I’m into modern art, so I’m going to bang on about it a bit, after reading about Michael Landy’s Art Bin. Don’t tell me you haven’t seen the picture of him posing in his Wheelie Bin.  You might have heard of Landy before, he’s the guy who shredded his whole life a couple of years ago in a shop window.  I mean literally everything he owned, photos, clothes, passport, tax records - in the shredder.  His point I think was quite clear, even if some of the people that gave him stuff weren’t too impressed. 

Now his latest idea with his wheelie bin is to sow some seeds of confusion in the self aggrandising contemporary art world by getting big name artists like Emin and Hurst to throw big money pieces into his wheelie bin to be destroyed.  I like it the concept.  It passes my personal “is it art” test, although I imagine the Daily Mail might be bemused. 

Also passing the “is it art” are the lads from Hemel who borrowed everyone’s wheelie bins and placed them very artistically in the middle of a local roundabout.   

As to other wheelie bin world view stories, the election campaign is getting going, more of that at a later date.  Much more interesting is the man who got so disgruntled with way the Brisbane suburban Bowen Hills brothel treated him that he threw a wheelie bin through the window of the brothel – love those Aussies.      

I’m into modern art, so I’m going to bang on about it a bit, after reading about Michael Landy’s Art Bin. Don’t tell me you haven’t seen the picture of him posing in his Wheelie Bin.  You might have heard of Landy before, he’s the guy who shredded his whole life a couple of years ago in a shop window.  I mean literally everything he owned, photos, clothes, passport, tax records - in the shredder.  His point I think was quite clear, even if some of the people that gave him stuff weren’t too impressed. 

Now his latest idea with his wheelie bin is to sow some seeds of confusion in the self aggrandising contemporary art world by getting big name artists like Emin and Hurst to throw big money pieces into his wheelie bin to be destroyed.  I like it the concept.  It passes my personal “is it art” test, although I imagine the Daily Mail might be bemused. 

Also passing the “is it art” are the lads from Hemel who borrowed everyone’s wheelie bins and placed them very artistically in the middle of a local roundabout.   

As to other wheelie bin world view stories, the election campaign is getting going, more of that at a later date.  Much more interesting is the man who got so disgruntled with way the Brisbane suburban Bowen Hills brothel treated him that he threw a wheelie bin through the window of the brothel – love those Aussies.