US Artistic License ID cards

I'd almost be willing to pay the $20 just to applaud the idea... if they didn't have such a short expiration date. $20 per year is a bit rich for my blood.

So, yeah, I'm tempted to swipe it. If I do, I'll send a donation... once.

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#5 posted by Pyros

, April 21, 2008 3:31 PM

I wonder whether poetic license is in the werks...

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#6 posted by Pocket Hell , April 21, 2008 3:41 PM

Clch

Ths mks m sck.

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#7 posted by Antinous , April 21, 2008 3:47 PM

Pocket Hell,

If you don't like the flavor of the free ice cream, go puke it up someplace where the rest of us don't have to listen to it. Cheers.

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#8 posted by SeattleGuy

, April 21, 2008 3:51 PM

Brilliant! Thanks for giving me a much needed chuckle! And my compliments to Monsieur Gunderson.

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#9 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, April 21, 2008 4:30 PM

Of course, "This makes me sick" is not a cliché response to something you don't like, though, is it? Thanks for your refreshing originality, Pocket Hell!

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#10 posted by Agent 86 , April 21, 2008 4:37 PM

I like the disclaimer: "Bearer may without warning commit inexplicable actions in the name of art."

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#11 posted by Takuan , April 21, 2008 4:42 PM

oh! I see......

"Pocket Hell (BB Profile)

Bio: God and I disagree on what whores I should sleep with...I've redefined his gift of STD's as a testiment to my sex appeal."

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#12 posted by Outtacontext

, April 21, 2008 5:00 PM

First they called artists degenerates and denied them NEA grants, then they made them easy to identify and isolate them from the rest of society by issuing them special licenses. What next: artistic concentration camps? What is this country coming to?!

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#13 posted by Agent 86 , April 21, 2008 5:12 PM

I like my art like I like my juice: from concentrate?

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#14 posted by Kurt , April 21, 2008 5:32 PM

I wonder what would happen if you showed one of these to one of those security guards that try to stop people from taking photographs in public places...

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#15 posted by Takuan , April 21, 2008 5:38 PM

you'd kill their brain!

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#16 posted by ill lich , April 21, 2008 5:41 PM

I was having trouble with a painting, so I decided to use my artistic license. . . unfortunately I got the paint all over it and now it's unreadable; I should've stuck with paintbrushes.

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#17 posted by Pocket Hell , April 21, 2008 6:22 PM

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#18 posted by minTphresh , April 21, 2008 7:05 PM

boingboing is nuttin if not all about sharing! BTW i fukkin want one of them there chunks o plastic! 20$? i think ill use a pirated copy of photoshop instead...also, do u know how many surrealists it takes to change a light bulb?

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#19 posted by Takuan , April 21, 2008 7:13 PM

a sheep and twelve loaves of french bread

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#20 posted by Antinous , April 21, 2008 7:20 PM

Tak-kun,

Have you seen mom recently?

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#21 posted by Takuan , April 21, 2008 7:27 PM

she's either drunk, working or sobbing over how we take her for granted. I suspect two.

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#22 posted by mkultra , April 21, 2008 7:49 PM

Make me a Canadian one!

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#23 posted by Takuan , April 21, 2008 8:15 PM

OK, that'll be twenny bucks and fifteen bucks in GST, PST, Income Tax, Art Tax, Media Tax......

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#24 posted by dculberson , April 21, 2008 8:18 PM

TradeMark is always a good time. I've had pizza with him, and sold computers to him, and he's fun to talk to.

@Harrkev: Is it by accident or hilariously subtle joke that you misspelled nocturnal in a different and equally creative way?

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#25 posted by Honkytowner , April 21, 2008 8:40 PM

Fake they may be, but why anyone would want a US ID of any kind in today's world is quite beyond me.

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#26 posted by Agent 86 , April 21, 2008 10:06 PM

To prove they're a tortured-artist type, of course.

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#27 posted by Simon Bradshaw , April 22, 2008 12:14 AM

This ought to work like the British driving licence, where you get the photocard plus a fold-out sheet listing all your driving offences for the last few years. You get given points for them - typically three to six for, say, speeding or running a light - and if you accumulate more than twelve points over a three-year period you lose your licence.

So, who wants to suggest a Crimes Against Art schedule of penalty points?

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#28 posted by anthony , April 22, 2008 3:15 AM

This card is expired. The new ones include "conceptual", "contemporary", and "performance" categories.
"modern" is so 1920.

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#29 posted by error404 , April 22, 2008 3:25 AM

I was amking these back in the 80's using letraset and the college alminator.

But I doubt I was the first to do it.

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#30 posted by Argon , April 22, 2008 4:31 AM

#14: Really. Just a few years ago these cards would have been neat. But their funniness gets kinda lost in the light of posts like UK man hassled by cop for not having a "camera license"...

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#31 posted by Jeff , April 22, 2008 5:43 AM

Did you enter real codes? Interesting way to give out info. Love the hair...very handsome ;)

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#32 posted by john316 , April 22, 2008 6:17 AM

Nice work, Mark! Glad to see staff members are still operating after Bush appointed Ruscha secretary. If you are in Arlington this August you can see what else The Department is up to under the direction of the secretary-at-large.

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#33 posted by Art , April 22, 2008 9:16 AM

I pride myself on my keen abilities for visual observation and, as this may as a surpise to most, that man is wearing a HAIRPIECE!

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#34 posted by username , April 22, 2008 9:55 AM

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#35 posted by James David , April 22, 2008 10:20 AM

I personally like these Intellectual Property Donor Stickers for your license better.