Your very own Hacked Santa!
p2p news / p2pnet: And now for something completely different —– a hacked Santa.
Heh
“If you’ve ever gone to Wal*Mart during the Christmas season, you’ve seen it,” writes Josh McCormick on his web site. “I figure that at least a quarter of the US population has been exposed to it by now. A 5 foot tall Santa Claus that sings and dances to holiday music. Head moves left and right. Mouth opens and closes. Body sways from side to side. They’ve got white Santas and black Santas.
“Around here, they even have Spanish speaking white Santas. But do they have… hackable Santas? It took me $49.84 to find out.”
McCormick gives a blow-by-blow account of exactly how he hacked his Santa. And of how it ended up in a local art show.
It didn’t place “Two days later, the judging came, and I got a phone call from the art gallery,” he says.
“They said they had a lot of entries this year, and they apologize that the judging was ‘rather ruthless’. My entry did not qualify for the exhibit. I was slightly disappointed, but I was a little confused. From what I was told, the judges leaned more towards mainsteam art. You know… sculpture, painting, etc. No big deal, I really didn’t put my self worth on the line with this one. But they wanted it out of their gallery by the end of the day.
“I arrive at the art gallery and checked out the remaining artworks. Most of them seem sexual in nature. You know. George Bush with an erection, that sort of thing. Were these the winners, or other losers like myself? I went to my digital Santa. It looked like the prototype board had been roughed up a little bit. A rival artist trying to knock out the competition? I’ll never know.”
But, McCormick adds, “I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
“In the world of art, it may not have been anything special. But in the world of hacks, it was pretty cool.”
And that’s where it counts ; )
(Thanks, Murky)
December 15th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Next time add breasts and a penus and they’ll probably let him stay.
December 15th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
If you are in a situation where you are going to burglarize an art gallery, look for and steal the ugliest pieces of art you can find. The ugly stuff is what is worth a lot of money.