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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: Don Boyer on January 18, 2014, 01:10:03 AM

Title: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Don Boyer on January 18, 2014, 01:10:03 AM
Now we have cards that ARE money!  Artist is Mark Wagner, medium is folded paper currency, created 2009.

Click on it for a larger image.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Yashi on January 18, 2014, 02:35:56 AM
Very cool but doesn't that count as vandalism?
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: JacksonRobinson on January 18, 2014, 08:48:15 AM
I've seen this guys work and it is all awesome.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: th4mo on January 18, 2014, 09:55:33 AM
Interesting, but these are cut, not folded.
Here's a Slate article about the artist with some even more impressive "portraits" to check out:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/01/14/collage_artist_mark_wagner_currency_portraits.html
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Don Boyer on January 18, 2014, 11:14:51 AM
Very cool but doesn't that count as vandalism?

Technically it's illegal to destroy money, but you can also buy uncut sheets of money from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving - it'll cost you the same as if the sheet had been cut; for example, a sheet with ten $1 bills will cost you $10.  Most people just get the $1 sheets due to the costs...

Interesting, but these are cut, not folded.
Here's a Slate article about the artist with some even more impressive "portraits" to check out:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/01/14/collage_artist_mark_wagner_currency_portraits.html

I was quoting the source of the photos.  Found it on Pinterest.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: 10ofclubs on January 18, 2014, 12:39:09 PM
After reading the title of the topic I thought I was going to see new cards that SMELL like money. Or FEEL like money.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: th4mo on January 18, 2014, 06:14:22 PM
I was quoting the source of the photos.  Found it on Pinterest.

God forbid we question the reliability of Pinterest as a source...   ;)
In any case, the images you posted would be impossible to create by simply folding. :)
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Don Boyer on January 18, 2014, 11:29:36 PM
I was quoting the source of the photos.  Found it on Pinterest.

God forbid we question the reliability of Pinterest as a source...   ;)
In any case, the images you posted would be impossible to create by simply folding. :)

I had a hunch, but being a non-origamist, I couldn't say with authority.  :))

Ya gotta admit, though - they look cool.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Sher143 on January 19, 2014, 01:15:50 AM
These are so awesome! :O
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: BiggerDee on January 19, 2014, 08:22:59 PM
Very cool but doesn't that count as vandalism?

Technically it's illegal to destroy money, but you can also buy uncut sheets of money from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving - it'll cost you the same as if the sheet had been cut; for example, a sheet with ten $1 bills will cost you $10.  Most people just get the $1 sheets due to the costs...

Interesting, but these are cut, not folded.
Here's a Slate article about the artist with some even more impressive "portraits" to check out:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/01/14/collage_artist_mark_wagner_currency_portraits.html

I was quoting the source of the photos.  Found it on Pinterest.

Inflation has passed you by, Don! Uncut sheets of $1 bills  come in 4, 8, 16, or 32 bills.  A sheet of 4 $1 bills is $16.25 and if you go up to an uncut sheet if 32 $1 bills, you'll have to pony up  $61! Plus shipping! Think there's any profit in that?! :-)

BTW, those are BEP prices.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Don Boyer on January 20, 2014, 12:08:33 AM

Inflation has passed you by, Don! Uncut sheets of $1 bills  come in 4, 8, 16, or 32 bills.  A sheet of 4 $1 bills is $16.25 and if you go up to an uncut sheet if 32 $1 bills, you'll have to pony up  $61! Plus shipping! Think there's any profit in that?! :-)

BTW, those are BEP prices.

Thanks - I was mistaken.  I was trying to go from memory of what someone told me, but I obviously didn't remember it correctly.
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: BiggerDee on January 20, 2014, 08:55:10 AM
I wish that they were that inexpensive. I'd love to have an uncut sheet of bills to hang on the wall, but I can't force myself to pay double for simple cash. I need 32 fresh dollar bills and a 75 cent roll of Scotch tape!
Title: Re: First We Saw Cards That LOOK Like Money...
Post by: Don Boyer on January 20, 2014, 07:49:49 PM
I wish that they were that inexpensive. I'd love to have an uncut sheet of bills to hang on the wall, but I can't force myself to pay double for simple cash. I need 32 fresh dollar bills and a 75 cent roll of Scotch tape!

Well if that's all it takes, an "re-uncut sheet" of Bicycles would cost about $5...