And now please explain to me why this is “art” and not just human slop.
Money for old rope, that’s how.
While I fully appreciate abstract art, I’m a bit incensed that this is being sold for £1m.
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Don’t kill yourself about it…
No one has bought it for £1m.
Nice work if you can get it.
Anyone can get it if you go find the island of it floating around in the Pacific Ocean (I think?).
That’s microscopic plastic
Turns out most of it is bigger, but still not easily visible (I was definitely one of the people that thought it was giant heaps).
the patch is a widely dispersed area consisting primarily of suspended “fingernail-sized or smaller”—often microscopic—particles in the upper water column known as microplastics.[4]
While microplastics dominate the area by count, 92% of the mass of the patch consists of larger objects. Some of the plastic is over 50 years old, and includes items (and fragments of items) such as “plastic lighters, toothbrushes, water bottles, pens, baby bottles, cell phones, plastic bags, and nurdles”.
I had to google what nurdles were. They’re pre-production plastic pellets.
It’s surfer mispronunciation of “nodules.”
Source: used to surf, talked to other surfers about nurdles.
Easy money!
Silliness aside, old rope kinda fascinates me. Some lasts forever, some is rotten beyond use. I have a giant sack at camp, all kinds. Interesting to see how different materials last, stretch, rot, etc.
Friend gave me quite a bit of the thickest nylon rope pictured. Made a shitty rope bridge out of it that might outlast my old carcass.
The headline is a little misleading, no? He is offering for sale 10 tonnes of old rope as art for £1m; the article certainly does not mention him having found a buyer, which the headline implies.
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one of my three favorite artists.
The big thumbs-up on the Trafalgar Square plinth was brilliant.
but its curated, in stark space and he’s waring all black! IT ART!
I gotta get in on this money laundering scam
Step 1: Buy old rope for 1m at gallery Step 2: Get same gallery to appraiser old rope for 20 million Step 3: Donate old rope to a museum and claim 20 million write-off on taxes Step 4: Repeat and win
He’s pushing rope.
Did you miss the actual joke of the piece?
