Episode #57: Cracker Jack Buddhas

SHOW THEMES - Van Gogh "hidden" portrait - Secret mirrors and Cracker Jack Buddhas - AI image generators SHOW NOTES - 00:38 - Van Gogh portrait found behind "Head of a Peasant Woman" - 01:08 - James makes a case for "peasant-core" - 01:35 - Random x-rays, but why? - 02:02 - "I thought the painting was depressing" - 02:25 - Breaking down curator boredom - 03:12 - Impasto faux pas... Rembrandt not Van Gogh! - 04:45 - It's simple - canvass is expensive. - 06:12 - Van Gogh was "a broke ass painter" - 06:30 - Buddha Buddha on the wall. How did you get there? - 07:25 - "Mystery purchase" at Tucson Gem Show - 08:12 - Cracker Jack enlightenment - 10:45 - Are there more mysteries in plain sight? Probable not. - 11:56 - All the kids are doing it? (AI image generators) - 13:30 - Why AI? It's not art, it's a tool https://www.craiyon.com - 14:20 - Joan of Arc eating ice cream - 15:43 - Georgia O'Keefe painted cats? - 18:10 - Cats in the "style" of Damien Hurst look like Laurel Burch https://www.laurelburch.com - 19:08 - James is DALL-E wait-listed - 21:00 - Unintended scarcity? - 22:28 - Generating "fun spaghetti" - 22:50 - "Nefarious" experimentation yielded freakish results! - 24:00 - "Hack-a-thon" and curated image database - 25:40 - Let's just leave it!