Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport

Post by vmception » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

winfred wrote: post #22

antisthenes wrote: post #11

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> The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over) Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.

At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when frien…

Post by analog31 » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 5:05 AM UTC

k_sze wrote: post #16

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Silly way to do it if so. "Anything to declare?" "No! Certainly not this huge cardboard box I'm carrying!" That sort of smuggling would normally depend on small high-value items. Not bloody huge ones. And in general, unless the money is dirty, there should be no particular problem transferring money from Germany to Israel.

Or he could be betting on the customs officers not knowing Yves Tanguy. He could just claim that it’s a random cheapish painting he bought as a gift, especially since it’s unsigned and undated. In contrast, everybody knows what a gold bullion is.

Post by tuco86 » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #10

> thoroughly examined the contents of paper recycling dumpsters used by the cleaning crew. I've seen comments elsewhere noting how German it supposedly is to examine the paper dumpsters only, and to actually be right about it. So to nip this in the bud, let me state for the record that these are mediocre Germans at best: Oil-on-canvas does not belong in the paper recycling. They should have separated the cardboard bo…

Post by anonytrary » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 5:35 AM UTC

tillinghast wrote: post #4

Lol, I'm looking at this painting thinking: who ripped off whom, Dalí or this guy? Turns out: Dalí. From wikipedia: "Dalí was also influenced by the work of Yves Tanguy, and he later allegedly told Tanguy's niece, 'I pinched everything from your uncle Yves.'" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Post by tristor » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 5:58 AM UTC

winfred wrote: post #22

antisthenes wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over) Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.

At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when frien…