The Tate have recently paid £30,000 for a till receipt from a little known artist. The receipt is supposedly a piece of conceptual art. Entitles Monochrome Till Recipt (white) it is simply a receipt for £70.32 worth of grocery items all of which happen to be white. It contains 36 items all of which are white, including boil in the bag rice and Andrex toilet tissue. The artist described the work as a modern still life where objects are imagined rather than shown. The receipt also comes with a list of instructions from the artist which state that a new receipt must be used every time the work is shown because till receipts are light sensitive and fall apart. Each time a new receipt is produced it must be based upon the original which is now archived by the Tate. This certainly isn’t my idea of art.

According to this article there is a security hole in Adobe Reader that can be exploited to allow someone to execute code on your machine. The problem affects all versions of Adobe reader including 8.1.4, 9.1, 7.11 and earlier and Windows, Mac and Unix platforms can all be affected. Security experts are recommending that people disable Javascript in the application to help reduce the risk of the hole being exploited. You can disable JavaScript from the General Preferences dialog box but unchecking the Enable JavaScript function under the Edit Preferences option.

This is interesting its some pictures that have been taken by artist Alan Sailer of everyday objects being hit by pellets. He used an air rifle, a camera and a home made flash to create the shots which are quite amazing. He took them by using a laser to trigger the Nikon D40’s shutter and used a special flash to film the action in slow motion. To pinpoint the exact moment to take the perfect shot must have taken ages which makes the results all the more spectacular. Some of the picture are shown below.

 
Strawberry

 
Glass ball filled with water

 
Nut

 
Crayons

 
Christmas Decoration

 
Paintball

 
Tomato

This is interesting, its artwork created by Christian Faur who used crayons to create pictures but not in the conventional sense. He arranges the crayons by colour or tone to create pictures such as the one on the left. The second picture shows a detail of the same piece showing how the crayons are arranged. You can see more crayon art by the artist here.

This is interesting its some artwork from Yuken Teruya who turns everyday objects such as pizza boxes, toilet rolls and bags into art. This is one of the projects featured on the website. Its called Corner Forest and includes lots of individual toilet rolls which are hung to create a forest.

This is interesting its a project to help raise awareness about breast cancer. It called Artful Bras and the idea is that members of the Quilters of South Caroliner have created a one of a kind bra. The results will be part of a touring exhibit and when the exhibit ends in October will be auctioned off with the proceeds being donated to the Best Chance Network. Here are just a few of the designs but you can see the rest at the website here.

A run down pub in Liverpool has doubled in value due to some graffiti on the side of it. The pub was originally worth around £495,000 before the graffiti appeared. It is now worth around £1 million after the graffiti was found to be the work of Banksy, an artist who is known for his images of vermin. The estate agents overseeing the sale have been inundated with offers from buyers looking for an investment.

This is strange its art created with fish heads. The pieces are created by French artist Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard and depict everyday scenes created with fish heads. The artist gets her inspiration by choosing a topic from the radio or a newspaper before visiting a food market to source the fish heads. Her mother helps her make the costumes and each piece of art can take up to three months to create.

This giant ice penis was photographed by a man called Andy Rouse in Antarctica. The article that accompanies the picture gives assurances that it is a genuine picture rather than a photoshopped job. What do you think, giant ice penis or clever Photoshop work?