Hi everyone. I'm Mark Landis. I am one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. I've copied works by artists like Picasso and Walt Disney and, posing as a philanthropist (or sometimes an executor of a will or a Jesuit priest), donated them to institutions such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others.
There's a new documentary about me called ART AND CRAFT that comes out in theaters in New York starting Friday, before it opens in LA and more US cities in the weeks to come.
You can watch the trailer and learn more about me and the movie here: http://www.artandcraftfilm.com/
You can also read about me in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/design/12fraud.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
My photo proof: http://imgur.com/XzrQz4K
Victoria from Reddit is helping me take some of your questions for a few hours. Ask me anything!
Update: I recommend the movie because if you like the Thomas Crowne affair, you will like this movie. Really! Because when I started watching it, I wanted to see what would happen! I was scared to watch it, but the composer Stephen made me watch it, he got me into the seats, and kind of made me watch it, and once i started watching it, I wanted to see what was going to happen! And I'd forgotten some of the people that were in it, you know, and so I guess I... yea. By all means, I heartily recommend it! It's a wise investment of your time. I'm glad I watched it.
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| I have read no forgery is perfect as the forger will try to put some sort of subliminal sign of his own to get accredited.Is this true ? | Well, not with me. You know, I wouldn't know about other people. I kind of doubt it with others. Ask a psychiatrist, but as far as I'm concerned, certainly not, haha! I'm not crazy, so no. Not with me, anyway. |
| Although you know, come to think about it, I noticed sometimes when I was copying pictures like of something, I would think "Well, you know...this would look a little better - I think I'll make her a little prettier." I may have done things like that. But it seems like anybody would do that. If I thought I could subtly improve it, yeah, I probably have done things like that. But I wouldn't be thinking to myself "Ah-ha! Those fools! I will leave an obvious clue." But yeah, I have prettied things up. I think it's something you can't help doing. Kind of like the way Mother would be if she saw something untidy or out of place -a lot of people's moms want to fix things up. You know what i mean. | |
| And if you were doing a picture and you thought it was kind of ugly, assuming you had the prerequisite abilities, you'd want to pretty it up, wouldn't you? It seems like anybody would want to do that. I certainly do. | |
| Hi Mark, do you believe that forgery is the true art? Could you transfer your skills to copying from real-life images or photos? | As far as the other things, it's something I Never really thought of. Actually, I still don't really think of myself as much of an artist, you know? I'm not much of an artist, and I haven't got any great talent or anything, I do have a facility for arts & crafts, and the rest of it, I kind of lost track of it. I never thought of myself as really a "forger" either. As I said, it was an impulse and I got addicted to it. Everybody likes being treated like royalty, or having people treat them with deference and respect, that sort of thing. VIP treatment, that's it. Everybody wants to get treated like a VIP, don't they? |
| And I'm not designing this website, but it wil |
Most of my time spent hiking in Switzerland has been solo. Pick a well known area and you won’t need to worry about being alone on the mountain. For more remote hikes I am careful to be aware of the weather, how exposed the route is, and what options for quick escapes or shetler there are along the way.
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There are two main hiking resources:
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Swiss Mobility and its related app.
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Swiss Topo and its related app.
Route ideas:
Finding a route isn’t a problem. Generally there is too much choice if anything.
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Swiss Mobility mentioned above has a number of specially signed routes.
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MySwitzerland the official tourist website has plenty of suggestions and themes for the whole country.
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Local tourist websites and offices offer plenty of ideas to cover all difficulties (for example in Zermatt). Maps for resorts are often presented in a panoramic format (for example).
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There are a number of official obstacle free routes for the less abled. Additionally routes aimed at families in resorts are also likely to be short and barrier free.
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You can just turn up anywhere and figure out something good to do with a few minutes of looking at where the signs point to and what you can see on a map.
Crowd sourced websites:
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Gelbzeiten.ch photos of signs around the country. A bit redundant now that Swiss Topo lets you calculate routes for free, but it might still provide a good source of ideas for where to go from a starting point.
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Hikr, Komoot, Alltrails etc have plenty of suggestions.
Blogs, at least few examples of some of the better ones:
- Activity workshop. Not updated in the last decade, but a good list of ide
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Murry Dickson doesn't sound like the name of a major leaguer. Murry Dickson could be the name of a major leaguer's agent, maybe. Or your neighbor who passive-aggressively offers to let you borrow his lawn mower because your grass is looking a little long there, fella.
But Murry Monroe Dickson was quite a character, with a Forrest Gump-like ability to wander in and out of history, with fate bringing him into stories involving a 1930s bank robber dubbed "The Tri-State Terror" as well as General George S. Patton. Among his many managers were Hall of Famers Billy Southworth and Casey Stengel, and Branch Rickey was his general manager with two of his five teams. When he was a rookie, he was teammates with Lyn Lary, who had previously played with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on the Yankees; when he retired, he was teammates with Ralph Terry, who would later play with Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan on the Mets.
He played in four World Series, though he only pitched in three, and was an All-Star in a season in which he went 10-19. He set a major league record for most consecutive years leading the league in losses (three), a feat not even accomplished by Losing Pitcher Mulcahy. A few years later Pedro Ramos of the Washington Senators would lead the American League in losses for four straight years, but Dickson would retain the National League record for 26 years until Phil Niekro did it from 1977 to 1980.
Yet it's unfair to say Dickson was a bad pitcher. According to research by Steve Lombardi, Dickson had 17 games in his career where he threw 9 or more innings, allowed three earned runs or less, yet took the loss. (The all-time leader is Hall of Famer Ted Lyons, with 34 such games!) In a study by Bill Deane, Dickson was the seventh-most "unlucky pitcher" from 1876 to 2006 based on how many runs he gave up vs. how many runs his teams scored for him.
While Murry's career record was 172-181, he posted a respectable 109 ERA+ in 3,052.1 innings -- tying him with Hall of Famer Jesse Haines and Red Ruffing for 382nd place on the all-time list, alongside Clay Buchholz, Doug Fister, Mark Gubicza, Dan Haren, a
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Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.
Gender is fluid.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
He lost May
