Let me just say this first off, I love Anthony Lister’s work. I have been waiting to get one of his superman prints for a long time. The prices are just getting to where they should be right now and I can’t wait to put it up on the wall. I have met him a few times, and he is friends of friends.

This latest piece on the Melrose Barracuda wall is an advertisement for the release of “Rise of the the Planet of the Apes”, done by Anthony Lister.

I have never seen Lister do anything like this, But I am not following him like crazy. But this is called selling out. Now I don’t think that selling out is a bad thing at all. It is smart, If I could sell out, I would sell out faster than Mr. Lister. This chance will never happen to me, Or I hope that it will one day. But there is no real chance that it ever will. I am not an artist and my work isn’t related to selling out ever (which I find sad, and will work on figuring out a way to sell out). Anyways, the idea of selling out if funny to me. What are the levels of selling out? And if one “underground” artist sells out, is it still selling out? I wouldn’t put Lister in the list of underground artists in anyway, his work is amazing and he often sell’s out his shows anyways. But if for say some higher level artist Sells out, he gets lambasted on the web.

The ultimate trump card in selling out and copying and fair use is the artist Andy Warhol. How long did it take for Andy Warhol to sell out? Was he considered a sell out, even during his time? I am really just sick of hearing the words sell out really. It is just a jealous term. I think it is a great way for artists to get there name out. I want more people to know about Anthony Lister, I just don’t want his art prices to go up. They are still to expensive for me!

Photo credit: Daily Dujour

I don’t know exactly how long it too us to fill up the bottle. It was full, so we had to take it to get emptied and get some cash in exchange, hopefully. Between Erin and I, we have access to about five banks. None of which have a coin counting machine that I have googled about.

So I googled coinstar to learn how to maybe hack it so I could get cash without paying there percentage. I learned that you don’t have to pay a fee when you get your change for gift cards from certain places. I do enough shopping at Amazon where it worked out great.

Below is what we got, Worked out great.

Here is the damage:
Dollars: 7
Half Dollars: 0
Quarters: 493
Dimes: 1085
Nickels: 631
Pennies: 2771

I think with this I am going to buy a Drobo.

I forgot the international change that came out of it!

And you can record the conversation, below is my conversation with myself.

I have a few invites if you want one….

http://www.grandcentral.com/

I can’t wait till the day comes that she gets out. What station is going to have the first interview with her. When How soon after is she going to go on Oprah to talk about her prison experience. The American people will soon change there minds about this dirty girl. She is a normal girl who went to prison. Well after she got bought out.

I don’t wanna even hear anyone mutter the words, that guy sold out, anymore. How many Helio sponsored walls are going up or are already up right now. Check out the latest helio sponsored wall. Don’t get me wrong, it looks awesome and i am happy that helio is sponsoring these art walls all over America (Los Angeles, New York).

I could do a better job at Photoshoping this Jessica Simpson picture. Or i guess the picture was taken before she divorced Kevin Fenderline or whatever his face is called.

Picture from: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=23886

One of my most favorite things about Downtown Los Angeles is the Fading advertising. You know when you look up and see an old sign for Sears downtown. When there hasn’t been a sears in downtown in centuries. Here are a couple of websites devoted to the dying art of fading advertising:

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ADS/ADS%20HOME%20PAGE/adhome.html

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fading+ads

http://fadingad.wordpress.com/

http://www.lileks.com/ghost/index.html 

While watching lost, audi had the best idea. Make some DVR friendly ads, where you go back and watch it again. Or try to watch it again, in slow motion. Frame by frame. You can watch these dvr friendly commercials here.

Just use the contact form at the top and I will send you one.

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com

Are you a Male? And a Virgin? Then MTV has a show for you!

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/tch/305547222.html