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Was he the owner of the cat.jpg?

@Theo— LOL !

I’m outside of the US, so can’t watch the show. 10$ cat drawings seem like a fun idea, some people seem to want to buy them. What I don’t get is what he needs the 25k for. This sounds like exactly the kind of business / side job / hobby that could and should be bootstrapped.

Easily Cuban’s worst investment.

@OlliM -

You tell me how else you pay 1,000,000 Chinese workers for a year to crank out cat drawings?

That would be cool if he had some ability/talent. There are to many real artists out there for me to agree with this shit.

Too. Man, I hate typos almost as much as fake artists.

Yes, I have posted three consecutive comments, and that probably breaks some sort of etiquette. I would erase my two previous comments if it were possible. I realize that this is a joke and a novelty item. The guy dancing around in his mom’s khakis behind a twelve year old monitor make that abundantly clear. This still irks me though. Being an artist is really hard. People don’t get it, or think their taste, which they haven’t spent more than an hour in their life developing, is meaningful. When they do get it, they don’t think it’s worth paying for, and they go down to the poster shop and put a two hundred dollar frame on some print of a dead guy’s painting. I know I’m making too much out of this and if people want to throw away ten bucks for a conversation piece, that is their right, but if you want to buy some real art for very cheap, go ahead and click on my name.

How did you know he is a Basecamp customer?