Art Spam
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In these wintry economic times, spam is flying around like snowflakes in a gale. My e-mail filters are pretty good at sweeping it into the trash, but here’s a subject line that’s good for a chuckle:
Fine Art by Disney - Dali - Picasso discounted prices
Let Antipixel be the first to welcome Disney into the pantheon of modernism! Let’s see, I’ll take the “Persistence of Memory” placemats, the “Guernica” bath towel, and two framed Mickeys.
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Posted to General Rants • 2001.11.30 (Fri) • 11:30
Comments
Posted by terry 2001.12.01, 20:36
i’ll take the salvador dali baseball cap, please.
Posted by jh 2001.12.01, 21:53
Sorry, all out of Dali baseball caps. Can I interest you in these Edward Hopper house slippers? True story: Years ago I saw a Mona Lisa tea towel. I still kick myself to this day for not buying it. -jh
Posted by terry 2001.12.01, 23:53
…disappointed re the Dali merchandise.
Have you got the plastic reproduction of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia from Barcelona.
I understand that it comes with batteries included.
Posted by jh 2001.12.02, 16:55
Ah, a gentleman of discerning taste, I see. This month each purchase of the Deluxe battery-powered Sagrada Familia comes with extra bulbs and companion Sagrada Familia salt and pepper shakers. By the way, be sure to stop by for our Spring Supremacist Sale. Big discounts on our line of Red Wedge door stops.
Posted by Terry 2001.12.02, 23:02
I am so excited about the Gaudi salt and pepper shakers, as they will be ideal table top companions for my Mark Rothko coffee set.
Posted by jh 2001.12.02, 23:54
Whatever you do, don’t mention Roy Lichtenstein. When I was in university, I shared a house with a guy who had a Lichtenstein print framed in one of those simple ‘glass sandwich’ type frames with the little clips that bend around and hold the glass to the backing. It hung over an old bed which served as a sofa in the living room. I was sitting on this bed/sofa watching television one day, leaning with my back and head against the wall. At one point I leaned forward to take my drink from the coffee table and at that very instant the print snapped from its mooring on the wall and slid down the wall like a guillotine (I’m not making this up), slicing through the tiny gap between sofa and wall and smashing to pieces on the floor. My friend, sitting on the other side of the room, saw it and it was only from the near-death expression on his face that I realised what had happened. Lichtenstein makes me nervous to this day.
Posted by Terry 2001.12.03, 03:37
What was on tv at the time? If, say, it was Noel Edmonds, or Eastenders, that would obviously explain it.
Posted by jh 2001.12.03, 23:07
Hmm. I don’t think it was Eastenders, although that was huge at the time (and probably still is - does it ever go away?). Never quite did get into Eastenders. I’m sure there’s still time and will be for evermore. No, I think we were watching a movie on videotape, although I have absolutely no recollection of what it was. (Near-death Lichtenstein experiences will do this to you.)
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