MARILYN CORNWELL: Marilyn's Photos - Sep 12 2025

I was wondering if there are more famous people/celebrities now than in the past. What got me wondering is how many famous people have gone to the Burning Man Festival - in the Billionaire's Club - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others. Celebrities and models such as Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Heidi Klum, Susan Sarandon, Cara Delevingne, and Cindy Crawford have also been spotted. Other notables include authors, scientists, engineers, psychologies, etc.

The most repeated number is .0086 percent of the world's population are famous - so if there are 8 billion people that would be somewhere around 605,000 people in the world. The articles say this is a small number, but seems pretty big to me.

I seem to have enough trouble recognizing people and their names who I am supposed to know. But I'd have hundreds of names memorized if they showed up in my morning feed every day the way Prince Harry and Prince William show up. And these two Royals aren't even on the list above that I retrieved.

What do you think of these two abstracts - the first an abstract photo taken inside a storage building on a farm. The second is a digital painting inspired by artist Roberta Wagner's work.