If this alternate universe wishes to remember the lives of the thousands of people lost with two all beef patties,special sauce,lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun…then I’ll take reality, please.
I hope you choke on your tea and scones. NO JOKE
Here’s my question Helen, addressed to those that run the Anti-Regretsy Campaing; Does this not deserve to be ridiculed? OMG…I’m not one to say things have crossed any lines, and I’m not going to say it now either, but this is one fucked up piece of “art.”
Hey, I have an idea, how ’bout we all pitch in and send it to a 9/11 widow. I’ll be she’ll get a kick out of the neat little alternative universe idea.
I want that description written on the back of it. I’m tempted to buy it, drive to Chicago, eat the tea and scones and turn the whole thing into a photo essay.
just reading through some of the descriptions in this shop is a hoot! Here’s a good one:
Here’s a 12″x12″ painting of the famous Marina Towers in Chicago. These buildings were featured on a Wilco record cover and in a Steve McQueen movie, maybe. I have never been in these buildings, they look like corn cobs. I’m not going into corn cobs! Children On The Corn is a pretty good movie for 1984. If it came out now people would say, “OH, THIS LOOKS DATED”.
Yeah, there’s nothing cute about either Anne’s Franks nor the McMemberance. Maybe, MAYBE if the “artist” had ANY talent whatsoever, these “works” could be construed as a comment on the shallowness of our culture, but since in fact they have about as much artistic talent as my golden retriever taking a shit, that is clearly not the case here. They’re just being an asshole.
Warning: Consuming said tea and scones could cause hallucinations, delusions of artistic competence and failure to comprehend the totality of your idiocy.
All this guy’s shop did is remind me how much I miss B. Kliban. A few of the more WTF attempst at humor reminded me of non-funny versions of Kliban’s non-cat cartoons.
Am I going to burn in hell for laughing at “Anne’s Franks” and “The Dairy of Anne Frank”?
You know when you eat McDonald’s, and afterwards, your tummy gets all upset b/c it’s so processed, greasy, and fake?
This painting makes me feel much worse!
I like his artwork actually, I think he’s the closest I’ve seen on regretsy to what I would think of as an actual artist. This is perhaps tasteless but that’s why it’s funny, it’s sort of B. Kliban funny, with a political edge. And frankly as a NY’er the whole situation with what is going on with the memorial and rebuilding there is a wankfest of insincerity, incompetence, entitlement and legal briefs up to the neck, as to be ripe for a sarcastic piercing.
Ok, after reading other’s glowing comments on the fb fan page, I had to see what the big fuss was about…this guy actually has some pretty funny shit in his shop.
This McDonald’s one is not my fave, but am glad I took the time to see what the artist was about. This is rare- I am actually retracting my initial thought that the guy is a nut job…LOL
Give me a McMembrance. Hold on a minute. A McTerrorist. Make it a double McTerrorist make one plain and one so full of campin’ condiments it is so obvious by the evidence on my shirt. Then all I need is the George McChicken. I’ll be around to pay so don’t leave me hanging by a rope.
Raz, I looked around and realized I like some of the stuff, and even laughed at things that will surely secure me a seat in hell. That said, I just hate everyone.
Yea I don’t think artistic talent or lack thereof is a fair basis for considering what the artist was trying to say. I can’t draw for shit, but if I had a message and wanted to visually represent it with colors and stuff, I don’t think I’d just want people to focus on my skill. As long as the message was clear, at the very least.
Anyway, poor taste. Ba-dum-CHHHHH. I also like alternate universes and scones. So it’s not like I don’t see where they’re coming from.
Mc Donald’s kills a lot more people than died on 911 each year!
This study, out of the cardiology department of the University of Maryland, showed that even those with low cholesterol levels, who eat low fat foods most of the time, can be at risk for heart attacks, even after one, repeat one, high-fat meal.
OK, GET THIS: in an alternate universe after this painting (our nation’s tragedy), some idiot spends FIFTY DOLLARS to buy this soulless corporate piece of shit. THEN, they go ahead and hang it over their mantelpiece. This is that universe, and when you buy it you are that idiot.
This particular piece is actually my least fave in this shop of awesomesauce. Thanks Regretsy for expos- ing me to the likes of him, along with Denny Pinkham, CappySue,and the fucking flies guy!
So I’m not too crazy about the McD’s one, but the Marina Towers http://www.etsy.com/listing/43688793/marina-towers-marina-city I love. As a kid growing up in Chicago in the 70′s these apartment buildings were just the…height of cool! I used to carry a picture of them around with me and show people where I’d live when I grew up, lol. Thanks Regretsy – this guy is a bit tasteless but some of his stuff is good!
OK, I admit, the swaddling the baby one is funny. Too bad it’s flat out stolen from yet another internet meme (which was significantly funnier).
I find absolutely nothing witty about pretty much any of the rest of this person’s offerings. And I am holding onto my goddamned Regretsy card anyway, thankyaverymuch.
When I first showed Regretsy to one of my friends, I picked this post as an introduction. Something about the alternate universe you have to live in to understand the painting gets me like nothing else. Well, guess what I got for my birthday last weekend? THAT’S RIGHT. I am proudly going to hang it in my bathroom with the description laminated, like it’s in a museum because context is everything with this piece.
May 31, 2010 at 4:37 pm
“When you buy it you will be in an alternate universe.”
Sure, why not, it was obviously *painted* in an alternate universe.
May 31, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I’m lovin’ it!
Not really. I’m apathin’ it? I’m dislikin’ it?
May 31, 2010 at 4:43 pm
If this alternate universe wishes to remember the lives of the thousands of people lost with two all beef patties,special sauce,lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun…then I’ll take reality, please.
I hope you choke on your tea and scones. NO JOKE
May 31, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Damn that special sauce. Damn it to hell.
May 31, 2010 at 4:50 pm
OK GET THIS – In this universe Mc + anything = crappy/unhealthy and cheap.
May 31, 2010 at 4:51 pm
If you can’t super-size it, then the terrorists win.
May 31, 2010 at 4:53 pm
I wish I lived in Chicago. I’d totally buy this just to get the artist to make me tea and scones.
May 31, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Someone should alert the McDonald’s people. They get their panties in a bunch for Mc-copyright violations all the time.
May 31, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Here’s my question Helen, addressed to those that run the Anti-Regretsy Campaing; Does this not deserve to be ridiculed? OMG…I’m not one to say things have crossed any lines, and I’m not going to say it now either, but this is one fucked up piece of “art.”
Hey, I have an idea, how ’bout we all pitch in and send it to a 9/11 widow. I’ll be she’ll get a kick out of the neat little alternative universe idea.
I’m done, I have to go eat BBQ.
May 31, 2010 at 4:55 pm
McFail.
May 31, 2010 at 4:59 pm
I want that description written on the back of it. I’m tempted to buy it, drive to Chicago, eat the tea and scones and turn the whole thing into a photo essay.
May 31, 2010 at 5:04 pm
I smell a Michael Moore movie about this alternate universe.
May 31, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Dudes, this seller is hilarious ! In that tasteless way we all know and love. I think this is my favourite: http://www.etsy.com/listing/43688822/always-kosher-annes-franks?ref=v1_other_2 NO JOKE !
May 31, 2010 at 5:06 pm
just reading through some of the descriptions in this shop is a hoot! Here’s a good one:
Here’s a 12″x12″ painting of the famous Marina Towers in Chicago. These buildings were featured on a Wilco record cover and in a Steve McQueen movie, maybe. I have never been in these buildings, they look like corn cobs. I’m not going into corn cobs! Children On The Corn is a pretty good movie for 1984. If it came out now people would say, “OH, THIS LOOKS DATED”.
I want some of what he’s…
May 31, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Yeah, there’s nothing cute about either Anne’s Franks nor the McMemberance. Maybe, MAYBE if the “artist” had ANY talent whatsoever, these “works” could be construed as a comment on the shallowness of our culture, but since in fact they have about as much artistic talent as my golden retriever taking a shit, that is clearly not the case here. They’re just being an asshole.
May 31, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Warning: Consuming said tea and scones could cause hallucinations, delusions of artistic competence and failure to comprehend the totality of your idiocy.
May 31, 2010 at 5:09 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/43688758/bananas-yeah-yeah-yeah?ref=v1_other_2
“Paul McCartney is wild about non-meat food items. He also divorced a one-legged woman.”
Good thing I’m not an amputee, I’d take my prosthetic off and whack this artist with it. After I was done laughing of course.
May 31, 2010 at 5:09 pm
If they were charging more along the lines of $5, I’d buy this in a second. It’s hilarious.
May 31, 2010 at 5:09 pm
And yes, I realize that in my annoyance I mis-used the “either/nor”. Sorry. Sue me. :p
May 31, 2010 at 5:16 pm
All this guy’s shop did is remind me how much I miss B. Kliban. A few of the more WTF attempst at humor reminded me of non-funny versions of Kliban’s non-cat cartoons.
Am I going to burn in hell for laughing at “Anne’s Franks” and “The Dairy of Anne Frank”?
May 31, 2010 at 5:18 pm
This dude is the shit. Love it! Pass the freedom fries.
May 31, 2010 at 5:23 pm
You know when you eat McDonald’s, and afterwards, your tummy gets all upset b/c it’s so processed, greasy, and fake?
This painting makes me feel much worse!
May 31, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I like his artwork actually, I think he’s the closest I’ve seen on regretsy to what I would think of as an actual artist. This is perhaps tasteless but that’s why it’s funny, it’s sort of B. Kliban funny, with a political edge. And frankly as a NY’er the whole situation with what is going on with the memorial and rebuilding there is a wankfest of insincerity, incompetence, entitlement and legal briefs up to the neck, as to be ripe for a sarcastic piercing.
May 31, 2010 at 5:28 pm
“I’ll be she’ll get a kick out of the neat little alternative universe idea.”
May 31, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Ok, after reading other’s glowing comments on the fb fan page, I had to see what the big fuss was about…this guy actually has some pretty funny shit in his shop.
This McDonald’s one is not my fave, but am glad I took the time to see what the artist was about. This is rare- I am actually retracting my initial thought that the guy is a nut job…LOL
May 31, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Um, if I’m going to the studio to pick this up, I don’t want no foreign scones! I want me some Freedom Fries!
May 31, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Give me a McMembrance. Hold on a minute. A McTerrorist. Make it a double McTerrorist make one plain and one so full of campin’ condiments it is so obvious by the evidence on my shirt. Then all I need is the George McChicken. I’ll be around to pay so don’t leave me hanging by a rope.
May 31, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I am all for having some of her tea…no joke.
May 31, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Raz, I looked around and realized I like some of the stuff, and even laughed at things that will surely secure me a seat in hell. That said, I just hate everyone.
May 31, 2010 at 5:42 pm
This is just absolutely fucking insulting.
May 31, 2010 at 5:43 pm
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May 31, 2010 at 5:47 pm
okay.. actually I need to take that back.
The rest of his stuff is a little strange.. but not bad.
May 31, 2010 at 6:16 pm
The whole concept makes me GRIMACE AND shamrock SHAKE in horror. Nearly as bad as when their apple pies went baked
I’ll take mine to go please. To go to the dump..
“RABBLE RABBLE” – Osama Ham BurgulerBinladin
May 31, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Is the “NO JOKE” about the fact that the artist will make you tea and scones, or is it a sort of disclaimer on the painting itself?
May 31, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Yea I don’t think artistic talent or lack thereof is a fair basis for considering what the artist was trying to say. I can’t draw for shit, but if I had a message and wanted to visually represent it with colors and stuff, I don’t think I’d just want people to focus on my skill. As long as the message was clear, at the very least.
Anyway, poor taste. Ba-dum-CHHHHH. I also like alternate universes and scones. So it’s not like I don’t see where they’re coming from.
May 31, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Tea and scones are awfully important to me as a person, no joke. I wonder how much flights to Chicago from Australia cost…
My fave is definitely Tragedy in Dessert City
but Death Is Wack is a close second.
May 31, 2010 at 8:08 pm
i like some of them, some are borderline tasteless, come cross the line. coming from me, that’s pretty tasteless.
May 31, 2010 at 8:59 pm
I see the connection.
Mc Donald’s kills a lot more people than died on 911 each year!
This study, out of the cardiology department of the University of Maryland, showed that even those with low cholesterol levels, who eat low fat foods most of the time, can be at risk for heart attacks, even after one, repeat one, high-fat meal.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/company/thisweek/may15.html
May 31, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Can’t stop giggling at this one, illustrating the “right and wrong way to swaddle your child”:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/20718535/wrap-it-up?ref=v1_other_1
May 31, 2010 at 10:02 pm
All we are saying, is give beef a chance.
May 31, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I love when pig’s fly and I am the Walrus.
May 31, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Since I didn’t come here to commend his art, I won’t talk about his stuff I like.
May 31, 2010 at 10:22 pm
OK, GET THIS: in an alternate universe after this painting (our nation’s tragedy), some idiot spends FIFTY DOLLARS to buy this soulless corporate piece of shit. THEN, they go ahead and hang it over their mantelpiece. This is that universe, and when you buy it you are that idiot.
May 31, 2010 at 11:03 pm
If any Regretsiers can make it to Chicago, buy this item and eat tea and scones and tour her gallery with a straight face I will give you $1million.
In an alternate universe.
May 31, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I just noticed one of the tags is “George Clooney”. Is that meant to make sense?
May 31, 2010 at 11:09 pm
This is a perfect thread to illustrate the difference between the blog comments and the Facebook comments.
I can’t love this guy’s work more than I do because if I did my head would fucking explode into a million tiny flecks of glitter.
All y’all who totally missed the WIT of the artist’s work should have your Regretsy cards revoked and a kick in the taco out the door.
Those who missed it at first and apologized – you’re on probation.
DON’T MAKE ME COME BACK OVER HERE!
May 31, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Art is in the eye of the beholder, but for me, wit+irony-talent-eye pleasing qualities DO NOT = art. If it were so, I could be a great artist.
May 31, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Seller’s profile says:
“Erdman has developed an increasingly efficient method for producing batches of art that he can make quickly, duplicate easily, and sell cheaply.”
Yup, sounds like what I am looking at.
June 1, 2010 at 12:28 am
This particular piece is actually my least fave in this shop of awesomesauce. Thanks Regretsy for expos- ing me to the likes of him, along with Denny Pinkham, CappySue,and the fucking flies guy!
June 1, 2010 at 12:28 am
exposing …
June 1, 2010 at 1:06 am
i love it!
June 1, 2010 at 8:24 am
Tasteless. I can’t find anything redeeming or witty about it.
June 1, 2010 at 8:50 am
So I’m not too crazy about the McD’s one, but the Marina Towers http://www.etsy.com/listing/43688793/marina-towers-marina-city I love. As a kid growing up in Chicago in the 70′s these apartment buildings were just the…height of cool! I used to carry a picture of them around with me and show people where I’d live when I grew up, lol. Thanks Regretsy – this guy is a bit tasteless but some of his stuff is good!
June 1, 2010 at 8:58 am
@52 nitebyrd: “Tasteless. I can’t find anything redeeming or witty about it.”
Just like McDonald’s food.
June 1, 2010 at 10:33 am
@#54 sudabaki ~ Exactly!
June 1, 2010 at 3:58 pm
OK, I admit, the swaddling the baby one is funny. Too bad it’s flat out stolen from yet another internet meme (which was significantly funnier).
I find absolutely nothing witty about pretty much any of the rest of this person’s offerings. And I am holding onto my goddamned Regretsy card anyway, thankyaverymuch.
June 1, 2010 at 11:40 pm
whatever.
this guy is also known as rap master maurice and appeared on a hilarious episode of wiretap with jonathon goldstein!
http://yourelisteningtowiretap.net/?tag=rap-master-maurice
good enough for me!
June 2, 2010 at 12:05 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/20221990/tragedy-in-dessert-city?ref=v1_other_1
I think this one is better.
June 2, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Great. Now I will have nightmares of the creepy Burger King flying a plane into the Twin Towers. Going to stick to Mexican food from now on.
June 6, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I didn’t realize Dwight Shrute was making art now.
July 7, 2010 at 3:32 pm
When I first showed Regretsy to one of my friends, I picked this post as an introduction. Something about the alternate universe you have to live in to understand the painting gets me like nothing else. Well, guess what I got for my birthday last weekend? THAT’S RIGHT. I am proudly going to hang it in my bathroom with the description laminated, like it’s in a museum because context is everything with this piece.
December 10, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I like some of Derek’s other stuff, but this one wasn’t one of my favorites.