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I first saw a Kimbo Slice fight on youtube back in February or so. It was a shocking thing to see…. a grass-roots style, bare-fisted boxing match in someone’s backyard or at some parking lot or boat launch. Kimbo is the neighborhood champ and competitors are brought to him a little like feed. The fighters [...]

Here’s an art exhibition I’d like to see: a series of Thomas Kincaid-ish scenes shot with a top-of-the-line high definition video camera, presented in a gallery installation on the best possible HD equipment. It seems to me that re-presenting the traditional, cozy Kincaid image in the eye-busting crispness of top-quality high definition technology would produce superb tension. And, if you only displayed images on equipment that cost exorbitant amounts–but which truly provided a “realer than real” image–then the work would have that certain precious quality which would increase it’s “value” in the world. The idea would be that because the images need costly equipment to be produced in the first place, the representations themselves must be worth more. It’s a simple fusion of the conceptual and the physical, and it also nicely packages the technology right into the artwork. It’s an upgrade to the Kinkaid on all levels. Thomas Kinkaid for the 21st century.