Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Kickstarter project turns ideas, money into 'supersized' artwork of the Internet


Remember The Million Dollar Homepage, which sold off pixels on a website akin to advertising? A crafty artist figured out how to do the same thing with his work, albeit using Kickstarter. Illustrator Benjamin Redford's project divides a 24 x 36-inch poster into cubes that can be purchased for a dollar a piece. Redford will then draw whatever project backers request into a "supersized" work, which will go up for sale afterwards for $50 a print.


Some of the early requests have ranged from the mundane like cities and landmarks, to the more obscure, like "a wrestling match between a taco and a grilled cheese sandwich with an audience of animals wearing business attire."


The project launched last week, and hit its funding goal in less than...


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