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Pete_Pittock

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2010, 02:23:16 PM »
I'd like to see that B&B painted by Dali.

Mike Hendren

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2010, 02:32:00 PM »
Wait a minute - is that a frilly bunker at the base of the rainbow?



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JC Jones

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2010, 02:42:23 PM »

Mike, surely you know that if he simply chose to concentrate on one piece at a time, he'd be doing work right up there with Picasso and co... He just chose a different business model, and does not receive the positive bias that the likes of Rembrandt receive.

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Exactly.  He wouldn't have been able to build that big business model if he wasn't a good painter in the first place.
I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

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I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

Bob_Huntley

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2010, 03:45:08 PM »

Mike, surely you know that if he simply chose to concentrate on one piece at a time, he'd be doing work right up there with Picasso and co... He just chose a different business model, and does not receive the positive bias that the likes of Rembrandt receive.

 :)

Exactly.  He wouldn't have been able to build that big business model if he wasn't a good painter in the first place.

Was it Mencken that opined that "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." In this case, taste.

Bob

Ronald Montesano

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2010, 03:59:39 PM »
Frilly bunker?  NO, but there's a split-fairway, driveable par four just across the bridge, to the left.
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George Pazin

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2010, 04:31:07 PM »
Few things in life are as personally subjective as taste in art - off the top of my head, I'd say maybe taste in food & taste in music are in the same ballpark.

I spend hours a day immersed in all levels of art. I can appreciate the technical skills which allowed someone to create the above art, even if it doesn't match my preferences. My own personal favorite piece of art was done on a scrap t shirt by a friend who used to work for me. He took t shirt inks and did an abstract painting that just looks amazing to me.

My wife thinks I should throw it away.

I can see why Mike would feel this topic isn't OT, but I don't think the lesson in this case is the taste or lack thereof in Kincaid's art (or housing development golf courses). Rather, it's the constant application of sound business practices combined with constant vigilance.

Starting, growing and running a business - any business - is damn hard, much harder than I'd guess most on here have the tiniest clue about.
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

Eric Smith

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt... New
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Mike_Young

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Re: It's not just golf courses....The painter of light also overbuilt...
« Reply #32 on: December 02, 2010, 06:06:08 PM »
Few things in life are as personally subjective as taste in art - off the top of my head, I'd say maybe taste in food & taste in music are in the same ballpark.

I spend hours a day immersed in all levels of art. I can appreciate the technical skills which allowed someone to create the above art, even if it doesn't match my preferences. My own personal favorite piece of art was done on a scrap t shirt by a friend who used to work for me. He took t shirt inks and did an abstract painting that just looks amazing to me.

My wife thinks I should throw it away.

I can see why Mike would feel this topic isn't OT, but I don't think the lesson in this case is the taste or lack thereof in Kincaid's art (or housing development golf courses). Rather, it's the constant application of sound business practices combined with constant vigilance.

Starting, growing and running a business - any business - is damn hard, much harder than I'd guess most on here have the tiniest clue about.

George,
I can agree with most of your thought process above....I wasn't only considering housing golf courses but thinking more of all the medicore courses that were built in the name of marketing RE....the average consumer has no idea good and bad in golf design....they base it on maintenance...and the danger that has evolved from the model made popular by developers is that now club committee members take their cue from these places....I bet a Kincade could dominate the average club committee.... ;D
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