An occasional series.
Exhibit A: Someone auctioning off their identity wholesale (BYO physical body) on eBay. And not even attempting to call it 'art'.
The end is nigh.
(Thanks to Wortwut.)
UPDATE - Further links related to this venture: The soon-to-be-offloaded identity's website and, natch, the soon-to-be-offloaded identity's MySpace page.
Ah - but it is for a documentary - and is a documentary art or social commentary, or both, or neither?
And as he is endeavouring to take on a new identity he sounds a right royal candidate for the next CEO of that organisation that must not be named....
Posted by: J Carfax | Wednesday, 24 January 2007 at 11:47 AM
>Ah - but it is for a documentary
Damn! I missed that bit. Oh well. It's still funny though.
>And as he is endeavouring to take on a new
>identity
That's the best part - he does not appear to be endeavouring to take on a new identity, as such. He's just gonna, like, head north and become a hermit. Or something like that.
I find it quite inspiring.
Posted by: teigan | Wednesday, 24 January 2007 at 05:55 PM
Update: That was the original plan. The blog on his MySpace reveals that his new intention is to nomadically Walk The Earth ala Jules from Pulp Fiction, subsisting on barter arrangements.
I myself have offered him temporary accomodation on the Hagakure futon couch in exchange for washing up (and wisdom).
I don't know if his postapocalyptic non-self will be tempted by the offer. But I hope so.
Posted by: teigan | Wednesday, 24 January 2007 at 09:37 PM
I get the feeling that my life would go for less money than his...
Which is a shame, because I have such nice hair. Natural black. That would come with the deal, I'd get it wigged and the purchaser would have to wear it.
Posted by: Haydermish | Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 08:14 AM
Awesome. That's really amusing. One would it'd take more than four weeks to 'train' to be another person though. Makes me think of Joe Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered and the hypnotically transferred personality overlay stuff etc. Seems like it'd be just as temporary, but, it's still entertaining.
Posted by: Althea | Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 03:16 PM
Don't shortsell yourself Haysh. You'd be surprised.
Posted by: Althea | Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 03:25 PM
Yeah? You want to buy it?
Posted by: Haydermish | Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 10:32 PM
Nope. But I decided against the existence of someone who is primarily a musician a lonnnng time ago.
Posted by: Althea | Friday, 26 January 2007 at 09:24 PM
Good lord, Teigan, if you refer people to me I'll have to start POSTING again ... oh the pressure ...
PS I love your blog. Truly rully.
And that guy - he's classically Wollongong Uni. In a nice way. I used to write for that Uni paper too, the same one. It's almost like I'M auctioning off my life in some charmingly anti-consumption gesture.
Posted by: | Friday, 26 January 2007 at 09:55 PM
Hamish, start the bidding...
Posted by: wortwut | Friday, 26 January 2007 at 09:56 PM
>Good lord, Teigan, if you refer people to me
>I'll have to start POSTING again
That was kind of the idea..
Posted by: teigan | Sunday, 28 January 2007 at 01:15 PM