http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Zero-Dollar-Bill/ss/events/bs/100808zerodollargilb
IMO, they should've used a portrait of Bush.

:D

Yeah, it looks way too similar to the one dollar bill. I think it would have been better if she had made them to look more like bills than some photoshopped thing on a sheet of paper.

SilentHunter7:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Zero-Dollar-Bill/ss/events/bs/100808zerodollargilb
IMO, they should've used a portrait of Bush.

:D

It's not that kind of political statement, and as much as I'm not a Bush fan, it's not an anti-bush theme art work

The dollar namely the One Dollar bill is a symbol for american currency, which now means shit worldwide, it's fitting that she chose the one to get her message across...

Ugh listen to me I sound like an art critic... Then again most artists are

Looks like a quick photoshop job to me. If she'd used a guillotine to cut them into actual dollar-note sizes it would have had a greater effect.

Also, I don't see how you protest against the breakdown of the economy. It's not like they're going to say "You're right!", pack up and have the stock exchange back to normal overnight.

Admiral Obvious.. what is your command?

Novajam:
Looks like a quick photoshop job to me. If she'd used a guillotine to cut them into actual dollar-note sizes it would have had a greater effect.

Also, I don't see how you protest against the breakdown of the economy. It's not like they're going to say "You're right!", pack up and have the stock exchange back to normal overnight.

My thoughts exactly. It implies that there's a large percentage of people who are anti-good economy. "Meyh. What it's ever done for me?"

What I find funny is that the economy must be doing EXTREMELY well to have a zero dollar bill.

Because with inflation going up, you'll eventually need one thousand dollar bills.

So, this person's protest is pretty void.

This is obviously a publicity stunt to get some media attention.

Where the hell are you guys getting "protest" from? If anything it's expression, not a political jab.

How can you fail to see the point? It's as obvious as can be.
"The dollar is worthless."

It's a protest because she wants people to wake up and notice. Maybe she'll mail the 10.000 prints to different companies/politicians. I assume she'll cut them to size, but even if she doesn't, this picture is frameable and shows both sides, it gets the point across. Does it matter you can't crumple them up into your pocket?

bah, here I thought someone had thought up a clever idea of creating and selling a work of art, that by its virtues are absolutely worthless.

What do I get? not particularly clever political commentary.

Shame on you ms. artist lady

Talk about having a funny idea and then doing the bare minimum to use it. Half the college kids in America could have done that in 20 minutes.

Previous poster said portrait of G W Bush. Strictly speaking it's not entirely his fault but it still seems like the appropriate thing to do. Plus, cut them out at least! Lazy.

This is what art has become? A shoddy 5 minute photoshop effort? Wait, why am I acting surprised? Everyone does this and calls it art now-a-days.

I'd expect this to be something a tabloid newspaper would print to share their views.

Wait, what? Our economy is so awesome we can make money with absolutely no value? Awesome! And here I was worried... thank you, brilliance of modern art, for easing my fears.

thing is in theory a $0 bill should be worth nothing but is really worth the amount of paper its printed on ($0.5 maybe?) a bit like when the price of copper when up and a 1p coin was worth 1.5p.

Still anything passes as art these days. I bet if i got some road kill threw it at the wall then shot it with a nail gun it would be hailed as revolutionary.

It's funny and depressing at the same time. I keep wondering if I should move to Canada before the country implodes.

Darth Mobius:
Well, she's an artist, thus she dreams and creates, not work at the problem itself. Like the court jester of old, the artist of today merely highlights the problem (in this case a blindingly obvious one, but hey) so that those who are in a position to do something will notice.

I agree that after the 700 billion this was rather pointless. I pray for her sake she had this idea in the works for a couple of weeks now and had trouble getting the print run to go forward.

i bet her husbands a banker with a capital W

SilentHunter7:

IMO, they should've used a portrait of Bush.

This.

watch this... http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ its less then a week old, there are 2 others all to be found on either the site on that link or youtube, its going to take a while to watch, this one alone is 2 hours but i beg all of u to spend the time and learn not only what is going on but how we as a world can fix it.

I want one of these framed.. that'd be awesome.

I don't normally double post and spamming irritates me as much, if not more than most of you. However the subject is important and i ask that u not only watch it, but if u doubt it spend some time trying to prove it wrong, by all means mail me any comments or post them here, if u want more information on the way the world works ( and if u spend the time watching that u probably will) then i can tell u all where to look.

again http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

p.s. as regard to Laura's artwork i very much appreciate it. i can see where she's coming from, predict where she's hopefully going with it and generally 'get it'. most modern art is about 'getting it' and so rarely nowadays about simply making pretty things.

Downside:
Still anything passes as art these days. I bet if i got some road kill threw it at the wall then shot it with a nail gun it would be hailed as revolutionary.

The thing is you haven't so it doesn't count.

Conceptual art hasn't got to the point where it can exist without the context of a gallery, happening, or artifact of communication.

This prevents me from going:

I don't normally double post and spamming irritates me as much, if not more than most of you. However the subject is important and i ask that u not only watch it, but if u doubt it spend some time trying to prove it wrong, by all means mail me any comments or post them here, if u want more information on the way the world works ( and if u spend the time watching that u probably will) then i can tell u all where to look.

again http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

p.s. as regard to Laura's artwork i very much appreciate it. i can see where she's coming from, predict where she's hopefully going with it and generally 'get it'. most modern art is about 'getting it' and so rarely nowadays about simply making pretty things.

:)

I'm gonna go crazy and defend the artist, for a bit... its very easy to say 'anyone could have done it with photoshop' but no-one did, therefore she's had an idea and made it art.

Of course, that would open the age old question 'Is it art just because it is created by an artist?' but that's for another thread I think.

I do think Bush maybe should have been on it tho, not as an anti bush protest, but purely because it is about events now, therefore should reflect the presidency of now. (and may have deflected a few more 'photoshop lols' criticisms.

However, maybe she tried that and felt it didn't 'work' as well as keeping it to a more realistic look.

Well it could be worst, it could be a -1 dollar bill

Damn, I want one of those to frame and hang on my wall.

On the one hand, I do understand why it was best to mimic the $1 bill, but on the other hand I greatly second the Bush bill. Or possibly McCain or Cheney.

I wonder if it would be possible to bleach a bill and print that on it?

You have to be careful what you do with money. The US Treasury Department doesn't like people making their own 'fake' money. This alone may explain why the artist didn't cut the notes out and make them double-sided. She also wanted to encapsulate them in a context of an artwork to fall within the defense of 'fair use' (i.e. as they are they are impractical to use as currency, even to grift someone in a bar). By having her name on it she is creating a cultural artifact and associating herself with it as the author. By making it an edition she is making an ironic comment on how it is entirely possible to give away a limited edition of prints in the street to strangers and in time find that they become collectable and increase in value when they come up for auction.

Ok. So, she wont directly benefit from this, others will make money at her expense from worthless dollar bills.

Yet, that may well be her eventual gameplan as a further ironic comment on the market.

This explains why she distributed the notes in Wall Street to many of the people responsible for day-trading away America's financial future.

I think she has come up with one of the best conceptual artworks of recent times and will gain fame and notoriety from it. Expect to hear more from her in the future. Although, I can see that she could make some money out of $0 T-Shirts in the interim without polluting the idea too much. After all, if she doesn't capitalize on this image someone else will. It has the potential to be the Smiley face of our time.

If I would live in America, and whine so much about politics, I would do a better one. And like someone said, with Bush.

Good luck to you, Americans! It's about time you people had an economic breakdown. Hahahahahaa!
Seriously, I don't care.
Good job to the person who did it. (because that's what Americans are for, whining, right?)

I hope no one gets their shorts in a twist because of what I said. :D

I think it's a cool paradox that by creating this zero dollar bill she has given value to something that is inherently worthless. Perhaps that wasn't her intention, but the implication seems to me that money is just paper and art isn't.