A week later.
"A copy of the Myanmar Mirror, thank you."
Gu Weijing stopped in front of the newsstand, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, and said to the dark-skinned stall owner.
Morning jogging has always been his habit. Only a healthy body can lead to a longer artistic life. Painting is an industry where emotions fluctuate violently during creation.
Few of the great painters in history lived long.
During the holidays when he was not in school, he would start from the calligraphy and painting shop every morning, listen to the French radio (a minor language that international schools require art classes to take as an elective), and run along the road paved with bluestones to the embankment of the Yangon River. .
After jogging along the Yangon River for twenty minutes, we returned to the calligraphy and painting shop and 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, as electronic media becomes more and more developed today, Gu Tongxiang is still used to reading paper newspapers every day.
"Brother Xiao Gu, I'll pay."
A non-mainstream boy with dyed yellow hair sucked on his slippers from nowhere and walked over. He casually took out two wrinkled Burmese coins from his pocket, threw them to the shopkeeper, and then snatched them from the newsstand. A mimeographed newspaper.
"First, I'm not Brother Gu, I'm just a middle school student. Second, I don't have the ability to help Brother Hao, thank you."
Gu Weijing placed one hundred kyats on the newsstand, nodded to the stall owner, ignored the ugly-faced boy on his side, turned around and left.
Now when he goes for a morning jog every day, he can encounter these Shamats who appear out of nowhere. These people don't do anything else but pester him.
This is obviously a new strategy for the bald man to win over himself.
No matter what Gu Weijing thinks, he just creates the feeling that he is entangled with them.
People have inertia, and over time, when others criticize them, they are not in the same group but also in the same group.
Call the police?
First, ask yourself why you called the police. Is there a non-mainstream person who pays himself all day long? Or is it the bald brother who comes to give me a red envelope during the Spring Festival?
Secondly, if patrol police are useful, why do we need the underworld?
According to city rankings such as "The Economist", Yangon's safety score is always ranked last in the tourist city rankings with Kuwait City or Bogota, the capital of Colombia. As the three suffering brothers, it takes turns to occupy the last place.
This country is not a stable place.
The reason why Baldhead maintained restraint and gentleness was that the location of Gu's calligraphy and painting shop took a lot of advantage.
The Yangon River Basin is an important tourist area for welcoming foreign friends from Eastern Xia, RB or Europe. It generates a large amount of foreign exchange every year and is also the place with the most stable security in the entire Myanmar. It is too ugly to be justified.
This is also the reason why Gu Weijing can "pull" each other with a certain tacit understanding.
If you go a few hundred kilometers further north, you don't have to enter the jungle. You just need to leave the control area of the government forces and come to the territory of warlords and drug lords.
Then it’s no longer a question of whether you have the courage to reject the underworld...
Otherwise, he would start escaping with the supreme courage shown in the movie "Out of the Amazon" and hope to get help from the fellow villagers on the border while playing wilderness survival. Otherwise, the whole family would die and there would be no third way.
Of course, there is no one who can't imagine opening a calligraphy and painting shop in the Golden Triangle.
The bald method is simple and effective, and the young painter who hangs out with counterfeit cultural relic dealers...
People's words are scary.
No matter how Gu Weijing defended himself, he had noticed that the other cultural and creative antique merchants on this street looked at him differently.
He shook his head and walked back home.
…
At the same time, it was dusk in San Francisco, USA.
Thomas, who had just received the "Honorary Citizen of San Francisco" status from the Mayor of San Francisco at a dinner, was being driven back to his home in the "Pacific Heights" community by his own bodyguard.
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 US$260,000. It is similar to Beverly Hills, where Hollywood celebrities gather, but it is more low-key and youthful.
Most of the people who can settle here are the bosses of Silicon Valley technology unicorn companies 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 family fortune waiting to be inherited.
He is a vlogger.
If one must add an attribute to this identity, then he is the most famous video blogger in the world.
none of them.
But if you 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 online name on the video website - [Mr. Hyperion 】.
[Mr. Hyperion] - Known for shooting some of the funniest and most eye-catching short videos in the world.
In his videos, he once spent millions of dollars to raffle off private yachts among his fans, and he also live broadcasted a villa to a delivery boy.
Today, on YouTube, his following number has exceeded 150 million fans.
That number is roughly equal to five hundred Icelands, thirty Norways, seventeen Switzerlands, three Spains, or half the United States.
According to analysis by a data company, the "ratings" of watching his videos exceed those of the US-based ABS TV station's flagship talk show, which is valued at more than 100 billion U.S. dollars. His number of fans is approximately equal to that of top Hollywood movie stars Al Pacino and Daniel Washington. sum.
Every year, YouTube alone earns him close to 100 million U.S. dollars in revenue from his video creation based on fan views. He also has his own website, trendy brands, peripherals, and commercial cooperation.
The New York Times called Mr. Hyperion “the greatest Internet miracle of all time.”
Thomas himself was scrolling through his phone at this time, preparing to shoot the new issue of his "From One Dollar to One Million Dollars" series of short videos.
[From one dollar to one million dollars. 】
It's one of his channel's most-watched series, with past installments already racking up over 300 million views.
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 you buy for one dollar, whether a piano that costs ten dollars can produce sound, how does a second-hand broken piano bought at a flea market for one hundred dollars sound like... until you spend one million dollars to take a picture of a piano once used by Queen. Steinway piano, let the audience see what kind of tone it can play.
Fans are very interested in such comparison videos.
Thomas has already completed piano, computer special effects, car and marine sports chapters ranging from one dollar to one million.
He is going to return to art again with his new video - the theme is painting.
Painting artists are a somewhat mysterious profession for audiences around the world.
People know that the prices of works by different painters are very different, but they may not have enough appreciation to distinguish the differences.
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 work that looks similar.
In his new video, Thomas plans to spend a total of seven levels of one dollar, ten dollars, one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, and one million dollars to invite different unknown painters to paint. World-renowned masters blindly rated these works from lowest to highest.
"The show must be very popular."
Thomas thought to himself.
The $1 million, $100,000, and $10,000 offers all have fixed candidates.
They are Jane Arnold, who has won art awards such as the Turner Prize and the César Lin Prize, and the French Order of Arts and Letters, the internationally renowned illustrator Jean Julien, and the emerging illustrator Peter Rosen, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art.
With only one dollar, he found a homeless painter on the side of the road in San Francisco.
As for the levels of ten dollars, one hundred dollars, and one thousand dollars, which are neither high nor low, he is ready to find suitable freelance artists on various part-time platforms.
Thomas casually opened Fiverr on his mobile phone, selected the Art·Painter category, entered the amount "ten dollars", and clicked to filter.
As the page refreshed, a poster of a fat cat wearing a monocle jumped onto his phone screen.
