Archive for the 'Sublime ridiculosity' Category

Damien Hirst’s diamond skull: $24.95 edition.

Z Gallerie
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.

Florida: Better than Matthew Barney.

amazing
If only the director of the Cremaster Cycle had thought to come up with something as good as this: a plaster statue madeover by seashells and a glue gun. And don’t forget the blowfish. (Photo by C-M.)

On the road again…

Shell Factory
Shells playing poker. (Photo by C-M.)

Hey Folks:

I’m on the road, on assignment, enjoying everything that the great state of Florida has to offer, which means I won’t be posting Digests this week or next. I’ll be back on Monday, September 15th, with all the regular art industry nonsense, and hopefully a few good photos of alligators.

xox, C.

Photoshop Gone Wrong: Stephen Colbert’s missing finger edition.

Stephen Colbert
(Photos by C-M. Click on images to supersize.)

Found this over the weekend: the Stephen Colbert desk calendar. Nothing wrong with the calendar. But what tech-happy incompetent mangled Colbert’s fingers, at left? Or was Colbert in some industrial accident that I don’t know anything about?

See a close-up here:
Stephen Colbert desk calendar

Spooky.

See additional Photoshop nightmares at Photoshop Disasters.

Posted by C-Monster.

Art Merch: Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

Museu Picasso
When you need a little death and destruction to go with the morning latte. (Photos by C-M.)

The Museu Picasso in Barcelona is one of those places where if you so much as shift your camera strap on your shoulder, you instantly find yourself surrounded by 17 bruisers in blue shirts who bellow, “Nooo pictures!” The super strict no-photo policy is presumably intended to protect the integrity of Picasso’s sometimes overused imagery . . . so that the museum can overuse it on mouse pads and key chains. Lord knows that nothing respects the dignity of those who died in the Nazi bombing of Guernica quite like slapping an image of their suffering on a mug.

Click on images to supersize. More after the jump.

Continue reading ‘Art Merch: Museu Picasso, Barcelona.’

The Digest. 07.23.08.

C-Monster Family Album
From the C-Monster Family Album: My uncle shows a cousin the delicate art of balance.

Posted by C-Monster.



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