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Elephant proves understanding in 2-Dimentional Imagry

Elephant proves understanding in 2-Dimentional Imagry

Altered Thrift Store Art Unknown, via Reddit. Banksy, via Flickr user goldenticket. It’s a simple idea: Find some bad art, whether original or a print, for a song at a thrift store, then modify it to make, if not “better art,” then at least something that’s more entertaining to look at. (Is it the same thing? Yeah, that sounds like a productive argument.) Anyway. Etsy seller loudxmouse. Banksy, via Flickr user Darrell Godliman. Reportedly Banksy, via Reddit. Banksy, via Flickr user poly_mnia. Banksy, via Flickr user SteeveeGee. Woodgill at Monocol’s Etsy shop. Did I miss a good one? Related Lovers in a Dangerous Time Jun 16, 2011 Photograph by RICH LAM/Getty Images Riot police walk the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, as the city broke out in riots, following the Vancouver Canucks loss in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. Scott Jones says he was just trying calm his girlfriend down after they both had been hit by Vancouver police when the now-famous photos of them lying in the street and kissing was taken in the midst of Wednesday night’s riot. “They started beating us with the shields, like trying to get us to move,” Jones told CBC News in an exclusive television interview Friday. “We weren’t being aggressive towards [police] or anything like that. The National Post via @twatthumper & Tmac

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