Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Category: Digital Art / Computer Graphics / AI
Liberty [updated]
[Update: Image is NOT Isabella Eugénie Boyer; see below.]
The face of the Statue of Liberty. Isabella Boyer’s life is like an exciting novel. She was born in Paris, the daughter of an African pastry chef and an English mother. Isabella had a special beauty and, at age 20, she married Isaac Singer, the sewing machine maker, who was 50 years old. After Singer’s death, Isabella became the richest woman in the country. It is not surprising that she was chosen as the model for the Statue of Liberty, as she embodied the American dream. Widowed, Isabella traveled the world and married the Dutch violinist Victor Robstett, becoming a countess. He became a prominent figure in America and Europe, and met the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi at a world event. Bartholdi, impressed by her beauty and history, used her face as a model for the Statue of Liberty. Isabella married a third time and died in Paris in 1904 at age 62, but her face lives on in the iconic statue in New York, symbolizing freedom and American pride.
[Found here, h/t Eaglesoars]
UPDATE: The top image appears to be the work of Bas Uterwijk and is an A.I. generated image of Aphrodite, not Isabella Eugénie Boyer (who may or may not have been the model for the Statue of Liberty).
More about the viral photo here, here and here.
[h/t Gabriel]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Acolouthic Hot Links
Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“
The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.
Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.
The worst movie death scene ever.
Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].
Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]
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Big 8 Hank & The Rhythm Slappers
Henry “Hank” Tudor (aka Bluffin’ Hal) was dubbed the King of 8 Cylinder Retrobilly. Tudor sang lead vocal and played slap bass. Little is known about the Rhythm Slappers’ lineup other than the female vocalists were replaced numerous times for unknown reasons.
Image from Historical Men Reimagined As Modern People Living Today,
[h/t Jaime G.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Tacky Raccoons 