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Open thread 7/3/2025 — 17 Comments

  1. This is so cool on multiple levels. One- I love to watch people with skill- draw. I cannot do that, I’m always amazed watching others who can. It is mesmerizing to me.
    Secondly- the accuracy of his drawings, having not seen the women, is amazing.
    Third- our vision of ourselves vs what others see is also…amazing.

  2. Great video. I’d say the 2nd sketch of the blonde looks a little younger than the person does, though she’s very attractive regardless.

  3. Simply amazing what real artists can do.

    How he drew what he did just by hearing a description of the individual defies belief or maybe the artist while drawing has out-of-body vision and can see the subject.

    Then again you have other “artists” who weld random pieces of steel together, or who “paint” a black dot on a white canvas (or is it a white dot on a black canvas?) , or use gray duct tape and tape an egg onto a canvas.

    What’s really astonishing is that people will pay big money for the garbage produced by these “other” artists.
    Simply baffling.

  4. Hak has broken Kevin McCarthy’s 8 hour 32 minute filibuster record.

  5. Yesterday, in the discussion about inventing the wheelbarrow, TommyJay and Huxley touched briefly on the impact of scientific discovery on faith, and vice versa. On this question, I like to start with the first scientist, Adam (Genesis 2:19). Adam, you see, was a most excellent taxonomist. On the way to providing Adam a mate, Yahweh created all the “beasts of the field and birds of the air” and brought them to Adam, “to see what he would call them.” Adam apparently aced his exam (but it didn’t solve the problem of a mate for him).

    If I were to undertake scientific discovery, I would try to take Adam as my model. The extension of knowledge is 1) to serve mankind (in his case, proving that he needed a help-mate), 2) at the direction of God and 3) gives God pleasure. Each step in scientific discovery is part of a dialogue with the Creator, and the Creator delights in our participation.

  6. According to Breitbart the House passed the BBB

    Edit. Hak quit at 8 hours 42 minutes

  7. Doubt I could hold my water for 8 hours and 42 minutes unless I dehydrated myself for about 12 hours or so beforehand. But I’m a big water drinker. I try to drink about a gallon of water (or other hydrating liquids) over the course of a day.

  8. Who is Brian Fitzpatrick? Rep from PA who voted against bbb along with Ass Massie.

  9. It’s also interesting to see those “forensic reconstructions” and compare them to the photos of the actual person, if that person is ever identified, and if you do that a few times you begin to appreciate that there’s much more art than science to it.

  10. Streetside artists quickly drew likenesses—3 decades apart—of 1) my father and 2) my sister and brother-in-law. They were well done and quickly done.

  11. “Who is Brian Fitzpatrick?”

    Someone who’s going to get primaries next time around…?
    Just spitballing’ here.

  12. You post some of the most interesting videos. This is one of the best.

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