EBAY ITEM OF THE DAY
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July 19, 2005
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* congratulations to Lab! *
Sad thing is, that looks like some homeless person's top of the line range.
Posted by: MOTW | July 19, 2005 at 10:09 AM
* congratulations to Lab! *
Sad thing is, that looks like some homeless person's top of the line range.
Posted by: MOTW | July 19, 2005 at 10:12 AM
someone should be shot for bidding more than $.99 for that thing.
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 10:17 AM
Yaaaaay, Labby!
Posted by: Tamara | July 19, 2005 at 10:18 AM
Current bid $305? Did they accidentally leave out a decimal?
Posted by: M.C. | July 19, 2005 at 10:23 AM
M.C. It's probably being bought by a federally funded "artist" who will use in in an installation somewhere public condemning society's treatment of the trolley community. And charge whichever state it ends up in about $575,000.73 for all the hard work he/she did buying it off of eBay.
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 10:27 AM
cheap, cheap.
but will it cooky long long time?
Posted by: Cyn | July 19, 2005 at 10:27 AM
::mutters something mutinous about how modern artists give normal artists a bad name::
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 10:30 AM
close to home example. This is a photo of Cathedral Square in Christchurch. See the pretty cathedral? No? It's the heritage building behind the oversized "Millennial Project" installation that has an official name I've forgotten, but looks like a giant ice-cream cone.
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 10:32 AM
stands in solidarity w/jamie before wondering how to go about getting federal funding.
Posted by: crossgirl | July 19, 2005 at 10:36 AM
Jamie.. I'm with you all the way.
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 10:36 AM
Isn't that yours Lab?
I can't believe you're getting rid of it.
You cooked me up some mean sewer rat on that baby.
*licks lips*
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | July 19, 2005 at 10:40 AM
i had to take a course in "contemporary images and issues of art" for my major, and i've never hated any of my classes as much as i hated that one. modern art is crap. sometimes literally. anyone have that link that dave put up a while ago about the artist who was pooping in cans and selling them?
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 10:46 AM
Isn't what's issuing from contemporary art the main problem with it?
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 10:53 AM
thank god it was only a speck of his #2 and no one bid on it.
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 10:59 AM
Delvoye is not known solely for his s**t machine however: For the 1999 Venice Biennale, he had Indonesian craftsmen carve a full-size Belgian cement truck in teak. He has also had professional tattoo artists decorate live pigs on Belgian pork farms, preserving the skins as paintings once the pigs went to market.
Who wants to put money on the fact that this guy had the sort of parents that said "He's not destroying our house.. he's just expressing himself creatively."?
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 11:01 AM
Umm, jamie, "normal" artists? What are those?
(j/k)
Posted by: qetzal | July 19, 2005 at 11:01 AM
Jamie: I was visiting the proud capital of my country (no not Toronto!) and outside an important (ha ha!) government building is a 50 foot steel spider. No explanation, no relation to anything around it, not even a panel explaining why millions of tax payer dollars paid for a giant spider...
I spent at least 10 minutes of life wondering why the h*ll I have to wait 16 hours to see an Emergency doctor but there is a 50 foot spider in the middle of Ottawa.
Posted by: Somewhere North | July 19, 2005 at 11:03 AM
touche, qetzal.
thought this was an interesting quote:
At least 45 of the original 90 cans have exploded, however. This is exactly what Manzoni intended. Soon after he created the cans he told a friend "I hope these cans explode in the vitrines of the collectors."
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 11:05 AM
Hard times, Mr. Fish. Hard times. I have to sell it to get more aluminum foil to keep the government from scanning my thoughts!
Posted by: �LabSpecimen� | July 19, 2005 at 11:06 AM
I should think the 50 foot spider would have something to do with the 16 hour wait. Most spiders only have 8 feet, y'know.
Posted by: reneviht | July 19, 2005 at 11:07 AM
somewhere north: a 50-foot spider? sounds like something out of harry potter. god, i hate spiders. note to self: never visit ottawa.
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 11:08 AM
Lab.. there are moles everywhere. I don't think Aluminium Foil is going to be enough. You need the full size leadlined box. Email me. Prices start at $3.5 million
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 19, 2005 at 11:11 AM
qetzal, "normal" translates to starving
Posted by: crossgirl | July 19, 2005 at 11:11 AM
time to express myself by getting a sub and picking up my paycheck for my non-art-starving-type job. later, peoples.
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | July 19, 2005 at 11:17 AM
Those things cost over $500, making it a Federal offence to steal them. Maybe the bidder's a cop.
Posted by: Sondra | July 19, 2005 at 11:27 AM
Jeezly!
These things are scattered all over the parts of SoCal where I worked for the last seven months ... and I just drove down the railroad track and ignored them ...
I passed up a fortune!!!
Posted by: U.O | July 19, 2005 at 01:09 PM
Did anyone else notice that you will wait indefinitely for "medical help" from the "Unknown Soldier" but that you get to the front of the line if you *guess*?!
Sheesh.
Posted by: Trystan Shout | July 19, 2005 at 06:27 PM
I remembered the name of the ice cream cone thing while I was at work today. Unfortunately, work doesn't come with internet access. It's called "The Chalice". It still looks like an ice cream cone made of metal leaves, if you ask me.
Posted by: Kafaleni | July 20, 2005 at 12:28 AM
kaf, or a vase for dried flora. strange. but kinda nice in an odd way.
now, the 50 ft. spider...*whistles*
Posted by: js | July 20, 2005 at 12:51 PM