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"But the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here." --- A 63-year-old Picasso got out
by j_c 15y ago
"But the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here."
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A 63-year-old Picasso got out his pen and paper and sketched the woman, who passing by had asked for a quick self-portrait of herself.
It took him 30 seconds, once finished, he asked for 500,000 US dollars.
'Why? It didn't even take you a minute!' she replied.
'Madam, that sketch took 63 years."
And off he walked, with the sketch in his pocket.
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- angersock 15y agoThat's cool and all, but these folks are hardly Picasso, and the art in question could've been trivially generated by picking a few words at random from a database and adding color. Don't treat this like a masterpiece.
- fossuser 15y agoI think many people on hacker news recognize good design skill takes years to develop, but this is an extreme. They took a simple four word sentence and printed it in red. Do you think the public benefits by having this designer have a ~150 year copyright monopoly on something as simple as this sentence? It's a simple poster people were excited about and when it was unavailable went out to make it themselves.