That's a cool picture. Nice modeling work and an interesting commentary on current events.

Excellent!

Good work here.

too true, great render

Thank you, people. I wish I had the talent to model an oil-soaked Penguin, with the caption: "Excuse me, is my life bothering your oil slick?"

You seem to be damning capitalism, yet you ignore the obvious fact that you are enjoying the fruits of capitalism directly. Actions speak louder than words; let us examine the depths of your hypocrisy. The capitalism you demean is what produced the computer and the internet you benefit from by your use -- by posting on this site, a web-site that exists, is funded and supported by the capitalism you profess to despise, you proclaim your silent support of capitalism. You are directly reaping the benefits of capitalism –know or acknowledge it, or not. This truth remains. Capitalism wiped out slavery and serfdom in the whole civilized world of the nineteenth century. Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. What greater virtue can one ascribe to a social system than the fact that it leaves no possibility for any man to serve his own interests by enslaving other men? What nobler system could be desired by anyone whose goal is man’s well-being? Capitalism did not create poverty—it inherited it. Compared to the centuries of pre-capitalist starvation, the living conditions of the poor in the early years of capitalism were the first chance the poor had ever had to survive. It is capitalism that elevated our civilization to where we stand today. It is capitalism that funded the science and engineering that brought into being the technology from which billions benefit from today – and without which billions would die of starvation, plague, and disease. You would damn mankind because his success? Would you demand man do with less? Then you would demand the murder of millions. Consider the consequence of your world without capitalism: Consider the squalor, the misery, the helplessness, the fear, the unspeakably hard labor, the festering diseases, the plagues, the starvation this would entail. Can you visualize an infant mortality rate of 45 to 50 percent? Try to convince a mother, whose child is dying of cholera, try to convince a peasant woman at the dawn of the industrial revolution, whose teeth are green with decay in her mouth, of your morality, try to convince a man clothed in rags who faces nothing but mind numbing labor from dawn to dusk, at starvation level, of your morality. In Western Europe, in the preindustrial Middle Ages, man’s life expectancy was 20 years. The average life expectancy in Colonial America was under 25 years in the Virginia colony and in New England about 40% of children failed to reach adulthood. During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically. The percentage of children born in London who died before the age of five decreased from 74.5% in 1730-1749 to 31.8% in 1810-1829. Humans by Era Average Lifespan at Birth: Upper Paleolithic 20 years Neolithic 20 years Bronze Age-Iron Age 25 years Classical Greece 28 years Classical Rome 28 years Pre-Columbian North America 25-30 years Medieval Islamic Caliphate 20-30 years Medieval Britain 20-30 years Early Modern Britain 40+ years Early 20th Century 30-45 years Current world average 67.2 years Can you convince the legions of the dead of your morality? To work only for bare necessities is a luxury that mankind cannot afford. If you consider, not merely the length, but the kind of life men have to lead in the undeveloped parts of the world—“the quality of life,” to borrow, with full meaning, the ecologists’ meaningless catch phrase—if you consider the squalor, the misery, the helplessness, the fear, the unspeakably hard labor, the festering diseases, the plagues, the starvation, you will begin to appreciate the role of capitalism and technology in man’s existence. Without machines and technology, the task of mere survival is a terrible, mind-and-body-wrecking ordeal. In “nature,” the struggle for food, clothing and shelter consumes all of a man’s energy and spirit; it is a losing struggle—the winner is any flood, earthquake or swarm of locusts. (Consider the 500,000 bodies left in the wake of a single flood in Pakistan; they had been men who lived without capitalism and technology.) Whom and what are [the ecological crusaders] and the anti-capitalists attacking? The millions who now live who had no chance to live before capitalism and technology. They are attacking the freedoms which give rise to the implicit purpose, of man’s quest for knowledge. They are attacking the availability of “luxuries” to the broad masses of people. What do they regard as the proper life for working people? A life of unrelieved drudgery, of endless, gray toil, with no rest, no travel, no pleasure—above all, no pleasure. What do they regard as luxury? Anything above the “bare necessities” of physical survival—with the explanation that men would not have to labor so hard if it were not for the “artificial needs” created by “commercialism” and “materialism.” In reality, the opposite is true: the less the return on your labor, the harder the labor. The enemies of the Industrial Revolution—its displaced persons—were of the kind that had fought human progress for centuries, by every means available. In the Middle Ages, their weapon was the fear of God. In the nineteenth century, they still invoked the fear of God—for instance, they opposed the use of anesthesia on the grounds that it defies God’s will, since God intended men to suffer. When this weapon wore out, they invoked the will of the collective, the group, the tribe. But since this weapon, once having collapsed in their hands, has sadly seen a resurgence via the internet -- yet their ultimate message is that man has no right to exist … I believe that mother holding her dying child in a world without capitalism and technology would differ. The demand to “restrict” technology and capitalism is the demand to restrict man’s mind. The capitalist wrought technology we enjoy today can be destroyed, and the mind can be paralyzed, but neither can be restricted. Whenever and wherever such restrictions are attempted, it is first freedom and then the mind that withers away. Perhaps rather than create art on a modern computer in a (no doubt) comfortable climate controlled home, one illuminated by electric lights both day and night, you would prefer to labor through all of your waking hours, with tools created in Biblical times? If you were subject to the body wracking thousands of hours required for mere substance level survival -- do you imagine you would have time to create art? Or perhaps you would aspire to be one of the elites in that world? One of the slave masters perhaps?

@wblack Don’t put words in my mouth! You’ve ascribed a TON of ideas to the image that I’ve never said, nor even thought. Frankly, I could debunk the whole sophomoric lot, but life is short, and unlike you, I don’t choose to write a term paper. I cannot resist responding to the silly idea that “Capitalism wiped out slavery and serfdom in the whole civilized world of the nineteenth century.” When you speak of the “nineteenth century”, I’m assuming that you mean the same century in which Slave-trading, Slave-beating, Slave-owning Plantation-owning Southern millionaires traded in cotton and human beings as if they were the same thing. Now, THAT was REAL capitalism: The mother of slavery. I suppose YOU thought those mansions were built with the proceeds of the "Sunday Social". The only thing that “enlightened” those pharmaceutical-grade profiteers was a double-shot of Artillery, with a bayonet chaser, poured down their throats by the Union Army. Don't even get me started on how many millionaires sold weapons to both sides. So spare me any stupid notion you may harbor about capitalism saving the world. Capitalism can't even save itself.

WBlack. Intro invited critical and non-critical comments on his art, not a sub-standard, 4th rate and inaccurate precis on the history of the human race. If you want to get political, do it by site-mail.

I like your concept in your image... specially the dripping oil from the pipe... could have been an arching leak coming out of the pipe... Good job.. I can not help to comment on the above assay of incorrect and misguided dis-information.. It was the capitalistic incentives to save more money, that brought the ships to the African shores to kidnap free men and women to become slave workers in our fields.. Cheap labor was an industrial money making scheme by the nobles and landlords of those times.. Chains, wips and hangings were the contracts and agreements.. What saved them was the Idea of equality and freedom in our democracy.. not capitalism.. Capitalism has nothing to do with Democracy... Just ask any dictator how much he loves his money... Ask China how much they love owning our assets... Here is news: No one here is a capitalist.. not the artists in Renderosity.. not the workers in Renderosity... A Capitalist is a person who makes money from money!! They sit in a chair and talk on the phone all day... The rest of us make a living by selling our skills and/or labor for money.. The enemy of capitalism is abundance.. it's friend is scarcity... Capitalism does not care about human beings. only the bottom numbers..