As one of the cheapest people in the world, I am constantly stunned by the price of paintings. Even when you know the guy, the lowest you’re going to get them down is like, $1,000. How about this? How about $298? And how about I choose exactly what the painting is?
That’s what I wanted so that’s what I did.
This is my friend Scott Martin. He’s in Crom and 400 Blows and a million other bands and after a lot of puking at SXSW a few years ago, I took a picture of him and his friends showing off their new Ozzy tattoos (Ozzy gave himself that tattoo when he was bored in jail).
I thought it would make a great painting so I emailed it to a company in Seattle called Your Art Now that paints whatever you want in perfect photo realism for cheap. They said they could do a 48″ x 36″ oil painting of it for about $300. It would have been more expensive if there were faces in it because faces take way longer.
When it came in the mail a few weeks later, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s so good, I have to show you the canvas rolled up around it to prove it’s not the original photograph.
Check out the boot! (the wrinkles at the bottom are because it’s still in the shipping plastic)
I love the way paintings of tattoos look.
So, I got a four foot wide painting at the head of my bed and it cost me less than an 8 ball of cocaine. For a Scotsman, that’s better than sex.
-GAVIN McINNES
that video would be a great Lone Star beer commercial
$300 for an 8 ball? Are you kidding? GETTIN RIPPED OFF BRAH
that baby in black and white on the main page of http://www.yourartnow.com/ is fucked up.
you should try selling it for like 3k
They just used a watercolor photoshop filter on that one thats why its cheap
unfortunately this is a waste of money. it will not increase in value, except if from your celebrity. If you make a wise art investment , especially someone like you w money, it can be extremely lucrative.
The slow shitification of Gavin M.
So you are amazed by printers now?
You paid $300 to have a tossed-off, poorly composed snapshot blown up and slavishly recreated using a more viscous substance than printer’s ink?
And you’re the smart guy….
The fuck is up with your bed McInnes? It’s like a metal version of a four poster, but why? I thought it might be for kinky sex, like a butchers rail to attach various leads and chokers to but the absence of any tie-off points doesn’t really give much weight to this assumption.
Care to shed some light on this?
I call it “knees’!
man this is one of the best posts in a while. great bussiness!
I can’t believe this is in the same house as your Eames furniture. Is this a paid advertisement? It looks like an IKEA painting. I assume it works like a dreamcatcher over your bed, but instead of warding off nightmares, it wards off consensual sex.
Ha! That’ll show your fucking artist friends!
i think it’s pretty cool
mike morowitz is a dream amchine
mike morowitz is a dream machine
mike morowitz is a dream machine!!!
hello gavin. could you do posts on yr politics.? maybe noone cares but i am interested in how you are culturally left but perhaps politically right?
TANKS
I love art. Will that be a better investment than the stock market?
Great investment. Flip that shit.
I stayed with a lady who had a bed like that. I begged her to tie me to it, or let me tie her to it, but no.
Crom really sucks.
I call it a gay mens knees, hehehe.