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RIP, Microsoft Paint. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3.

Basil Rathbone, Actor: The Adventures of Robin Hood. Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists.

Windows 1. 0’s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldn’t crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint can’t save image components as layers or vectors; it’s for making flat static images only. It doesn’t smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky- jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. It’s from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paint’s janky aesthetic became a conscious choice.

Paint” became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look: the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. In 2. 01. 4, Gawker’s Sam Biddle noted Paint’s influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form “Chart Brut.” In amateur detectives’ attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the “crazy wall” aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paint’s influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. The outsider- art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the “fill” tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1.

Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didn’t support gradients (without an elaborate hack). Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial: This slickness is built into Paint’s successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. D smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content- aware fill to rival Photoshop’s.)By automatically improving art, Paint 3.

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D hides the process behind the image. Paint’s sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse- engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing “To a Little Radio” using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. It’s one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery.

Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. There’s an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop.

Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated.“To a Little Radio” doesn’t even come close to testing Paint’s limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder.

Slaving, Terrorism- Supporting Country's Wildly Expensive PR Campaign Is Far From Over. Qatar is a tiny, obscenely wealthy country/U. S. military base in the Persian Gulf that has, justifiably so, become synonymous of late with dynastic oligarchism, shamelessvenality, modern- day slavery, and financial support for Islamist terrorism. This, it probably goes without saying, isn’t quite the reputation the small number of obscenely rich Qataris who run the country would like their dear nation to have. Thus they’ve fronted their top public- relations/soft power vessel—the famed Paris Saint- Germain soccer club—an ungodly amount of money to get everyone to forget that nasty slavery and terrorism business and associate Qatar with famous and beautiful soccer guys kicking balls into nets and winning trophies. And the record- shattering Neymar transfer was just the start. After spending €2.

Neymar away from the despairing clutches of Barcelona—the irony should not be lost here that this is club that broke its high- minded, long time no- shirt- sponsor policy in exchange for Qatar’s millions and finally lost their Brazilian jewel the first year in which the team changed sponsors—and in the process doubling the previous transfer record, PSG are reportedly now preparing to make what would probably wind up the second- highest fee ever. The Parisian club is seriously pushing for the signature of Ligue 1 rivals Monaco’s star, Kylian Mbappé. If the 2. 5- year- old Neymar is the closest thing the sport has to a “Next Messi,” meaning a generational talent the likes of which comprehensively surpasses all others, then the 1. Mbappé is probably the best bet to be the singular star of the generation of players after Neymar’s. He is unbelievably good already and had a coming out season so amazing that traditional superclubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona are hot for him. It’s only natural that PSG would see this shiny new trinket and go for it.

PSG have, according to reports, been after the French striker all summer. It seemed like the Neymar deal would put them out of the running, seeing as it was already unclear whether the club could even foot that bill without coming under Financial Fair Play punishment, but here we are. Le Parisienreports that PSG believe they can fund both the Neymar deal and the likely €1. Mbappé one by selling a few rotation players and renegotiating some sponsorship agreements in light of all their great new fame—not, of course, that attached to the recent widespread acknowledgement that Qatar funds terrorism (and it will remain forever ironic that saying this clear truth in polite society didn’t really become fashionable until shameless terrorism- supporters Saudi Arabia made it A Thing), but instead the fact that Qatar’s pet team has the incredibly famous Neymar. Watch Caught In The Crossfire Dailymotion there. According to one report, Mbappé and PSG have actually already agreed to personal terms. The more reputable Le Parisien won’t go that far, but they do note both that Mbappé is definitely willing to hear PSG out and that PSG have a pricy backup plan in case Real Madrid or someone else beats them to Mbappé. Yes, PSG have apparently listened to their new star’s apparent wishes and intend to try for Liverpool’s Phillipe Coutinho.

It would be the perfect fuck you to Barça if PSG thrice thwarted their Catalan rivals’ plans, first by batting away their attempts to sign Marco Verratti, then by snatching away Neymar, and finally by swooping in for Barça’s top Neymar- replacement option. All this money is almost nauseating to even think about, and that’s exactly the point. Qatar, by way of PSG, want you to think of them as an entity so rich and powerful that nothing can prevent them from achieving what they most desire, that even the established powers- that- be must cower before their financial might, and that when their best- laid plans finally, inevitably come to fruition, the result is a product so dazzlingly and stupefyingly great that no one can help but bow down in awe of what they’ve created. After all, it’s a bit harder to remember thousands of faceless poor people dying in deplorable working conditions when the resulting World Cup stadiums are just so damn cool looking, or to think of the thousands of innocent people murdered at the hands of terrorists backed by the Qatari government when the broad smiles and shining faces and stunning highlights of Neymar and Mbappé in their gorgeous PSG shirts are plastered on the TV all the time.