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I want to tell you the beginning of the show tonight.

You know, we've talked about this issue before, but never has it gotten as creepy as it's getting now.

And as we move closer and closer to the Halloween season, this is apropos of the chilling stories that certainly keep me on edge and keep me up at night.

If any of you out there who have, you know, dabbled in art or considered themselves artists, and if you're interested in making art, all you need to do,

if you need a subject to draw or paint.

All you need to do is throw together some fruit, a few flowers, and maybe some old wine bottles, light up the area, and maybe put a cloth behind it.

And you have your model for what is called still life, or you can even have a nude model if you want, and you have still life.

But that's what a still life painting is. It's just a number of things together, and you, you know, you do your little Bob Ross, and you paint your little tree, or you paint little fruit, or you paint whatever, and this is what you call it still life painting.

Now in France, this style of painting is called not your mort, not your mort, which translated means dead nature.

We call it still life, they call it dead nature.

I remember in junior high school, I had a teacher who taught me about still life.

And what he did is he gifted me with charcoal and pastels, oil pastels in order to create a still life portrait.

And for some time, I was into, you know, doing the shadowing and the drawing and the perspective, and, you know, it was nice to shade some fruit to give them a little bit of texture.

And I just had a blast. I thought it was cool being able to create these pictures. And it was, it was a way to express myself. It was a way to kind of release some tension.

I don't go back to that. Just have the easel and the chalks and, and, you know, make the dust and get all, you know, I just thought it was ironic, though, that they called these paintings still life when most of the objects in the painting are, of course, inanimate.

Well, of course, it's a, it's a painting, right? And it's a snapshot. It's a snapshot of things that don't move, something that looks like it is held in stasis or locked in time.

But here's the thing about still life or not sure more is that now we have CGI and we have AI technologies.

And you can take still life that, that you can take that captured moment, even old photos. And you can make them appear to be alive.

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