mass production of it. The first art, on rocks, inside caves, and in the form of sculpture, almost exclusively depicted animals. Kitsch, at its worst, usually does the same, with the exception of Elvis and Monroe, lol.

robbins.photo · Feb 25, 2014

So how is the first ever TPF flea market going?

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Ysarex · Feb 25, 2014

Glad you all enjoyed those. I'm thinking I may explore this topic further.

Derrel, Terri, Brickhouse: I can read the tag on the full-res version of the photo and that tarpon is only $125.00. Just say the word and I'll run over and pick it up for you (I'm sure it's still there).

Joe