November 26th, 2008
Factoid of the day: Face it. You’re a slacker.
Between January 1969 and January 1970, Pablo Picasso completed 167 paintings.
He was 87 years old.
(Source: Kreeger Museum)
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hope torrents on November 26, 2008
Yea, but he had a wife…actually several.
Chuck Westbrook on November 26, 2008
…And your kid is a slacker too. The first of Mozart’s cataloged work was written at age 5.
http://revver.com/video/1223317/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-minuet-in-f-k2/
Kathlyn on November 26, 2008
I think I’ve eaten at least 167 potato chips this year…
Alberto on November 26, 2008
Picasso was perfectly aware of the high-high price of his paintings; so to paint and paint at the end of his life was the best life insurance could have for his wifes, sons, daughters, grandchilds,…
Ginger on December 9, 2008
Picasso was also an insomniac so he had more time in which to complete all those works of art. But I still aspire to be more of a slacker… all Americans should be more slackerish, really, or at least enjoy more fully what we have.