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Exciting news - my Regency Cthulhu scenario, Host and Hostility has been nominated for Best Electronic Book at the Ennie Awards. Please vote by ranking it 1. https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2023/ballot.php?category_id=7 Host and Hostility is a collection of Call of Cthulhu scenarios heavily influenced by the works of Austen and Lovecraft with just a hint of Bridgerton.

#regency #bridgerton #Regency Cthulhu #call of cthulhu #cthulhu #period drama

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In hopes of inspiring younger generations, NASA created this series of gorgeous retro travel posters that encourage you to imagine a future where common space travel is a legitimate possibility. Source

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Protest song for the current climate

#blm2020 #protest #blacklivesmatter #racisim #blm uk #Youtube

Eat a Cabbage everyone - perfect for lockdown

#Youtube #veganbeauty #veganaf #vegetarian #cabbage #music #flash animation #bad flash animation #star wars

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Teds Revenge Meeting

Requested by competition winners Katie, Dave and Andy

This is the long overdue custom prize paint for last year’s photo competition winners. The full request:

“The scene we envisage is a Teds Revenge Meeting! Bears have traditionally been hunted, but now they’ve had enough, and hunted turns hunter! So picture the scene of the inside of a hunting lodge, wooden walls, big majestic fireplace with roaring fire and huge board room type table with big high-backed chairs. This is the Annual Ted Revenge Meeting (maybe there’s a banner above the fireplace saying something like that?). Superted is most definitely chairing the meeting. He’s still wearing his supersuit, but he definitely needs to look a bit more Rambo too. He’s pointing at the whiteboard/flipchart next to him. It’s headed ‘Most wanTED’ and on it are all the pictures of the people/characters they’re hunting and want revenge on.

Those that they’ve already knocked off have a big red cross through them. Texas Pete, Superted’s arch nemesis, has been circled on the chart as next on the list. They’ve just got him. He’s been tied up in his own lasso rope and is hanging upside down by it in one corner of the room looking seriously worried!

All the best famous teds are sat round the table at the meeting….

- Bungle from rainbow is there. He’s looking pretty pleased because Geoffery’s head is already mounted on a plaque above the fireplace. - There’s an evil looking care bear who isn’t paying too much attention to the talk being given because he’s busy polishing his Rambo knife. - Yogi is there with his picnic basket (with the ranger tied up inside it) - Rupert is wearing his scarf, only it looks like it’s been knitted out of entrails….! - Sooty is there, but we couldn’t decide whether he’d be using the terrified puppeteer as the puppet on his hand, whether he’d just be holding some gruesome severed hand, or if the puppeteer would be running around the room missing an arm?! I think I’ll leave that bit for you to decide

Now obviously it’s a revenge meeting for TEDdy bears, but the other Teds in this world clearly feel left out and want to be involved, so they’ve come incognito/in disguise. Father Ted is sat there wearing some really rubbish bear ears and a nose and is angrily waving a picture of Bishop Brennan in front of him because that’s who he wants revenge on. Ted Theodore logan from Bill & Ted has just arrived in the corner of the room in his phonebox.

So where do me and Dave come in? Well I thought we could be there sat round the big table too also wearing our really lame bear disguises (maybe just ears and a nose) looking a bit nervous and shifty as if we’re worried we are going to be rumbled any minute!”

n.b. As Katie and Dave are both doctors I included a Jeremy Hunt hide rug as a bonus prize.

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the only good JFK assassination theories

1. his head just did that

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{Ummm… everyone knows that JFK from an alternate future went back in time and assassinated himself so a man from the far future could get some curry}

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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.

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

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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.

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“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.

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”

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

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Heroes

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Also fun fact we learned in class today: Michelangelo carved a sculpture of a Roman god, broke off the arm, and then buried it. The sculpture was dug up and was considered to be an authentic Roman artefact, until Michelangelo came along with the missing arm and called shenanigans on himself, just to prove he was as skilled a sculptor as the ancient Romans.

lamujeroscura

honestly mike? chill.

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“As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing their ancient song of bread. Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew. Yes, it is bread we fight for — but we fight for roses, too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days. The rising of the women means the rising of the race. No more the drudge and idler — ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of life’s glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!”

– Bread and Roses, 1911

God sent an angel to a town in Galilee, a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, yousa highly favoured! Mesa called de Angel Binks. Mesa your humble servent. God, hesa be wid you” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Oh mooey mooey, Mary; yousa found favour wid God! You-sa goin' give birth to da son, and you-sa to call him lil' Ani. Hesa bring balance to da force and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; hisa kingdom will never end, okeday?”

#Nativity #star wars #jar jar binks #mary #jesus #god #bible #christmas #Luke #manger #winter

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Dave Jennings - 1960-2014

Dave Jennings – 1960-2014

Last week I heard the very sad news that Dave Jennings, a very good friend of mine, had passed away from a heart attack outside his flat in Bradford.

I’ve known Dave for several years, initially through friends who were in the musicals society but since 2009 we have been on a regular pub quiz team together at the university.

Though originally from the Bradford area, Dave’s early career was in…

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Hi Everyone, Over the past year I recieved a number of messages asking me whether I would be willing to send people stegosaurus, and one even enquired as to whether I would sell them one. As a result, I have set up an etsy shop from which you can purchase any of the origami stegosauruses that appear on this blog. If you have a particular favourite, drop me a message if you buy and I will send you that one (if someone hasn't already got there first!)