Comments on: Voynich filigree?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:21:23 +0000

Hey Marke and Nick! Don’t laugh too loud. In my home town in Kansas USA, they had an orangutan named Djakarta Jim who painted. He really got into it; you couldn’t distract him from his painting with bananas! They entered some of his paintings in a childrens’ art contest under the name “D. James Orang,” and he won a prize! My uncle who collected paintings said that some of his paintings were good abstract art.

Djakarta Jim lost interest in art when he got a mate.

Here’s a postcard of Djakarta Jim and a brief mention of him in an article.

So who knows?

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:16:22 +0000

Sorry, Marke, that would hardly score anything on the VBI. You’ll have to do better than that…

By: Marke Fincher

Marke Fincher — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:51:49 +0000

Did you ever see that episode of “That’s Life” where they got a bunch of chimpanzees at London Zoo to make some oil paintings which were then exhibited in a posh gallery of modern art?

I remember it as one of the funniest things I ever saw on TV. It was 50/50 whether it was funnier watching the chimpanzees doing their bit, or watching the pompus art critics ruining their reputations on TV, all effusive with flowery over elaborate (not to say preposturous) analysis of the deep symbolism and psychology behind the paintings.

“Looking at this picture I just want to cry. Such pain. The mental tormet reaped on a delicate and sensitive artisitc soul by a cruel and uncaring materialistic world.”

With that in mind my new Voynich Theory is that the VMs was created by chimpanzees and somewhere someone is watching us all analysing it and laughing their heads off silly