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		Lio 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front ... I remember Damien Hirst's response to people saying that anyone could have created his "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"[1]. He'd simply respond with "But you didn't, did you?". I think that Hirst had a point. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...

zdragnar 57 days ago [–]

It's not like sharks haven't been preserved for display before, they just didn't call it art (barring counting taxidermy as an art form).

Then again, I'm also one of those people who thinks duct taping a banana to a wall is also not art.

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