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Old Yesterday, 12:42   #1
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Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found

Apparently it'll be worth ~26 mil on auction. Shall we chip in?


https://www.techspot.com/news/104242...6-million.html

https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhol...iga-art-found/
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Apparently it'll be worth ~26 mil on auction.
Damn, I wish I had 26 million bucks to waste
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If I had 26 million to waste, I would re-run Amiga assembly line ;-)
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I can't see that the print is worth that to anyone other than an Andy Warhol/Debie Harry mega fan! The digital assets however should be gifted to the Amiga community IMHO.
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The digital assets however should be gifted to the Amiga community IMHO.
But... what about the NFT cash they could rake in?
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The digital assets however should be gifted to the Amiga community IMHO.
These are also only of interest to Andy Warhol fans.
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These valuations are pretty silly, but the files themselves are pretty cool. This is one warez loot I wouldn't mind seeing leaked somewhere on the net.

These were really heady days for Amiga. Getting Warhol to do some stuff wasn't a bad publicity move at all. Here's some of that art and an interview with AW:

https://archive.org/details/amiga-wo...e/n17/mode/2up
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These valuations are pretty silly, but the files themselves are pretty cool. This is one warez loot I wouldn't mind seeing leaked somewhere on the net.

These were really heady days for Amiga. Getting Warhol to do some stuff wasn't a bad publicity move at all. Here's some of that art and an interview with AW:

https://archive.org/details/amiga-wo...e/n17/mode/2up

Yeah, I always found the Debbie Harry portrait very well done and it's cool that we have now the picture available in top quality.

Thanks for the link to the interview.
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AmigaBill has a great interview with Jeff Bruette who is selling it here: [ Show youtube player ]
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Nice interview!
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in 1985 Commodore showed that everyone could be considered an artist with an Amiga.
After all, everyone has their own tastes and colors for art... Amiga has 4096 colors.

Just click "fill" on your Painting software and play with the palettes of colors
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Damn, I wish I had 26 million bucks to waste
Xcopy that floppy?
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Yeah, I always found the Debbie Harry portrait very well done and it's cool that we have now the picture available in top quality.

Thanks for the link to the interview.
But we don't do we? The picture is stuck on that disk and will be sold to the highest bidder who likely won't know what to do with the files even if they could access them!
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in 1985 Commodore showed that everyone could be considered an artist with an Amiga.
After all, everyone has their own tastes and colors for art... Amiga has 4096 colors.
Ability to pick from 4096 colors for 32 color image in '85 is simply insane.

Imagine if Commodore hired Bob Ross to do a few painting videos in Deluxe Paint in '86, '88... the Amiga's would be sold like crazy everywhere.
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