20th Fantasy // Video
[Video comes on to show Calvin making a snowman outside. The snowman himself is fairly standard aside from his stick arms being posed in a thoughtful, stroking-his-chin expression. The snowman is positioned in front of a raised 'table' of snow with a single test tube filled with something red on it. A small snow fort is also visible behind the sculpture. Calvin finishes patting snow into place on the snowman, then turns to address the camera.]
Ladies and gentlemen of the City, you are about to witness the beginning of the next big thing in avant-garde sculpture! Using snow as my medium and chemistry as my, um, science, I intend to craft works of art to astound, provoke, intrigue, and perplex! My art isn't cheap or commercialized! My art is original and daring! It asks the hard questions while instilling a deep, profound emotional response!
Take this piece for example. I call it 'The Dangers of Science.' It is a cautionary tale of how man's pride and thirst for knowledge can be his downfall. It asks the viewer to contemplate the inherent risks of meddling with natural forces in the quest for truth. Behold, the Dangers of Science!
[Calvin produces another test tube filled with something blue and quickly pours it into the first.] FIRE IN THE HOLE! [Calvin runs for it and dives behind the safety of the fort seconds before the test tube explodes, spattering the snow all around with steaming purple liquid and reducing the snowman to a misshapen, disfigured, partially-melted purple lump. Calvin emerges from behind the fort, beaming.]
This work of artistic vision can be yours right now, but only for a limited time! Unless you have a freezer or something to put it in when spring comes, I guess. I'll be taking bids immediately starting at one hundred dollars.
On a related note, anyone know where I can get more test tubes?
Ladies and gentlemen of the City, you are about to witness the beginning of the next big thing in avant-garde sculpture! Using snow as my medium and chemistry as my, um, science, I intend to craft works of art to astound, provoke, intrigue, and perplex! My art isn't cheap or commercialized! My art is original and daring! It asks the hard questions while instilling a deep, profound emotional response!
Take this piece for example. I call it 'The Dangers of Science.' It is a cautionary tale of how man's pride and thirst for knowledge can be his downfall. It asks the viewer to contemplate the inherent risks of meddling with natural forces in the quest for truth. Behold, the Dangers of Science!
[Calvin produces another test tube filled with something blue and quickly pours it into the first.] FIRE IN THE HOLE! [Calvin runs for it and dives behind the safety of the fort seconds before the test tube explodes, spattering the snow all around with steaming purple liquid and reducing the snowman to a misshapen, disfigured, partially-melted purple lump. Calvin emerges from behind the fort, beaming.]
This work of artistic vision can be yours right now, but only for a limited time! Unless you have a freezer or something to put it in when spring comes, I guess. I'll be taking bids immediately starting at one hundred dollars.
On a related note, anyone know where I can get more test tubes?