The Art World Doesn't Understand Finger Prints (a stream of consciousness review)

3am. Zero hour. Just got done making a T-Pain related blog. Can't sleep. Better turn on my Xbox and watch something instantly on Netflix. I guess I shall watch Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

Oh boy! A controversy in the art world. Yes, abstract paintings are not generally liked by people who don't study art, haha! My kid could paint that. They should've called this documentary that instead! Oh, wait, that was a documentary too.

Teri Horton, the film's hero is a trucker who found a painting in a thrift store for five bucks, and maybe, oh maybe it's a Pollock. I go to the thrift store a lot, but I've never found anything worth 25 Million dollars. I saw a lady on Antiques Roadshow on Thursday who had a blanket worth 35,000 dollars. One time I found a videogame that goes for 60 bucks used on Amazon, and I got it for 4 dollars. Does anyone wanna make a documentary about that?

Who is narrating this film? I like him. He's making this story seem very fun. And important. Important, but still fun.

Who is this documentary for? With references to CSI and such, it would seem to be talking to Joe Sixpack. Is it for people in the artworld, which seems to be the Evil Empire of this film? Probably not. I think this film seems to be made for people like me, with an interest in art, but also highly accessible documentaries, available for instantaneous streaming on a gaming console. Very stylized. They are making this documentary about a painting seem very fluid, fast, highly entertaining.

You know, Teri. You find treasures in dumpsters and thrift stores. These things can turn out being worth big money. You thought your found painting was your big find. You should've found a baseball card. They're less snooty.

Her son wants her to sell the painting. I find things at thrift stores that I could sell for a great deal. Maybe I will.

How funny that she's a long-haul trucker and she's in this Pollock controversy for the long haul.

These art world experts are being so glib in their attacks on science. I won't believe that their attitudes are common, as I've met quite a few art historians, and why would they study art history if no one is interested in advancing our understanding of historical art?

Eat the connoisseurs.