Florida has a stupid new law that requires people applying for welfare to pay for a drug test. Um, hello? They’re applying for welfare, so they probably don’t have an extra $40 lying around to throw at a drug test. The money issue alone could preclude them from qualifying, even if they are drug free!
It makes sense that a lot of people don’t want to pay for other people’s drug habits. Still, bad execution. I don’t see any public office holders being forced to pee in a cup. I’d much rather know that my congressman is not on heroin than anyone on welfare.
The law might turn out to be deemed unconstitutional, because the 4th amendment forbids unreasonable or excessive search and seizure. Stay tuned!
While Florida is worrying about its welfare system, Claremont McKenna, a very small liberal arts college in California, is worrying about its national rankings. Apparently, the college has been falsifying its SAT rankings, a standardized test that largely determines students’ entrance into colleges. Having higher student SAT scores ups the college’s national ranking in many publications. The employee didn’t exaggerate much – only 10-20 points per year, but it still made a difference. Kids aren’t the only ones cheating on the SAT’s anymore!
According to the college, it was just one person in the admissions office that was claiming higher-than-actual test scores. Since 2005. And no one checked until now? It’s not even the lying on the admissions office that is so surprising, it’s the fact that no one has checked or verified the information that is in all of the college ranking lists for at least 7 years. Interestingly, none of the articles say specifically why the senior administrator confessed at all…
What if thoughtful design, in which aesthetic concerns shared top priority with practical ones, were able to infiltrate every aspect of our lives? Even the bank notes in our pockets would be works of art. Artist Dowling Duncan imagines just such a scenario with ‘The Dollar Redesign Project’.
First and foremost, Duncan has changed the size of each bank note so that it’s easy to distinguish by value. The one-dollar bill is the shortest and the hundred-dollar-bill the longest, so there’s less awkward fumbling for the correct amounts.
The horizontal format of the United States bank note is switched from horizontal to vertical. Duncan told Design Boom, “When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally… the majority of people hand over notes vertical when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense.”
Furthermore, the notes are each given a different color, making it even easier to distinguish them from one another. Duncan has also assigned imagery to each that he feels represents their value. For the one-dollar bill, the first African-American president. The five biggest Native American tribes are shown on the five-dollar bill. The ten-dollar bill features the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the twenty represents twentieth-century America.
On the fifty-dollar bill are the fifty states of the nation, and on the 100 are the first one hundred days of President Franklin Roosevelt, which helped fight the economic crises during the time of the depression. See more designs from other artists and for other nations at the Dollar Redesign Project blog.
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Money art, including sculptures and collages made of coins or paper cash, proves that currency can be worth even more than its face value. These 32 works by 14 (more) artists were created by welding coins together, laser-cutting cash, painting on dollar bills and even just plastering an entire room with them. From stunningly detailed portraits to jaw-dropping stop-motion videos, these works of art range from social commentary to pure fun.
Swirling, intricate portraits and drawings of beetles and human anatomy are among the most awe-inspiring works of artist Mark Wagner, co-founder of the Brooklyn Artists Alliance. Says Wagner of his choice to work with currency, “The one dollar bill is the most ubiquitous piece of paper in America. Collage asks the question: what might be done to make it something else? It is a ripe material: intaglio printed on sturdy linen stock, covered in decorative filigree, and steeped in symbolism and concept. Blade and glue transform it-reproducing the effects of tapestries, paints, engravings, mosaics, and computers-striving for something bizarre, beautiful, or unbelievable . . . the foreign in the familiar.”
It took several 2D and 3D artists to stack 31,010 coins into an enormous ‘London 2012′ sign for Cadbury’s Race Season, a challenge to find the world’s fastest racers. UK Agency Pretty Green decided to make the process of creating this sculpture a race, too – they sought ‘the world’s fastest coin stackers’ and were able to create the sign within 5 days.
Artist Hanna von Goeler blocks out large areas on dollar bills, leaving only select details behind. Says the artist, “My currency work originated in California, while I was studying at UC Davis. I was very interested in camouflage at the time. This interest led me to create my first paintings on dollar bills, between 1992-94, in which I camouflaged/painted images onto and into bills. A death in the family led me to the east coast, and faced with the costs of living in New York City on an artist’s budget, I continued to paint on money.”
Scott Campbell’s laser-cut currency sculptures are absolutely jaw-dropping. In a 2011 exhibit called Noblesse Oblige, Campbell, a tattoo artist, cut graphic forms into stacks of cash, making a statement about privilege and the waste of money.
Vibrant and amazingly detailed, these currency collages by artist C.K. Wilde are made of money from around the world. They’re so colorful, it’s easy to forget that it takes untold hundreds or thousands of dollars to produce them. Says Wilde, who is also a co-founder of the Brooklyn Artists Alliance along with Mark Wagner, “Through the ages art has borne witness to the suffering that power inflicts upon the powerless. Wilhelm Worringer wrote that art is, ‘Creation in order to subdue the torment of perception.’ So while some dream and wage war, art continues to offer an alternative view – a world defined by its capacity for compassion and communion rather than destruction and death.”
This hypnotic stop-motion animation video was created using thousands of coins against a black fabric background. The two artists work as quickly as possible, pushing the coins around on the base to form various patterns. It took about 7 weeks to complete this video.
This set of carpenter’s tools, made entirely from cut and bent pennies, is just one example of the stunning coin sculptures made by artist Stacey Lee Webber. The metalsmith spends countless hours bent over coins in her studio, punching out details and using both the positive and negative cut-outs to form new objects. “Coins are more than currency, They are metal objects that hold historical tales as they are passed through the hands of millions of people on a daily basis,” Webber says. “In my artwork I have highlighted the personal history of coins by using them as a material to make art objects. I have chosen to construct objects out of pennies, quarters, nickels, dimes and foreign coins that reflect the often disregarded physical struggle the everyday blue collar laborer undergoes to earn the value of these stamped metal discs.”
1,000 one-dollar bills were used to form ‘Money Dress’, a sculpture by Dave Cole. Cole made the bills into continuous strands and used them to knit the dress in a pattern of a Vera Wang gown.
The familiar faces on American paper currency are transformed into faces that are just as recognizable – but far more modern. James Charles turns George Washington and Abe Lincoln into the Tin Man, Spock, Yoda, an Oompa Loompa, Mr. T, Iggy Pop and many other pop culture figures. Experimenting with ink and papers that are virtually identical to those used by the U.S. Mint, Charles even alters the text below each figure, adding sayings like ‘Pity the Fool’, ‘Tea Party MILF’ and ‘Chicken Choker’.
Origami artist Won Park uses dollar bills to create tiny sculptures of telephones, apples, pigs, buildings, cars and more. This series was part of a rebranding effort for Payment System Group.
Artist Sophie Kemp wanted to give money away – but do it in an unusual fashion. “I decided to take the cold cut process of giving people money and enhance the experience of this action. I decided to take a dollar bill and use origami folds to make it into a ring as the giving of a ring has such emotional connections. I then made these rings out of 12 different currencies.”
Noted currency artist Won Park came up with the design for this intricately folded origami koi fish made from a dollar bill, which was physically created by Mizu Kami.
When artist Hans-Peter Feldmann won the Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, bestowed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for achievement in contemporary art, he was awarded $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim. This is what he chose to do with both. 100,000 dollar bills cover the gallery walls and pillars. “I’m 70 years old, and I began making art in the ’50s,” Mr. Feldmann told the NY Times .“At that time there was no money in the art world. Money and art didn’t exist. So for me, $100,000 is very special. It’s incredible really. And I would like to show the quantity of it.”
This gleaming sofa, a sculpture called ‘All the King’s Men’ by Johnny Swing, is crafted from welded coins on a steel support. It took thousands of half-dollar coins to create this 97-inch-long work of art.
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Artist Hanna von Goeler blocks out large areas on dollar bills, leaving only select details behind. Says the artist, “My currency work originated in California, while I was studying at UC Davis. I was very interested in camouflage at the time. This interest led me to create my first paintings on dollar bills, between 1992-94, in which I camouflaged/painted images onto and into bills. A death in the family led me to the east coast, and faced with the costs of living in New York City on an artist’s budget, I continued to paint on money.”
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Vibrant and amazingly detailed, these currency collages by artist C.K. Wilde are made of money from around the world. They’re so colorful, it’s easy to forget that it takes untold hundreds or thousands of dollars to produce them. Says Wilde, who is also a co-founder of the Brooklyn Artists Alliance along with Mark Wagner, “Through the ages art has borne witness to the suffering that power inflicts upon the powerless. Wilhelm Worringer wrote that art is, ‘Creation in order to subdue the torment of perception.’ So while some dream and wage war, art continues to offer an alternative view – a world defined by its capacity for compassion and communion rather than destruction and death.”
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This set of carpenter’s tools, made entirely from cut and bent pennies, is just one example of the stunning coin sculptures made by artist Stacey Lee Webber. The metalsmith spends countless hours bent over coins in her studio, punching out details and using both the positive and negative cut-outs to form new objects. “Coins are more than currency, They are metal objects that hold historical tales as they are passed through the hands of millions of people on a daily basis,” Webber says. “In my artwork I have highlighted the personal history of coins by using them as a material to make art objects. I have chosen to construct objects out of pennies, quarters, nickels, dimes and foreign coins that reflect the often disregarded physical struggle the everyday blue collar laborer undergoes to earn the value of these stamped metal discs.”
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Technically, defacing US currency is a crime – but artist James Charles doesn’t seem to be in any legal trouble for his awesome series of Pop Culture Cash. His portraits, created on real money using ink, turn dead presidents into colorfully amusing pop culture icons.
Taking the likenesses of Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton, James Charles embellishes the already-present images to turn them into other people entirely. The altered bills celebrate the geeky and the mainstream, the absurd and the admirable.
Looking at the bills, you might not even know that they started out as actual U.S. currency. The alterations are so expert that the small pieces of paper look like they were simply styled to resemble money. But take a closer look and you’ll notice actual serial numbers and other indications that the tiny canvases are, in fact, genuine greenbacks.
Look even closer and you might even see the extremely intricate cross-hatching that Charles uses to cover up the “old” and shape the “new.” It’s an amazing amount of skill that allows the artist to cover up the images that are already there with a whole new layer of ink.
One of the best parts of the altered money is the little phrases that appear below the portraits. What were once small letters denoting the worth of the bill have been transformed into fun descriptions of the characters on those bills.
The artist originally began the fun project by absentmindedly doodling on dollar bills. He accidentally spent a few of the early creations, so he decided to start keeping them in a folder. Eventually the folder filled up with these tiny odes to various American icons.
By experimenting with ink, the artist discovered that he could very closely match the appearance of the original printing on the bills. His work calls into question the ultimate value of this currency we place so much value on but which ultimately is little more than paper and ink.
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Where art is concerned, is the medium as important as the message? In his 2011 exhibition Noblesse Oblige, tattoo artist Scott Campbell explores some unconventional materials that call into question our perceptions of that unique relationship. His series of carvings made of uncut U.S. currency throw together unparalleled opulence (wasting money) and working-class imagery.
Campbell’s history as a tattoo artist shows through in the images he carves into huge stacks of American money. Relying heavily on skulls, skeletons, butterflies and other pictures that would be at home in the pages of a flash book in a tattoo studio, these unusual sculptures are truly a study in differences.
The most-publicized piece of the show, a three-dimensional skull in a box, is made up of more than $11,000 in stacked, uncut sheets of real currency. The money speaks of opulence and privilege, but the skull inside brings to mind a far more down-to-earth mentality.
These pieces, with their tattoo art sensibilities and the over-the-top abundance of their materials, present a strange type of experience for fine art lovers. Much like the artists who paint with their own blood or box up their own excrement, the medium changes the message.
Imagine the same pieces carved instead into plain white paper. They would be considerably less striking, regardless of the obvious skill of their creator. We are drawn to juxtapositions like these because, collectively, we enjoy the visual surprises that come from fine art being rendered in an unexpected medium.
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New Years Eve is just around the corner and to celebrate the event, Frank 151 has created a great New Era fitted. Time is Money, inspired by Ben Franklin, features a gold pocket watch on the front panel and a silhouette of Franklin on the side. The cap is available now through the online store or in-store at Frank’s Chopshop on NYC’s Lower East Side.
It is almost difficult to believe that this concept hasn’t been done before or replicated by more people. While the core concept is incredibly simple, the results are nothing short of amazing. Each of the pieces is formed by folding currency from a different country in such a way that the resulting miniature emphases the face of the leader on the note. Not only that, but each of the faces is given a unique hat or garb, representing the culture of the currencies’ country of origin.
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