Invisible Painting

What? You Say you can’t see it. You must be joking. It’s right there in front of you, I swear. If you can’t see the sublime perfection of my artwork, my masterpiece, there must be something wrong with you.

Don’t buy it? Well, according to this article, the British taxpayers fell for just this tactic, dishing out good money to bring in an exhibit of invisible art. My question is, if the art was invisible, what did they ship over?

I thought I had witnessed the low point of modern art when I saw The Voice of Fire – a painting consisting of three stripes of different 2  colors, said to be worth millions, which any house painter could duplicate in a few minutes. But now I have (not) seen it all.

Marry A Robot

A sad misguided South Korean man has married his beloved pillow case which has the image of his favourite anime girl on it. He actually hired a priest to perform the ceremony, invited guests, and had pictures taken.  Friends are quoted as saying that he takes his pillow girlfriend, now wife, everywhere. Why doesn’t someone help this man?

Sadly, this is part of a larger phenomenon of marrying inanimate objects and nonhuman things.  In 2008 a German married his pineapple named Tippi. And of course who can forget the man who married his video game girlfriend.

While we may consider these people’s infatuation with something that does not exist as funny it points to a blurring between what is real and what is not. As we spend more and more of our lives in the virtual world,  we begin to lose touch with what is real. For example,  a couple apparently had a real life divorce when one caught the other “cheating” with a virtual character on Second Life.  It’s not real, people!

Of course this means that once technology perfects sexbots and other companion type robots, there will be no shortage of people wanting to marry their robot partner. We are doomed.