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Posts tagged art.
The inimitable Grant Snider strikes again, with the day jobs of famous poets – including Jack Kerouac (railroad worker), Charles Bukowski (mailman), Emily Dickinson (cat-keeper), and T. S. Eliot (bank clerk.)
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Photo Constructs
Scott Hazard tears and layers photographs to create these beautiful wormholes into other worlds.
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The Suicide of Lucretia (Detail) Meester met de Papegaai,1525.
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Dying Abel, by Giovanni Dupre (1817/1882, Italy), at The Hermitage.
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Lady Amelia Anne Hobart, Viscountess Castlereagh, Later Marchioness of Londonderry, after Sir Thomas Lawrence.
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This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary.
Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
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