Nobelity

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[nobelity]

i can't keep forcing my friends to listen to me yap so i decided to start posting into the unforgiving void.

[5typesoftrash]

does anyone else think about bullet train (2022)? no, just me? okay

[nobelity]

me :)

[nobelity]

jethack

[wolfythewitch]

Dog years

[hurtmitcrab]

#ow

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[nobelity]

what the fuck

[ramenyul]

project hail mary is like i'll make you believe that friendship will save the world. i'll make you remember that our society rests on the backs of teachers and scientists. i'll make you see that even the most cowardly can be brave. i'll make you horny for sandra huller. thank you greatest scifi film of the last 10 years

[nobelity]

like many, tadc "they all get guns" really scratched my brain.. here's some of my unorganized thoughts before i start my rewatch of the whole series, as is traditional for me when a new episode comes out

a lot of this episode, focused on characters perceptions of humanity, specifically their own humanity, especially given the fact that they no longer are human. The cartoon physics only work cartoonishly if the character believes themselves to be a cartoon, which is interesting when pomni stops treating guns like their real guns, she’s able to pull off some like Bugs Bunny level shenanigans.

but I think there’s a balance to be struck between using the cartoonish world to their advantage and literally viewing themselves like cartoons as jax does or he tries to do. He does slip quite a few times in the episode, but he quickly corrects himself because he can’t cope with the idea that there’s consequences to this world I suppose?

I like the fact that they are cartoons, has tangible impact on both of their self image and their perception of the world. Like it’s not just a medium to tell a story. It’s part of the story. an integral part at that. The story literally wouldn’t work if they weren’t cartoons.

[themonth0fapril]

They’re trying to communicate to him telepathically

[that-one-fish-friend]

Sometime shortly after AvA 4: (yeah this was on magma < 3)

[stickcollection]

Second pictured just doing his best with the bullshit he’s been handed (plus Sec design)

[nobelity]

i usually dont like super humanized art of the sticks but this is so cutee

[glumshoe]

Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. It’s full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.

[glumshoe]

Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.

[cipherface-deactivated20200224]

I liked this guy’s story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldn’t do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that he’d ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.

[glumshoe]

“The first painting Landis “donated” was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then “everybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to — I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.”” And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.

[skweebs]

Ok, but Wolfgang Beltracchi is probably one of the best Fraud Artists in the world.

His career brought him millions upon millions of dollars and lasted almost 40 years. He finally admitted to painting fraudulent art after the white paint he used came under scrutiny. 

“ Bob Simon: What do you think this Max Ernst would be worth? Wolfgang Beltracchi: This one? Simon: Yeah. Beltracchi: $5 million, I think. Simon: $5 million.  And you can do it in three days? Beltracchi: Yeah, oh yes, yes, sure, or quicker” -From a 60 minutes interview with Bob Simon

In The interview with Beltracchi, he said that none of his forgeries are copies, they’re all original works that the famous artists could have painted.

“Beltracchi estimates he has done 25 Max Ernsts. He is not copying an existing work. He’s painting something he thinks Ernst might have done if he’d had the time or felt like it.”  -  The Con Artist: A multi-million dollar art scam

His wife was also in on the scam, she would dress up in old clothing and take pictures holding the paintings with old cameras to fake proof of the paintings’ ages.

At the end of the interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi he was asked if he felt he had done anything wrong, his answer was “ Yeah, I used the wrong kind of paint”

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible. 

[therobotmonster]

That’s just rapscallionry.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is what AI wants to take from us.

[lucybellwood]

Let’s add Tom Keating to the mix, yeah?

Keating painted more than 2,000 forgeries by over 100 different artists in his sixty-six years. Many had fraudulently sold at auctions with the total profits estimated at over 10 million dollars. “I flooded the market with the work of Palmer and many others,” the artist said. “Not for gain (I hope I am no materialist) but simply as a protest against the merchants who make capital out of those I am proud to call my brother artists, both living and dead. It seemed disgraceful to me how many of them had died in poverty,” he defended in The Fake’s Progress, his autobiography. “All their lives they had been exploited by unscrupulous dealers and then, as if to dishonor their memory, these same dealers continued to exploit them in death.” […] Keating had a great respect and understanding of all the artists he imitated but was always reckless in his handling of the materials. He often used house paint and poster paint to mix in with his acrylics as a cheaper way to achieve the impasto works. At times he wouldn’t bother preparing his antique canvases he found at the junk shops out of laziness, so that in just a few years the paint would peel right off to reveal what was originally underneath. Keating often planted what he called “time bombs” like this in his paintings. Because of his understanding of the chemicals used in art restoration, Keating would purposely paint with layers of glycerin, which would destroy the painting once it was cleaned by a restorer, proving it was a fake. He often wrote obscenities under his paintings, like “Bollocks!”, in lead white so that it could be seen by the experts who x-rayed the painting to check its authenticity.

- Darby Milbrath, Tom Keating on Painters

[alsnoble]

Thinking about how nobody in Oakhurst truly knew Martyn. Not even until the very end. Out of all the people in the town, he spoke the least of his past, his intentions (that is, his real past).

As far as I remember, he never fully revealed to anyone that he was not, in truth, just some rich kid. They might have been able to figure this out on their own. He’s far too self sufficient and quick thinking to be a spoiled noble, but nothing was ever truly confirmed. Heck, the audience doesn’t even know what his real story was, just that his was “not rich.”

Do you think Sausage left Oakhurst and tried to learn more about his fallen friends, only to find nothing about a Martyn Woodhurst? No connections to any noble family, no prior connection to the town, just… nothing. Like he didn’t exist.

Did Martyn leave anyone behind? From how frantically he ran into town in the beginning, it seemed like he must have been running from something, from his past. We don’t know why he really came to Oakhurst in the first place, nor do we know if he has any connections left outside of the town. If he did, they will very likely never know what happened. How could they? Nobody would know to tell them.

Those who knew the true Martyn before the events of Vampires will never know what became of him, while those who saw him collapse, saw him die, never actually knew the real Martyn.

The survivors will go on to tell the story of a man who never existed, but the couldn’t have known any better. The real identity of Martyn Woodhurst died, all too abruptly, with him.

[i-am-a-fish]

I think bugs are really cute

[nobelity]

omnics :)

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Despite it's flaws I still love Tumblr. Pussy cunt cock and balls tits bitch fuck shit faggot dyke cunt cunt cunt. What other website could you post this on

[hammernfail]

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