The High Art of Grant Lamos

Grant Lamos posts a photo of “one dog sniffing another dogs butt – high art huh”

“One dog sniffing another dog’s butt” is a wholly convincing definition of high art.

In the early 60’s, before it became a color supplement to the New York Review of Books, the Scientific American published an article on monkey psychology. The researcher put a monkey in a large, comfortable box. The monkey could see out through a little window held shut by a spring. The idea was to quantify the monkey’s interest in different objects by measuring the length of time it was willing to hold the window open. Turned out that monkeys weren’t much interested in viewing a banana. They paid more attention to a toy train that puffed and whistled. But what inspired them to hold the window open till they dropped was the sight of another monkey.