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Photo by Matthew Maran, 2018

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fascinating. I think this may be a photoshopped image though. That fox art was made by an artist named "stewy", but I have not seen a picture of it on this short wall.

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/05/c1/9e/05c19ea496215b9d707767dbce172241.jpg

How do I know this? Because I adapted my own profile picture here from the original source years ago, long before 2018.

It's sad to see that Matthew here does not seem to be crediting the original creator of the art in their article. I expect if this is real, the artists signature should be right there behind that grass, or was otherwise removed.

[–] DearMoogle 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hey - thanks for the info! Sucks if true. I took a closer look at both to compare and can see some differences, in the black splotches on the fox for example. Upon further search, Natural History Museum UK says he was shooting around North London. Could the same or similar fox art have been painted there? Idk!

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Its possible, like I said the signature may be behind that grass - but it is just too bad it is not credited regardless. If you were the photographer, you would think you would look for the signature/source of the art you are photographing to credit it.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay but what did they say?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding." were it's first words.

Finally someone who gets me.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

They said “I use arch btw”

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

What the fox? Great picture by the way!

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

excellent timing

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago