….Fortunately there are those who are rather more enlightened and are prepared to try something new and adventurous.

Isn’t that elitist? Making art accessible to anyone doesn’t make everyone an artist – the talent is either there, or it’s not…

One aspect about a photograph’s worth still puzzles me – surely it’s the negative or digital file which has value, since it could be used to produce any amount of exact copies of the photo?
Unless you happen to be the Great Elmyr, it’s virtually impossible to make an exact copy of a Renoir for example…

The art world is full of crap like this – it’s all ‘the emporer’s new clothes’.

When asked to explain Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ a while back, my daughter (graduated with a 1st in History of Art), told me it was all about the artist’s thought processes, and the journey and life experiences taken to arrive at that composition. Complete b****x.

I distinctly remember my art teachers despairing at me in 5th year for painting and drawing as photographically as possible. “That’s what a camera is for!” they used to say, while rapturing over some talentless kid’s abstract mess. Put me right off going to art college.

WW2 might have been never have happened if those Viennese art professors had accepted the young Hitler’s photographic style of drawing and painting, instead of “Go away and paint us more abstracts!”. So they have a lot to answer for…

Does a return trip in a Saunders-Roe N-6 from Southampton to Cowes in 1969 count?

What type of aircraft were they? Were the aircraft outdoors, indoors, in a production line, abandoned, in Europe or North Africa, etc?
More information might help!;)

My interest in military aircraft was kindled when my sister took me to see an air day at RNAS Lossiemouth in the early 1960s, and seeing a line of Scimitars parked on the eastern pan as we approached the base by bus.
I can vividly remember the checkerboard markings on their tails, presumably disembarked from the ‘Ark’…

Thanks – always wondered what colour was used on RN helos!
On a similar tack, was RAF blue-grey 633 the shade used on the Buccaneer prototypes and early S.1 development aircraft?
The shade used was darker than the ‘Dark Sea Grey 638’ used on later production S.1 and S.2 aircraft, and also seems too dark and too blue for ‘Extra Dark Sea Grey 640’.

I wonder what they shot that up with? It would not be tank or heavy artillery as it just cut to ribbons not blown to bits.

Here’s the answer to your question Paul – it starts around 06:28 on this clip!
The King is dead – long live the King!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQIt2yOkkw&feature=related