Episode #57: Cracker Jack Buddhas

SHOW THEMES

 - Van Gogh "hidden" portrait

 - Secret mirrors and Cracker Jack Buddhas

 - AI image generators

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:38 - Van Gogh portrait found behind "Head of a Peasant Woman"

 - 01:08 - James makes a case for "peasant-core"

 - 01:35 - Random x-rays, but why?

 - 02:02 - "I thought the painting was depressing"

 - 02:25 - Breaking down curator boredom

 - 03:12 - Impasto faux pas... Rembrandt not Van Gogh!

 - 04:45 - It's simple - canvass is expensive.

 - 06:12 - Van Gogh was "a broke ass painter"

 - 06:30 - Buddha Buddha on the wall. How did you get there?

 - 07:25 - "Mystery purchase" at Tucson Gem Show

 - 08:12 - Cracker Jack enlightenment

 - 10:45 - Are there more mysteries in plain sight? Probable not.

 - 11:56 - All the kids are doing it? (AI image generators)

 - 13:30 - Why AI? It's not art, it's a tool https://www.craiyon.com

 - 14:20 - Joan of Arc eating ice cream

 - 15:43 - Georgia O'Keefe painted cats?

 - 18:10 - Cats in the "style" of Damien Hurst look like Laurel Burch https://www.laurelburch.com

 - 19:08 - James is DALL-E wait-listed

 - 21:00 - Unintended scarcity?

 - 22:28 - Generating "fun spaghetti"

 - 22:50 - "Nefarious" experimentation yielded freakish results!

 - 24:00 - "Hack-a-thon" and curated image database

 - 25:40 - Let's just leave it!