Famous Paintings Modernized into Nice Freakin’ Tokens (NFTs), Part 2
"First you get the money, then you get the clicks"
ClownWorld Shakespeare presents…
Nice Freakin’ Tokens (NFTs), Famous Paintings, Part II!
Today’s theme: “First you get the money, then you get the clicks!”
Raphael’s ”The School of Athens” was completed in the early 16th Century. Of course, Greek A-listers Plato and Aristotle are strutting their stuff front and center.
Then on the sidelines, there’s many lesser known character thinkers, such as Archimedes, Heraclitus and Ptolemy. You know, the kind of philosopher-type where you’re like: “Oh, yeah, that guy, he’s in every damn treatise. I can never remember his name though.”
But what about Smartacus, off to the left there? Distant cousin to Spartacus, Smartacus was loved by all the university, especially the administration.
They loved how he always asked tough questions. How he frequently challenged mainstream orthodoxy. How he was quick to point out hypocrisy among the college clerisy.
So it was strange and saddening what eventually befell the outspoken Smartacus. The university admin invited Smarty (as he was known) up for a private dinner party one night in the Spring of 1501. And that was the last time Smarty was seen alive.
When local constables questioned college bigwigs about Smartacus’ disappearance, the academy’s top brass mounted white broncos and galloped off into the woods. Only to return weeks later equipped with a team of Europe’s finest legal minds and evil sorcerers.
Behold: “The First Bank School of Athens”
My friends in Washington, DC, recently did yours truly, ClownWorld Shakespeare, a solid. I was allowed access to classified documents from the CDC’s Covid-19 files. All the organization’s detailed and meticulously drawn-up plans are laid bare for all the world to see right here, right now.
“Centers for Disease Control Interdisciplinary Framework for the Diminishment of Mortality and Associated Comorbidities Linked to SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Page No. 1 (1 Total Pages)”
No famous artworks were harmed in the making of the above. Though a famous artist (“Composition VIII” creator Wassily Kandinsky perhaps) may have shrieked in agony from beyond the grave thanks to my efforts here.
