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one noticed as they thought the smell was just meat from another BBQ. I always think of that story when I see people wrapped up in foil like baked potatoes at the end of the London Marathon.
In 2011, the actor James Franco put his
name behind a project called the Museum
of Non-visible Art. A woman paid $10,000 for a non-visible piece called ‘Fresh Air’.
There were no details next to the pile of bricks, so I wasn’t even sure if this was a piece of art. They might have just been having an extension built. The thing with this is, I know that I could recreate it quite easily myself. Fire bricks are £2 to £3 a brick, so for no more than £360 I could have knocked one of these up in no time. After a while I came to the conclusion that the creator of this piece could just have been having a laugh. Perhaps you’re supposed to think of the bricks as blocks. One hundred and twenty blocks. That’s a load of blocks, and if you repeat that line over and over – ‘a load of blocks, a load of blocks, a load of blocks’ – it starts to sound like ‘a load of bollocks’. That was my interpretation, anyway.
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