China's newest export to the US and the world

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: theknight571
I bet Bob Ross and his happy little trees could compete with them. For landscapes at least.

If you've never seen this guy's show on PBS.... you gotta see it at least once. Half hour, start to finish... complete painting.

Bob Ross is the shiz

 

[40Hands]

Bob Ross: All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret...and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you.


R.I.P Bob

 

[geecee]

One day, China will be a U.S. record executive/movie producer's nightmare. Or is it already? No such thing as intellectual property over there.

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: geecee
One day, China will be a U.S. record executive/movie producer's nightmare. Or is it already? No such thing as intellectual property over there.

it already is. People in China don't go to movie theatres unless its a date. They go to the corner and buy the blackmarket dvd. A lot cheaper than the movies. Most towns don't even have movie theatres, but they do have their corner blackmarket stores.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
how do you think they design cars?

Nah, that's Japan.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
its like a real nice poster lol

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
i dont know how i feel about that one.

being an amature artist (one of my many half assed hobbies) i dont think id like it if i was famous and had people replicating my work and selling it.

People replicate artwork all the time...as long as they're not trying to pass it off as the original, where's the problem?

well, i want to buy a fake movado watch, i know it is fake, so why is it illegal too?

 

[shenjingbing]

If you truly are an art appreciator, then you would appreciate it for what it is, which is the art being presented or depicted. The fact that it's replicated or not should not have any bearings on your enjoyment; otherwise, it's just superimposed standards based on yuppy thinking.

Besides, immitation is an art in itself.

 

[Sheepathon]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Sheepathon

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything.

Gunpowder, the wheelbarrow, the compass, spaghetti, the fan, kites, iron casting, agriculture using harnessed animals, clocks, the rudder, paper and printing, origami...
Oh, you meant today. Yeah, I suppose you're right for the most part.

Uh oh, Crazyfool played "Bait the Person of Chinese Origin."

Hehe, if anything, my ethnicity would deem that I have much resentment for the Chinese. However, I have learned to hold historical accuracy in higher esteem than any allegiance to a nationality.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Sheepathon

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything.

Gunpowder, the wheelbarrow, the compass, spaghetti, the fan, kites, iron casting, agriculture using harnessed animals, clocks, the rudder, paper and printing, origami...
Oh, you meant today. Yeah, I suppose you're right for the most part.

yea nothing new in what the past 500+ years?

as far as the OP's posting. how is this different than the millions of reproductions already done in print and as paintings done here in the US?

 

[deepred98]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything. And with their numbers one day they will overcome the rest of us. :laugh: Hopefully, I will be long dead by that time.

inventiveness has nothing to do with culture (just like intelligence doesn't have anything to do with race)

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Vincent Van Chong?

I think it's more like Vincent Van Ho.

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: Citrix
as far as the OP's posting. how is this different than the millions of reproductions already done in print and as paintings done here in the US?

One word. Cheaper. The quality is very good too <from the video of the story aired on CBS>

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If you buy one of these paintings in the United States, it would cost about $500. But at the factory, if you buy in bulk, you can get them for about $60 per copy.

Cheng Pei, spent four days on the "Mona Lisa," that took Leonardo Da Vinci four years to paint. Cheng will sell you his version for $36.
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[Keyvan]

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: Svnla
If you buy one of these paintings in the United States, it would cost about $500.

If it stays that way then this is no big deal. But when a company starts bringing them in by the container load and selling them at Target for $69.95 then we may have a problem. It has been happening with virtually everything China exports.

Anything we can make in the US, China can make cheaper. I work for a US manufacturing company that goes head to head with China. Used to be that our quality was much higher but then the Chinese manufacturers got better at replicating our product. And by cheaper, I mean much cheaper. We pay an average (benefits, etc) of $24 per hour for our labor in the US. In China the average to make what we make is $1.40 an hour. Hard to compete with that. So we are just building a plant in China.

Not that it is China's fault. They are competing and doing it more or less fairly. It is a rapidly changing world economy that is going to require a fundamental change in the way the US produces it's goods.

Either that or the boom in China will escalate the cost of living though rapid inflation and everything will balance out in the end.

i would hardly qualify a country with a fixed currency as fair competition...

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: Sheepathon

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Sheepathon

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything.

Gunpowder, the wheelbarrow, the compass, spaghetti, the fan, kites, iron casting, agriculture using harnessed animals, clocks, the rudder, paper and printing, origami...
Oh, you meant today. Yeah, I suppose you're right for the most part.

Uh oh, Crazyfool played "Bait the Person of Chinese Origin."

Hehe, if anything, my ethnicity would deem that I have much resentment for the Chinese. However, I have learned to hold historical accuracy in higher esteem than any allegiance to a nationality.

Fear the sheepathon!




*I have nothing else to contribute to this thread. Thank you for reading. Move along*

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Sheepathon

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything.

Gunpowder, the wheelbarrow, the compass, spaghetti, the fan, kites, iron casting, agriculture using harnessed animals, clocks, the rudder, paper and printing, origami...
Oh, you meant today. Yeah, I suppose you're right for the most part.

Uh oh, Crazyfool played "Bait the Person of Chinese Origin."

Not really baiting the Chinese because I am quoting my coworker friend who happens to be Chinese. I have worked with Chinese manufacturers too and it's impressive how they can take a design and implement it using their abundant skilled labor. I think Chinese people rock as a general rule of thumb.

I would like to have a Chinese copy of a Rembrandt... I think that would be cool.

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Not that it is China's fault. They are competing and doing it more or less fairly. It is a rapidly changing world economy that is going to require a fundamental change in the way the US produces it's goods.

Yeah, that undervalued Yuan is really fair...

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
how do you think they design everything?

^ fixed

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: deepred98

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's the Chinese culture... they invent nothing and copy everything. And with their numbers one day they will overcome the rest of us. :laugh: Hopefully, I will be long dead by that time.

inventiveness has nothing to do with culture (just like intelligence doesn't have anything to do with race)

That's wrong on both counts. Inventiveness does have to do with culture, because if your culture doesn't promote free thinking and inventiveness, you probably won't get to develop your talent.

And average intelligence does vary by race. Look at any kind of test scores, and you'll find that certain groups seem to excel across the board, while others do not. The sample is so large that this isn't a statistical anomaly.