Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/28/man-in-1937-painting-appears-t.html
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But what about that box of laptops in the middle? How come no one is talking about that!!
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The Indian sitting on a fax machine is distracting.
Nice to see that Witches on brooms haven’t changed at all.
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He also appears to be sitting in some sort of tub-shaped time machine!
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That painting is worthy of the Pawnee, Indiana municipal building.
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This painting should obviously appear in the next Thomas Pynchon novel.
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Haven’t heard of the artist, but he certainly nails the Regionalist art style ala Thomas Hart Benton and John Stewart Curry (I am not sure if it was required to have three names as a Regionalist painter, but it didn’t hurt.)
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That’s clearly a tricorder.
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everyone was so distractingly muscular back then. and seriously, wtf is that witch doing flying by in the background?
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This must have been the work of the Doctor. Anyone else remember Tom Baker in “City of Death?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Death
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That’s how big laptops were back then.
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I’m positive that’s an energy bar, what flavor / brand I don’t know…
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What are those images called that make your brain hear what’s seen?
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Synesthesia? I think.
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“People on Insta aren’t going to believe what these crazy white guys are doing”
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how about the guy in the back right using the RonCo neck massager.
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not just a smartphone, but one with a front facing camera AND an app that lets you use it as a mirror? Obviously a time traveler from 2008.
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Hmm I wonder if it has a flashlight?
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It has to have a flashlight. But the real question is the flashlight a built-in feature or do you have to install a third party app to use it? My conjecture that he’s from 2008 stands.
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