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Everything is Alive

Connor, Painting

Everything is Alive

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Connor is a painting, but is anybody looking at him?

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0:00.0

Hey there, Ian here.

0:02.6

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0:05.3

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0:59.8

My name is Connor and I'm a painting, I'm a portrait painting of President William Howard Taft.

1:08.2

You see him from the waist up and he's wearing a double-breasted suit, sort of leaning back,

1:13.9

looking off to the left, you're left with my right.

1:18.5

I'm a good painting.

1:19.5

Not a great painting, you know, I'll admit to that.

1:22.7

And I think that's fitting.

1:23.9

He was a good president from what I gather, you know, probably not an all-timer maybe,

1:27.7

but I wouldn't pick another president to be.

1:34.9

So you're not, you're a painting of Taft, but you're not Taft.

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