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markopolo
May 24th, 2005, 11:54 AM
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7325289026&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

Would you consider this art? Or would you consider this some idiot trying to make a quick buck?
broken lizard
May 24th, 2005, 11:58 AM
hellll no.
it looks like junk mail taped together!
it's more of a quick 50,000 bucks.
Aberrant
May 24th, 2005, 12:03 PM
I think it's art.
Elwell
May 24th, 2005, 12:05 PM
Art or not it's pretty damned funny. I especially like the part about the shrunken head in the Pepsi.
Skulldog
May 24th, 2005, 12:05 PM
Anything can be art by definition, it's making a message correct?

Is it /good/ art? Who knows, it's all personal.

Is it funny? Heck yeah..

I bet that online casion buys it up, just like the mystery envelope and haunted cane.
broken lizard
May 24th, 2005, 12:13 PM
i take it back. although it is overpriced and crappy-looking, it IS damned funny.
BluePanda
May 24th, 2005, 12:16 PM
Interesting? Yes.

Worth a single penny? No.
broken lizard
May 24th, 2005, 12:19 PM
right on, brotha.
(i LIKE this thread.)
dogfood
May 24th, 2005, 01:38 PM
Of course it's art; look how much he's selling it for.
dfacto
May 24th, 2005, 03:41 PM
History: 0 bids

Says it all.
NoUseFrAName
May 24th, 2005, 06:23 PM
art is not the word 'art'. a rock is not the word 'rock'. Art is an arbitrary description based on subjectivity...limited by the personal boundaries that we assign to the description.

Nothing is actually art....it just is what it is...

-Rob
cotron
May 24th, 2005, 06:42 PM
i am apt to believe it's a joke... or somebody hoping that some idiot will throw him 50 grand for taping his mail together. if someone does, hats off to that guy. :hatsoff:
Ian Mack
May 24th, 2005, 08:12 PM
It depends on your personal definition of art.
stoph
May 25th, 2005, 03:32 AM
Jeff Koons eat your heart out.
SJ Bennighof
May 25th, 2005, 07:31 AM
It depends on your personal definition of art.

Hehe, I've got a very very wide definition of art: That which conveys a concept, idea, or message through a medium.

Meaning that this art's message is...analyzing...analyzing..."OMGITWOULDRAWKIFSOM1ACKSHULLYBOUGHTTHIS!!!1"
Dizon
May 25th, 2005, 08:03 AM
No it's not. It's BS. He doesn't even care about the trash he did that's why he's selling it to high amounts to hopefully fool people.
darth massacre
May 25th, 2005, 12:18 PM
I think it has more potential as a sitcom episode than an artpiece.
Quinster
May 26th, 2005, 08:57 PM
That makes me so sick. The highest bid was $50,000!??!?!
fionkell
May 26th, 2005, 10:06 PM
Jeff Koons eat your heart out.

Hah! Well said. :teeth: