"Glued to a replica of a GMC hummer"

Wow, is the general downsizing again?

What, nobody was anything smart to say about this yet?

Ou, sure, pick an easy boxy chassis to imitate. What's next, a Honda Element or a first-gen Scion xB...?
Feh...!
Let's see something curvy like a New (or old) VW Beetle or a Mazda MX-5 made out of discarded scratchers. I dare you...!

My mom would probably still buy those scratchers and try to find a winner that they missed...

So the SF Dump has an art program where artists get to dig through the garbage and make art out of whatever they find...Then show it in the dump's very own gallery...yes we are progressive here...it was in City Hall for a short time as well

this guy made a life size hummer from styrofoam...

I wonder if they checked each and every ticket, just in case, before gluing them on?

Instead of spending 35 grand on lotto tickets they could of invested in a real one.(Not condoning the purchasing of H3s)

It would have been more impressive if they hadn't relied on "cardboard and wood" for the structure. They should have made it entirely of scratchers.

and if 35,000 isn't enough to do that....

Veyron.

Umm hello, should have built an Escalade--for so many reason.

Wow... this guys has way too much free time.

When I was selling paintings on eBay, I got the idea of shellacking all my losing lotto tickets onto a canvas, and throwing in one uncashed winning ticket, affixing that last one in a way that it could still be removed and cashed. (The photo of the work could be low-res enough so the numbers would be illegible to the bidder, so no cheating.)

The listing would read something like: "Original work composed of Washington State Lotto tickets on canvas. Contains at least one winning ticket of unknown amount." (I could actually do this, as the grocery store where I get my tickets has a little quick-scan thing that says only "Not a Winner" or "Winning Ticket - See Cashier."

Promoted as such, it would entice the bidder to speculate how big a payout the winning ticket was for, and thusly sway the bidding in the direction of their imaginations.

I think the reason I never did this project is that it wouldn't be very interesting visually, and I never really had very many Lotto tickets lying around at one time.

One of the facets of art in which I am most interested is the intersection of art and commerce.

For a look a someone who's taken this idea a bit further, and in a different direction, check out this character: [en.wikipedia.org]

I like it. It doesn't say "art" for me, but it does say "this is why only stupid people with poor math skills waste money on lotto tickets".

I think it screams art and is really quite powerful.

@Frozer: Uhh, did you not even read the summary? They didn't buy the tickets. And that's kind of the point of the piece - "ghost of a dream."

Wow an engine made out of lottery tickets... screw carbon fibre, paper is the new waieght saver!

@shdwcaster: Yeah. I was getting gas yesterday and looked at the pump promo for the new Indiana lotto scratch off game: $30 for a ticket. Yes, 30 figgin dollars for a lotto ticket. 1 in 3 wins $50, 1 in about 100,000 (or sumpin') wins $2 million.

So, ya' buys 3 tickets for $90 and ya wins $50 back. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

There's a reason the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Yes that's true that a lot people are buying lottery tickets hoping they'll win and will buy a car but $35,000 is too much and instead they simply could save that money and buy whatever they wanted. Anyway, it's very possible that they will find a success in making such full sized cars and showing them in an open air exhibition.