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Blue Bills
Montana Public Radio reports about artist Tim Holmes, who's dying money blue and giving it away. He also stamps it with the phrase, "Based on the value of a clean world!" He hopes this will prompt a widespread discussion about environmentalism. Why? Because the money is blue. He elaborates at his website bluebills.us:Regular green bills express no value. The money we use every day is backed by NOTHING! Its only value is what others think it has. But when two people exchange a Blue Bill, both agree on the value of a clean environment and a healthy community. Every exchange thus is a vote for a clean world!
So green = "no value" but blue = "clean environment and a healthy community". Got it?
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 11, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Money
Brendan O’Connell, Wal-Mart Artist
Artists find inspiration in all kinds of unusual places. Brendan O'Connell got inspired by shopping at Wal-Mart and started painting scenes from inside Wal-Mart stores. He's achieved quite a bit of success, to the point that his paintings now fetch up to $40,000. Which means they're not going to be on sale at Wal-Mart anytime soon. However, the company has purchased one of his paintings. [msn.com]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 26, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Shopping
Kara Dunne: Living Paper Doll
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 23, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Toys
Makeup-Free Barbie
Mexican artist Edie Aguirre created some images to show what Barbie might look like 1) without makeup, and 2) with the body shape of a real woman. Judging by the bags under her eyes, makeup-free Barbie also looks like she hasn't yet had her morning cup of coffee. [foxnews]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 20, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Body, Toys
Sideways Art
The Fossil Hunters is a painting by Edwin Dickinson, created between 1926 and 1928. Its claim to fame in the history of art is that it was accidentally hung sideways first at the Carnegie International Exhibition of 1928, then subsequently at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the New York Academy of Design, where it received an award. Finally someone noticed that it was incorrectly oriented (according to what Dickinson said was supposed to be the right-side up).
I think it looks better on its side (below). At least, I can kinda make some sense out of the painting from that angle. But then, who said art was supposed to make sense!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 12, 2013 -
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Category: Art, 1920s
Blindfold Pigs
Back in 1905, celebrities of the day were asked to try to draw a pig while blindfolded. The results were printed in The Strand magazine:
Most of the names I don't recognize. But I do know Caton Woodville (middle of the second row from the top). He was an artist who specialized in war scenes, such as his rendition of the Charge of the Light Brigade. I'm guessing his paintings aren't cheap. But I wonder how much his blindfold pig would go for?
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 07, 2013 -
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Category: Art, 1900s
The Breathing Bicycle
Artist Matt Hope outfitted his bicycle with an air filtration system that allows him to breathe clean air as he bicycles around Beijing. It's his way of drawing attention to Beijing's pollution woes. Though he says it could also be seen as "a ridiculous solution to a ridiculous problem."It reminds me of Hana Marie Newman's oxygen-tank bubble dress that I posted about a few months ago. Hope and Newman should get together. They could swap air purifiers.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 03, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Travel, Urban Life
Hamish Fulton: Walking Artist
Hamish Fulton describes himself as a "walking artist." He walks places. And that's his art. He also takes photos as he walks, which he exhibits. But the photos seem to be a secondary concern for him, and he definitely doesn't consider himself a "photographer." The experience of walking is, itself, his art. [his wikipedia bio]
Fulton's latest art piece took place in northern Chile. Art Daily offers this description:
he stayed in Machuca and climbed Jorquencal peak every other day. On the days when he was not climbing, he used to leave the room in which he was lodged and walked from door to door, and these days also became walking days. As a result, Fulton became acquainted with the everyday life of that new place and its residents and, as days went by, a repetition pattern was established—which involved both the village residents and geographical issues related to the movement of the sun and how its changes occur throughout the days.
So could people who commute to work every day be considered "commuting artists"?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 02, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Miss Curity Coloring Book
Click on each page to expand.
1) Yes, that's a fishhook in the lad's finger. How it was extracted before application of bandaid is not known.
2) Do NOT invite Miss Curity to your party--she's a jinx!
3) Why are they peeing into the lemonade?
Please color within the lines!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 27, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Injuries, Advertising, 1950s
In one end, out the other
Apologies in advance for the crappy post. I'll let the artist, Gabriel Morais, explain his project:The idea behind this project, is to show how much the food we ingest affects our body, therefore the colour of each poop was not manipulated on photoshop. To achieve the result, the quantity I ate for each picture was:
4.5kg of beet root in 36 hours.
3.5kg of Froot Loops in 30 hours.
4kg of sweet corn in 36 hours.
4.5kg of beet root in 36 hours.
3.5kg of Froot Loops in 30 hours.
4kg of sweet corn in 36 hours.
So in the photos below, he shows what he ate first, followed by what eventually came out the other end.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 22, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Body, Food, Photography and Photographers, Excrement
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