The whole kerfuffle about the portrait is a classic case of the Streisand Effect.
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney’s attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.[1] The effect exemplifies psychological reactance: where the desire to hide information instead makes its propagation more likelyBlockquote
“It evolved into something I could never have imagined,” Hasemann told ABC Radio. “I’ve never been to a gallery. I’m a sports administrator. I don’t know why we have to defend ourselves. We privately did what the gallery encourages us to do: encourage debate.
“[We asked them] ‘pretty please will you mind taking it down?’ If they don’t, that’s their right.”
You need to inherit daddy’s mining empire that he got through unique privilege. And then misuse the trust fund and steal from your own children. Allegedly.
The shots of the forest at least are quite amazing and they do a great job of highlighting just how big the areas of the mid north west are.
The rest, well as an interested sceptic let me just say nothing here had me thinking any different to well… being sceptical. There, like there always is, a lot of convenience as to why people never have cameras or that these things are nocturnal meaning you can’t photograph them etc. But cheers for sharing.
