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They are celebrities in sense, with at least publicly higher standards("presentable")...
Yeah but only weirdos have pictures of celebrities hung up in their house.
Plenty of teens' bedroom walls would disagree...
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That's wild. Also wild that the set dresser paid $500 from the film's budget for a random piece of non-key set dressing like this.
The article says that after the movie was made, the painting was owned by a set designer. I wonder if it was the same person who bought it for Sony. Seems kind of dodgy.
It is. They bought it from the production later, but before that it was reused in some TV shows.
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It's patriotic to have a picture of your royals in your home. You'd find pictures of The Royal Family in British homes, not so much now, but certainly photos of say Diana were fairly common in the 80s.
That makes sense. I don't think it's really popular here in the United States to have a president on your wall but I have seen pictures of them in restaurants especially if they frequented the establishment. It makes me curious about this specific example if the painter copied another painting of the king or he managed to somehow get time with the king in order to know what he looks like for the commission.
> I don't think it's really popular here in the United States
I recently read a longform interview of someone who married into the Pelosi family. Apparently, at least at those levels, a "vanity wall" with pictures of yourself/your family with famous folk (in this case: former presidents, perhaps foreign statesmen) is common.
I tried googling for that phrase... it matches a piece of bathroom furniture, instead of a wall of photos showing off you know famous folk in your expertise.
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>It’s a conundrum. If we start returning things that were stolen in the past, well that includes a lot of stuff. That isn't a conundrum, it's a hassle. Britain did the work to plunder the world, they can do the work to return the plunder, or pay rent to the countries they stole from if those countries choose to have their property remain in British custody. >If you are on the losing side you might sometimes have to r…
> it's starting to set on the American empire. [citation-needed] The US is the only first world country with demographic numbers that look not-apocalyptic.
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That’s such a dumb comment. Back when the British was taking items back to the UK. There were no rules or systems in place for this stuff. You could buy it, trade it, steal it. It didn’t matter. And the UK isn’t the only country to ever do this. Laws were created to resolve/fix/prevent things happening. You can’t blame people for shit that happened before someone decided it’s wrong.
the moral relative concept that previous peoples' didn't know right-from-wrong is , as always, ridiculous. we're not talking about a bogus modern concept here, we're talking about cultural theft on a global scale -- and we're pretending that the British did so without ever realizing that stealing artifacts from other nations around the world is A Bad Thing, until of course they produced modern rules to apply to their…
Again. When the British were going to a lot of countries. They didn’t “steal” a lot of stuff. It was traded. They were gifts. Or they found them and took them back. No one was kicking up a fuss, half the counties were full of locals who would be classified as primitive and had no concept of cultural heritage.
Pretty much all countries are now governed in some form of another and have some laws protecting these things and/or preventing them from being removed from the country.
Yes we can debate if the British should return a lot of this stuff. But that’s a completely different topic.
But you cannot fly a single banner and call it 100% looting/stealing when that is not true.
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#127The sam2 segmenting model going through all social media scanning for stolwn art.
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That makes sense. I don't think it's really popular here in the United States to have a president on your wall but I have seen pictures of them in restaurants especially if they frequented the establishment. It makes me curious about this specific example if the painter copied another painting of the king or he managed to somehow get time with the king in order to know what he looks like for the commission.
> I don't think it's really popular here in the United States I recently read a longform interview of someone who married into the Pelosi family. Apparently, at least at those levels, a "vanity wall" with pictures of yourself/your family with famous folk (in this case: former presidents, perhaps foreign statesmen) is common. I tried googling for that phrase... it matches a piece of bathroom furniture, instead of a wa…
Bragging is common in many strata of society.