FINAL VOTING FOR THE IOWAHAWK $33.18 STEEL CAGE ART DEATH MATCH
Good goshamighty! Spurring more than 80 entries, that $33.18 I purloined from my kid's sock draw last week appears to have been the most effective creative stimulant to hit the art world since absinthe and lead poisoning. And economical too: according to my abacus it works out to less than $0.40 per entry! Take that, "Brand X" art endowments!
And let me say how completely astonished I was by the quality of the entries. Because frankly, I've always had a very low opinion of Iowahawk readers. As it turns out many of you are extremely talented! It makes me proud as the patron of this award competition, and enthusiastic about the other acts I think I could get you to perform for modest amounts of cash.
But on with the final phase of competition-- voting! Please review the selections here, then visit the official voting site to cast your ballot.
RESULTS HEREVoting will be conducted under a combination of ACORN and Art world rules: Vote for as many entrants as you want, as often as you want. Feel free to be capricious. Shameless promotion, logrolling, and backroom deals are strictly encouraged. I'm pretty sure the voting software can be tampered with on my end, and all reasonable bribes will be considered. This unique system will provide our amateur contestants a taste of the professional art world, and a convenient face-saving excuse for the bitter soul-crushing rejection they are about to receive from the public.
Voting closes midnight Saturday Oct 10, so let's GET READY TO RUMMMMBBBLLLE!
UPDATE 10/6: 24 hours into the campaign, and a few leaders have begun to emerge. One thing they all seem to share in common: coordinated vote fraud and ballot box chicanery. I commend this, and encourage those artist currently at the back of the peloton to start fighting dirty themselves. I mean, really. Are your going to take that kind of cheating from "artists" who are not even in your league, talent-wise? This aesthetic injustice must not stand! Get out there and start aggressively sending traffic to Iowahawk now!
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Thanks to the massive ongoing vote fraud, Iowahawk is beginning to attract the attention of the serious art community... and the advertisers who want to reach them! Bravo, and please keep it up. If you are one of the contestants who has been too ethical or too stupid to figure out how to game the voting system, don't worry -- I have a simple method that will screen suspect ballots at the conclusion. Just keep voting for your faves (remember you can vote for more than 1 entrant).
UPDATE WITHIN AN UPDATE:Ed Driscoll of Pajamas Media has set a previous Iowahawk bit to video! Go and enjoy.
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I'm turning today's update over to Australian reader Mick Haverford.
Hello Iowahawk,
I have previously contributed images that I swiped off the interweb to your Earth Week competitions, but I was resigned to the fact that I had squat for your SCADM, as art isn’t exactly my thing. Well how wrong I was.
Whilst goofing off at work today, I went for a walk in the beautiful grounds of nearby Macquarie University in Sydney’s leafy suburbs and bumped into this piece of installation art sculpture thingy. It looks like a few bits of roller coaster that escaped from the scrap yard. I am guessing somebody got a bagful of arts grant to build this and it probably represents mans tenuous grasp on reality or a students struggle for relevance or some such.
Then along strolls Mister public liability insurance risk assessor and wham, up go the cages. I think it adds to the whole effect in some esoteric (I looked that word up) way. I bet the arteest is in therapy though.
Anyway it seems the students at this uni are not that erudite re arts and were wont to climb all over the thing, as can be seen below. Stupid students can’t tell the difference between a public art work and a monkey bar. Although, if I had enough beer in me I might try to run over the top.
Interestingly, Macquarie Uni is big into global warming and in fact is the home of the world's most expert palaeontologist on Global Warming scaremongering, none other than Tim Flannery.This got me wondering how many carbon dioxides escaped in the making of this piece. Oh well you can’t put a price on art.
Thank you Mr. Haverford for that poignant reminder: art kills. Oh, and the voting continues with over 84,000 "ballots" cast! Despite the lopsided results so far, the $33.18 is still legitimately up for grabs. Keep voting for your faves!
