I'm starting to feel like the people who complain about the poor quality of media and aggressive advertising are part of the problem by refusing to pay for content when it is offered to them in an up-front way. As if the entire world is entitled to open access to journalism. Or that paying for news hasn't been how publishers operated for hundreds of years.
Making snotty, leading assumptions about people complaining about bait-and-switch links is a poor way to make one's point. Perhaps you actually do subscribe to literally every site with links posted here; I'm going to guess that most regulars here don't.
I actually do not mind links I can't hit being posted here, where it shows the domain the link goes to. That's as good as a '[paywalled]' indicator.
I do really hate it elsewhere where you can't tell before hovering the link, and think they should be optionally excludable from search engine searches, or at the very least tagged as such - I'm did not search for "media subscription pages".
A lot of big ticket stolen art is used as collateral for other illegal transactions. Everyone knows it's worthless because you can't unload it. But it shows you are a really good criminal.
It is also used as an escrow/counterparty between the mafia members, most of the time it serves as a guarantee or deposit, it has no intrinsic economic value. In very few cases it's a go-to jail/ out of jail card.
Honestly it doesn't even need to be that. In the ideal world they'd write the title in a way that makes it look like an interesting read, don't try to trick me into clicking. It doesn't neccesarily have to have the info in the title, I know they've got folks to pay and that.
A question title? I'll always try to answer it in the comments if I've got the time. I find it funny to do so, and it helps others.
Question titles are just lazy journalism, then to go on to ask for money to read the article. Haha. No.
I'm reminded of the movie American Animals, where four college students attempt to steal some of Audubon's drawings, and realize that the fencers themselves want a valuation before they're willing to buy.
> Durham’s exasperation is not that of some couch potato who has seen one too many crime shows. He’s a thief who 18 years ago stole not one but two van Gogh paintings from Amsterdam’s famous Van Gogh Museum.
Then a few paragraphs later talks about how he also committed his crime with a sledgehammer and no forethought:
> “I just did it because I saw the opportunity,” Durham said. He noticed a window at the museum that he thought would be easy to smash. “I didn’t have a buyer before I did it,” he said. “I just thought I can either sell them, or if I have a problem I can negotiate with the paintings.”
See other comments in this thread for a single-sentence distillation of the only really useful information from the article.
You make a style transfer on a photo of 1880. Use the paint of the original van Gogh to paint the styletransfer result. Bring it to the Van Gogh museum and let them authenticate it as the real deal.
Sorry for the Dutch article, couldn’t find an English one. But the gist of it is that a guy stole a painting by smashing a window with a sledgehammer during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands. And got away with it.
I’m curious to learn more about the thoughts behind the security measures of museums. Balancing accessibility with “stealability”.
>Priceless Chinese works of art stolen in audacious robberies from galleries and museum in Britain and Europe are thought to be ending up in private collections belonging to Beijing billionaires.
>Zhao Xu, the director of Beijing Poly Auction, told China Daily: “Buying looted artwork has become high street fashion among China’s elite.”
It seems a lot of art is used for signaling purposes, aka ostentatious consumption.
In terms of ostentatious consumption, I think the ultimate would be Kobe van Gogh steaks.
Those are Kobe Beef steaks grilled over a fire that was built using a van Gogh painting. I hear the old oils based paints when they burn in the fire impart a very distinctive flavor to the meat that just can't be duplicated anywhere else.
There's a great bbc sketch show chewing the fat. One scene involves a working class Glasgow couple who wins 15 million on the lotto. They buy a van Gogh and hang it up in thier living room because the like it. Some thieves break in and steal a lava lamp and cutlery, as well as the painting because the frame might be worth a few quid. At the end of the scene, the thieves are selling the lava lamp at a flea market and casually rip the painting up to use as packing paper for the lava lamp.
I think that Japanese drawings on thin paper which are today very valuable were used in the past (at the time they were drawn) as packing paper for porcelain.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 100 ms ] threadWouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
I think archive.is still archives NYT as well but I'm not 100% confident on that.
I'm starting to feel like the people who complain about the poor quality of media and aggressive advertising are part of the problem by refusing to pay for content when it is offered to them in an up-front way. As if the entire world is entitled to open access to journalism. Or that paying for news hasn't been how publishers operated for hundreds of years.
I actually do not mind links I can't hit being posted here, where it shows the domain the link goes to. That's as good as a '[paywalled]' indicator.
I do really hate it elsewhere where you can't tell before hovering the link, and think they should be optionally excludable from search engine searches, or at the very least tagged as such - I'm did not search for "media subscription pages".
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
https://artdaily.com/news/124021/What-do-you-do-with-a-stole...
Clickbait titles leading to long fluffy non-answer pieces can do one.
edit: I think I'd be more inclined to click this title than the original.
A question title? I'll always try to answer it in the comments if I've got the time. I find it funny to do so, and it helps others.
Question titles are just lazy journalism, then to go on to ask for money to read the article. Haha. No.
Then a few paragraphs later talks about how he also committed his crime with a sledgehammer and no forethought:
> “I just did it because I saw the opportunity,” Durham said. He noticed a window at the museum that he thought would be easy to smash. “I didn’t have a buyer before I did it,” he said. “I just thought I can either sell them, or if I have a problem I can negotiate with the paintings.”
See other comments in this thread for a single-sentence distillation of the only really useful information from the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drying_oil
You might need to spend more time in there these days.
It is still a clickbait title so i don't understand why the change was done in the first place.
https://m.gooieneemlander.nl/cnt/dmf20200422_37766724/deuren...
Sorry for the Dutch article, couldn’t find an English one. But the gist of it is that a guy stole a painting by smashing a window with a sledgehammer during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands. And got away with it.
I’m curious to learn more about the thoughts behind the security measures of museums. Balancing accessibility with “stealability”.
Edit: Here’s an English resource and video: https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/22/video-released-van-gogh-theft-...
>Priceless Chinese works of art stolen in audacious robberies from galleries and museum in Britain and Europe are thought to be ending up in private collections belonging to Beijing billionaires.
>Zhao Xu, the director of Beijing Poly Auction, told China Daily: “Buying looted artwork has become high street fashion among China’s elite.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/25/chinese-art-heis...
In terms of ostentatious consumption, I think the ultimate would be Kobe van Gogh steaks.
Those are Kobe Beef steaks grilled over a fire that was built using a van Gogh painting. I hear the old oils based paints when they burn in the fire impart a very distinctive flavor to the meat that just can't be duplicated anywhere else.
It's a funny sketch but I really do like it.