Will the $2.00 check I got in the mail as a beneficiary of a class-action lawsuit against my bank make a material difference in my day? No, but I will make a post about it.
I recently listened to a lecture series on lost, stolen, and destroyed works of art, and there was a discussion on Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet. In 1990 a Japanese businessman named Ryoei Saito bought it for $82.5 million at an auction (then the world record for most expensive painting), and claimed he wished to be cremated with it when he died. The art community raised an uproar and he walked it back, claiming it was just a joke, but he died in 1996 and the painting was missing until 2007 when it became public that it was sold to someone else two years after his death.
They’re building a new Checkers in the town I used to live in which is odd to me because I feel like every Checkers I’ve ever been to was built in the late 80’s. They’re meant to be time capsules of shitty fast food joints with no seating, they’re not supposed to be making new ones.
Today I learned that the reel for the IMAX 70mm version of Oppenheimer was 11 miles long and weighed 600 pounds. It sounds so bizarre to hear of media having such large physical proportions in a post-DVD world.
