I am not a car guy, but that machine looks fucking sweet.
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We bout to have a BMW vs Chevrolet profile pics @YellowZR1
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Hey now don’t knock Pontiac like that; a lot of time, effort and hard work went into making the Aztek look like the ugliest fucking car of its time.
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Fortunately he died tragically young because I think he absolutely definitely would have used AI to make art, I am damn sure of it though that being said Warhol also respected putting in appreciable effort into the art he created and I certainly wouldn’t call him lazy. Silk-screening, painting and filmmaking are very time consuming endeavours even if you are using very mundane subject matter, the process he used in his paintings is the same as any other artist hat came before him.
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Again lazy? Warhol spent six months working on the first Soup Cans series alone and had to project, trace, paint and stamp no less than 32 individual pieces in order to create the full series used in his first Soup Cans series. This doesn’t even counted the damaged cans series which had several even more unique pieces.
The Marilyn Portfolio, Diptych and Gold Marilyn screens took several years all up and required Warhol to both sketch Monroe, paint the silk screen in the right colour and print each screen. The paintings show an understanding of mass market consumerism’s impact on art. a competence in the use of a mass automated silk-screening process (something hard to do before the advent of laser printing) and a command of colour theory. Even the process Warhol decided to take in picking which celebrity to screen was a meticulous and well-thought out process.
The last picture isn’t even an artistic work it is the album cover for The Velvet Underground and Nico and it was itself revolutionary for it being an example of the use of stickers in an album cover, the album cover was interactive and by peeling off the sticker you revealed a flesh toned banana. Warhol was also the album’s financier, he was one of its producers and he was also responsible the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour used to promote the album and even discovering the band in the first place…
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And somehow we never brought up anyone, say like @Duckilous, @Ducker, or simply just @Duck, who uses duck pics against you, not just a chicken, TheChicken? 
I guess that’s fair though, rubber ducks aren’t real ducks, but are prominently more popular here at HMF.
That’s a great car you’ve picked, Acci! I recommend watching Hagerty’s video about this legendary machine. You just don’t see that many iconic BMWs with not one, but two logos at the back of the car, proving that you don’t need a gigantic grill to attract everyone’s attention.
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The M1 is right up there with the DeLorean for the biggest shitshow development except the M1 is actually a good car unlike the DeLorean.
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More reasons to modify the DeLorean with time travel capability, right? It is indeed so iconic that I don’t think even Universal will change it to a different model car when they finally decides to reboot the franchise when F&F eventually runs out of fuel.
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You can’t, those films are so complicit in keeping the DeLorean in the popular conscious and for making it something people wanted to own that I think DMC would sue if they changed it.
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A 19 - Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy was one of the major visual artists of the Bauhaus movement, a genre of art that encompassed many forms of media, born out of the Bauhaus Academy’s desire to achieve a Gessamtkunstwerk or “Total artwork”, a unified body of art that was all encompassing across multiple mediums.
Lazlo saw the advent of photography and saw it stood to make representationalism in art a thing of the past. He sought to embrace the incorporation of the mechanical in the arts alongside encouraging other artists to do the same and on the whole he thought the whole art world became attached to regurgitating the same old formulae and the same old perspectives (in some cases literally Lazlo had a huge disregard for perspectivism which is why so much of his art is like this). In short he saw the camera as a way in which artists could detach themselves from traditional artistry and forge a new more universal canon.
Lazlo himself has three points of interest: Space, time and light so it is little wonder he found a home in Bauhaus who believed art should also take on principles of architecture and design with those three things being vital to architecture. It is also why he like photography and photograms (photograms are images taken by letting light hit objects on photosensitive paper in a controlled manner) so much.
While Lazlo preferred photography to painting he still wanted to try and bring the perspectives of these new emergent mediums to more traditional ones like paintings for example like this one titled A 19 which employs a system of overlaying shapes, translucency and shading to give the effect of both dynamism and the effect that this painting is more of a work born out of light than of colour. Also notice the white spot, solid white shapes like this are what most artists who take photograms try to achieve.
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Construction on Site Frank Ruttigkeit
Ah a complete change after only one day but I read an utterly fascinating article (Posted below) on the vast collection of art held by Chemnitz based mining company SDAG Wismut. Wismut (lit Bismuth) had, through out its time in operation, a variety of artists come in usually to paint works like this that captured the workers of East Germany hard at work, commissioned portraits of the company’s (collective’s?) higher-ups or running workshops for workers who wanted to dabble in the arts. The Wismut collection ranges from near impressionist pieces like this to the more archetypal examples of Soviet social realism
This depicts the miners busy making new construction for the mine’s operation though ostensibly in the business of mining bismuth (a metal that is virtually useless, it has some slight use as a catalysing agent and as a lead substitute) the company actually mined uranium which it sent to the Soviet Union for use in their nuclear arsenal.
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Regatta at Cowes - Raoul Dufy
Painted by the Fauvist Raoul Dufy this peace depicts a yacht race off Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England. Fauvism was basically a very short lived (the movement lasted two years with three exhibitions officially) but highly influential form of Post-Impressionist painting characterised by its use of very bold colours, less representational forms and for its use of wild and strident brush strokes which broken even with traditional Impressionism. A lot of these sorts of artistic tropes would later find themselves being used in movements such as expressionism and Cubism. Also of note is that many Fauvists were also collectors of African and Oceanic pieces.
Originally I was going to use the work of one of its founders, Andre Derain but I find his collaboration with Nazi German as a living propaganda piece to be objectionable. The other founder of the movement Henri Matisse will most likely pop up here in another painting most likely Le Bonheur de Vivre.
The Derain piece I wanted to use before my period of light research.
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seasonal penguin improves once again with a spooky background for 2023
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Now that we’re in the spooky season of October, time to again change the ol’ profile pic to that of the other Heisenberg to become big in recent pop culture; this smug and sinister bastard from Resident Evil: Village. And so shall be my “costume” here until November cometh.
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I’ll bite. I present the Schattenjager in disguise!
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Spooky month calls for spooky profile pic! (thx again @.tetrafish_21 for the idea)
Actually, should I redraw this with my own chicken? 
- yes
- no need
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