Billy Batson

[ADONIS @adonispara]

> gets a job coding for NASA
> builds Mcafee antivirus from his living room
> hits the forbes list
> becomes a suspect when his neighbor's found dead in belize after killing his 4 dogs
> changes his whole look to slip out of belize with his 20 year old girlfriend
> tricks the police by hiring a body double to cross the border with his passport
> meanwhile he goes the opposite direction to guatemala
> fakes a heart attack to dodge capture there
> the hitwoman sent to kill him becomes his wife
> behind snowden's leak that exposed the US surveillance state
> stops paying taxes by blackmailing the gov
> runs for US president (twice)
> bugs Hillary Clinton's campaign staff by mailing them "free" laptops
> moves to a boat in the caribbean with armed guards
> most wanted in 3 different countries
> judge approves his extradition to the US
> found dead in a Spanish prison cell
> spanish judge ruled his death a suicide
> previously said if he's ever found dead it wasn't suicide
> may still be alive

The very definition of "You can just do things"

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS CRAZY

[iron cross recipient @n3inrii]

@adonispara John Mcafee was so based that’s israel blew up his whole apartment complex and only the IDF was allowed to search it! 😂💯

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

of a tall woman

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Life imitates art, I guess 🎨

📹jessechrisss

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Rabbits show dominance by demanding to be groomed, while cats show dominance by grooming the other.

A perfect relationship

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

One of the most beautiful versions of Hotel California I have ever heard. It's magical.

The Eagles - Hotel California - | Moyun

[promethazine @pr0meth4z1ne]

lil chigga already scared of wage slave in third grade

[Cops Gone Wrong @CopsGoneWrong]

No writer on the planet could come up with that on whim..

[✯ @Aestheraaaa]

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

[Billy Batson @ShazamLives]

@BumpstockBarbie Easy. Those things have a provable, reproducible basis. No divine mandate or gods involved in their discovery or dissemination. It happened because of stubborn scientists, engineers & doctors who saw the world and wanted to decipher it. Often against the wishes of religions.

[I AM BLAZE THE CURIOUS⚕️☢️ @Blazethecurious]

DID YOU KNOW??

Russian landscape master Ivan Shishkin did not paint the iconic bear cubs in his most famous masterpiece, Morning in a Pine Forest, he had a fellow artist paint them because Shishkin considered himself an expert on trees and foliage, but felt incapable of painting animals believable enough for his hyper-realistic standards.

​Known widely as the "Singer of the Russian Forest," Ivan Shishkin was celebrated for his astonishing, almost photographic precision in depicting nature, from the delicate needles of pine branches to the exact texture of moss and damp soil. When he painted the sprawling, misty forest canopy for Morning in a Pine Forest in 1889, he felt the composition needed living figures to capture the wild spirit of the primeval woods.

​Rather than risk compromising the realism of the scene with sub-par wildlife illustration, Shishkin called upon his close friend and fellow artist, Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky, an accomplished genre painter who excelled at drawing animals and human figures, painted the mother bear and her three playfighting cubs onto Shishkin’s canvas.

When wealthy art collector Pavel Tretyakov purchased the painting for his gallery, he noticed two signatures on the canvas. Outraged that he was paying for a Shishkin landscape, Tretyakov personally erased Savitsky's signature with turpentine, leaving Shishkin as the sole credited creator in official art history records. Wall with me 👇🏾👇🏾

The Anatomy of a Masterpiece Collaboration:

​The creation and controversial aftermath of Morning in a Pine Forest unfolded across four key steps:

1. Rendering the Primeval Forest
1889 Execution:
Shishkin paints the misty pine forest canvas based on field sketches captured on Gorodomlya Island on Lake Seliger, capturing atmospheric early-morning light and broken pine trunks with scientific accuracy.

2. Painting the Bear Family
Collaborative Addition:
Recognizing his own limitations with animal anatomy, Shishkin invites artist Konstantin Savitsky to paint the mother bear and three cubs climbing a fallen pine tree.

3. Tretyakov's Turpentine Erasure
Gallery Acquisition:
Art patron Pavel Tretyakov buys the canvas for 4,000 rubles. Upon seeing two signatures, Tretyakov scrubs Savitsky's name off the canvas, declaring he bought a landscape by Shishkin, not a joint venture.

4. The 'Clumsy Bear' Candy Icon
Mass Cultural Impact:
Despite the credit dispute, Savitsky received a quarter of the sale price from Shishkin. The image became one of Russia's most famous artworks, appearing on millions of "Clumsy Bear" (Mishka Kosolapy) chocolate wrappers for over a century.

More Surprising Facts About Ivan Shishkin:

A. ​Scientific Botany Precision: Shishkin studied botany and forestry so deeply that his colleagues joked he was a scientist who happened to hold a paintbrush. Botanical experts claimed they could identify the exact species, age, and health of every tree in his paintings based solely on his rendering of the bark and needles.

B. ​Died with Brush in Hand: Shishkin's obsession with painting forests never waned. In 1898, at the age of 66, he collapsed and died suddenly of a heart attack while sitting at his easel inside his St. Petersburg studio, actively working on a new painting titled An Island of Pines.

C. ​Pioneer of the Peredvizhniki: Shishkin was a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), a rebellious group of Russian realist artists who broke away from the strict, classical rules of the Imperial Academy of Arts to paint real Russian landscapes, peasantry, and social life.

SUMMARILY!
​Ivan Shishkin cemented his place as Russia's premier landscape painter through relentless botanical accuracy, famously collaborating with Konstantin Savitsky to add the iconic bear family to his greatest forest masterpiece.

Hopefully you've learnt something new today?

The Medic Who Writes™🌚

Cheers 🥂 🙂

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is not a photograph.

It’s called Oak Grove, and it was painted in 1887 by Ivan Shishkin. Every furrow of bark, every leaf, every blade of grass in the shade of these old oaks was put there by hand.

Shishkin painted trees so faithfully that his canvases are less like pictures of a forest and more like portraits of the trees themselves, each one rendered down to its smallest detail.

He spent his life wandering the woods near his home outside Saint Petersburg, studying nature so closely that Russia gave him a nickname: the singer of the Russian woods.

What I love most is that these oaks feel so alive, you can almost feel the coolness of their shade on your skin. And like very old trees in real life, they make you feel small in the best way possible, as if they have seen everything and are telling you that it will all be alright...

[Sensei Out of Context @SenseiContext]

love potion (1/2)

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