Aside from being a lame idea to begin with, most pigments are NOT tested for long-term toxicity, and even the so-called non-toxic pigments are awarded that sketchy distinction with the understanding that it only applies to pigments being used in a safe manner. Worst of all, pigments, combined, create countless new compounds, virtually none of which have ever been tested for toxicity.

Golden Paints won't even label things non-toxic that they are legally allowed to label non-toxic, as they are aware that these "non-toxic" claims aren't truly verified, and such labeling could lead to a dangerous ignorance on the part of the consumer.

Nice non-link.

Sorry, but this just looks like a sickening waste of plastic.

Definitely neato.

It has been done before, and it is kinda lame. Nevertheless, if you follow the link and read the comments, you'll get the sense that the commentators probably wouldn't consider anything any farther out than Norman Rockwell to qualify as fine art.

I wonder what else the artist did. I don't get the sense that these run-of-the-mill invisible conceptual pieces were the only artist's only, um, "work," though that seem to be the spin we're getting. Better be careful or this will be used as a rallying cry to cut any and all art funding, especially anything that isn't landscape scenes of f**king duck hunts or something.

I am a painter and an art teacher, and I can't tell you how many times people have "found" things that I've "hidden" in a painting. Even when people are informed that I didn't hide anything in a painting, they sometimes insist that I did, and that I'm lying about it.

People are pattern-seeking animals, or to be more precise, pattern-seeking animals who do not realize that they are pattern-seeking animals.

Maybe the researchers actually found something, but judging by all of the other ridiculously stupid "findings" in famous works of art, this is just more nonsense.

$78? My brother would have liked this for Christmas, but not more than a delicious bottle of single malt scotch.

The real disturbing thing is that this hotel room has been left in this state for two years. Clean your disgusting hotel, people.

That is pretty cool and really quite disgusting. I wanna see Q*bert.

The blasters look good, but the lettering is terrible. Luckily this can be fixed with relative ease. The letters need to be made more bold, and they might benefit from having serifs added.

Funny as hell, end of story.

Things like this happen all the time, we just don't find evidence of them most of the time. Imagine all the weird coincidences we will never know about.

I clicked on the comments section just so I could see what I knew would be a bunch of weeping and moaning about this cartoon.

I'll address the question of a male version. I don't think anybody would be offended if we had a male space guy with the typical bulging muscles, square jaw, thick head of hair, big bulge in his tights, etc. I'm pretty sure that nobody would be demanding that he be holding a book or working out a math equation.

Some people here seem to think that men are not bombarded with these kinds of images. Well, we are. I don't like going to the beach and being the skinny neato-nerd artist while tanned guys with dense forelocks of hair, tanned skin and rippling muscles strut around, but that's life. I'm not going to go on a crying jag because I went to the movies and saw Batman or Superman, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, etc.

As someone mentioned, it's a cartoon - a caricature of an idealized female form.

Lighten up.

Well, let's be sure to take this opportunity to study whether or not these particular species of birds in this particular situation with these particular cleaning methods are having some degree of success. Let's see of there's something else we might do to help these birds. Perhaps there's some sort of medicine which could help them survive. See what I'm saying?

I think it's definitely worth the effort if we learn from the process.

I am convinced that there are a few hidden things in this piece, but I am not even remotely convinced that this is one of them.

I've had people see things in my paintings that I didn't put there, and I remember one occasion where someone insisted I was lying to them about it. We are pattern-seeking animals.