Because she was framed
I know that the Mona Lisa is regarded extremely highly and is considered one of the most impressive pieces of art, but I was kind of unimpressed when I saw it in person for the first time. What sets this painting apart from all of the others?
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Leonardo DaVinci was a genius in his day, apart from his important technological/military innovations he painted plenty of historical significant works. I cant wrap my head around why the portrait of a unknown woman is his most famous work.
Sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit but I thought this came the closest.
Vinny is sitting in the courtroom right after the prosecution rests. He’s looking at the picture of the tire marks and that’s when it clicks that he’s wrong and runs out to grab Mona Lisa.
He obviously knew all of the same information that ML knew, because he gives Sheriff Foley the make and model of car to research.
Couldn’t Vinny have just recalled the Expert Witness from the FBI to start laying out the problems with his expert opinion?
They're an easy and fun read. It goes by other names, but the Sprawl Trilogy consists of
Neuromancer (1984), arguably the first true cyberpunk book. Yes there were others before this, but this is (again, arguably) the one that everyone can point to and say "Yep, this is cyberpunk."
Quick note: I'm going to use cyberpunk to refer to the genre, and Cyberpunk to refer to the video game/TTRPG
Count Zero (1986) will look the most like Cyberpunk to out of the bunch with its plot. AIs running around as Voodoo Gods, a heist gone wrong from a megacorp, the CEO of another megacorp looking for immortality. I'm being intentionally vague here because you can either read the wiki synopsis or, better yet, get the books and read 'em.
Mona List Overdrive (1988) wraps the whole thing up, has characters and stories from the previous books dove tail, and >!had an ending that would give Gary The Prophet a boner/heart attack!<. Personally I liked this one the best, but it wouldn't make sense without reading the first two (almost the entire plot relies on the events of the first two books, and by "almost" I mean everything).
They're pretty easy to find, a quick search of Powell's Books, Barnes and Noble, eBay, or Amazon will turn them up, and they might even be at your local [used] bookstore! And this isn't the only literature out there, but this is a great place to start if you want more cyberpunk.
Funnily enough, Mike Pondsmith has said that the Sprawl Trilogy didn't influence Cyberpunk (1988). But if you read one of these books you'll probably be like me and go "... are you sure?" They both came out of the 80s and the economic fears, global concerns, technological changes, and cultural shifts that occurred during that time (which also was the product of the 60s and 70s) so its very possible to have two creations look so similar from two different sources. But again"... are you sure?"
[I'm also re-posting my Op-ed after being banned from the subreddit for no reason (despite asking why) and it seems like the mods have a track record of it. Was hoping someone from the team would discuss the numbers rather than banning me. I'm guessing this attitude is why the Yieldy partnership fell apart.]
anyone tried crunching the numbers on this? looks like it will take me 615 years to make back my initial $100 investment lol. feel free to add some numbers.
notes:
- using a recent track from lil pump that has no other features (i see republic are trying to use the kanye feature as an example lol) and is not on a major label. not going to bother with soulja boy as a feature as his latest single isn't even hitting 20k lol.
- track: life like me
- going to guess the opul hype machine will give the numbers a push, let's say 15%
- 50% of all income is going to 'other rightsholder', 50% remaining between all investors
- spotify is going to be the number one source of revenue (going to ignore publishing as realistically no-one is going to license this). other services aren't going to come anywhere close in terms of revenue but let's be generous and assume cumulatively it's matched the spotify revenue
- on average releases drop to around 10% of their first year streams then slowly decrease. let's be generous again and just keep each consecutive year at 10%
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