THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Ah, so!

I have an edition of The Great Gatsby with this on the cover. Really weird to learn that this painting is not even from a Western artist.

It reminded me of this (pre-AI) music video.

She’s a ginger. Just saying, not insinuating anything. /s

I didn’t realize the Microsoft font was named after the painter rather than just being named “beer town” (which seemed rather ill-fitting anyway).

Iirc, German passports are overall the most versatile in terms of allowing international travel.

The contrast, the flowing scarf, the photorealism! Amazing.

parts of Europe are in yellow due to threat of terrorist attacks

But the US is green? I.e. no terror attacks or shootings ever occur there…?

Sure.

Somehow doesn’t look like 1776 at all, except maybe because of the sightly unrealistic perspective/pose/not sure but the head looks off somehow.

Did you though? Looks like the legend is still using absolute numbers.

My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they’re in a barely regulated industry and they’re fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.

As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.

Naturally, Schaefer’s “Burning Bank series” quickly endeared him to one particular community of financial pirate investors: the Bitcoin community. […]

Schaefer recently created his first NFT series as well, he says. –source

welp :/

That is one tiny bird in its mouth!

If you’re ever in Brussels…

Huh. It does read like that. But I just copied the format that @craftyindividual uses for the date of the artwork rather than the birth/death date of the painter.

It’s surrealism, so it’s not meant to be realistic. Likely, the candles are returning to nature but that’s my guess. It might just be the user(s) of these candles instead.

Magritte’s work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. […]

René Magritte described his paintings as “visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, ‘What does that mean?’. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.”

Wikipedia

Arte Karambolage has done this for multiple animals, with French and Germans: Die Lautmalerei/L’onomatopée, der Hund/Le Chien (non-Europeans might be geo-blocked, sorry). Interestingly, the Germans in the video all go for “Wau wau” instead of “wuff wuff”.

(There are more episodes of Lautmalerei/Onomatopoée. A funny one is the elephant. Germans all use “töröö”, because of the influence of a popular children’s audiobook about a speaking elephant.)

This is awesome.