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Think Outside The Box pt. 2

And here it is. I'll come back later this afternoon and check on it. Hopefully someone has acknowledged it in some positive or curious way i.e. Left a message. However, I don't doubt someone may have taken it off and put it in the trash. That would've been quite mean though.

Guerrilla Advertising: Dollar Bills?

Has anyone else thought of doing this? Writing down your company's URL or something on a

five dollar bill and buying something with it? Thus putting it into circulation guaranteeing a number of people will see it over time? Hmm..? Please discuss (to those few that have seen this page so far).

Think Outside The Box pt. 2

Think Outside The Box pt. 1

HELLO there to those that may have stumbled

upon this humble, little nook

nestled, cozily

deep within

the

interweb

Unlike many other blogs, I am not an idiot mumbling to himself oblivious of the apathy of others towards them and their blogs. This blog has a somewhat justifiable, minutely important purpose that is self-serving (attempting to reduce level obscurity as an artist) as well as a service to others ((hopefully) entertainment? provoking interest? sparking creativity?), and I am aware of the apathy of others towards this blog. My goal is to produce interesting art, show it off and hopefully obtain the attention and fondness of someone else. Though I presume that someone else would be either a flaaaming hipster, or one of my friends to whom I have personally introduced this blog.

Anyhoo, this is basically my first, (self-proclaimed) official/formal piece of "guerrilla" art that I started and finished today.

It's called Think Outside The Box, quite obviously why.

Later this morning (I forgot I'm supposed to measure time so it's 1:15 a.m at the moment)

I will tape it onto the top of a wooden fence by a park in a nearby suburban neighborhood. There should hopefully be quite a few joggers and other passerby that notice it.

As you can see it's a plain cardboard box with a piece of paper cut into the shape of a cloud with the word "Think" on it on both sides. It's very simple and didn't really stretch my artistic ability but it's a start. In the other pic you can see that I put "Leave A Message" above an empty space on the box. This is because I felt it needed something else and it makes use of virtually the rest of the white space on the box. Plus, it's now interactive, though I doubt someone will actually leave a message, the option to cordially do so is interesting. In another corner of the box I wrote "Hi, my name is Bartholomeugh (Bartholomew), I am a guerrilla artist, and I encourage you to think outside the box". Again, I felt it needed something else, and something more informative/clarifying., as well as a signature. I don't know why I chose Bartholomeugh (which I didn't spell right, no offense by the way if your name is Bartholomew) but if I'm going to have a pseudonym I don't think I want it to be Bartholomew. Something more like "Nighthawk" or "Warrior-X".The "X" makes it sound cooler.

So, I will put this piece up, take pictures, and report back.