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A series of pictures made by photographing the same spot several times, then digitally erasing or adding people from other pictures to create composites based on themes. By Peter Funch

I now own this:

It's an original Dan Lacey painting. I've bid on his auctions a few times after seeing some of his work on poe-news.com. He's gone from painting Oolong-inspired pancake on head paintings of celebrities and other things to becoming internet-famous for his nude obama paintings. And now I own one.

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The Ten Thousand Cents project is probably the coolest application of Amazon's Mechanical Turk I've seen thus far. Thousands of contributors helped draw a $100 bill, one tiny segment at a time.

Great works of gummi art

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

(Previously)

George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled “A Charge to Keep.” Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography.
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So in Bush’s view (or perhaps I should say, faith) the key figure, with whom he personally identifies, is a missionary spreading the word of the Methodist Christianity in the American West in the late nineteenth century.
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Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.”

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