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Is our perception of worth/value affected by venue?

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Stoic Joker:
Compare "apple products" sold in applestore and "windows products" sold in any random computer shop.
-mahesh2k (January 25, 2012, 07:42 PM)
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I don't think that's a fair comparison.  This is true art that one person in a million has the skill to develop and true artistry like none other.  To compare that to popcorn technology is not quite an apt comparison in my opinion.
-wraith808 (January 25, 2012, 07:48 PM)
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Definitely not an apples to apples comparison.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

40hz:
BTW...anybody care to hazard a guess as to who my "bad example" band was up above? :)

Participants are strongly cautioned that a correct answer will undoubtedly give away your true age. :P

Renegade:
Wow. That was interesting.

From one link:

Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L'Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant.
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Please insert a snarky comment about bureaucrats here. Thank you. :P


(I love violin... My favourite being Paganini. :D Learned to play his 24 caprices on guitar a long time ago.)

wraith808:
Please insert a snarky comment about bureaucrats here. Thank you.
-Renegade (January 25, 2012, 09:28 PM)
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I thought it.  But then didn't say it.  Because I started to think about myself, and I wasn't 100% sure that I wouldn't have missed it either.  :(

Renegade:
Please insert a snarky comment about bureaucrats here. Thank you.
-Renegade (January 25, 2012, 09:28 PM)
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I thought it.  But then didn't say it.  Because I started to think about myself, and I wasn't 100% sure that I wouldn't have missed it either.  :(
-wraith808 (January 25, 2012, 09:34 PM)
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I think 40 was acute in his observation about the venue itself.

I rarely stop to listen to buskers except when they're really good.

Now, I know that I wouldn't have known him from Henry in a million years (never heard of him before actually). But, I have good enough ears to recognize talent and good instruments. (There's nothing like hearing the difference between a junky instrument and a good one - you just don't get good tone from junk. Sure, a fantastic artist can make it sound better, but still... no comparison.)

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