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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inauguration / Visual Art Chewed, Digested, Shat, Flushed: Bush

Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:51 PM

A Seattle artist announced today he has completed a project he has been working on for seven years:

In February 2002, JEMA’s Director, Sean Miller, purchased George W. Bush’s book A Charge To Keep: My Journey to the White House. He drew a grid on the book, cut “chad-like” rectangles into the cover, removed rectangular portions, recorded the printed words, and slowly ate the paper portions. For the last seven years he has been eating the book and documenting its slow disappearance. Today he is pleased to announce he is done eating and the small remainder and binding will be entered into the JEMA Library.

For more of this deliciousness, click here.

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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

I'm thinking Obama must have had Dark Side of the Moon on late at night when he penned that:

All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat

Posted by Dark Side of the Moon on January 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM

Jon Favreau probably wrote it, DSotM.

Posted by w7ngman on January 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM

Can't wait for the manga version!

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 20, 2009 at 5:43 PM

Can't wait for the raggae version.

Posted by w7ngman on January 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM