Almighty painter

Chapter 7 The World's Most Famous Internet Bloggers

A week later.

"A copy of Burma Mirror, thank you."

Gu Weijing stopped in front of the newsstand, wiped the sweat off his forehead with his sleeve, and said to the dark-skinned stall owner.

Morning jogging has always been a habit of his. Only a healthy body can lead to a longer artistic life. Painters are originally an industry with severe emotional fluctuations in creation.

Few of the great painters in history lived long.

On holidays when he does not go to school, he starts from the calligraphy and painting shop every morning, listens to the French broadcast (a small language that international schools require art classes to take), and runs along the road paved with bluestone slabs to the embankment of the Yangon River .

After jogging for 10 minutes along the Yangon River, I returned to the painting and calligraphy shop all the way, during which I bought a copy of "Myanmar Mirror" from the newsstand.

As the only two national newspapers, many old Yangon people have the habit of reading the Mirror.

For example, his grandfather, in today's increasingly developed electronic media, Gu Tongxiang is still used to reading paper newspapers every day.

"Brother Gu, I'll pay."

A non-mainstream boy with yellow hair sucked on his slippers from nowhere, and walked over, casually took out two crumpled Burmese coins from his pocket, threw them to the shopkeeper, and snatched them from the newsstand A mimeographed newspaper.

"First, I'm not Xiao Gu, I'm just a middle school student. Second, I don't have the ability to help Brother Hao do things, thank you."

Gu Weijing put a hundred kyats on the newsstand, nodded to the stall owner, ignored the younger brother with an ugly face, turned around and left.

Now he runs into these Shamats who come out of nowhere every morning when he runs, and these people don't do anything else but pester him.

This is obviously a new strategy for the bald head to win him over.

No matter what Gu Weijing thinks, he just creates the feeling that he is entangled with them.

Humans have inertia, which accumulates over time, and under the criticism of others, they are not in the same group, but in the same group.

Do you want to call the police?
First of all, what is the reason for calling the police.A non-mainstream pays himself all day long?Or does the bald brother come to give him a red envelope during the Spring Festival?
Secondly, if the police are useful, why do you need the underworld.

According to city rankings such as "The Economist", Yangon's safety score ranks among the tourist cities all the year round and Kuwait City or Colombia's capital Bogota, as the three suffering brothers take turns to take the bottom one.

This country is not a safe place.

The reason why the bald head maintained restraint and tenderness was that the location of Gu's painting and calligraphy shop took advantage of it.

The Yangon River Basin is an important tourist area to welcome foreign friends from Dongxia, RB or Europe. It creates a large amount of foreign exchange every year and is also the place where the security of Myanmar is relatively stable. It is too ugly to justify.

This is also the confidence that Gu Weijing can "pull" each other with a certain tacit understanding.

If you go a few hundred kilometers further north, you don't need to go into the jungle, you just need to leave the control area of ​​the government army and come to the territory of warlords and big drug lords.

Then it is no longer a question of having the courage to reject the underworld...

Otherwise, he started to escape with the courage of the movie "Out of the Amazon", hoping to get help from the fellow villagers on the border while playing survival in the wilderness, or the whole family died, and there was no third way.

Of course, there is no crouching dragon and phoenix chick who can't think of opening a calligraphy and painting shop in the Golden Triangle.

The bald method is simple and effective, and the young painter who mixed with counterfeit cultural relic dealers...

Terrible.

Regardless of Gu Weijing's excuses, he has already noticed that other cultural, creative and antique businesses on this street are not looking at him quite right.

He shook his head and walked towards home.

……

At the same time, in the United States, San Francisco, it was dusk.

Thomas, who just received the "Honorary Citizenship of San Francisco" from the mayor of San Francisco at the dinner, is being driven by his bodyguards to return to his home in the "Pacific Heights" community.

San Francisco-Pacific Heights is one of the most famous wealthy residential areas in the United States. The price per square meter is as high as 26 US dollars. It is similar to Beverly Hills where Hollywood celebrities gather, but it can be more low-key and younger.

Most of the people who can make their homes here are the bosses of Silicon Valley technology unicorns worth more than one billion US dollars, or the heirs of the world's top energy giants.

However, Thomas is neither a technology upstart, nor a rich second generation with a consortium waiting to inherit.

He is a vlogger.

If an attribute must be added to this identity, then he is the most famous video blogger in the world.

none of them.

If you want to ask who is Thomas Sebastian?
Most people will look blank, but if you see his face with green stubble, then most people will immediately reflect his network name on the video site—【Mr. Highbury 】.

【Mr. Hyperion】——Famous for shooting the most interesting and eye-catching short videos in the world.

In his video, he once spent millions of dollars to draw a lottery among his fans to give away a private yacht, and he also used a live broadcast to reward a delivery boy with a villa.

Today, on YouTube, he has more than 5000 million followers.

This number is roughly equivalent to five hundred Iceland, thirty Norway, seventeen Switzerland, three Spain, or half the United States.

According to the analysis of the data company, the "viewership rating" of watching his videos exceeds that of the ace talk show owned by the ABS TV station in the United States, which is valued at more than 1000 billion U.S. dollars. His number of fans is about equal to the sum of top Hollywood movie stars Al Pacino and Daniel Washington .

Every year, YouTube alone earns close to [-] million dollars in video creation based on the number of fans' views. He also has his own website, trendy brands, peripherals and business cooperation.

The New York Times called Mr. Hyperion "the greatest Internet miracle of all time."

Thomas himself is swiping his phone at this time, preparing to shoot his new "From $100 to $[-] Million" series of short videos.

[From one dollar to one million dollars. 】

It's one of the most-watched series on his channel, with over [-] million views over the past few episodes.

The content of this series of short videos is to choose a theme, and then upgrade consumption step by step.

For example, what kind of toy piano can be bought for one dollar, whether the ten-dollar piano can play the sound, how does the second-hand broken piano bought in the flea market for one hundred dollars sound... until it costs 100 million dollars to buy the one used by Queen. Steinway piano, let the audience see what kind of sound it can play.

Fans are very interested in such comparison videos.

Thomas has done a piano piece, a computer special effects piece, a car piece and a marine sports piece that compare between one dollar and one million.

He is going to return to the artistic element again in his new video - the theme is painting.

To audiences all over the world, painting artist is a profession with a certain mystery.

People know that the prices of the works of different painters are very different, but they don't necessarily have enough appreciation to distinguish the gap.

In other words, ordinary viewers can only feel that a work is well-painted and beautiful, but they don't know why it is beautiful, what is the specific beauty, and why this painting is a thousand times more expensive than the same-looking work.

In his new video, Thomas is going to spend one dollar, ten dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars and one million dollars in seven grades to invite different painters, and invite the world Renowned masters rated these works blindly from low to high.

"The show must be very hot."

Thomas thought.

Solicitations for $100 million, $[-], and $[-] all have fixed candidates.

They are Jane Arnold, who has won the Turner Prize, the Kaiserling Prize and other fine art awards and the French Order of Arts and Letters, Jean Julian, an internationally renowned illustrator, and Peter Rosen, a cutting-edge illustrator who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art.

For a dollar, he picked up a homeless painter on the side of the road in San Francisco.

As for the grades of ten dollars, one hundred dollars, and one thousand dollars, he is going to find suitable freelance artists on various part-time platforms.

Thomas casually opened Fiverr on his phone, selected the category of art and painter, entered the amount "ten dollars", and clicked to filter.

As the page refreshed, a poster of a fat cat with a monocle jumped onto his phone screen.

(End of this chapter)