Ally, this one’s for you, as usual, and it can be all yours for $24.95+shipping and handling. The bottom, and I mean the bottom, of the art economy is Z Gallerie, and that’s where this stinking pile of bling is sold. Kudos to the hack designer who made the above crappy knock off possible.
FYI, to any wire-fu enabled Mission Impossible style art thieves – the Z Gallerie warehouse is located off Rosecrans in Gardena, but it’s guarded by legions of rabid mallrats and aesthetics-disabled crypto-yuppies. It’s massive, and frightening. I wonder what the ratio of the retail value of the totality of the merchandise contained within to the “estimated” value of Hirst’s bookend to end all bookends is?
Thanks to C-Monster and Ryan Frank for the joy of this.
Technorati Tags: For The Love of God, tchotchke, Damien Hirst, Z Gallerie, skull, bling, knock off
Haha…we can buy several and line them up on a fence for shooting practice.
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