{"id":12901,"date":"2020-05-22T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2020-05-22T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:25:45","slug":"what-will-he-think-of-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12901","title":{"rendered":"What will they think of next&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Use a robot to tour Court Painter&#8217;s studio<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s just a gas for people in the pandemic global village,&#8217; says Press Attache to Court Painter, AHM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because there&#8217;s a global village pandemic, it means you can spend an afternoon virtually strolling around Court Painter&#8217;s studio in tony Inglewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter is allowing paying customers with functioning credit cards to take virtual tours of his studio using a teleconferencing robot that is essentially a tablet-sized repurposed portable TV, mounted on Court Painter&#8217;s walker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-robot-tour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-robot-tour-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-robot-tour-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-robot-tour-1-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Court Painter is seen rolling his robot device around for the studio virtual tour.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The wonderful thing is it&#8217;s a replacement for visitors that never came through the door in the first place; it has opened new horizons for people from the global village, and that&#8217;s just peachy,&#8221; the studio Press Attache blurted out to no one in particular on Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had someone from Constantinople, someone from Bombay, someone from New Amsterdam, someone from Fort William &amp; Port Arthur ,someone from Rat Portage, someone from Bytown and and some wacko from Valley Junction Iowa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also ,a woman of stunning beauty and brittleness who lives across the alley  and once petitioned to get rid of the Court Painter for littering the back alley with used wine bottles, suddenly interrupted a lovely video conversation once she discovered the teleconferencing wasn&#8217;t about getting her abstract glass sculptures made from used wine bottles, to market.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users control the robot from their keyboards at home and move themselves around the studio, taking a look at the art along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><strong> A family of Court Painter fans gather round the computer for a virtual studio tour.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter is there to accompany and chat to the virtual visitors as well, just to make sure they are cut off should they disparage in any way the Court Painter works on view or the state of tidiness of the studio. He&#8217;s brutal and nasty and takes no prisoners once he detects criticism.Bingo&#8230;you&#8217;re unplugged Doug!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well heeled people interested in taking a tour can go to Court Painter&#8217;s website which is easy to find once you find it.  Because of the high demand, Court Painter is giving priority to people who are financially in the upper 1% and  are potential patrons for commissions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Court-Painter-remote-fans-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Two diehard Court Painter fans never miss the latest virtual studio tour.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use a robot to tour Court Painter&#8217;s studio It&#8217;s just a gas for people in the pandemic global village,&#8217; says Press Attache to Court Painter, AHM Because there&#8217;s a global village pandemic, it means you can spend an afternoon virtually strolling around Court Painter&#8217;s studio in tony Inglewood. Court Painter is allowing paying customers with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=12901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What will they think of next&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}