Now Sea Turtles are part of the currency offering geared solely to save our biodiversity. All part of c.monster’s plan over at Soylent. But I’m going to post my latest one here first (his copy is in the e:mail). This version highlights the endangered lemur and sea turtles (pick Ridley/Leatherback or Green, doesn’t matter).
Next will be one featuring a harp seal and there will be gore and coffee stains all over the note.
Note: If you’re following these, I am not a duck-squeezer or tree hugger but this is meant to irritate people in two ways. I’ve been making art to rile people up about endangered species. It looks as if I were celebrating the demise of species on the edge when all I really want to do is get people to stop being apathetic or melodramatic and at least think about the issues. Shutting the human race down because animals get hurt is idiotic. Wiping out every last critter of any species, well, think long and hard. If it is a mosquito… God will understand. If it’s another critter, let’s chat. But lets not play all sorts of moronic stunts, pull guilt trips, act like children, etc. etc. etc.
My take is this – use it but don’t abuse it. We don’t have to bandage up every species for every boo-boo, but neither should we be assholes about it. I happen to like animals and diversity but not through the eco-terrorists methods. I’d like to see the hysteria, hype, threats, misinformation, and famous personalities the world over just go away. Too much dogma for my tastes.
Oooooh… pretty!
I really like the nautilus-like scrolls. They have a Steampunk quality to them.
Aggie, you are in the dictionary under the word “Genius”.
Steampunk on a dollar bill!
Coupled with a seal, how could it fail to attract and offend?
I’ve been aiming for something similar to the US Mint’s style, although they have so many features on a bill that I’m amazed that anyone could reproduce them well enough to make superbills, much less emulate the real-feel of the visual richness.
Our currency is unique and pretty amazing stuff. And made from old jeans, too.
“Genius”?? Hardly 🙂
Though much better than under “gullible”, which was my claim to fame for a long time.
Some would argue it is so still 😉
Very true, LC! I like the Lemur watermark thingy behind the largest denomination, too! I gives it that added touch of understated dignity and classiness.
If LK worked for the US Mint, we’d all be more proud of our currency!
Very cool. I’m ready to move to a nation where LK does the currency!
Ah, you went with the ringtail rather than the Sifaka or Baboon lemur. Interesting choice.
Awesome as always.
Oh, LC, they aren’t nautilus. They are ammonites.
Ring-tailed was a two-fold choice. One was brand-name recognition. The other was a joke aimed at LemurKing’dom. Which might actually be apt considering some rabid commentary here.
But if I throw brand-name recognition to the wind for the seal, I wonder if a Loris would be acceptable?
YEAH, LC! What he said!!! They’re AMMONITES. 🙂
Actually, the ammonite thing kind of illustrates the brand-name concerns – I myself would not have known an ammonite if it walked up and bit me on the butt, but I know my nautili.
My abject apologies, LK. I know ammonites, for they have nibbled on me before. In my defense, I did not click on the larger view, and on top of that, had not imbibed my first cup of coffee.
Apologize? Whatever for?
It was c.monster that was persnickety.
You’re only getting your first cup of coffee this late in the day? How tragic!
No, I started drinking coffee around 9:40 AM, thus when I commented it was *gasp* tragically wrong 😀
CM may have been persnickety, so he may be in need of *ahem* punishment.
Just sayin’ 😉
LK – here’s another way to do art over at Cliffords place. A bit less nuanced than yours, but interesting, nonetheless.
http://redstickrant.blogspot.com/2010/07/bulls-eye-of-beholder.html
Had to watch it twice before I noticed that she had a head and was talking.
Way cool, and Girlhead loved it, too. She’s already an artist but when she gets older…
I thought Ammonites drove little horse buggies around the back roads of Pennsylvania and wore those funky, stiff-browed black hats?
Those are AMISH, not to be confused with their kinfolk, the MENNONITES.
But I know you are being a smartass 😛
Oh good, it wasn’t just me that thought that, then.
So Ammonites are the off-spring of Amish and Mennonite couplings? 😀
Great Caesar’s Ghost, B.C.! You must be right.
Amish + Mennonite = Ammonites
That is good enough to be published with the East Anglia crowd’s AGW papers coming out soon.
Hi Lemur King, that is very nice currency you have. You are quite the counterfitter. The way the fed is printing money, they’ll run out, and they can use this.
Very good to see you Bunni! We haven’t “talked” in a while. Hope you are doing well in Chicagoland.
It’s only counterfeiting if I’m making money that would pass for the real thing. This is art. This is satire. And, this is surprisingly rewarding.
It’s like people need to see some of this sad stuff put in a way that they can laugh at it. I feel like all laughter at its root is a way of warding off bad things. And it gives us a way to mock idjits.
Do I want to see pandas, seals, owls, rhinos, etc. go by the wayside? No, I don’t but I’m not going to tell someone in their country that they can’t develop it because of a speckled salamander that lives only along one river – so just don’t use that river guys, ok? Okay. Buh-bye!.
Money will have so little intrinsic worth that we’ll be using it as napkins, as toilet paper, as snorters for cocaine … uh, what, they already do that? Okay… as picks for our teeth…
Ammonites
Ammon (Hebrew: עַמּוֹן, Modern Ammon Tiberian ʻAmmôn ; “People”; Arabic: عمّون; Transliteration: ʻAmmūn), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation which, according to the Old Testament and other sources[citation needed], occupied an area east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan.[1][2] The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbath Ammon, site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan’s capital. Milcom and Molech (perhaps one and the same) are named in the Bible as the gods of Ammon.[3]
According to the biblical account, Genesis 19:37-38, both Ammon and Moab were born of an incestuous relationship between Lot and his two daughters in the aftermath of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Bible refers to both the Ammonites and Moabites as the “children of Lot”. Throughout the Bible, the Ammonites and Israelites are portrayed as mutual antagonists. During the Exodus, the Israelites were prohibited by the Ammonites from passing through their lands.[4] In the Book of Judges, the Ammonites work with Eglon, king of the Moabites against Israel. Attacks by the Ammonites on Israelite communities east of the Jordan were the impetus behind the unification of the tribes under Saul.[5]
According to both 1 Kings 14:21-31 and 2 Chronicles 12:13, Naamah was an Ammonite. She was the only wife of King Solomon to be mentioned by name in the Tanakh as having borne a child. She was the mother of Solomon’s successor, Rehoboam.[6]
The Ammonites presented a serious problem to the Pharisees because many marriages with Ammonite (and Moabite) wives had taken place in the days of Nehemiah.[7] The legitimacy of David’s claim to royalty was disputed on account of his descent from Ruth, the Moabite.[citation needed]
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I don’t want to actually learn anything! Ow! 🙂