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The curious tale of a dysfunctional couple of British art forgers who managed to crank out a wide array of "antiquities" and and artworks and sell them on as original finds and treasures to prominent galleries both in Britain and abroad.
Link: http://narrative.ly/pulp-non-fiction/artist-conman-and-15-million-fraud/ (small link to skip registration.)
Raising the question, without the provenance or history, what is the value of art? Does it have value in it's own right?
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"Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometer of land on the continent."
Link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saharan-carpet-of-tools-is-the-earliest-known-man-made-landscape
And I get discouraged because I can't find a single Arrowhead. No wonder.
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And while not exactly treasure, this is interesting; a girl feeds crows, the crows, in return, bring her the treasures they find in the neighborhood.
Intriguing.
Link: http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
The concept of reciprocity with wild animals. We all know this with cats (the dead mouse, bird, on the doorstep, in the bed), but all in all I prefer the tastes of crows....
UPDATE: And this, related: http://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm038-do-crows-mourn-their-dead
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Man walks into Phoenix thrift shop looking for golf clubs, finds instead a LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm for $5.99 and sells it for $35,000 on E-bay. As well he finds an original Omega Chronograph, which it sounds like he's keeping...
read the original article here: http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/found-vintage-lecoultre-deep-sea-alarm-worth-over-35000-for-599-at-phoenix-goodwill
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The curious story of self-published folk artist and musician "Mingering Mike", whose unannounced fame and talent deserve far greater circulation and regard ...
Link: http://www.mingeringmike.com/
Listen: http://www.mingeringmike.com/mingerplayer/index.html