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So they cook the meat over fire from a rare burning painting?
Yes. It is a very expensive and rare meal.
Don't some of those old dyes have heavy metal toxins in them, or is that not a concern?
What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?
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You know that paint dries right? How do you plan on rehydrating it?
And in the case of oil paintings, "dries" means "polymerizes", so rehydrating is impossible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drying_oil
Do you also have a source of unadulterated 130 year old rehydrating compound?
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Don't some of those old dyes have heavy metal toxins in them, or is that not a concern?
I believe it's less of a concern and more of a thought exercise.
I see. Isn't Kobe Beef renowned for the ethics of it? I heard the cows get massaged. That doesn't seem nearly as ostentatious as much as art pieces.
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I believe it's less of a concern and more of a thought exercise.
I see. Isn't Kobe Beef renowned for the ethics of it? I heard the cows get massaged. That doesn't seem nearly as ostentatious as much as art pieces.
It's for the even fat marbling. The high grade cuts cut through easily with a fork because of the fat distribution.
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#56It 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…
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.