Posted on 12/08/2020 9:42:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Illinois artist was left baffled after a man paid him to paint a mural of “Sesame Street’s” Cookie Monster on the side of a building — that he didn’t actually own.
Joshua Hawkins said he recently got an angry phone call from the actual owner of the Peoria building, “asking why the hell I painted this ‘crazy ****’ on his building.”
“Evidently the guy that hired me to paint the mural was NOT really the owner of the building!,” Hawkins wrote on Facebook. The artist said a man he knew only as “Nate” called him the day after Thanksgiving and asked him to paint a mural of the beloved puppet with a caption in Russian that roughly translates to “World, Peace, Cookies” on the side of his vacant building.
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At least he got paid.
I can’t stop laughing!
A quick look on Google Earth indicates his mural is the only interesting thing on the street
Helps at a time like this.
Red wall with a Blue character in a crook/Marxists led Blue state. Somewhere in there is a lot of Freudian imagery. What it is, I just don’t know.
Yes. Thanks!
Rule of life: If you are lost while on the road and you begin to see murals on the buildings, turn around quickly. This isn’t the way you want to be going.
Rule of life: If you are lost while on the road and you begin to see murals on the buildings, turn around quickly. This isn’t the way you want to be going.
Me neither.
Why would he paint it over??
no kidding, painting over it, that was the actual act of vandalism..
Cynical me wants to believe that it was not the artist and his his starving friends and needed more money so they concocted this scheme for publicity so they could afford to buy cookies in the future..
PEACE LAND COOKIES
Regards,
Incorrect!
PEACE (or could be WORLD; the two words are homonyms in Russian) LAND COOKIES.
Regards,
It appears to be Cookiezilla to methat? I the only one that notices that?
It appears to be “CookieZilla” to me. Am I the only one that notices that?
Preview my posts? I don’t need no stinking preview!
Reminds me of the time I paid a guy at the bodyshop to make a sheet metal monolith and drop it off in the desert.
I wonder how much he got paid for it...
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