dagblog - Comments for "Life imitates art" http://dagblog.com/link/life-imitates-art-24600 Comments for "Life imitates art" en Dayum, my piece of morning http://dagblog.com/comment/249496#comment-249496 <a id="comment-249496"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/249490#comment-249490">Your post did not make me</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Dayum, my piece of morning levity rolled over by a "Come to Vegas! Leave (without) the Kids!" ad.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:30:15 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 249496 at http://dagblog.com Your post did not make me http://dagblog.com/comment/249490#comment-249490 <a id="comment-249490"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/life-imitates-art-24600">Life imitates art</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Your post did not make me laugh because I've seen very similar things like that <em>on secondary market</em> at Sotheby's, it would be thought sort of retro  2000's @ like the Whitney Biennial not that avant garde. Moving on, taking advantage of an art thread, I just saw this at CNN; it's hard to do political art well, and I gotta say: great job!</p> <p><img alt="" height="281" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180301185240-battlefield-las-vegas-billboard-vandalized-exlarge-169.jpg" width="500" /></p> <p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/us/battlefield-las-vegas-billboard-vandalized-trnd/index.html">'Shoot a school kid only $29,' says vandalized Vegas firing range billboard</a></p> <p>By Lindsay Benson and Stephanie Becker, CNN, Updated 8:45 PM ET, Thu March 1, 2018</p> <blockquote> <p>[....] The billboard originally read, "Shoot a .50 caliber only $29." It was an advertisement for a local firing range called <a href="https://www.battlefieldvegas.com/" target="_blank">Battlefield Vegas</a>, which, according to its website, is a business owned and operated by veterans that features a "military-style complex" a block from the Las Vegas Strip, as well as additional "outdoor training areas."[....]</p> <p>A guerrilla artists collective called INDECLINE took responsibility for changing the billboard. A spokesperson for the collective said, "It was time for us to address gun reform and to do something louder than an AR-15." [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Fri, 02 Mar 2018 06:17:07 +0000 artappraiser comment 249490 at http://dagblog.com