February 6, 2010
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February 5, 2010
February 5, 2010
A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On eBay
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Artist Caleb Larsen has created an art sculpture which, when connected to the Internet, perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.
Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay.
Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.
If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.
The sculpture, entitled “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter“, recently sold on eBay for $6,350.00 and is now being shipped to its next “owner”.
Writer Andrew Sargus Klein offers some additional context for the sculpture in this excellent post at SpliceToday, in which he references both Baudrillard and Hirst, and explores contemporary concepts of ownership and worth:
“A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” is tangibly linked, via Ethernet, to the intangible world of taste, aesthetics and worth. It doesn’t matter if the work becomes astronomically valuable—you’re legally required to keep putting it up on eBay once a week until someone else buys it. The argument is you can’t own anything conceptual, neither in copyright or theoretical terms, and the artwork’s logistics ensure that no third party—the highly ridiculous art market—can change that.
February 1, 2010
January 30, 2010
The Onion
January 29, 2010
Play that funky music
Posted by adm15 under Music, Women | Tags: dj qualls, eliza dushku, play that funky music, the new guy, zooey deschanel |Leave a Comment
Because I like 1) the New Guy; 2) Zoey Deschanel; 3) Play that funky music white boy.
Play that funky music in The New Guy, by DJ Qualls and Zooey Deschanel
with eliza dushku in the background.
January 28, 2010
From 7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art by Cracked.com
“Those tasty dinner rolls scattered in The Last Supper may be the notes of a musical arrangement.”
“Actually, not just the bread, but the hands of Christ and the Apostles as well. One musician found that by drawing a five line musical staff across the painting, the hands and buns seem to line up as the notes of a pretty little composition. This is assuming, of course, that the notes are read from right to left, which was how da Vinci wrote.”
“…technically, the first album containing a secret message when played backwards was The Last Supper.”
January 27, 2010
READ: TEA INFUSER. But imagine the possibilities.
from gizmodo.com
But wait! There’s more!
We can use both the yellow submarine and the shark AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
January 23, 2010
To quote a random Youtube commenter:
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT”
January 21, 2010
Conan takes a shot at NBC.
Posted by sultada under Media, News, Videos | Tags: conan, leno, NBC, tonight show |Leave a Comment
NBC is on the verge of giving the Tonight Show back to Leno, and here is what Conan had to say about the situation.
First, by being subtle:
Screw subtlety:
BONUS:
Jimmy Kimmel guesting on Leno’s
January 18, 2010
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