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Reblogged eastofedean
Guys watch out OP is a fundamentally flawed person
Reblogged pleaseraisemefromperdition
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.
Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.
cipherface
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.
“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.
adios-toreadork
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”
Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible.
That’s just rapscallionry.
Reblogged finelytaylored
iconic musical theatre world performances with links!
hopefully theres something here for everyone [esp new fans!], i included lots of popular/iconic performances and some less talked about ones : )
- let's start with run away with me! every male broadway tenor has performed this, including: grant gustin [x], jeremy jordan [x], aaron tveit [x], michael arden [x], ben fankhauser [x], matt doyle [x], etc... here's a playlist of all of them [x] [there's 42 covers??? jesus]
- bonnie milligan and matt doyle together is always perfection but i esp. LOVE their version of tell me [x] and their 90's medley [x]
- andy mientus + kings of leon with krysta rodriguez and jeremy jordan as backup? dont complain just sit and listen [x]
- bonus here's aaron tveit singing the same song [x]
- mandatory jeremy jordan its all coming back to me now link [x] also him singing sam smith [x] and radiohead [x]
- now onto broadway's boyfriend aaron tveit in THAT rent performance ft gavin creel [x], popular [x], and seven wonders [x]
- baby joshua colley singing valjean better than hugh jackman at age 13 [x] + him singing godspell w/ dustin from stranger things [x]
- NOW. older!joshua colley absolutely killing go the distance [x], she used to be mine [x], and seventeen from heathers [x] [he reminds me of that dude from enola holmes? is that just me]
- ben fankhauser singing belief (the alexander sage oyen/fankhauser combo is godly) [x]
- THE BRO DUET ft george salazar/jason gotay (no homo song) [x]
- anything deaf west spring awakening, but special shoutout to their renditions of word of your body [x], word of your body reprise [x], touch me [x], and their tonys performance [x]
- also ben fankhauser singing a christmas song, riffing into a key change, and playing the melodica in between? [x]
- speaking of, his wake me up/touch me mashup with him also playing the piano! talented man [x]
- aaron tveit loml singing hozier is one for the books [x]
- drew gasparini! andy mientus once again in love with jeremy jordan! hit list! perfect! i just really like this song [x]
- austin mckenzie singing (and signing!) valerie... [x]
- also him signing/singing brother is a 10/10 [x]
- obligatory aaron tveit+taylor swift link [x]
- denee benton singing a cut song from the great comet of 1812 [x]
- michael arden playing piano & singing i'd rather be sailing interrupted by andy mientus stealing his drink and harmonizing [x]
- that taylor louderman little miss perfect vid that got co-opted by the owl house fans and tiktok [x]
- jenn damiano flipping the song i've been to make it from natalie's pov- its super interesting and worth listening to as a n2n fan [x]
- also this hour long video shitting on the cats movie [x] and this one shitting on the les mis movie [x]
in conclusion, fuck tom hooper and i hope you enjoy!
Reblogged laikawriter
You know that post that was going around like a year ago. That said something like 'hey you don't need to wear any makeup' and people kept commenting shit like 'yeah just a little eyeliner is enough'. This is how this post feels to me
This is EXACTLY WHY I tell my students DO NOT USE CHATGPT in school!!
Reblogged tenmiceinacoat
some people just have no true appreciation for terrible women. oh she killed and ate people? well maybe she was hungry. "I cant defend her anymore-" well then fucking stand aside so i can talk to my client
Reblogged stars-of-kyber
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yourkingcodyfern
Incredibly fucking slow at it 🤧
i fixed it
Reblogged dollopheadedmerlin
still thinking about when i saw a girl on here with ~3 partners and one of them was a lesbian with a “MEN DNI” banner and one of them was a tboy with a “‘MEN DNI’ DNI” banner
Reblogged bertilakslady
your life is not an optimization problem
as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.
Reblogged k9effect
Every time I see this joke it gets longer, firing another shot directly into the dad joke region of my brain.