Box Canvas Print of Paul Ross

Aaron Clifford · Mar 18, 2011

Ahaha, Read the reviews on this beauty.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001N6W8U0/b3ta-21

I've been looking for a 20 Inch Box Canvass of Paul Ross since my (completely inferior) 18 Inch Box Canvass of Paul Ross was damaged during a Barium Enema. Thankfully this Canvass really is excellent. The quality of print complements the sheer majesty of Paul's cherubic face.

BREWSTERS · Mar 18, 2011

And you came across this, how...?

From a related, smaller print;

I bought this print, simply because of the hype generated by him more famous larger print.

When I got it home, I noticed that the pose was different. He was mid-sentence. A sentence that I know for a fact was not a sick boast about the granddaughter of a beloved TV icon. Every time I look at this picture, I forget the turgid moral vacuum that we all are forced to live in today, and instead I smile. Smile, then start laughing. Then I keep on laughing for around 15 minutes, then I got back to smiling. The whole process takes around 18 minutes from start to finish. So it might not be suitable for those with busy lives.

domainseller200 · Mar 18, 2011

I see your Paul Ross and RAISE YOU one Sue Pollard

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001N6LT0A/?tag=acorn06-21

BREWSTERS · Mar 18, 2011

domainseller200 said:
I see your Paul Ross and RAISE YOU one Sue Pollard

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001N6LT0A/?tag=acorn06-21

I'll see you with my Print Of Woman Rejecting Plate Of Food;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001NJE6L6/?tag=acorn06-21

One rarely encounters a single image that encapsulates an entire sitz-im-leben, and when it happens the encounter is a holistic spiritual/visceral selfquake - a tangible entanglement with the cosmic dark night of the soul.

At one level, we see a woman refusing a plate of food. But why? Is she vegetarian, rejecting the meat? Is she a carnivore rejecting the greens? Is the meal below the standard to which she has become accustomed, or is she simply on a diet? This surely, is the eternal feminine mystery, and as each viewer strives to answer the question they will find themselves drawn into the Nietzschien mirror - is the viewer looking into the picture, or is the picture looking into the viewer?

Or is it too much perhaps to see the woman as Eve, cast out from Eden, clad in pink (PINK, mind, not scarlet) to hide her newly discovered nakedness, one hand raised in horror as she strives to resist a second temptation, or indeed, a second helping?

Here we see the deeply fractured nature of the modern psyche - she rejects the plate with her left hand (the sinister side?), but no one is forcing it upon her - indeed, it is her RIGHT hand which holds the plate.

If we discount the theories of Snackenberg, Lunzsh, Beanburgher et al (I personally find their claims that this is a sexist work unconvincing) there can be little doubt that the message of this image is clear. We are ALL women in pink cardigans rejecting the burger and beans of life, while continuing to cling grimly to both.

But more - as I have argued in 'WOMAN WITH PLATE: A GNOSTIC REAPPRAISAL" (Oxcam, 2008) we are also the contents of the plate. We are the beans (the HUMAN BEANS?) weighed down by the greasy carnal flesh (the burger), hoping that since we are already cooked we will not, ultimately, be rejected by the huge cosmic pink-cardiganed woman.

Or are we?

Aaron Clifford · Mar 18, 2011

BREWSTERS said:
And you came across this, how...?

From a related, smaller print;

ha ha, the joys of it...I was actually looking for a 35ft print of his brother.

boxfish · Mar 18, 2011

Interesting way to get some traffic through on the Amazon Aff scheme.

Aaron Clifford · Mar 18, 2011

Just to clarify, that's not my affiliate code, just copied it off a site I read about it on.

boxfish · Mar 18, 2011

Aaron Clifford said:
Just to clarify, that's not my affiliate code, just copied it off a site I read about it on.

Sorry, I hope you didn't think I was implying it was or that there was anything negative about it..

Looks like it's originated from b3ta, just wondered how much of it was linkbait - all, some or none. Genuinely interested as it is an interesting concept, could work well on other sites from an affiliate and also linkbait perspective.

Aaron Clifford · Mar 18, 2011

It does seem a good way of getting people under your affiliate cookie without them knowing, if it goes viral you could have hundreds of thousands of people on your cookie without them knowing!