Goalkeepers’ balls get photoshopped into cats.

Roses are red

Storm clouds are grey

The best fucking thing I’ve ever seen

Gordon Ramsey has settled the candy corn debate once and for all.

Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. It’s full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.

Also… art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentleman’s swindler.

I liked this guy’s story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldn’t do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that he’d ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.

“The first painting Landis “donated” was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then “everybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to — I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.”” And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.

Ok, but Wolfgang Beltracchi is probably one of the best Fraud Artists in the world.

His career brought him millions upon millions of dollars and lasted almost 40 years. He finally admitted to painting fraudulent art after the white paint he used came under scrutiny. 

In The interview with Beltracchi, he said that none of his forgeries are copies, they’re all original works that the famous artists could have painted.

His wife was also in on the scam, she would dress up in old clothing and take pictures holding the paintings with old cameras to fake proof of the paintings’ ages.

At the end of the interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi he was asked if he felt he had done anything wrong, his answer was “ Yeah, I used the wrong kind of paint”

Just … the levels of con there, the fake photos and … wow. That’s incredible. 

Heroes

Also fun fact we learned in class today: Michelangelo carved a sculpture of a Roman god, broke off the arm, and then buried it. The sculpture was dug up and was considered to be an authentic Roman artefact, until Michelangelo came along with the missing arm and called shenanigans on himself, just to prove he was as skilled a sculptor as the ancient Romans.

fun fact: my parents got married on april fools day so when i was 7 i tried to be funny and i made them an anniversary card that said ‘your marriage is a joke’ and my mom cried

Sometimes the help you need isn’t the help you want. Call 1-800-273-8255 if you’re thinking of suicide.

This comic meant a whole lot to me. It was sincere in its depiction and treated the issue through the eyes of a grounded person. Not some godly hero saying everything is better than it seems, but a person trying his best before bringing her somewhere who can actually help.

Chelsea Peretti: One Of The Greats

that was not where I was expecting it to go AND I LOVED IT

on a scale of one to ten how ashamed do you think tumblr is to have the same logo font as toddlers and tiaras 

jesus christ

did u think i was lying

Well one is full of five-year-old divas who compete to see who’s the biggest overmade-up crybaby not acting their age and the other is Toddlers and Tiaras.

Hello 911? I’d like to report shots fired.

I laughed until I cried.

RATTLESNAKE (a short)

I still love this video.

Here it is, the sexiest thing I could think of dressing up as for Halloween.

Where is the male version of this

I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION

Here come the ears.

The immortals are getting bold.

One of those is… Weird Al…

Weird Al has barely aged since the 90s, why is anyone surprised he’s immortal

GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT

Okay so you know how in Beauty in the Beast…

This lady can’t afford six eggs, which always struck me as a little odd but I figured maybe that was normal in a poor French village. I mean, look at all the little kids she has; she probably struggles to afford any kind of food that would feed all of them… Right?

But later we discover something interesting about Gaston:

Gaston eats five dozen eggs every day. That’s 60 eggs. SIXTY. Which adds up to 420 eggs per week. No wonder this poor village doesn’t have enough of them to go around!

Gaston, who is very well-respected and successful and probably makes good money from his fabulous hunting skills, is cornering the entire egg market. To feed his addiction, he probably has to constantly go around and buy out every farmer’s supply of eggs, which causes the price on any remaining eggs to skyrocket.

Gaston is singlehandedly destroying the town’s economy.

Way to go, Gaston. You may be popular, but I’m sure that at least the chicken farmers were relieved when you fell to your death.

when you find that perfect gif but don’t know how to use it

You can reverse the flow of the hotdogs if you concentrate hard enough

oh my god you can

Remember how Teen Titans had a lesson about Racism without blatantly bringing Cyborg’s Race into it?

when I was a kid, “parkour” was called “free-running,” which is a WAY cooler name in my opinion but anyway.

my older brother and I went through a a huge free-running phase, watching youtube videos about how to climb brick/stone walls and jump off high places safely etc.

I was already part-squirrel so it just made sense.

Eventually, we moved on from it when I was like thirteen but when that chicken flew onto the CVS Pharmacy roof and the only way to get to it was to shimmy up a concrete pole, brace myself against a chain-link fence, and then hop onto a brick ledge,

I was just like

[anime protag voice] “all of my training………… …was for this chicken.” 

What even is your life?

my brother was going through a ninja phase unrelated to naruto, I was in my naruto phase, and I guess we both like the idea of being able to jump off of building unscathed. It honestly worked out.

Are ladders illegal at the CVS Pharmacy?

Are you accusing me of being a person who stops and considers a situation before acting

OH MY GOD

I want a robust explanation of the physics behind this; science side of Tumblr go