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Thursday, July 13, 2006

What a way to make a million dollars …

The name: Alex Tew. Occupation: a student. Seeking: funding to go to grad school. Selling: Pixels. Rate: $1 per pixel. Quantity: 1,000,000 pixels. Current status: Sold out!

Starting last September this kid with a huge idea ran up the million dollars in almost a flash.

Why go to the grad school at all? Don't even drop out. Check out the site here.

The story does not end here.

Netherlands-based Sandberg Institute, is imitating the very same concept. But this one is selling space on its building facade!



The building displays ads and logos from brands such as Nike, BMW, Google and IKEA ... art imitating life, virtual or otherwise.

The Sandberg Institute site quotes "a new work that sets itself on the borders between commercial art and critical art, commerce and information, private business and public space."

These Europeans are crazy!

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