This is a project where I pay workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to review my art and website and pay them $5 dollars for 500 words. This is the 25th review I've received:
What first captured
my interest at Paulshortt.com was Modern Greetings - a contemporary manual
featuring alternative ways to greet people. My thoughts on this interesting
twist to accepted social convention is that it could be a standard protocol for
attendees at keynote speeches. Perhaps companies like Apple Inc. or Google, or
Amazon could incorporate Paul’s ideas of Modern Greetings - a contemporary
manual featuring alternative ways to greet people into their corporate culture?
I wonder if they would go for the idea? Can we send them the manual and see
where it goes? These companies all pride themselves on thinking outside the
box. Ugh, just a thought. Maybe I did not look deep enough into Paulshortt.com,
but how can I get this manual? I mean this could go viral. Mostly because it is
so much fun, especially the Butt Bump and the Cell phone Rub. It looks like
really fun stuff, Paul - I like it! Another clever project I wanted to comment
on is the Missed Connections Project where you use personal ads from the
“missed connections” section of Craigslist to create handmade, text-based
objects. Craigslist has become such a staple in today’s world that this piece
really makes sense. I have a feeling that there is lying dormant within the
Craigslist mutli-verse many more Paulshortt.com projects. They are just
screaming to be uncovered.
Now my favorite Paulshortt.com art has to be “The
Business of Selling Yourself,” with its quirkiness and funny twist to the
“Getting to know you” approach to life. So, my first question is to ask if this
is copyrighted? Can I use this? But in all seriousness, or maybe not, I can’t
help but image what an attractive woman would think when reading this as she
was walking away from you. What I would give to be there. How do we sell ourselves
to others? This art is cool because it causes us to examine ourselves and again
accepted social convention. It’s all about turning accepted social convention
on it’s ear, if I am reading your website and your art correctly. I like what
you do, and it inspires me to come up with my own art that fly’s in the face of
accepted social convention. Honorable mention has to go to “It's Simple, But
Complicated” because it is simple, but complicated. As with the idea of
tinkering with accepted social convention, “It's Simple, But Complicated”
tinkers with complicated cultural meanings. If I’m getting the main theme of
the idea of tinkering with complicated cultural meanings right, then I really
like the whole concept. The breakdown of sorts on the side of the road is a
true work of art and should garner critical acclaim. I will enjoy watching for
the next projects as they unfold in real time at Paulshortt.com. The only thing
standing in the way of mind-bending art is the limits of the imagination. Paul,
I’m convinced that your imagination literally has no limits, and if it does you
are finding ways to break the imagination barrier every single day.
