२७ ऑगस्ट, २०१७

"Do We All See the Man Holding an iPhone in This 1937 Painting?"

"So, what is it?"

४५ टिप्पण्या:

Matt म्हणाले...

Chocolate bar.

chuck म्हणाले...

Looks like a mirror.

Heywood Rice म्हणाले...

paint

Heywood Rice म्हणाले...

paint

rehajm म्हणाले...

It's an old picture. Obviously a 4th generation Gameboy.

Heywood Rice म्हणाले...

still paint

MathMom म्हणाले...

I agree with rehajm. 4th gen Gameboy. An Indian wouldn't be able to afford an iPhone.

Matt Sablan म्हणाले...

"It's not clear exactly who this man is, but he might as well be popping off a selfie or thumbing through his news feed. He seems to gaze into the handheld device in such a way that renders all-too-familiar today, as if he's just read a bad tweet or recoiling from a Trump-related push notification from the Times."

-- He's EVERYWHERE.

Curious George म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
AllenS म्हणाले...

It's a mirror.

Curious George म्हणाले...

Easy. It's a deck of cards. He's dealing blackjack. Like Native Americans have for generations.

AllenS म्हणाले...

Blogger is a little sticky this morning.

Bill, Republic of Texas म्हणाले...

Oh by the way. Sell your Apple stock. My wife has always been the original fanboi of iPhones. This week she bought a Samsung.



khematite म्हणाले...

Didn't we go through this exact same thing back in 2010 when a woman with a cell phone to her ear was spotted walking through the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film, "The Circus"?

robother म्हणाले...

"Mirror"= the first selfie-taking device.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

"or recoiling from a Trump-related push notification from the Times."

Rent-free, baby. Rent-free.

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

It's an I-phone 6 at that. That painting is sooo 2016.

Sydney म्हणाले...

A bar of some precious metal?

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Part of his sardine-can necklace.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Mirrors reverse front and back. Iphones don't.

mockturtle म्हणाले...

Yep. A mirror.

Darrell म्हणाले...

I would say it's a plane iron--blade. He's holding the tapered part down, so it's being covered by his fingers. Yes, he can see himself in the polished metal, so he's using it as a mirror at this point.

CWJ म्हणाले...

A white man is being whipped. Wait! That can't be right.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Android

The Godfather म्हणाले...

What phone? I was looking at the ass on the Indian mama.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

It's a.list of trade goods he demands or he will slaughter the Whites. Nothing has changed that much.

David म्हणाले...

My virus screener (Bitdefender) got a positive on the linked website.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
William म्हणाले...

I get the sense that this painting is not politically incorrect and there will be no great outcry against it. The settlers are shown bringing witches, stockades and beatings. They are the force of superstition and cruelty. The Indians look rather noble. This is a painting to celebrate. I have some questions about the pink outfit of the lead settler though. He may have been drawn in pink to make him look effete. That's no longer politically correct. Perhaps they can paint him over in orange with a MAGA hat without doing too much damage to the integrity of the picture.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Of course it's an iPhone. The real question is who is receiving his text, and in what time continuum do they exist?

Charlie म्हणाले...

It's proof time travel is real.

Charlie म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
JAORE म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

They're whipping that guy because he won't tell them his WIFI password.

Wince म्हणाले...

He wants a selfie with whitey.

YoungHegelian म्हणाले...

Why a witch riding a broom in the right-hand background?

From Wikipedia on "Bad Willy" Pynchon:

In 1649, William Pynchon found time to write a critique of his place and times' dominant religious doctrine, Puritanical Calvinism, entitled The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Published in London in 1650, it quickly reached Boston and caused a sensation. Pynchon was one of Massachusetts' wealthiest and most important men, and in his book — which confounded Puritan theology by claiming that obedience, rather than punishment and suffering, was the price of atonement — was immediately burned on the Boston Common (only 4 copies survived), and soon after became the New World's first-ever banned book. Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally accused Pynchon of heresy and demanded that he retract its argument. Coincidentally, Pynchon's court date took place on the same day and at the same place that the New World's first witch trial — that of Hugh and Mary Parsons of Springfield — took place.

What exactly Pynchon was trying to say about the Atonement isn't really clear from what I just posted, so I don't know why his book got "Banned in Boston".

Etienne म्हणाले...

It's a magic mirror. You give the mirror to someone, and you tell them to kill the man in the picture.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...

A trade goods mirror of course. Like all trade goods, cheap and undersized. People are dorks.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

YoungHegelian said...From Wikipedia on "Bad Willy" Pynchon:

I like the way he split town. Besides writing the first banned book..."In 1641, Pynchon became the first commercial meat packer in the new world, exporting salt pork. In 1651, Springfield was the site of the first witch trial in America when husband and wife Hugh and Mary Parsons accused each other of witchcraft. While both were acquitted of witchcraft, Mrs. Parsons was found guilty of murdering her own child and sentenced to death."

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

These are worth gawking at -
"Indians at the Post Office
Native Themes in New Deal-Era Murals"

MrCharlie2 म्हणाले...

A mirror.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

If it's an iPhone, where's the cell tower? Who's supplying the WiFi hotspot?

Steven म्हणाले...

If it's an iPhone, where's the cell tower? Who's supplying the WiFi hotspot?

Haven't you seen a recent iPhone commerical? You know, with the tagline "Practically magic"? The witch is flying the mobile WiFi (Witch Fiber) hotspot.

SeanF म्हणाले...

rhhardin: Mirrors reverse front and back. Iphones don't.

They don't? I have a Samsung, not an iPhone, but when I use the phone with the front facing camera, as to take a selfie, the image displayed on the screen is reversed exactly like a mirror.

That being said, though, I give you props for not saying that a mirror reverses left and right.

Mitch H. म्हणाले...

Ingot. Iron, lead, or silver. One of those.