Up in the great frigid north, you don’t waste good dryer lint that could be used to stuff a blanket! Every scrap of warmth that can be preserved, MUST BE.
Not sure if offensive or patriotic. America, this is your hat calling, and we’re confused.
Chronic Glitter Lung
September 29, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I’m…not entirely sure myself. I’m not OFFENDED, but I can’t say I’m getting that ennobled feeling that I get when the Declaration of Independence is read, or the West Wing theme music plays.
I think I’m most impressed by the expressive eyes…I didn’t think you could get that sort of detail in dryer lint.
I have a friend who makes art with dryer lint – she used to do lots of different things with many different materials but she suffers from cancer that made it necessary to remove most of her bicep on her right arm. Dryer lint is light enough that she can use it, but she still gets tired pretty easily.
So I guess I don’t see this as being all that weird – I think it’s pretty cool.
(Of course her stuff looks a lot nicer than this example.)
She is pretty amazing. To go from being a seamstress and metalsmith to losing most of the muscle in her dominant arm, then just saying “fuck it, I’ll find something else to make art with” is herculean, in my opinion.
I think I’ll have to stick with the personally autographed picture of President Obama I got when he came to visit our local community college. He looks a lot better in it. Plus, it was free!
Wait a minute. Did I understand this right? This is constructed from dryer lint especially made for this project? Oh well then that makes this perfectly acceptable and not weird at all. And well worth 99.95.
I can’t think of anything less eco-friendly than purposefully manufacturing lint for art. I mean, thanks for making an attempt to filter out the pubic hairs and all, but doesn’t this violate nearly every possible justification for re-purposing dryer lint in the first place? And isn’t the fact that reusing dryer lint is so zany-frugal that is supposed to cancel out the fact that it is pointless and usually ugly? You know that nice energy star rating on your dryer doesn’t mean the thing runs on hope and the morning dew, right?
God, this is like a math problem – given competing characteristics, is there a point at which dryer lint art can be made acceptable as a salable product? Is there an equation that combines gross, eco-friendly, frugal, esthetically appealing, cost, effort and perceived value that could possibly pinpoint the infinitesimally small optimal conditions for lint art?
Whoa, the bottom half is pretty good; scroll down until just his mouth and nose are showing, and it’s very promising. Scroll up and you see that somehow she smashed down the top of his head.
And I’m going to risk ridicule and expose my derpitude by admitting I don’t get the joke — what does “soap” refer to?
You add an extra vowel and the joke goes right over their heads should have gone with MOPE but soap is used to clean the blankets that made the lint … Where is my tequila…
They eyes…they’re so haunting. Did a sorcerer trap the real Obama in dryer lint? Is he sadly gazing out of the lint, knowing that an impostor is running his campaign, but powerless to stop it? God, I hope that Republican necromancer didn’t hang him across from a mirror – it’s bad enough to be trapped for all eternity in a lint effigy, but to know it’s such an ugly effigy…
“The lint was made specifically for this project…”
I had no idea lint was a craft in itself. I’ve been making my own for years and throwing it out. I guess I ought to list it in the “supplies” section. Unless it’s from a load that came from the Salvation Army, in which case it’s “Vintage,” obviously.
Mine’s usually gray, but if I can turn enough of a profit, I’ll consider putting a sorting system into place. Until then, it’d be great for “Fifty Shades” fan art. Except it’s usually about the same shade, but if you squint and turn your head, maybe you can see subtle differences. Nuance! ART!
Don’t get me wrong, this thing is hideous, but I’ve actually seen a lot worse on cafe and restaurant walls in Portland. I’ve started rating non-museum art on a more flexible standard than before I moved here. Now, I as myself, would I be able to eat a plate of fettuccine alfredo with that thing looking at me?
If the answer is yes, it has already cleared the 50% mark, in comparison to other art I’ve seen hanging in public.
I’m not even kidding, you guys. I have been put off my meal multiple times by art hanging on walls in Portland. Most of the time the art on the wall costs more than my dinner. Otherwise I might ask the waitstaff if I bought it right now, would they please take it off the wall, or at least hang it facing the other way.
Just because I live in Portland doesn’t make me a hipster, Zippy. I’m just a boring yuppy dork like the rest of you. I swear! I’m socially awkward and my phone is so old that it can barely text. But it’s not old enough to be cool.
I only said “Portland” so many times, because our art scene is known for “fast art” aka crap.
September 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Yes, we can!
September 29, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Best comment of the night?
September 29, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I can’t like this enough. I keep hitting that little thumbs up even though it’s not doing anything anymore.
September 29, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Oh no, you didn’t!
October 1, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Yes, I did.
September 29, 2012 at 4:42 pm
A beautiful example of the art of woodcut linting.
September 29, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Up in the great frigid north, you don’t waste good dryer lint that could be used to stuff a blanket! Every scrap of warmth that can be preserved, MUST BE.
Not sure if offensive or patriotic. America, this is your hat calling, and we’re confused.
September 29, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I’m…not entirely sure myself. I’m not OFFENDED, but I can’t say I’m getting that ennobled feeling that I get when the Declaration of Independence is read, or the West Wing theme music plays.
I think I’m most impressed by the expressive eyes…I didn’t think you could get that sort of detail in dryer lint.
October 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm
oh, CGL!! lordy, that was good. i thumbed you up for “when…the West Wing theme music plays.”
September 29, 2012 at 5:54 pm
I am giving you thumbs up just for the hat comment.
September 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Hey – it was even on CNN with Wolf Blitzer… that alone makes it worth, um, not a lot
September 29, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Was Wolfe shedding again?
September 29, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I have a friend who makes art with dryer lint – she used to do lots of different things with many different materials but she suffers from cancer that made it necessary to remove most of her bicep on her right arm. Dryer lint is light enough that she can use it, but she still gets tired pretty easily.
So I guess I don’t see this as being all that weird – I think it’s pretty cool.
(Of course her stuff looks a lot nicer than this example.)
September 29, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I believe the key here is “Of course her stuff looks a lot nicer”.
September 29, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Does she have a website?
October 1, 2012 at 5:46 am
This reeks of “I don’t believe you” so I’ll play.
http://heidihooper.com/
October 1, 2012 at 6:01 am
Holy crapola!! I am in awe of your friend. Those are amazing.
October 1, 2012 at 10:26 am
She is pretty amazing. To go from being a seamstress and metalsmith to losing most of the muscle in her dominant arm, then just saying “fuck it, I’ll find something else to make art with” is herculean, in my opinion.
October 1, 2012 at 4:14 pm
holy fuzzballs! she’s amazing!!
October 1, 2012 at 9:47 am
I agree with barterfly – freaking incredible! “The Andy Warhol of Dryer Lint” is spot on.
September 29, 2012 at 5:10 pm
And here I am without a hundred bucks to spend on dryer lint.
September 29, 2012 at 7:06 pm
But if it were belly button lint, it would be a different story.
September 29, 2012 at 9:56 pm
That goes without saying, of course.
September 29, 2012 at 5:20 pm
I think I’ll have to stick with the personally autographed picture of President Obama I got when he came to visit our local community college. He looks a lot better in it. Plus, it was free!
September 29, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Not everything that makes people talk is “a great conversation piece.”
September 30, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Sometimes it’s just a piece…
September 29, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Wait a minute. Did I understand this right? This is constructed from dryer lint especially made for this project? Oh well then that makes this perfectly acceptable and not weird at all. And well worth 99.95.
September 29, 2012 at 6:28 pm
I can’t think of anything less eco-friendly than purposefully manufacturing lint for art. I mean, thanks for making an attempt to filter out the pubic hairs and all, but doesn’t this violate nearly every possible justification for re-purposing dryer lint in the first place? And isn’t the fact that reusing dryer lint is so zany-frugal that is supposed to cancel out the fact that it is pointless and usually ugly? You know that nice energy star rating on your dryer doesn’t mean the thing runs on hope and the morning dew, right?
God, this is like a math problem – given competing characteristics, is there a point at which dryer lint art can be made acceptable as a salable product? Is there an equation that combines gross, eco-friendly, frugal, esthetically appealing, cost, effort and perceived value that could possibly pinpoint the infinitesimally small optimal conditions for lint art?
September 29, 2012 at 7:13 pm
I thought dryers ran on the tears of hipsters and Chinese resellers.
And glitter.
September 29, 2012 at 5:47 pm
I’m saving up for the Mitt Romney portrait made of dog hair.
September 29, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Felting: you’re doing it wrong.
September 29, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Felting or Felching?
September 30, 2012 at 11:38 am
“I forced a great disturbance in the felt.”
- Downy Wan Kenobi
September 29, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Whoa, the bottom half is pretty good; scroll down until just his mouth and nose are showing, and it’s very promising. Scroll up and you see that somehow she smashed down the top of his head.
And I’m going to risk ridicule and expose my derpitude by admitting I don’t get the joke — what does “soap” refer to?
September 29, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I think its a play on “SOPA”
September 29, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Actually, it’s a play on HOPE.
September 30, 2012 at 9:41 am
Gotta Love Sheppard Fairey. also love his Andre the Giant “OBEY” stamps that were popping up in the 00′s everywhere.
September 30, 2012 at 10:08 am
Did you know Sheppard Fairey lost a copyright infringement lawsuit because of the photo he used for the Hope poster? I still love it, anyway.
September 30, 2012 at 11:39 am
D’ohp!
September 30, 2012 at 9:16 pm
You add an extra vowel and the joke goes right over their heads should have gone with MOPE but soap is used to clean the blankets that made the lint … Where is my tequila…
October 1, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Aaah, that’s what I get for not being american lol
September 29, 2012 at 8:20 pm
I thought it was a play on HOPE.
September 29, 2012 at 6:01 pm
They eyes…they’re so haunting. Did a sorcerer trap the real Obama in dryer lint? Is he sadly gazing out of the lint, knowing that an impostor is running his campaign, but powerless to stop it? God, I hope that Republican necromancer didn’t hang him across from a mirror – it’s bad enough to be trapped for all eternity in a lint effigy, but to know it’s such an ugly effigy…
September 29, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Ugh, that face is going to give me nightmares. Or at least make me think a long time about an appropriate Regretsy math. Who? What? Most of all, WHY?
September 29, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Damn, and here I am without a dryer…
Make the eyes stop staring at me.
September 29, 2012 at 7:04 pm
That cyclops has an extra little eye hiding in the shadows.
September 29, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Isn’t anyone screening these things???
September 29, 2012 at 8:54 pm
I usually appreciate your dry sense of humor, Zippy, but I’m afraid this isn’t the time for your fluff.
September 29, 2012 at 9:06 pm
You maytag me as static, but I’ll bounce back!
September 29, 2012 at 9:15 pm
These always become such a Hotpoint of discussion.
September 29, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Sometimes it Sears my brain. Kennmore be said than that?
September 29, 2012 at 9:40 pm
You always have to put a spin on everything.
September 29, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I’ll tumble for you.
September 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm
I’m sorry if I came off harsh. I just needed to vent. Wool you forgive me?
September 29, 2012 at 10:26 pm
I’ve cotton over it. Trust me, I’m Amana my words.
September 29, 2012 at 10:43 pm
I’m out of puns. You’ve run me ragged. I’m steamed about it.
September 29, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Are you permanently depressed?
September 29, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Oh, the ironing!
September 30, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I see what you did there Zippy. The screen is where you gather the lint. Your comment still has that April fresh smell
September 30, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Stretch65 for the WINchell!
September 29, 2012 at 8:41 pm
This is why I line dry my clothes.
September 29, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Uh, NOPE!
September 29, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Who hasn’t checked the lint trap, looking for Change?
September 29, 2012 at 10:33 pm
My own personal favorite COMMENT OF THE DAY! Thanks for the chortle!
September 29, 2012 at 9:13 pm
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September 29, 2012 at 9:15 pm
*ass
I quite.
September 29, 2012 at 9:45 pm
He’s all fiber, compared to the other guy.
September 30, 2012 at 9:22 pm
I think a dryer lint portrait of Snuggle the Bear would be better and Inception like
September 29, 2012 at 9:35 pm
“The lint was made specifically for this project…”
I had no idea lint was a craft in itself. I’ve been making my own for years and throwing it out. I guess I ought to list it in the “supplies” section. Unless it’s from a load that came from the Salvation Army, in which case it’s “Vintage,” obviously.
Mine’s usually gray, but if I can turn enough of a profit, I’ll consider putting a sorting system into place. Until then, it’d be great for “Fifty Shades” fan art. Except it’s usually about the same shade, but if you squint and turn your head, maybe you can see subtle differences. Nuance! ART!
September 29, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Obama? I thought it was Barry Pepper.
September 30, 2012 at 9:24 pm
I thought Mary Poppins
September 29, 2012 at 10:46 pm
It’ll look great next to my ear-wax Bill Clinton.
September 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Don’t get me wrong, this thing is hideous, but I’ve actually seen a lot worse on cafe and restaurant walls in Portland. I’ve started rating non-museum art on a more flexible standard than before I moved here. Now, I as myself, would I be able to eat a plate of fettuccine alfredo with that thing looking at me?
If the answer is yes, it has already cleared the 50% mark, in comparison to other art I’ve seen hanging in public.
I’m not even kidding, you guys. I have been put off my meal multiple times by art hanging on walls in Portland. Most of the time the art on the wall costs more than my dinner. Otherwise I might ask the waitstaff if I bought it right now, would they please take it off the wall, or at least hang it facing the other way.
September 30, 2012 at 10:03 pm
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you live (or at least eat at restaurants)in PORTLAND! YOU HIPSTER-MONSTER! I’ll see you around.
September 30, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Just because I live in Portland doesn’t make me a hipster, Zippy. I’m just a boring yuppy dork like the rest of you. I swear! I’m socially awkward and my phone is so old that it can barely text. But it’s not old enough to be cool.
I only said “Portland” so many times, because our art scene is known for “fast art” aka crap.
September 30, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Hipster come and go but Jake’s is forever.
October 2, 2012 at 5:29 pm
The anencephaly version Obama.