Buy this and save $99,000,075 million
Want to “give your home an edgy look with some serious pizzazz?” Well, look no further. Because “lifestyle retailer” Z Gallerie has just the home design trinket for you: a bling-a-rrific metallic skull that bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted sculpture, For the Love of God — only this version is almost $100 million cheaper. The best part: gift wrap is only $4.25 (shipping not included). Which means that you can purchase this fine piece of home design for yourself and more than a hundred of your closest friends — and still not come close to reaching the original’s price tag (which is almost seven times the GDP of Tuvalu). Act now. Or until Lladró comes out with a $19.95 version of Jeff Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles.
(Many thanks to Ryan Frank for the link.)
Update & Correction: Paddy Johnson over at AFC rightly points out that Hirst’s skull is now valued at £150 million (or about $263 million) — roughly the GDP of Micronesia.
Awesome. I don’t know how much this correction is worth, but I believe the current going price for the skull o diamonds is 150 million pounds.
crap! This would have made such a better wedding gift than the ones I’ve bought already.
Thanks for the tip! I just picked one up!
already been done - better.
http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/works/record.html?record=2388
but can you get it for $24.95?
This is funny. Is it to scale? It reminds me of this http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/07/fucking_with_perception_hirsts_for_the_l.html
I would like to own one of these, and set it on my coffee table. I only hope that others would catch the reference, though not likely. But I’m glad to now that I can still use my hard-earned money to protest against the “big-dollar” art game in my own little way.
it’s slightly smaller than scale… about the size of a child’s skull. but impactful nonetheless!