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32 years ago No. 23 was actually No. 45 and wasn't playing basketball. If you know what I'm talking about, you'll know who the muse is and what the crowd will be for Pierick's next painting!

@LucasMesser3087 You've got the right year, but it's actually not going to be that dunker 😉

@piericksmithart Eastbay Funk Dunk!

32 years ago No. 23 was actually No. 45 and wasn't playing basketball. If you know what I'm talking about, you'll know who the muse is and what the crowd will be for Pierick's next painting!

I NEED YOUR INPUT!! 🙏 Pierick ABSOLUTELY needs to paint the Dunk Contest and crowd from:

@Ben_Inskeep Absolutely obscene!

A new data center proposed in Indianapolis would include 56 backup diesel generators and be located directly across the street from an elementary school 😱

It’s World Autism Awareness Day and today on ESPN’s NFL Live Dan Orlovsky and his son Madden, who has autism, were on the show. It was such a special father-son moment. Madden spoke about his drawings, chanted the Philadelphia Eagles fight song, and he also talked about his love for his mother, siblings and friends. Dan started to cry during the interview, which touched me and made me start crying myself watching it at home. God is so good! What Madden did today was so courageous and he became a hero for so many people who watched NFL Live including me.

With all the awe around @NASA's Artemis II launch yesterday, it reminded me of a very cool space-related appearance in the background of Pierick's Wemby dunk painting: The solar eclipse!! 🌚➡️🌞

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Fernando Mendoza looking absolutely locked in today! 🔥

It’s called Artificial Intelligence but it’s really just systematic plagiarism

One of my most favorite custom paintings Pierick ever created for a customer was this reimagined "WINGS" painting featuring a young MJ in his UNC jersey, gold chains, and championship ring. It was perfection. 😍

These games are on way too late for any parent of kids!!

@Ballislife Got her hanging on the wall!

3 YEARS AGO TODAY Caitlin Clark became the first person with a 40-point triple-double in NCAA tournament history! 41 Points 12 Assists 10 Rebounds 8 Threes 3 Steals

Needing some input for a potential next Dunk Contest painting. 👀 Does Pierick revisit someone from the 90s, 00s, 10s?? Like: Dee Brown, Isiah Rider… or Jason Richardson, Dwight Howard… or Blake Griffin, John Wall… ?? Give me some ideas please! 🙏

@LucasMesser3087 Oooooh, yessss! I like this suggestion.

@piericksmithart Vince hanging by his elbow👀

Here’s the entire version of that glorious Wemby poster!! 😍 And what the background key and Wemby mag look like. Lol the mag is so long my pic cuts off. 👽

Love that I’m getting to see Robbie Avila aka Cream Abdul Jabar in the tourney again! Pierick’s Wemby painting from 2024 still hits! 😂 A couple limited edition posters, which come w/ a FREE magnet and background key, can be found here: piericksmith.com/posters/wemby-…

I've always wondered if people would be interested in owning a tiny version of their favorite shoe?? These would be 3D and perfectly painted replicas. IDK... just an idea!

@aakashgupta One of my most favorite things to do is going through a canopy of trees. 🌳🌳

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@kenshii_ai And then OpenAI turns around and charges you for using the very tool that stole public data!! These tech bros are disillusioned by their own shit-ass technology and shit-ass morals and character. Yuck!

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam Webster have just sued Sam Altmans OpenAI. These legendary publishers accuse OpenAI of stealing nearly 100000 copyrighted articles and dictionary entries to train ChatGPT. The AI now copies their content freely while crushing their website traffic and revenue that built centuries of real knowledge. This is not innovation or progress. This is blatant industrial scale theft from the guardians of human knowledge. Sam Altman preaches ethics and safety while building his empire on plagiarism and lies. The lawsuits are only getting started.