KEEP CALM and don't forget to be awesome.

Remember when you were a kid and you tried to make shadows on the wall that looked like dogs and rabbits - and they didn't?
These people stuck with it.

Some people daydream about sitting on the deck of a cruise ship or laying on a beach in the Pacific. I daydream about taking our teardrop and heading out to isolated campgrounds.
Next summer is too far away.

I fixed the shower faucet down at Noel's house this afternoon. Didn't take but an hour, including a run to the hardware store for an O-ring. Our friendship has developed to the point where there's some good natured ribbing. I sure wish he wasn't sick.

Something is "worth" whatever someone will pay for it. Cars, houses, paint on a canvass. The difference is that only one of those claims to be art and to therefore have an intrinsic value. Art has no function except to elicit an emotional response by virtue of its aesthetics.

(Which means a '63 split window Vette is both a car and a piece of art. And worth a lot of money.)

So is art in the eye of the beholder? If a particular picture or sculpture elicits an emotional response in me is it therefore art? What if you find it inane? Is it art for me and not for you?
Is there any objective standard by which we can judge a painting or sculpture?

Try it with music. What if a 13-year old girl goes weak in the knees and sobs quietly every time she hears Teen Heartthrob sing "Baby, Baby," a song anyone with one semester of music theory would recognize as audio pap. Is it art? Does it go in the same drawer as "Nessun Dorma?" Or are there objective standards which make one composition art and another just bad, no matter how a particular individual responds to it?