Photoshopped!

all the "photoshopped!" responses are dead wrong. this artist duo has been doing this in galleries and museums for a long time. many, many people have seen these in person.

... and then the minions release the dogs with skull masks with bees in their mouth and when they bark the shoot little skull-ish bees at you?

-Homer S

it's a smelting pot squared. it's for pouring hot metal AND cooking delicious fish dishes.

i wanted to jump right back in and clarify - i know there's nothing new under the sun, but sometimes things look so similar to works by a different (very famous) contemporary artist, and it kind of sucks to see it in a reputable gallery. meh.

hmmmm... sounds exactly like Tom Friedman's art.

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/friedman.html
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tom+friedman+art&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

combo socket set + plastic putty/spackle knife

it's also an internationally travelling art / billboard exhibit, coming to my home town in a few weeks:

http://www.coexistence.art.museum/coex/index.asp

for some reason this pisses me off.

i highly doubt it's a planer.

ahhh, simpsons...

Mr. Sparkle: [in Japanese; subtitled]
I'm disrespectful to dirt. Can you see that I am serious?
Out of my way, all of you. This is no place for loafers!
Join me or die! Can you do any less?

Women:
What a brave corporate logo! I accept the challenge of Mr. Sparkle.

Woman #1:
Awesome power!

Kat - that's Wim Delvoye (the machine was called "Cloaca"). he also tattooed pigs. if i recall correctly, some of the tats were bad-ass harley looking designs.

over the last few years, i've increasingly felt that james lipton is one of the funniest men on television. i know... i know... i just can't help it. it's right up my humor alley.

i don't mind the idea of dunking a banal object into tar, but this guy's web site... i mean, i sometimes like process work like this, but this is an effing art gimmick with this fellow. "what else can i dunk in tar?!?!" (also, look at the picture of himself on the site too. give me a break). anyways... yes, i enojy the look of the bear. i also enjoyed Kathyrn Spence's sad, droopy mud bears from back around 2000 too, or Roxy Paine's dunked-over-and-over again paintings. but i think his guy's 15 minutes are up.

the sox and cubs territory is definitely off. i've travelled all over the state of illinois and lived in 4 places within the state, inlcuding chicago for 5 years. the Sox ruling the quad cities and elsewhere in northern illinois makes me laugh a wayne-and-garth-ish "shyeah, right."