out-there-on-the-maroon:

adios-toreadork:

glumshoe:

cipherface:

glumshoe:

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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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. 

holdyourghost:

rosewater1997:

Are you there god It’s me your bastard child 

(Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan)

How to tell you’re talking to a digital artist

jitterbugjive:

crystalsuicune:

Say you prefer jpg over png and watch their expression

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pinkmarco:

pinkmarco:

Thanos is a weak ass bitch of a villain because ever since killmonger I need all my villains to pull up with some style, looks, a certain je ne sais quoi. Killmonger stole a thousand year old artifact and wore it as armor and wore solid gold fangs. What did Thanos wear? The same body armor for hundreds of years and a dumb glove that wasn’t even designer

People are all like “he’s an alien” like so was Hela and she pulled up with some iconic goth looks, Chanel horned helmet, a beautiful smokey eye, nails that could cut diamonds, Thanos has no excuse fashion is universal

and dont forget that jeff goldblum is even OLDER than thanos and he shows up in a gold bathrobe and stuff and looks a hell of a lot better than thanos.

voiddenizen:

silver-tongues-blog:

voiddenizen:

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hanging out with lil chumby…love her so Much.

can you tell callie i love her?

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She Shows Her Love Via Massive Fuckin Ass

bode

silver-tongues-blog:

switch-up-snowfox:

thespectacularspider-girl:

aliceinozwiththebeast:

vandallsavage:

zezlemet:

Remember when Terry played the Joker like a fiddle cause I sure do

Joker status:
[ ] Told
[ ] Told like a bitch
[X] Batman: The Brave And The Told

Terry is literally what bruce would’ve been if his parents didn’t die. Well either that or terry got his sense of humor from his mom.

I love Batman Beyond because it’s basically Spider-Man as Batman with a healthy dosage of cyberpunk.

The best part is this isn’t just Terry fucking with Joker, Terry realized after bats told him “Joker likes to talk” that he likes to talk too. So he decided to answer joker back with something Joker was never expecting. Joker could easily deal with the typical hero “you won’t get away with this” talk or someone being absolutely quiet. But mockery? taking the piss? Telling joker straight up “you ain’t shit?”

He can’t take a joke

jitterbugjive:

theleastlunatic:

morthils:

cephalopodvictorious:

spacemomalex:

next-venoms:

tr1angl3:

fadingthebiscuit:

acti-veg:

Just a head’s up, when meat eaters say things like “I’m glad you’re not like most vegans you’re cool about it” what they really mean is “I’m glad you’re silent about animal cruelty so I can eat animals without having to think about it.”

No actually what they likely mean is “I’m glad you’re not like PETA and compare women’s bodies to beef and pork” or “I’m glad you’re not the type of asshole who blames poor people for not being able to afford healthy vegan foods instead of getting upset at the grocery chains who throw out tons and tons of perfectly good produce”

see also: “im glad youre not one of those vegans who compares the meat industry to the holocaust”. anti-semetic, sexist, racist, and classist rhetoric is unfortunately quite common among vegans and it’s disingenuous as hell to act like having an issue with that is silencing vegans.

Also “I’m glad you aren’t one of those vegans who thinks I should put my health on the line”

“I’m glad you don’t harass me over my life choices because you’re a decent fucking human being who realizes that throwing humans under the bus so you can have an ego trip is a shitty thing to do”

Also: I’m glad you’re not one of those vegans who lies about what’s in food they’re feeding me when I ask about my allergens so that I don’t have to risk literally dying

“i’m glad you’re not literally blaming global climate change on me, personally, for liking cheese while corporations dump pollution directly into the ozone by the ton because it saves them a few dollars”

“i’m glad you’re not getting on a moral high horse about animal cruelty while ignoring the human rights abuses that go into farming your vegan faves like quinoa”

THAT LAST ONE

“I’m glad you’re not one of those vegans who compares the choice to eat meat to the choice to rape someone”


I wish i was fucking lying but two different vegans argued with me why that was okay

“im glad you dont just choose the topic of food as a means to boost your own ego despite the fact that what you eat is the result of even more suffering than the meat industry has since foreign farmers who grow your greens are horribly abused and you think you deserve a soy cookie just because you eat something different.”

ebonytails:

ch0ngus:

robyravioli:

savefrog:

allsadnshit:

if you didnt watch amv’s when you were a kid then you probably cant feel the full spectrum of human emotion even now 

The full range of Human Emotions are:

  • Hot n Cold
  • Gay or European
  • Everytime We Touch
  • Witch Doctor
  • Bodies
  • If You Were Gay
  • Superstar
  • Calling all the monsters

this is crawling erasure

Don’t forget

  • Best Friend

(our first introduction to vore my friends)

how the FUCK could you leave out bring me to life

shablaminal-crossing:

tickingnectarine:

toshio:

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goodbye mayor…..you’ve been away too long…..

Long Live the Mayor

Mable in the background:

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