there was a scam going for a while where somebody person rolls up to you with a camera or laptop computer wrapped up in some sort of nice-looking packaging, offering to sell it to you for super cheap on the condition that you can’t open the packaging first (which, as everyone knows, would lower the resale value). you’re led to believe that it is stolen off a truck or something, but in any event, a web is spun, money exchanges and you unwrap… a piece of painted wood.
it sucks but the few pictures i saw of the scam were pretty good. i mean as “folk art” it was pretty nice. so we had these fake laptops made. see the keyboard, and the touchpad, and the screen? our technicians did a really good job with this.
mike benedetti uses one of these on the snow ghost show.
cute dude union local 878
filmed in front of the hair police record, which is looooong gone.
this isn’t a picture, it’s an extremely slow movie.
this is the new toy custom urban vinyl collector’s artist’s figurine we’ve been working on with our toy specialists. from the “information series”, this is a horse and it comes with a nice little blanket and a magazine for it to read. pretty sweet. our volunteer coordinator (kpars) said it looks like a weird penis with legs, and i’d have to concur. BUT THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE WANT. evidently. weird penises and the magazines that the penises read.
Horse $4
the company that we buy a lot of our toys from recently started only selling them in themed packs like this one. every one so far has had a different theme– they must have a robot with a really clever algorithm for putting them all together. the logo on the card is the logo of the distribution company, the amazing melting man toy distribution business incorporated company LLC. i called them to ask about it SO I COULD WRITE ABOUT IT ON THIS BLOG but they only blew a really loud whistle into the phone! what a bunch of jerks!
yesterday we had something that reminded me of my swedish grandmother, so today here’s an “assisted readymade” by my swedish grandfather, made when he was 7 YEARS OLD. sorry dudes, this gem is not for sale…
we’ve been getting some nice comments lately from the internet (1, 2), so i decided it would be “a real good idea” to have an internet trivia contest. ok, here goes
- who are the two dudes with thier eyes closed, pictured in the banner graphic at the top of the page?
ok, there’s only one question, so you can leave the answer in the comments below. winner gets five hats or two belts or three comic books or 1.5 stuffed animals.
this friday from 5 to 8pm, come see Jimmy Jamie Bobby Buckmaster’s first solo art show! Jamie is a super-talented artist with a fresh comic book coming out any day now. he is also a teacher at the worcester art museum, which is one more awesome thing about the worcester art museum.
as always, there wil be snacks.
when my grandmother was in the hospital and they had to move her from room to room, she would put on huge novelty sunglasses just like these, and turn it into a parade. someone donated this pair, and my mother was in the store, so here she is modeling. now you know what my mother looks like, so you can see her in the supermarket and say “you’re famous! let me buy you a nissan sentra!” or something.
this is a painting for a movie poster i was commissioned to make for a movie coming out soon, starring mike leslie, howard johnson, poison control, lorna doom, and little andrew. howard johnson is an artist here in worcester, but he’s not street so he doesn’t matter. OH SNAP.
