Yes, @chingalera , it is like a Rembrandt, if only John Williams could score a piece for this spacy scene.

On second thought, Bill Gates probably would be able to still buy a new Rembrandt even if his taxes were raised (even if they were raised a LOT). And that's the point of this whole argument. Even if you raise taxes on the rich they wouldn't do without anything save for a Scrooge McDuck style money swimming pool/vault.

It's a crime that higher taxes on the rich are not being imposed when everyone else is a bit of bad luck away from huddling around a trash can fire for warmth and they are living lives of excess thanks to laws influenced by the lobbyists they hired with their disgusting wealth.

You know what...I'm poor. I'll fucking admit it.

I've been laid off from no less than four different teaching jobs in the past four years. Every year I've picked up odd jobs over the summer and have been able to find a new job (not a better job just a new job). Consequently, I've had to shave things off of my budget:

>>I've stopped eating out almost altogether (I still splurge for a $5 footlong every now and again but it's few and far between.

>>I got rid of my cable.

>>I cut my grocery budget in half (while still trying to buy semi-healthy things)

>>I haven't purchased anything for my aging computer in more than a year and a half (I'm a nerd so this IS a sacrifice believe it or not)

>>I stopped going to the bar except for special occasions (bachelor party for a friend most recently) and even then the first words out of my mouth are "What are your drink specials?" I've even stopped buying booze altogether really. Only worth mentioning because lord knows I could use a neat glass of gin now and then for the nerves caused by my finances.

>>Oh and my videosift charter membership =P
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There are countless other things I haven't the space to mention and some other things I can do to shave my budget down if needed; but making ends meet is getting harder and harder to do. At the moment my budget is stretched so thin I can't take some kind of tax hike.

And to suggest that Bill Gates can't take a tax hike but I can is ludicrous. Raise his taxes and he can't buy a new Rembrandt. Raise mine and I can't buy milk.

The paintings it is based on, thanks to basilisk on Reddit:

• Last Supper by da Vinci
• The Birth of Venus by Boticelli
• The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt
• On the right, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer; on the left one of the Portraits of Henry VIII by Holbein
• The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault
• The Death of Marat by David
• The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

• The Son of Man by Magritte
• Composition with Large Red Plane by Mondrian
• one of Frida Kahlo's self-portraits
• Portrait of Dora Maar Seated by Picasso
• The Scream by Munch
• The 1899 self-portrait by Van Gogh
• Ten Marilyns by Andy Warhol

• Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs by unknown
• Maestá by Cimabue
• Salome by Caravaggio
• Olympia by Manet
• Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix
• Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by Dix
• The Kiss by Klimt

• La Mariée by Chagall
• Las Meninas by Velázquez
• One of the Sunflowers by van Gogh, probably the Third Version

I found some by Jusepe de Ribera

http://www.knox.edu/Images/_Academic/Art/Rembrandt/ribera-st-jerome.jpe

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_22.67.14.jpg

Stuff like this. Apparently this is Spanish artwork from the early 17th century.

I also enjoyed this one by Hendrick Goltzius
http://www.arthermitage.org/Hendrick-Goltzius/
Dragon-Devouring-the-Companions-of-Cadmus.big.html

"Rembrandt's Claudius Civilus tells us that the very greatest painting isn’t bound by time or taste, a reminder that if ever we should need it that eloquence doesn’t always come with a pretty face". FARK! Simon Schama and his wisdom never fails to leave me sitting here dumbfounded..

>> ^Napalm:
>> ^southblvd:
One of my all-time favorite movies.
Edit: Was this from the director's cut? I don't remember this scene from the original movie. Maybe I'm forgetful.

It's definitely in the original!


You're right. It's all coming back to me. It's also coming back to me that Rembrandt is a freaking sissy!!

Ah I see, it worked. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I had that earlier with youtube videos.. I closed firefox completely and restarted.. and it seemed to fix things.. Maybe that might help you too?

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
I don't know if it is only me, but if the video does not start to play, move the progress slider a bit and let it buffer.

I did a lot of pencil and ink. I always felt like a "copier" because I had to see it to draw it. I don't think extreme detail on the micro looks real on the macro. In other words, you step back 8 feet from an extremely detailed drawing and it doesn't look quite right. You step back 8 feet from a Rembrandt and you see all this lush detail. You look at the painting from 12 inches and you see it's all globs of paint with no detail at all. That's an artist!

On the other hand, random splatters on a canvas, without any form at all, does nothing for me. Someone once described it as" a product of the untalented, sold by the unscrupulous, to the utterly bewildered."