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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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.
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If they collected those money instead of buying tickets, they would have made more money than the lottery gives. :)
I think this is a great way to demonstrate what people are giving up by playing the lottery instead of saving their money.
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that could have been a whole lot of stripper money!
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.
Funny, I thought the message was “Hummers are a waste of money, and so are lottery tickets.”
BUT some people win.
Lottery: The tax on people who slept through statistics class.
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This is really an informative post – looking good. Keep at it! I like your graphics on this site.