where Standard Mischief takes a real dollar and makes it into a “counterfeit” one
OK, so here you go:
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So here’s what I did. I took a standard dollar bill that I legally possessed and did some stuff to it. I took a Sharpie? marker and XX-ed out “federal reserve”, and wrote in “NOT FEDERAL NO RESERVES”. Then I added “WORTH ABOUT 18?” and “IN 1968 MONEY” (that year being the year we went off the gold standard.)
Although I don’t intend to confuse anyone in to thinking this is a virgin dollar bill, I failed to remove or obfuscate ?The United States of America?, I hope that’s not a problem. I think I’ve really added something here, and I’m thinking of selling this piece on Ebay for say $1.50 or so.
I also want to let everyone know that I find Sharpie? markers useful for all kinds of stuff, including enhancing the playback quality of purchased prerecorded music.
I also want to make it clear that I, in no way, shape or form, want to cause any harm to the MD-34 bridge over the Potomac (that being the last piece of infrastructure I think I took a photo of.)
So what do you think? Is this art, or is this terrorism? Or do only the Attorney Jackasses get to decide that?
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you should probably read this over at SayUncle’s and this here in my own blog.
(Whew, three posts for this day! I’m gonna take the rest of the week off)
