John Nosta

Well, here's the secret to this.

Norman Rockwell used a device called a Lucy.

It's a device where he actually hired a photographer, created a set, took a picture, and then took that image and enlarged it and changed it using this mechanism called the Lucy, and then painstakingly traced it and colored it in.

Next time you look at a Norman Rockwell painting, take a close look.

Take a close look at the, it's almost like painting by numbers.

Remember those things when we were kids, the painting by number thing?

Norman Rockwell's art is very, very specific because he was constrained by the technology he embraced.

And that's a really interesting dynamic, constrained by the technology you embrace.

Now, if you look at the Norman Rockwell, the more contemporary, his most contemporary work, look at his signature.

It's a stencil.

I almost want to curse here.

This gets me so angry.

He didn't even sign his name.

The signature is an expression of our humanity, right?

It's Picasso.

It's whatever it is, right?

It has a certain energy, a certain style.

Well, what he did is he actually took a stencil and made Norman Rockwell.

Okay, now why I'm bringing this up is because this goes back to the earlier question is, is it going to hurt us?

Is it going to offload cognition?