{"id":1401,"date":"2008-09-25T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2008-09-25T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:50:40","slug":"money-simply-cannot-buy-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Money Can&#8217;t Buy You Taste."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yachts.monacoeye.com\/pages\/guilty_001.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"What happened when Sherwin-Williams got seasick.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/guilty_001.jpg\" title=\"What happened when Sherwin-Williams got seasick.\" alt=\"What happened when Sherwin-Williams got seasick.\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proof? This 115-foot, Ivana Porfiri yacht, appropriately called <em>Guilty<\/em>, bought recently by Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxist.com\/2008\/09\/01\/greek-billionaire-commissions-yacht-by-jeff-koons\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Luxist.com<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/yachts.monacoeye.com\/files\/guilty.php\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>MonacoEye.com<\/em><\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>               The exterior design was created by international art               star Jeff Koons, famous for his basketball in perspex               case, three-storey high &#8220;Puppy&#8221; made of flowers, and               the &#8220;Made in Heaven&#8221; erotic series of photographs               with Italian ex-wife and               porn-star-member-of-parliament La Cicciolina.<\/p>\n<p>Although the blown up print and poster colours will               be familiar to art fans from Roy Liechtenstein&#8217;s               signature Ben-Day Dots style, Jeff Koons actually               based this design on a WW1 camouflage pattern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? Then how come I can still doggone see it?<\/p>\n<p>Click on the pic, to look at a bigger version of the image. Though most commentators on <em>MonacoEye.com<\/em> think the ship is the flyest thing ever, I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/yachts.monacoeye.com\/files\/guilty.php#158065\"  target=\"_blank\">what this guy, Gabe, wrote<\/a> best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interesting\u2026 I&#8217;ve been thinking more about the camouflage aspect. Apparently it was intended to confuse rather than hide the outline. If you squint at the photo, parts of the boat do seem to almost disappear\u2026 It&#8217;s a bit like one of those magic eye things, you half expect to suddenly see an image of a horse drinking vodka \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see it&#8230;yes&#8230;yes, I see it! It&#8217;s a horse drinking vodka, painting a yacht owned by a Greek billionaire&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof? This 115-foot, Ivana Porfiri yacht, appropriately called Guilty, bought recently by Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}