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They blew up a van full of banknotes. They sold high-end Ukrainian vodka to Selfridges. Now art duo Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn are auctioning their past works – to launch their most ambitious project to date
This Saturday, artists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn are auctioning off their work from the past decade and a half. The reason? To help fund a community-led renewable power station in Nigel Farage’s Clacton constituency. Former YBA Gavin Turk will be wielding the gavel and the couple hope to raise at least £250,000 for the project.
The big-ticket item going under the hammer will be the remnants of a gold Ford Transit van containing £1.2m in fake banknotes that the pair blew up in London’s Docklands in 2019 as the climax – or money shot, if you will – of Bank Job, a film about their attempts to fight toxic debt culture with art, a battle that involved printing cash to wipe out more than £1m debt.
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So remember how I advertised my 300th post as my final shot in Japan? Well.... I took one more shot the next day in the airport on my phone instead of my camera.
I'll be astonished if this post can surpass 10 likes. It's painfully evident that these photos perform the worst for me. But I keep posting them to keep my shots varied and simply because I like it, but again, more often then not, it risks my reputation on flickr. Doesn't matter how hard I worked on it, I'm still at your mercy, it's a balance of power that almost never works in my favor.
So again, it's pretty ironic that I made this shot look like a "welcome to the country" shot when it was the last shot I took on this trip. But that's what it's meant to be. Tokyo Narita is still evidently the common international gateway to Japan, there are large billboards and plenty Nintendo stands and art saying "welcome to Japan", clearly they have an understanding of why foreigners come here. I found this statue while I was looking for a currency exchange station (cause paper yen won't do much good back in the states, and I didn't have easy access to a station back home). I lowered the light in the back in editing to minimize the promotion (hate Mario Wonder) and to make the statues highlights stand out more. After several more layers the lighting was solely on them. I contemplated editing out the switch in Toad's hands for a Wii U gamepad, but that would be a bit too much of a smaller nitpick and no one would notice the difference anyway. So this was more of a parting gift then a welcome but it was meant to be the opposite... Until I found out on short notice that I was returning this year. So who knows? Maybe this will serve it's original purpose.
NIJMEGEN (ANP) - In het Radboudumc in Nijmegen is een patiënt opgenomen met een lage verdenking op ebola. Dat bevestigt zowel een woordvoerder van het RIVM als van het ziekenhuis aan het ANP. De patiënt ligt op een speciaal ingerichte afdeling voor ernstige infectieziekten zoals ebola.
De Landelijke Coördinatie Infectieziektebestrijding heeft daarom verzocht. De patiënt krijgt medische zorg en diagnostiek, zodat onderzocht kan worden of daadwerkelijk sprake is van ebola.