I believe she’s charging $38.50 extra just to look at her stupid duckface.
And…”got settled”? How ’bout mowing the lawn or pulling all the dead weeds behind her? Doesn’t go so great with gold brocade…
I love that in most of her descriptions she describes the fabric she made the dresses out of as “special” or she only “snagged 1.5 yards” and that she was not able to make another. As in, she can’t buy another and con it as her own.
Yeah, if you buy a scalper ticket, it’s all out on the table… you know you’re buying a ticket at a higher price. On Etsy, people are willfully scamming you. That’s not cool.
The three “canvases” look like an eight year old painted them. YES, PLEASE TAKE MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. I totally didn’t need it for anything useful.
Who knew that all those paintings and drawings my kids do are worth $20K (plus shipping)! I have an untapped gold mine and their pictures actually have talent.
Seriously, if you want to bullshit someone into wasting over a thousand dollars on some painted canvases you made in ten minutes, find an extra five minutes to get a better photo than trash bag on the floor.
That is exactly what the floor of my studio looks like! If I put a black plastic garbage bag down, I could rip off this photograph in about half an hour. Also, those are canvases? They look like painted chunks of 2X4 to me.
Oh yes, but don’t forget it’s because he’s “classically trained” and won some award although he doesn’t tell you what it is. Famous dead artists don’t sell for 22,000 dollars.
Well, thanks to some quick Google research, I seem to have found the elusive “award” that he won. It’s a prestigious award, known only to the most talented of artists. I believe it’s called the “University of Surrey Student Union Staff Member of the Year Award”
This is a fine example of what I have affectionately dubbed “Bullshit Art” since my art gallery crawl days in Philly. If it’s one (or MAYBE two) colors on a canvas with a hefty price tag, it’s “Bullshit Art”.
The fact that it takes zero talent to create something like this – it’s an insult to talented artists who can’t get anyone to buy their work for far more modest prices. The art world is a bizarre place.
GOD I HATE FUCKING PRETENTIOUS ARTISTS WHO THINK THEY ARE WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR ANGRY!
An artist’s work is only worth how much people are willing to pay for it. You can’t just ask an arbitrary amount of money and expect people to fork it over because it’s AAAHHHT.
Well, the string on Etsy is $.20 a yard. The string on Ebay is $.008 a yard. If we compared it the other way around, it would still be cheaper. Just more like $5.76 cheaper. Which is not as exciting.
When I was a teenager, I was so skinny people actually suspected me of having an eating disorder. I still couldn’t get in a size 2. I think you have to be 5 feet tall…
just an observation, the two dresses are different. same fabric, but they’re not the same dress. maybe the seller just copycatted it. not that thats any better.
No, it’s the same. The link was actually sent to me by someone who works at H & M. If you Google the dress, you’ll see it looks different in almost every picture.
I think it looks especially different on her because she’s very thin.
And here I was actually going to give the Etsy artist the (minor) benefit of the doubt that she merely brazenly ripped off the design rather than outright resold the product at double the price. Time to snap myself with a rubber band again until I learn.
Let us not forget that it IS H & M after all, not YSL.
It’s apparent tomeanyway that the 5-yr-old who sewed the one in the picture might have missed her nap and so didn’t line everything up as well as her 8-yr-old cousin sewing next to her, refreshed from her watery-porridge-meal-of-the-day.
They should really check on the fabric cutter who is obviously cutting randomly as he needs to go to the potty soveryurgently…
-__- How come I never find anything that cool thrifting. When I go thrifting, I find stuff like crusty sweaters from the 80′s and faded event t-shirts.
BadassLactatingHoneyBadger
March 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Answer: Because you are tacky?
And wow, she’s really got some emotional range as a model. Transforming her look from “duck face” to “deer in the headlights”, she knows how to make love to that camera.
If he were a REAL arteeest, he would slam the door in the face of anyone who dared to suggest he sully the integrity of his “interactive” art by framing it.
…but I sort of feel sorry for them because I think that these artists believe that the outrageous price tags are justified by the effort that they have put into their work.
At least this person PUT endless amounts of EFFORT into this piece. That’s all hand cut wood pieces. Those paintings are tiny canvases painted in one color… effort = 2 minutes each while drinking Boone’s and doing bong hits. Pu-lease.
i’ve put gesso on a canvas, the full thing. and then i put lines. and formed them into images. even if some were abstract. this is thousands of dollars of effort!?
Princess Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
March 23, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I sort of feel sorry for them because Etsy is the absolute wrong venue for selling anything in that price range.
You need a Big City Gallery (TM) next door to the 20 million dollar condos to move items like those (the wood work is quite well done from the photographs). Problem with the galleries is that they are juried.
It’s like this with some of the quilts I’ve made for family. No way would any “middle class person” pay me anything close to what it was worth in time and energy to produce something like that.
Quilts. I have yet to see pretty one that was priced what it looks like in labor. Always seems insanely low.
They just look so detailed and hard. So very many opportunities to screw up. I love them, and don’t know how people do it by themselves. Old school Quilting bee? Sure!..but man.
PBCGE, my grandmother made each of the 10 of us grandchildren a completely hand sewn quilt, and I think she has all of our kids covered, too (ha! covered…). The endless hours of labor she put in are just amazing, and no–no one in my family would be able to pay what that is actually worth for time and skill. My hat’s totally off to quilters.
BadassLactatingHoneyBadger
March 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm
As a quilter, I can tell you that hand sewn quilts are super time consuming. A labor of love.
Be careful when buying hand-sewn quilts, some are re-sold items. In Ohio, PA, and other places with Amish communities, you will find the equivalent of “Amish Quilting Sweat Shops”.
Seriously, Amish women quilt all winter as an acceptable way to make cash. People hire these women (by the piece, not the hour) to make hand-sewn quilts for a fraction of what their skills & artistry are worth.
A while back, I saw a handmade quilt on Etsy that was a dead ringer for a hand-sewn quilt I saw at a flea market in Amish country. The Etsy seller was asking 3X what the Amish quilter was selling hers for. Now that’s some evil fuckery.
I tend to think of prices that large as the artist saying “I love this so much that I don’t really want to sell it, but I guess I will if I get an enormous wad of money to ease my pain.”
Now, why the artist would think that about those three canvases, I have no idea.
It’s not really fair to compare the 2 Georg Jensen pieces. I mean, one is a BOOKMARK and the other is a MONEY CLIP. Obviously two VERY different items!
I kind of want to try getting a job at Etsy now, but I bet you get brainwashed into liking silly things with mustaches on them and blinded to the resellers.
I just so happen to have canvas, paint and trash bags at home. I’m off to create a masterpiece and then hope someone with more money than brains comes along to buy it.
Pffft – RIP OFF!! I mean, moreso: While checking out the Lackovic guy online, I found a painting titled “Orange Blossom” (which is basically all orange) measuring 8″x24″ for $495. The ones listed here above are each $4000 & measure 4″x12″ each. Those 3 better be painted ON originals of Miro, Picasso & Klee to be worth THAT kind of coin!
Furthermore: I can’t find any info about his ‘formal training’ nor the award, save for someone by the name of James Lackovic won for Student Union Staff Member of the Year from the U of Surrey…makes one wonder if that’s the award he means…
Or Donald Judd, Brice Marden, Frank Stella, Aurélie Nemours… but they didn’t show their work on garbage bags, it didn’t measure 12 inches long and was probably not sold at that price when they started exhibiting…
I dunno…there is just something comforting about having my bakery twine hand-wound. I just can’t reconcile saving $500 or so at the cost of supporting machine slavery.
I think the key is that it *looks* hand-wound. She obviously buys in bulk, and then hand-winds it onto more quaint spools. Instant vintage collection, right?!
I had a couple of students napping today in class. I should write two quizzes. One for the students who pretend to pay attention and the other one for the students who sleep during the lecture!
And very true about what they are actually doing on their laptops. I’ve got a student who brings his iPad to chem lab! WTF do you need an iPad in chem lab for?
BadassLactatingHoneyBadger
March 24, 2011 at 1:50 pm
u2m3: As a non-traditional student that works her ass off to keep my STEM scholarship, it pisses me off to watch the derp sitting in front of me checking his status updates. Or the one next to me, audibly snoring. (I got so fed up, I kicked his chair Monday.) Where’s the respect?
Now, if he made tangible line graphs, I would be slightly impressed.
Slightly, because something tells me it involves putting pins in the wall and attaching string to it.
Maybe a freestanding wire piece?
Princess Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
March 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm
I want to know what “award” this “artist” has won.
I mean, I created a record label 11 years ago so I could self-publish my CD, and last year I got an email saying that my record company has won a “Best of $MyHometown Award” and I could purchase a nice plaque for 125 dollars. Does that mean I’m now an award-winning record producer?
A prize at an art biennale? Venice? Kassel? He didnt leave much internet trace anyhow…When I was 12 I got a letter saying I had won 10 000 CDN$ in sweepstakes, maybe that’s his award.
i know, i know- this isn’t funny or witty, but: reselling in general annoys me, of course, but reselling while implying something is handmade, but one could still come back and defend the sale (“I just said I was ‘sewing’, I didn’t say I was sewing THIS dress.”), fills me with pure, blind, unadulterated Hulk Rage. >:(
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ok ok- lighten up… um… something funny…
a platypus dressed up like george bush sr in a tutu!
My question is: shouldn’t I already be able to tell which way the art should hang on my wall? Isn’t that the artist’s job? Are you telling me that I have to do some of the work and pay un-godly sums of money for it? I can paint long cardboard boxes myself and stick them up on my own wall!
I had no idea what bakery (or bakers) twine was, so I had to google it. Apparently it’s pretty kitchen twine.
I’ve got a big cone of kitchen twine I use for tying up things, like birds and roasts, but I can’t figure out why I’d want it to be pretty, especially since it comes off before serving.
Are there non-crafty applications for this?
(OK, a few feet of kitchen twine is one of the few “toys” my cat will play with, but mostly I use it for cooking.)
Really, it’s just for professional bakers. It looks nice for the customers when it’s tied around a box of cakes. Even the cheap pies I get from supermarkets often have the baker’s twine around them, though they are securely closed with labels.
Personally, I couldn’t care less. You could tie my cakes up with barbed wire, I’d still buy from you if they were tasty enough.
Perhaps it means he won ‘a ward’, like Dick Grayson or Little Nell? Maybe in a raffle of some kind held by an orphanage?
Though how you’d support an orphaned child by painting this shit is beyond me. Better to get a decent day job at a bakery tying twine around the boxes. He’s going to have a lot of twine to tie if he wants Little Nell to get into Harvard.
I’m kinda dazzled by the dress one. They were not easy finds. It’s not like they are heavily beaded Chinese wedding dresses found in Alibaba that a major fashion magazine couldn’t tell were….er..
I’ve got mixed feelings about the dress seller. She does seem to have things on her site that she has made, but the similarity between that dress and the H&M one is too much. Think she just copied the design? Well, and made a point of getting the exact same fabric too… ah, more liquor!
I dunno. I make clothing. This, of course, does not make me an expert at anything…but…
What it does though, is make me pretty good at fabric sourcing. It’s hard to get fabric for a line that’s currently in production. Why go to all that trouble just to duplicate that design?
OK, damn- I just read Helen’s comment about the H&M dress- forgive me for doubting your sleuthing skills, Helen! (on knees, sobbing) I’ll say 3 Hail Mustaches and 2 Our Octopi for penance.
I had a brief thought of not flagging the dress because you’re right, a lot of her items do look handmade. But then I realized that this dress is the only item I saw that was described as a size “2″ rather than s,m,l, also the only item where she notes that she could “work with you” on another size. The dress also is not similar in style to anything else in her shop. Selling some original work doesn’t excuse re-selling store bought clothing and trying to pass it off as your own work.
But if she did have to buy it, why not say so? “I usually make all the things in my shop. This cute dress, however, is from H&M, worn one time in a friend’s wedding. I hate to see it languishing in my closet when someone else could be wearing it.” And don’t price it for more than you paid for it.
Ah, but think of it as an invitation to creativity! Since “you, the buyer, choose how you wish to display them,” it brings to mind all kinds of delightful performance art opportunities. Why, I think that the orange one would make a magnificent artistic statement when repeatedly descending upon the artist’s head.
Alternately, they could be used/displayed as minimalist bar stools, non-cuddly body pillows, lightless lamps…personally, I might scatter them around my living room and tell visitors that they were suppositories for giants, then go on a long rant about preserving Western values against encroaching Brobdingnagian culture. Truly, the mind boggles with all of the potential offered by this truly unique art–
It ticks me off when people do this, but what ticks me off even more is when they attempt to take credit for it, as in the case of the dress: “sewing up a storm” indeed!
I’m afraid I wouldn’t pay $125 or $50 for something that looks like a prostate stimulator.
Unless you want people to know you’re reading a shitty book or something.
i’d believe she’s sewing up storms. when i want to procrastinate on my shop, i eat. she obviously hasn’t. i don’t think i’ve seen a size two since i WAS two
my toddlers do a pretty good job of taking care of themselves. i should put them to work crafting.. child labor doesn’t extend to immediate family right?
Nothing pisses me off more than these fucking “painters” asking for thousands of dollars for something a 2-year-old monkey could paint. Or an elephant. Or coral.
Definitely needs to be featured here, but $1200?! Motherfucker. If this was, like $100 bucks, I’d probably buy this. don’t really know why, it’s just sort of fascinatingly bizarre. The description says it was featured in “boinkology”. I’d never heard of that & googled it. some sort of blog about sex with great thread titles like “Girls With Tattoos = Guaranteed Butt Sex?” & “Attention WalMart Shoppers, Masturbation Is Not Allowed On the Premises”.
Well, the price is ridiculous, but at least it took her a year to make as opposed to 5 minutes. Also I find her a lot more attractive than three sections of two by four.
Bakers twine is also a big trend in scrapbooking. Martha even has her own. I doubt they were even wound by hand… just stick the old spool on the bobbin winder of your machine and WALLAH! Over priced shabby chic! Packaging is everything they say. So what do you do with the old spools after you use the twine??
I actually quite like the bookmark/money clip. not 125$ or 50$ like though. I have a feeling any good metalwork geek with a lasercutter and computer could get a sheet of metal and knock out a bucket of them in an hour or two.
Maybe 10-15$ would be a more sane price for a piece of sheet metal with some bits missing.
Wait: is the baker’s twine from the same “artist” who was selling those ribbons and clothespins a few weeks ago, the ones she “grew” in her garden? Where do these people come from???
I remember I had a classmate who did something very similar to Lackovic’s paintings. The art teacher handed the project back and flunked him on the assignment for lack of work and effort.
It’s probably an auto-spellcheck thing (since I’ve been posting here from my phone I’ve been getting a lot of them), but should I be concerned about a vintage jewelry seller who can’t spell “repoussé”?
Do people not realize Danish Modern refers to a specific design style (and era)? This thing is less “swingin’ pad circa 1962″ and more “Office Max circa last year”.
March 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
My favorite is the H&M Dress – “Sewing up a storm” she says…or Lying up a storm…which is it? (I think we know!)
March 23, 2011 at 4:48 pm
I believe she’s charging $38.50 extra just to look at her stupid duckface.
And…”got settled”? How ’bout mowing the lawn or pulling all the dead weeds behind her? Doesn’t go so great with gold brocade…
March 23, 2011 at 5:09 pm
I wonder if she’s as trashed as the landscape?
March 23, 2011 at 10:14 pm
what is this… frikkin Grey Gardens?
March 23, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I love that in most of her descriptions she describes the fabric she made the dresses out of as “special” or she only “snagged 1.5 yards” and that she was not able to make another. As in, she can’t buy another and con it as her own.
March 23, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I personally like how she’s changed the description now so it doesn’t say anything about sewing…
March 23, 2011 at 7:47 pm
To be fair, the dresses are not identical. She’s not selling an H&M dress, she’s simply selling a badly-sewn knockoff of an H&M dress.
March 25, 2011 at 10:35 am
No, it’s the H&M dress. Someone from H&M busted her and Etsy took it down.
March 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Bummer! This is why I am totally afraid to buy clothing from Etsy. The last thing I want to do is give $$ to a reseller.
March 23, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Or to someone who infested my house with bed-bugs.
(True Story: A friend got bed bugs from letting a bag of garage sale clothes sit in the corner for a few days before washing.)
March 23, 2011 at 11:40 pm
the bedbugs were probably already in the garage sale clothes – sadly, a very common way of getting them. How do I know? ugh…I learned the hard way.
March 24, 2011 at 10:47 am
I think that was the point…?
March 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
I can’t decide if this is worse or not than reselling tickets for a show at jacked up prices
March 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Definitely worse.
March 23, 2011 at 6:13 pm
At least the scalpers don’t say they handmade the tickets.
March 23, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Yeah, if you buy a scalper ticket, it’s all out on the table… you know you’re buying a ticket at a higher price. On Etsy, people are willfully scamming you. That’s not cool.
March 23, 2011 at 4:36 pm
The three “canvases” look like an eight year old painted them. YES, PLEASE TAKE MY TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. I totally didn’t need it for anything useful.
March 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66008320/ship-after-sunset-key-west-signed
Sponge painting, only $22,000!
March 23, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Maybe I’m just cheap, but after spending $22,000 on my authenticated Lackovic, I STILL have to pay $35 for shipping?
March 23, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Lackovic huh? Lack of talent I’d say.
Who knew that all those paintings and drawings my kids do are worth $20K (plus shipping)! I have an untapped gold mine and their pictures actually have talent.
March 23, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Lackovicodin?
March 24, 2011 at 2:08 am
Lackoftaste?
March 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm
So the price jumps up about 10 grand just for multiple colors on the same canvas?
*head desk* If people did and could actually spend that kind of money on a painting of any caliber, the term ‘Starving Artist’ wouldn’t exist.
March 24, 2011 at 2:10 am
In Lackovic’s case, “Starving Dumbass” might be more appropriate…
March 23, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I’m pretty sure I made painting like that once when I was little. I had no idea I was actually a super impressive artist!
March 23, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Not to mention the picture of those canvases was taken on a garbage bag. Real classy right there.
March 23, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Seriously, if you want to bullshit someone into wasting over a thousand dollars on some painted canvases you made in ten minutes, find an extra five minutes to get a better photo than trash bag on the floor.
March 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Or get some barn wood.
March 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Is the garbage bag included cuz if not no sale bub!
March 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm
this was my exact first thought…the garbage bag really brings out the je ne sais quois of that “artwork”.
March 23, 2011 at 6:58 pm
That is exactly what the floor of my studio looks like! If I put a black plastic garbage bag down, I could rip off this photograph in about half an hour. Also, those are canvases? They look like painted chunks of 2X4 to me.
March 23, 2011 at 7:14 pm
2×4 is right. That’s probably where the old barnwood went.
March 23, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Nooo! You can’t ruin the well-aged patina of barnwood! It’s priceless!
March 23, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Oh yes, but don’t forget it’s because he’s “classically trained” and won some award although he doesn’t tell you what it is. Famous dead artists don’t sell for 22,000 dollars.
March 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Well, thanks to some quick Google research, I seem to have found the elusive “award” that he won. It’s a prestigious award, known only to the most talented of artists. I believe it’s called the “University of Surrey Student Union Staff Member of the Year Award”
Here’s the link (scroll to the bottom)
http://www3.surrey.ac.uk/surreylife/news/showstory.php?format=3&month=5&year=2010&id=46
March 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm
This is a fine example of what I have affectionately dubbed “Bullshit Art” since my art gallery crawl days in Philly. If it’s one (or MAYBE two) colors on a canvas with a hefty price tag, it’s “Bullshit Art”.
The fact that it takes zero talent to create something like this – it’s an insult to talented artists who can’t get anyone to buy their work for far more modest prices. The art world is a bizarre place.
March 23, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Each canvas is 4 inches by 12 inches? Wow – that’s a LOT of value for money.
March 23, 2011 at 7:43 pm
It’s a 2X4 cut into 1 ft sections.
March 23, 2011 at 10:02 pm
GOD I HATE FUCKING PRETENTIOUS ARTISTS WHO THINK THEY ARE WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR ANGRY!
An artist’s work is only worth how much people are willing to pay for it. You can’t just ask an arbitrary amount of money and expect people to fork it over because it’s AAAHHHT.
Gah, I hate people.
March 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm
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March 23, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Well it’s cheaper, but just because there is a whole lot less string on Etsy. Hence why you save more than $500.
March 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Well, the string on Etsy is $.20 a yard. The string on Ebay is $.008 a yard. If we compared it the other way around, it would still be cheaper. Just more like $5.76 cheaper. Which is not as exciting.
March 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Sometimes the maths are too hard!
March 23, 2011 at 6:56 pm
also, the item made it to the “front page” of etsy! *yawn*
March 23, 2011 at 7:13 pm
wellofcourse it made it to the front page. *Grabs another drink*
March 24, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Yes, but what price could you possibly put on the hand-winding? WHAT PRICE.
March 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Liar Liar Gold Brocade Dress on Fire!
March 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Oh how I would love to see that actually happening. Duck lips through fire. Maybe I could take a picture and sell it for $500?
March 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm
@Amandalee76 Yeah what a shame! I love that dress actually.
March 23, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I haven’t been a size 2 since I was in the womb.
March 23, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Amen sister.
March 23, 2011 at 9:00 pm
of course we haven’t, we are on regretsy remember, much too fat to wear h&m
March 24, 2011 at 10:52 am
When I was a teenager, I was so skinny people actually suspected me of having an eating disorder. I still couldn’t get in a size 2. I think you have to be 5 feet tall…
March 24, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I’m 5’2″ and my hips are about a size 8… if you remove all the flesh from my bones. Being short is no guarantee!
March 23, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Who are they trying to fool with those “paintings”? Also, anyone who has the money can be formally trained, good lord.
March 23, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Squidward even TEACHES classes.
March 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Wait, I took a drawing class once in college! Does that mean I get to sell sketches for $10,000 too?
March 23, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Best part is the $12,000 canvases photographed on a hefty bag. I wonder if they’ll throw that in with it for that price?
March 23, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Or just throw the paintings in the hefty bag.
March 24, 2011 at 2:18 am
Why don’t I save my $$$ for shipping (and my time) and just put $12,000 in a hefty bag and throw it away? That just seems so much easier.
March 24, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I’ll be happy to take that to the dumpster for you!
March 23, 2011 at 4:39 pm
After blowing $125 on a fucking money clip, I’ll have nothing left to put IN the clip…
March 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I love that exquisite shiny black background for those original works of art that I get to arrange any way I want.
Very tasteful choice for the subject matter.
If I wanted to throw away $12,000 I’d just drive a Kia Rio off a cliff.
March 23, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Make sure you take a picture and sell prints. You should be able to buy a Bentley after that.
March 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Are those giant legos?
March 23, 2011 at 5:08 pm
No, giant expensive pieces of crap.
March 24, 2011 at 12:39 am
before I read the description, for a second I thought they were pieces of styrofoam someone bought at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby & let their kid paint.
March 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm
12k, huh? I might just make the career move to hand painting bar graphs. It will give your meeting a unique and interactive feel.
March 23, 2011 at 4:58 pm
And as you may be able to physically interact with, our figures are UP this month! How exciting!
March 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Is your company up, or down? Forget the market, with our products YOU decide!
March 23, 2011 at 4:45 pm
There is no possible way that ANYONE would pay that sort of ludicrous money that James is asking for his work, right guys?
…guys?
March 23, 2011 at 4:45 pm
just an observation, the two dresses are different. same fabric, but they’re not the same dress. maybe the seller just copycatted it. not that thats any better.
March 23, 2011 at 4:57 pm
wait, what’s different? I’m not a sewer so I can’t see it.
March 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm
The pattern isn’t exactly in the same spot but it is the same fabric and shape
March 23, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Exactly what I was thinking. Chances are, though, if she has any skills, her dress will be better made than the H&M one.
March 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm
No, it’s the same. The link was actually sent to me by someone who works at H & M. If you Google the dress, you’ll see it looks different in almost every picture.
I think it looks especially different on her because she’s very thin.
March 23, 2011 at 5:21 pm
And here I was actually going to give the Etsy artist the (minor) benefit of the doubt that she merely brazenly ripped off the design rather than outright resold the product at double the price. Time to snap myself with a rubber band again until I learn.
October 29, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Let us not forget that it IS H & M after all, not YSL.
It’s apparent tomeanyway that the 5-yr-old who sewed the one in the picture might have missed her nap and so didn’t line everything up as well as her 8-yr-old cousin sewing next to her, refreshed from her watery-porridge-meal-of-the-day.
They should really check on the fabric cutter who is obviously cutting randomly as he needs to go to the potty soveryurgently…
March 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm
In this one, she states right in the listing that she got it at a thrift shop (and it’s not listed as vintage):
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66381005/gorgeous-black-beige-party-dress
March 23, 2011 at 6:08 pm
-__- How come I never find anything that cool thrifting. When I go thrifting, I find stuff like crusty sweaters from the 80′s and faded event t-shirts.
March 23, 2011 at 6:22 pm
I know..I would kill for a bolt of the fabric used in that dress.
March 24, 2011 at 10:55 am
Depends on where you live and what store you go to, I’ve found.
March 24, 2011 at 7:17 am
This is the one that makes me go “bwuh??”
http://www.etsy.com/listing/
Why the frell would you slap the top half of a French maid’s outfit on top of some gold sparkly fabric and call it fashion?
March 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Answer: Because you are tacky?
And wow, she’s really got some emotional range as a model. Transforming her look from “duck face” to “deer in the headlights”, she knows how to make love to that camera.
March 24, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Damn, she pulled it.
March 23, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Different in size, but that’s the same dress.
March 24, 2011 at 1:28 am
The etsy dress has a moustache.
March 23, 2011 at 4:46 pm
If he were a REAL arteeest, he would slam the door in the face of anyone who dared to suggest he sully the integrity of his “interactive” art by framing it.
March 23, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I think he’s overestimating his artwork, just a tad.
Perhaps that’s why he has no sales yet.
March 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Sort of like this fellow:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68795000/lacey-gardenia
…but I sort of feel sorry for them because I think that these artists believe that the outrageous price tags are justified by the effort that they have put into their work.
March 23, 2011 at 6:34 pm
At least this person PUT endless amounts of EFFORT into this piece. That’s all hand cut wood pieces. Those paintings are tiny canvases painted in one color… effort = 2 minutes each while drinking Boone’s and doing bong hits. Pu-lease.
March 23, 2011 at 8:01 pm
The bong hits would surely have inspired more creativity.
March 23, 2011 at 6:36 pm
i’ve put gesso on a canvas, the full thing. and then i put lines. and formed them into images. even if some were abstract. this is thousands of dollars of effort!?
March 23, 2011 at 6:38 pm
not the wood, i meant the interactive horseshit on vinyl.
March 23, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I sort of feel sorry for them because Etsy is the absolute wrong venue for selling anything in that price range.
You need a Big City Gallery (TM) next door to the 20 million dollar condos to move items like those (the wood work is quite well done from the photographs). Problem with the galleries is that they are juried.
It’s like this with some of the quilts I’ve made for family. No way would any “middle class person” pay me anything close to what it was worth in time and energy to produce something like that.
March 23, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Quilts. I have yet to see pretty one that was priced what it looks like in labor. Always seems insanely low.
They just look so detailed and hard. So very many opportunities to screw up. I love them, and don’t know how people do it by themselves. Old school Quilting bee? Sure!..but man.
March 23, 2011 at 8:04 pm
PBCGE, my grandmother made each of the 10 of us grandchildren a completely hand sewn quilt, and I think she has all of our kids covered, too (ha! covered…). The endless hours of labor she put in are just amazing, and no–no one in my family would be able to pay what that is actually worth for time and skill. My hat’s totally off to quilters.
March 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm
As a quilter, I can tell you that hand sewn quilts are super time consuming. A labor of love.
Be careful when buying hand-sewn quilts, some are re-sold items. In Ohio, PA, and other places with Amish communities, you will find the equivalent of “Amish Quilting Sweat Shops”.
Seriously, Amish women quilt all winter as an acceptable way to make cash. People hire these women (by the piece, not the hour) to make hand-sewn quilts for a fraction of what their skills & artistry are worth.
A while back, I saw a handmade quilt on Etsy that was a dead ringer for a hand-sewn quilt I saw at a flea market in Amish country. The Etsy seller was asking 3X what the Amish quilter was selling hers for. Now that’s some evil fuckery.
March 23, 2011 at 9:37 pm
I tend to think of prices that large as the artist saying “I love this so much that I don’t really want to sell it, but I guess I will if I get an enormous wad of money to ease my pain.”
Now, why the artist would think that about those three canvases, I have no idea.
March 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm
It’s not really fair to compare the 2 Georg Jensen pieces. I mean, one is a BOOKMARK and the other is a MONEY CLIP. Obviously two VERY different items!
March 23, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Because books and money are not the same, right?
Did I answer it right?
March 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Ohhh….and here I thought it was just a ruse to throw off the Regretsy horde when they Google the product…
March 23, 2011 at 5:02 pm
The Etsy one is also resale. Another awesome example of the seller adhering to the TOU!
How amazing would it be if Killer went undercover and got a job at Etsy. At least we know ONE person there would do their job!
March 23, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I kind of want to try getting a job at Etsy now, but I bet you get brainwashed into liking silly things with mustaches on them and blinded to the resellers.
March 23, 2011 at 6:04 pm
There’s probably a wickedly steampunk machine which takes care of that after your interview.
“Throw the switch, Igor!”
March 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Or they put something in the tea.
March 23, 2011 at 4:53 pm
I just so happen to have canvas, paint and trash bags at home. I’m off to create a masterpiece and then hope someone with more money than brains comes along to buy it.
March 23, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Pffft – RIP OFF!! I mean, moreso: While checking out the Lackovic guy online, I found a painting titled “Orange Blossom” (which is basically all orange) measuring 8″x24″ for $495. The ones listed here above are each $4000 & measure 4″x12″ each. Those 3 better be painted ON originals of Miro, Picasso & Klee to be worth THAT kind of coin!
March 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Furthermore: I can’t find any info about his ‘formal training’ nor the award, save for someone by the name of James Lackovic won for Student Union Staff Member of the Year from the U of Surrey…makes one wonder if that’s the award he means…
March 23, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Hey, I once won Staff Member of the month … could I write you a haiku?
My interactive
Colors on three canvases
Just a buncha shit.
March 23, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Nico, I love you!
March 24, 2011 at 11:21 am
I’d say you could probably get around $5000 for that! But only if it were painted on parn wood..
March 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm
That sounds like the awards on bumper stickers for people who brag about their kids.
March 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm
unless this guy is manufacturing his own paints and squirting it onto the canvas with his asshole, i’m just not interested.
March 23, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Miro, Picasso….and Klee?
He knows nothing about art.
Miro: http://www.abcgallery.com/M/miro/miro68.JPG
Picasso: http://blog.operative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picasso.jpg
Klee: http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/paul-klee-rose.jpg
now maybe if he said Ryman, Newman,
Ryman: http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/paul-klee-rose.jpg
Newman: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5bVN3kXOxFc/TEvxsX5v4GI/AAAAAAAABjI/BZeFTW0ItpI/s1600/05+Who%27s+Afraid+of+Yellow,+Red+%26+Blue%3F.jpg
Or hell ANY colorfield painter i’d give him more credit…I guess he didn’t get the memo…urg.
March 23, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Or Donald Judd, Brice Marden, Frank Stella, Aurélie Nemours… but they didn’t show their work on garbage bags, it didn’t measure 12 inches long and was probably not sold at that price when they started exhibiting…
March 23, 2011 at 4:57 pm
I dunno…there is just something comforting about having my bakery twine hand-wound. I just can’t reconcile saving $500 or so at the cost of supporting machine slavery.
March 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm
I think the key is that it *looks* hand-wound. She obviously buys in bulk, and then hand-winds it onto more quaint spools. Instant vintage collection, right?!
March 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm
The large size would be so handy to have around. You could craft yourself a quaintly hand-wound noose.
March 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Who . The . FUCK . would pay that much for a book mark, let alone a money clip.
Oh, wait, I know…
March 23, 2011 at 5:07 pm
HAHAHAHA. <3
March 23, 2011 at 6:20 pm
OH LAWD~
March 23, 2011 at 6:36 pm
This makes me feel old. When I was in college we took notes. On paper. In a binder.
Get off my lawn!
March 24, 2011 at 11:00 am
Paper in a binder? Luxury! When I was a kid we had to make our own papyrus.
March 24, 2011 at 11:23 am
And use our own spittle to write the notes, with a reed stylus..
March 23, 2011 at 9:40 pm
At least they’re taking notes – my students don’t even do that.
That is, if these folks are taking notes. They could just be Facebookin’ and surfing the ‘net.
March 23, 2011 at 9:59 pm
I had a couple of students napping today in class. I should write two quizzes. One for the students who pretend to pay attention and the other one for the students who sleep during the lecture!
And very true about what they are actually doing on their laptops. I’ve got a student who brings his iPad to chem lab! WTF do you need an iPad in chem lab for?
March 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Come on u2m3, clearly the red birds and green pigs are tutoring him. Not everyone finds chem an easy A!
March 24, 2011 at 1:50 pm
u2m3: As a non-traditional student that works her ass off to keep my STEM scholarship, it pisses me off to watch the derp sitting in front of me checking his status updates. Or the one next to me, audibly snoring. (I got so fed up, I kicked his chair Monday.) Where’s the respect?
I say…DO IT, THEY DESERVE IT!
March 24, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Is this an Edward Tufte seminar?
March 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I think you just made Edward Tufte cry.
March 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Now, if he made tangible line graphs, I would be slightly impressed.
Slightly, because something tells me it involves putting pins in the wall and attaching string to it.
Maybe a freestanding wire piece?
March 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Why did I get a law degree when I could be finger painting and putting on etsy for $20,000. Boy I make bad decisions.
March 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Look what I found, another original Lackovic interactive picture for much less :
Etsy must have gallery fees for fine art.
March 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm
I want to know what “award” this “artist” has won.
I mean, I created a record label 11 years ago so I could self-publish my CD, and last year I got an email saying that my record company has won a “Best of $MyHometown Award” and I could purchase a nice plaque for 125 dollars. Does that mean I’m now an award-winning record producer?
March 23, 2011 at 6:53 pm
A prize at an art biennale? Venice? Kassel? He didnt leave much internet trace anyhow…When I was 12 I got a letter saying I had won 10 000 CDN$ in sweepstakes, maybe that’s his award.
March 23, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Why yes, it does! Whataya say, will you produce my next record? I’m an award-winning musician!
(Don’t ask which award, I’m too lazy to make one up..)
March 23, 2011 at 5:08 pm
i know, i know- this isn’t funny or witty, but: reselling in general annoys me, of course, but reselling while implying something is handmade, but one could still come back and defend the sale (“I just said I was ‘sewing’, I didn’t say I was sewing THIS dress.”), fills me with pure, blind, unadulterated Hulk Rage. >:(
ACNDSJDGFIUWDYW&HCDAJNV
ok ok- lighten up… um… something funny…
a platypus dressed up like george bush sr in a tutu!
March 23, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Meet Georg Jensen!
Jane his wife!
Daughter Suzy!
His boy Elroy
March 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm
My question is: shouldn’t I already be able to tell which way the art should hang on my wall? Isn’t that the artist’s job? Are you telling me that I have to do some of the work and pay un-godly sums of money for it? I can paint long cardboard boxes myself and stick them up on my own wall!
March 23, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I had no idea what bakery (or bakers) twine was, so I had to google it. Apparently it’s pretty kitchen twine.
I’ve got a big cone of kitchen twine I use for tying up things, like birds and roasts, but I can’t figure out why I’d want it to be pretty, especially since it comes off before serving.
Are there non-crafty applications for this?
(OK, a few feet of kitchen twine is one of the few “toys” my cat will play with, but mostly I use it for cooking.)
March 23, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Bakers use pretty twine to tie up cakeboxes or to tie paper around loaves
March 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm
and not pay 6 bucks for 1 yard of twine on a small wooden spool. Oy.
At least the ribbon-encrusted clothespins were harvested from the Fairy Forest of Glitteralia.
March 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Really, it’s just for professional bakers. It looks nice for the customers when it’s tied around a box of cakes. Even the cheap pies I get from supermarkets often have the baker’s twine around them, though they are securely closed with labels.
Personally, I couldn’t care less. You could tie my cakes up with barbed wire, I’d still buy from you if they were tasty enough.
March 23, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Thanks. The last cake box I bought was held closed by an elastic string thing I couldn’t get back on.
Of course, the bakery I go to is run by a culinary school, much as the hair salon I go to is actually a beauty school.
March 23, 2011 at 7:04 pm
I admire your bravery.
March 23, 2011 at 5:25 pm
So check this out http://www.etsy.com/listing/66005089/avocado-lackovic-signed-original?ref=v1_other_1 it’s his “Avocado” painting. The best part is in the description:
“A ward winning artist, James Lackovic. Oil and acrylic on canvas with textured accents. 2010.”
That was copied and pasted, no edits. Notice the space between a and ward in what I assume is supposed to be award.
He has not won any awards, what he has won is a ward. Most likely a psych ward, or an art contest in his wing.
March 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I am often dismayed by the underpricing some artists do for their very good works.
It doesn’t really compare to asking 12K for leftover house paint on three poorly wrapped canvas, though.
Awards from Sherman Williams just don’t count.
March 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I think James is poorly wrapped as well.
March 23, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Perhaps it means he won ‘a ward’, like Dick Grayson or Little Nell? Maybe in a raffle of some kind held by an orphanage?
Though how you’d support an orphaned child by painting this shit is beyond me. Better to get a decent day job at a bakery tying twine around the boxes. He’s going to have a lot of twine to tie if he wants Little Nell to get into Harvard.
March 23, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Google doesn’t know who he is, so there’s no way he’s won any awards that didn’t come out of a cereal box.
March 23, 2011 at 5:27 pm
“James calls this his interactive work.” And I call James an interactive-ly asinine douche-twaddle fucktard. Your turn.
March 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
hehe douchetwaddle is gonna be incorporated into my daily vocab now. thank you!
March 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm
“Sewing up a storm” my pale freckled NWT ass.
What fucking CHEEK.
I’m kinda dazzled by the dress one. They were not easy finds. It’s not like they are heavily beaded Chinese wedding dresses found in Alibaba that a major fashion magazine couldn’t tell were….er..
That was harder to spot, really.
Well done, if infuriating.
March 23, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I’ve got mixed feelings about the dress seller. She does seem to have things on her site that she has made, but the similarity between that dress and the H&M one is too much. Think she just copied the design? Well, and made a point of getting the exact same fabric too… ah, more liquor!
March 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I dunno. I make clothing. This, of course, does not make me an expert at anything…but…
What it does though, is make me pretty good at fabric sourcing. It’s hard to get fabric for a line that’s currently in production. Why go to all that trouble just to duplicate that design?
It’s just horseshit, I think.
March 23, 2011 at 5:41 pm
OK, damn- I just read Helen’s comment about the H&M dress- forgive me for doubting your sleuthing skills, Helen! (on knees, sobbing) I’ll say 3 Hail Mustaches and 2 Our Octopi for penance.
March 23, 2011 at 8:10 pm
OMG, you just gave me the perfect idea for an “Etsy Crafter’s Rosary.”
…must go order more mini octopi…
March 23, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I had a brief thought of not flagging the dress because you’re right, a lot of her items do look handmade. But then I realized that this dress is the only item I saw that was described as a size “2″ rather than s,m,l, also the only item where she notes that she could “work with you” on another size. The dress also is not similar in style to anything else in her shop. Selling some original work doesn’t excuse re-selling store bought clothing and trying to pass it off as your own work.
March 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Well said!
March 23, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Maybe she was forced to buy it for herself as a bridesmaid’s dress and she’s tryong to recoup her expenses.
…
Nah.
March 23, 2011 at 6:45 pm
But if she did have to buy it, why not say so? “I usually make all the things in my shop. This cute dress, however, is from H&M, worn one time in a friend’s wedding. I hate to see it languishing in my closet when someone else could be wearing it.” And don’t price it for more than you paid for it.
March 23, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Ah, but think of it as an invitation to creativity! Since “you, the buyer, choose how you wish to display them,” it brings to mind all kinds of delightful performance art opportunities. Why, I think that the orange one would make a magnificent artistic statement when repeatedly descending upon the artist’s head.
Alternately, they could be used/displayed as minimalist bar stools, non-cuddly body pillows, lightless lamps…personally, I might scatter them around my living room and tell visitors that they were suppositories for giants, then go on a long rant about preserving Western values against encroaching Brobdingnagian culture. Truly, the mind boggles with all of the potential offered by this truly unique art–
Wait, no, this is just stupid. Never mind.
March 23, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Marry me?
March 24, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Only if we can drape the three blocky things in gold brocade tulip dresses and make them bridesmaids!
March 23, 2011 at 5:36 pm
*Ahem* Those three pieces of gum are inspired by Miro, Picasso, and Klee?
This is Miro:
This is Picasso:
This is Klee:
SORT OF A BIG DIFFERENCE HERE,
METHINKS.Goodness, if you are going to be inspired by great famous artists of the past, at least up your game a little!
March 24, 2011 at 11:07 am
Well there are some rectangle-ish blocks of color in the Picasso and the Klee. He just happened to be inspired by random background details.
March 23, 2011 at 5:37 pm
It ticks me off when people do this, but what ticks me off even more is when they attempt to take credit for it, as in the case of the dress: “sewing up a storm” indeed!
March 23, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I’m afraid I wouldn’t pay $125 or $50 for something that looks like a prostate stimulator.
Unless you want people to know you’re reading a shitty book or something.
March 23, 2011 at 5:49 pm
STEAL BETTER LANDSCAPING!
March 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm
It’s “Edgy”, doncha know.
March 23, 2011 at 5:50 pm
i’d believe she’s sewing up storms. when i want to procrastinate on my shop, i eat. she obviously hasn’t. i don’t think i’ve seen a size two since i WAS two
March 23, 2011 at 6:08 pm
My procrastination involves eating and playing video games… oh, and not parenting, which is what I really SHOULD be doing.
March 23, 2011 at 6:10 pm
my toddlers do a pretty good job of taking care of themselves. i should put them to work crafting.. child labor doesn’t extend to immediate family right?
March 24, 2011 at 11:09 am
Give them some fingerpaints and blocks of wood.
March 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Hey! I’m a good mother! I water and feed her everyday and I lock her cage up nice and tight so she can run away and get hurt.
March 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm
before kids, i would hear about people who locked their kids up and think, “my god thats atrocious!” post kids, it feels like a viable option.
March 23, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Lovely use of the tag. Haven’t seen that in a while. Makes me all teary-eyed and nostalgic for the good old days on Geocities.
March 23, 2011 at 5:55 pm
oh the glitter epilepsy! i remember it like yesterday <3
March 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm
March 23, 2011 at 5:55 pm
I was waiting for LACLOVIC to be some Ikea wall art. I really was.
March 23, 2011 at 5:58 pm
you can get these from Ikea in a variety of colors
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=lack
March 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm
And hang them on your fucking wall.
March 24, 2011 at 5:44 am
My mind went directly there too. Damn Lack tables….why are you so affordable and artistic??
March 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I kept wondering, too, if there was a connection between Lackovic and LACK.
March 23, 2011 at 5:57 pm
But why pay $12,000 for the Lackovic when you could pay $100,000 for an unfinished portrait of Princess Di?
March 23, 2011 at 6:00 pm
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kilde#Danish
SHE WAS TICKLED!?
March 23, 2011 at 6:09 pm
“kild in a crash” … his spelling is quite artsy, too.
March 24, 2011 at 8:19 am
It’s paintings like this that make me think I have some possibility of selling my own work….
March 23, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I like the three blocks of PlayDoh for $12,000. Next time I want to throw money out the window, I know where to go…
March 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Srsly. I thought it was a photograph of some pastels. I was like, “Is that a picture of his workspace? Where’s the art?”
March 23, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Nothing pisses me off more than these fucking “painters” asking for thousands of dollars for something a 2-year-old monkey could paint. Or an elephant. Or coral.
The ego, I tell ya.
March 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I’m selling these for $10k.
http://d1jqecz1iy566e.cloudfront.net/large/md134.jpg
March 23, 2011 at 7:03 pm
if you have nearly $40k, you can get hipster myspace delivered to your own bedroom!
March 23, 2011 at 7:04 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/39825581/le-voyeur-la-grande-collection?ref=sr_list_1&ga_search_query=priceless&ga_order=price_desc&ga_page=0&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade
March 23, 2011 at 7:18 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/67288509/dirty-dirty-dress
i feel like this needs to be featured.
March 23, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Why did I click on that?
March 24, 2011 at 1:04 am
Definitely needs to be featured here, but $1200?! Motherfucker. If this was, like $100 bucks, I’d probably buy this. don’t really know why, it’s just sort of fascinatingly bizarre. The description says it was featured in “boinkology”. I’d never heard of that & googled it. some sort of blog about sex with great thread titles like “Girls With Tattoos = Guaranteed Butt Sex?” & “Attention WalMart Shoppers, Masturbation Is Not Allowed On the Premises”.
March 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Well, the price is ridiculous, but at least it took her a year to make as opposed to 5 minutes. Also I find her a lot more attractive than three sections of two by four.
March 23, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Bakers twine is also a big trend in scrapbooking. Martha even has her own. I doubt they were even wound by hand… just stick the old spool on the bobbin winder of your machine and WALLAH! Over priced shabby chic! Packaging is everything they say. So what do you do with the old spools after you use the twine??
March 23, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Crafty people use the spools for many things…. I know some people that would probably buy the string just to get the wooden spools!
Also there are other listings on etsy that sell 100yd spools for like $4. So 30 yards for $6 is a total rip off in any case.
March 23, 2011 at 7:26 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/69720553/creme-houndstooth-skirt-black-lace
I will love when showing your bra is no longer a fashion statement.
March 24, 2011 at 11:42 am
Just be glad she’s wearing one. *shudder*
March 24, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Seriously? She didn’t even finish the seams on that “lace” shirt. It’s going to shred as soon as you put it on and look at it funny.
March 23, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Jesus fucking christ does that girl make anything for us fat people?? everything in her shop is xs!!
March 23, 2011 at 7:45 pm
She doesn’t even make things for the larger side of skinny!
March 23, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Better hurry – Lackovic has the same work listed on another website: http://art.rubylane.com/ni/art?ss=Lackovic&sb=Search&samedb=1&previd=22&sb=1
March 23, 2011 at 9:34 pm
My Mom sells twine… Its a huge thing in scrapbooking, I guess.
(Not on Etsy.. her packaging isn’t hipster or vintage-y enough)
March 23, 2011 at 10:23 pm
12000 DOLLARS?? FFFFFFFFFFFFF. I can’t even get people to buy my 15 dollar watercolors. Goddamn this guy has his head up his ass.
March 24, 2011 at 6:02 am
Hey, Lackovic. Bite me. Lookee what I made, and you can right-click have it.
March 24, 2011 at 6:40 am
I actually quite like the bookmark/money clip. not 125$ or 50$ like though. I have a feeling any good metalwork geek with a lasercutter and computer could get a sheet of metal and knock out a bucket of them in an hour or two.
Maybe 10-15$ would be a more sane price for a piece of sheet metal with some bits missing.
March 24, 2011 at 7:23 am
Wait: is the baker’s twine from the same “artist” who was selling those ribbons and clothespins a few weeks ago, the ones she “grew” in her garden? Where do these people come from???
March 24, 2011 at 7:29 am
You can go stright to an H&M store and buy that dress for $5.00 right now. It is on sale.
March 24, 2011 at 9:12 am
I remember I had a classmate who did something very similar to Lackovic’s paintings. The art teacher handed the project back and flunked him on the assignment for lack of work and effort.
March 24, 2011 at 9:30 am
The dress and bookmark are both gone. Hurrah!!!
March 24, 2011 at 9:54 am
I just found this:
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/vjdesigns/item/P70
So one color block retails for $1,200 and she’s selling it for $495, but three color blocks are $12,000?
While her Etsy shop only features paintings from this one artist, her Ruby Lane shop has a lot of vintage jewelry. Like this:
http://www.rubylane.com/item/430293-N401/Deco-Repose-Fur-Clip-Floral
It’s probably an auto-spellcheck thing (since I’ve been posting here from my phone I’ve been getting a lot of them), but should I be concerned about a vintage jewelry seller who can’t spell “repoussé”?
March 24, 2011 at 10:19 am
I’m not even sure it is repoussé. Looks die-struck to me.
March 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm
What is repussy?
March 24, 2011 at 10:15 am
Do people not realize Danish Modern refers to a specific design style (and era)? This thing is less “swingin’ pad circa 1962″ and more “Office Max circa last year”.
March 24, 2011 at 11:20 am
C and S has got to be my favorite recurring feature on Regretsy. Keep calling ‘em out, April!
March 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm
It’s working. The “bookmark” and dress have been taken down.
March 24, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Today I was looking around for something to use to tie up my tiny goat, but then I remembered this post and I was saved.