What would you do with a lot of losing lottery tickets? Probably throw them away. But not if you’re an artist…
Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was collected $35,000 such tickets and built a car. And not a Smart or a Mini - it is a Hummer H3.
Beside looking very cool, the piece, called “Ghost of a Dream,” also has a message behind it. Was and Ecktrom came up with the idea when they realized that most people think of buying a car when they dream about winning the lottery - hence the name of the project. They also wanted for the paper Hummer to contain the value of a real working Hummer, and they succedeed.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 am
Very interesting concept. Could be an eye opener for those who buy a lot of these tickets, when you see it all together like this you realize the amount you could have saved if you’d just put it away.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 am
lame
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 am
If they collected those money instead of buying tickets, they would have made more money than the lottery gives. :)
April 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I think this is a great way to demonstrate what people are giving up by playing the lottery instead of saving their money.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
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May 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am
that could have been a whole lot of stripper money!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I look at it this way:
You dream of buying a big car or a fancy whatever, but in the end it doesn’t make you happier. When you see a fake one, you cannot admire it like you would a real car - you can only realize how silly it is. The art makes you see that a civilian Humvee is a $35,000 waste on wheels. Only by recognizing that the Dream is frivolous, meaningless, will you get past a desire for material things and start trying to figure out what will really make you happy.
By the way, the Frogurt is also cursed.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Funny, I thought the message was “Hummers are a waste of money, and so are lottery tickets.”
May 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
BUT some people win.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Lottery: The tax on people who slept through statistics class.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:08 am
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