{"id":177143,"date":"2024-01-17T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=177143"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T03:47:16","slug":"portrait-of-the-artist-as-somebody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/portrait-of-the-artist-as-somebody-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of the artist as somebody else"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a snapshot of me from about 2,000 years ago. It’s not too bad a likeness, and much more accurate than the ugly thing on my driver’s license. There are additional pictures from different eras below the fold. I found them here<\/a>, where you obtain similar portraits of your own.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: a friend reported that she got a malware warning after visiting the site. There has been no mention of similar problems in the comments at Borepatch<\/a> or Chant du D\u00e9part<\/a>, where I found it, and there may be nothing wrong with it. I’m leaving the link for now, but it might be prudent to be cautious. It may be relevant that I use the Brave browser with ads blocked.<\/p>\n

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1930’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mythical<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Manga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Prince<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hitherto the best picture of me was Hans Memling’s:<\/p>\n

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It’s not entirely accurate: he left my glasses off, and my hair is straighter and longer, but it’s still more more like me than any image ever taken by a camera.<\/p>\n

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And now for something completely different: Chesterton and Belloc, as sketched by Max Beerbohm:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a snapshot of me from about 2,000 years ago. It’s not too bad a likeness, and much more accurate than the ugly thing on my driver’s license. There are additional pictures from different eras below the fold. I found them here, where you obtain similar portraits of your own. Update: a friend reported that … Continue reading “Portrait of the artist as somebody else”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,700,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-miscellaneous","category-weird-world-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-K59","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177143"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177347,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177143\/revisions\/177347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}