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    5 months ago

    We should give a famous painter a show where we don’t allow them to paint, just ask for their unqualified opinions on literally anything.

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      5 months ago

      If only we could do this while they eat increasingly spicier sauces as the interview continues.

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      5 months ago

      Why restrict ourselves to painters? Just have random people give their view. We could call it the view. It emphasises their opinion is what matters.

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        5 months ago

        It could be literally anybody, the only requirement is we do not allow them to do the thing they actually are good at.

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          5 months ago

          On today’s episode we have the world’s greatest yo-yo champion and we’re going to ask them what they think about Entanglement formation in continuous-variable random quantum networks.

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            5 months ago

            You know, I haven’t had a TV connected to cable or antenna since I was 18, so for the last 15 years I kinda just memory holed the existence of the view.

            I did not make the connection and now feel stupid haha.

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      5 months ago

      Ja Rule can be the host of the show! I think you’ve got a hit TV idea here.

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      5 months ago

      Preventing painters from painting and letting these exact art-depraved artists express their opinions on things is a bad idea. That’s Literally Hitler’s origin story.

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        5 months ago

        At the end of each episode we will allow them to paint… IF… Enough of the studio audience votes for it.

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    5 months ago

    He was a tough nut to crack.

    “Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.” - also Picasso.

    But he was an artist. Technology was just a tool for him to make art, nothing more. I’m sure if you’d shown him an iPad with a modern sketching program on it hooked up to a dye-sub printer, he would have been at least a little intrigued. He might have disregarded it as a toy, but he also might have worked with a new medium to see what he could do.

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    The moon landing was 1969, less than four years before Picasso would die at the age of 91.

    I’m absolutely not surprised that he didn’t care, I don’t think the actual consequences / effects of the moon landing would have been readily available for Picasso to grasp (or many other people at the time).

    Plus, at that age, nobody gives a fuck about anything anyway.

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      5 months ago

      I asked my 101-year-old grandma what her favourite part about the last 100 years was, and she said “my cats”. Iconic.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah. At the time, the moon landing was about a dick measuring contest with Russia. I imagine Picasso saw it as just that.

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    5 months ago

    Didn’t Picasso suffer from serious depression? This sounds pretty spot on for someone who does.