Clever and Creative C-Notes. Redesign the $100 Bill at Make Your Franklin.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLH0bgMPsqA1k7jUut7WnwNQlJnO5Q8WmBzfiJGbxr84S5S-YsbqoH2nApDAX7o2LC8wfFn0IRbV0fciIqbMuGcsksHg2TA4RW72wvgij84YpmgIX_cF7u_wgHoG2pPZD3r7kAlCpC9jE/s1600/sean-fermoyle.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611185385426826626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLH0bgMPsqA1k7jUut7WnwNQlJnO5Q8WmBzfiJGbxr84S5S-YsbqoH2nApDAX7o2LC8wfFn0IRbV0fciIqbMuGcsksHg2TA4RW72wvgij84YpmgIX_cF7u_wgHoG2pPZD3r7kAlCpC9jE/s400/sean-fermoyle.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 222px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: the 100$ bill redesigned by Sean Fermoyle</span></span><br /><br />Make Your Franklin is an online community art project devised by French designers <a href="http://www.vdesdoigts.com/">Vincent Desdoigts</a>, <a href="http://www.mjtj.fr/">Martin Joubert</a> and <a href="http://www.elecorre.com/">Etienne Lecorre,</a> that allows anyone to design their own version of <a href="http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2010/04/bens-so-new-money-close-look-at-100.html">the United States 100$ bill</a>. They are asking for you to recreate the money with a symbol of modern society.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgqCcVSXKVShVcfHQhryq9p_3TxUYXbqnTFDMBLjoXQo69Sgh8tZgl7YucYr_A6CiQqlaquoHYHvQhtKTjhsjVT9PyHkkUxwTvQs-1mfbR6B-__OSyKUgMD-IxP6uZHzoSdAxCusYpPA/s1600/Luche-Ben2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611188959706773666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgqCcVSXKVShVcfHQhryq9p_3TxUYXbqnTFDMBLjoXQo69Sgh8tZgl7YucYr_A6CiQqlaquoHYHvQhtKTjhsjVT9PyHkkUxwTvQs-1mfbR6B-__OSyKUgMD-IxP6uZHzoSdAxCusYpPA/s400/Luche-Ben2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 224px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: my own lame contribution to the project, Luche Ben (mask courtesy of <a href="http://store.maskmaniac.com/">Mask Maniac</a>)</span></span><br /><br />All you have to do is download the template (a gigantic jpeg of the C-note) and start designing. Then you can upload your finished Benjamin to their online gallery. They simply ask that it be no larger than 7300 x 3000 pixels and no smaller than 1000 x 411 pixels.<br /><br />Some people have gone all out and created viable and beautiful alternatives to the paper currency, while others (myself included) just had some fun defacing ol' Mr. Franklin with icons and imagery reflective of trendy and popular culture (e.g Disney, Mona Lisa, KISS, etc).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzHancDFyohgiBoLBWwlHQ1wmfFrSPyQPEgvWt6tTL4EPLfoj81bUtAHwyJfOPFXea7EkOTdTPvlwrtypuUGc3futfrSdvnr6ISnERSqS2xTzAdEyImtf5-blXhUAA1LDWjA8yyjqeVM/s1600/molle-william.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611194250281940610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzHancDFyohgiBoLBWwlHQ1wmfFrSPyQPEgvWt6tTL4EPLfoj81bUtAHwyJfOPFXea7EkOTdTPvlwrtypuUGc3futfrSdvnr6ISnERSqS2xTzAdEyImtf5-blXhUAA1LDWjA8yyjqeVM/s400/molle-william.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 222px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8qyrDmS-heJYT5LQ1Cykv4Tgo-uzxqxtOZubctp2bciaDaYKZFGVnBlAiykLcq-7YnvndqY3-xt7fb0bxZtuoZ3j7a9g9OoL1BlZbfWWmM2ec3tQPbB_pIGqUmg-2tgjFX9xU2VTYJ0/s1600/loic-bel.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611194096524285874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8qyrDmS-heJYT5LQ1Cykv4Tgo-uzxqxtOZubctp2bciaDaYKZFGVnBlAiykLcq-7YnvndqY3-xt7fb0bxZtuoZ3j7a9g9OoL1BlZbfWWmM2ec3tQPbB_pIGqUmg-2tgjFX9xU2VTYJ0/s400/loic-bel.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 220px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: bills with popular iconography like Paul Stanley's KISS make-up and Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa, by Molle William and Loic Bel respectively, were amongst the designs submitted</span></span><br /><br />The site has clearly been very popular given that their server was predominantly down yesterday because of traffic.<br /><br />Here's a few of the bill redesigns from their online gallery, selected at the time this post was written. I'm sure many more terrific designs have since been submitted.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">First, some seriously beautiful redesigns of the $100 bill:</span><br /><br />Alexandre Manet Pikartzo:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5zpLbXR6Ex_ArRch3v36XR973gmS-Y9Enr7agpvysERYMrB3PcNci8A8no_S7bctxUVMZ5md9D96vVoaQlz8oVOuBEBbv9gFzOlIKZFcCIr2xmoenO4tKiZUVocI_amx5LdBx0IsuKY/s1600/alexandre-manet-pikartzo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611185750666180514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5zpLbXR6Ex_ArRch3v36XR973gmS-Y9Enr7agpvysERYMrB3PcNci8A8no_S7bctxUVMZ5md9D96vVoaQlz8oVOuBEBbv9gFzOlIKZFcCIr2xmoenO4tKiZUVocI_amx5LdBx0IsuKY/s400/alexandre-manet-pikartzo.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 223px;" /></a><br />Christelle Mozzati:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso_xUncMju77-fNO3nVyvi8W4UBlYALz6C4RQ_eTJidwjSY5GC4mXJPaGalYWZbh5pT-pymptgk4SssYYWlDavN6Df9cKFaov8OPc96BY9AWuv1tOUnIjk8Iz3kh3aIvrlK0rN6IrmYo/s1600/christelle-mozzati.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611185552524813858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso_xUncMju77-fNO3nVyvi8W4UBlYALz6C4RQ_eTJidwjSY5GC4mXJPaGalYWZbh5pT-pymptgk4SssYYWlDavN6Df9cKFaov8OPc96BY9AWuv1tOUnIjk8Iz3kh3aIvrlK0rN6IrmYo/s400/christelle-mozzati.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 214px;" /></a><br />Julien Benayt:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRAdsrIULwsXApsVipX5ee4enIl-gGhqTDC7Zbju0oWADigU876y9GCtFft_q6_ukxqYLTIehcZ4ZccSug2nKhGJnoSik1f_sj0AUZka-Z8WZRcWpnRQ3HK-Ibl7l__3EzywGNbRR4hY/s1600/julien-beneyt.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611186021676318450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRAdsrIULwsXApsVipX5ee4enIl-gGhqTDC7Zbju0oWADigU876y9GCtFft_q6_ukxqYLTIehcZ4ZccSug2nKhGJnoSik1f_sj0AUZka-Z8WZRcWpnRQ3HK-Ibl7l__3EzywGNbRR4hY/s400/julien-beneyt.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 220px;" /></a><br />Hugo Lecrux:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM2C907bJoA9G55dl7Ad0Gr5BtCQOe6aflNOZM8hchqr8oUvsMlbvoqOKjZoJJ207t9ZAGgSiCuMBDEC1vczHnHcz7NTWPS_vNZgWp8TfDAG_EHbD5al_6iCYZFapAVuzUoC8yylDgN8k/s1600/hugo_lecrux.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611192994408380818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM2C907bJoA9G55dl7Ad0Gr5BtCQOe6aflNOZM8hchqr8oUvsMlbvoqOKjZoJJ207t9ZAGgSiCuMBDEC1vczHnHcz7NTWPS_vNZgWp8TfDAG_EHbD5al_6iCYZFapAVuzUoC8yylDgN8k/s400/hugo_lecrux.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 220px;" /></a><br />Arinin Evgeny:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBXuKcrQ23InA_WSLnCtb9AhWKk1uD5SAYSbj5-gCi8JU_ImvBFwLo6_Z4pnvm4Qq8onui3lY4jYQwdLPks9bu_3j30t5xjFGCk0oTugQYcvU9jg4JPriFBM79Q_chGyOJGUELs7YRso/s1600/arinin-evgeny.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611190314873386610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBXuKcrQ23InA_WSLnCtb9AhWKk1uD5SAYSbj5-gCi8JU_ImvBFwLo6_Z4pnvm4Qq8onui3lY4jYQwdLPks9bu_3j30t5xjFGCk0oTugQYcvU9jg4JPriFBM79Q_chGyOJGUELs7YRso/s400/arinin-evgeny.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 214px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And some funny money:</span><br /><br />Two versions of Mickey Money by Didier Gerardin:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbAWq3HKjNO2VA7kiMMdQKLcy-KJ-EYmmRlFuXD2fDYLUccmXydjN6Rx3Z9Smj10vDZ39l8UdPsfqPbauPBZVtkFVu8jaFD52lwUBqBiznq5fz2mhJKObXeXvkmNJadc82ROroAsOeBA/s1600/didier-gerardin.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611185095564513362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbAWq3HKjNO2VA7kiMMdQKLcy-KJ-EYmmRlFuXD2fDYLUccmXydjN6Rx3Z9Smj10vDZ39l8UdPsfqPbauPBZVtkFVu8jaFD52lwUBqBiznq5fz2mhJKObXeXvkmNJadc82ROroAsOeBA/s400/didier-gerardin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 213px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4GSammL7uQRxu7e6ZL0DI12UmHNQcujVYadL-H2FEME9nA3-GNGp-2R1Vggug1_Vdc3xMw_cDWF987ufImlitdebGCjER6rewmYKSGwmpTsLNonhwBWX4_tbEumGh6UOMadZ09UYoI8/s1600/didier-gerardin02.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611190568767299010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4GSammL7uQRxu7e6ZL0DI12UmHNQcujVYadL-H2FEME9nA3-GNGp-2R1Vggug1_Vdc3xMw_cDWF987ufImlitdebGCjER6rewmYKSGwmpTsLNonhwBWX4_tbEumGh6UOMadZ09UYoI8/s400/didier-gerardin02.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 215px;" /></a><br />Paul Schuler gave it a complete Khadafi overhaul:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDd_Uv01GZXJOzfS1kg_pVwZDDr4PyohS0Q70x5jFXwDhri_VInWMPpFNW1oEHKffu-Ce5QwpUTHtuAaiN1JN6w0PBZDHFICr9oFoUPDPmleynwomWunk5B2EM012fkRMIHLIFwDurQUU/s1600/paul-schuler02.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611193179870553442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDd_Uv01GZXJOzfS1kg_pVwZDDr4PyohS0Q70x5jFXwDhri_VInWMPpFNW1oEHKffu-Ce5QwpUTHtuAaiN1JN6w0PBZDHFICr9oFoUPDPmleynwomWunk5B2EM012fkRMIHLIFwDurQUU/s400/paul-schuler02.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 221px;" /></a><br />A Pink Floyd reference from Thomas Fontaine:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77jSuSBVawBsylrYj8pHPJIgakr8SqVXysDlEFcchYt2MIq1xxQtjjtl-07THvP3cG0wNpQSMQnAt8mpEMZkxqGNbharnAqKJEy0zGO4_jhrBHsCWW-Q8B0Ijxw8lcgMYsNPkJUXTCbo/s1600/thomas-fontaine.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611184267820183106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77jSuSBVawBsylrYj8pHPJIgakr8SqVXysDlEFcchYt2MIq1xxQtjjtl-07THvP3cG0wNpQSMQnAt8mpEMZkxqGNbharnAqKJEy0zGO4_jhrBHsCWW-Q8B0Ijxw8lcgMYsNPkJUXTCbo/s400/thomas-fontaine.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 219px;" /></a><br />An homage to Darth Vader by Sylvain Weiss:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo-zVcARuAzkRh79YsgM2V-K1J1QrglwnRCg6PeFTT-6w0gvsFaHLpje6vZzjL9gzQwCl9OKYbH-8L1zGkB1Bq5_KzgHNuZlnyOuPkEJIAd7vAtfviDhbf14BL-LoJL1nLouX2YzfpV8/s1600/sylvain-weiss.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611184737645291442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo-zVcARuAzkRh79YsgM2V-K1J1QrglwnRCg6PeFTT-6w0gvsFaHLpje6vZzjL9gzQwCl9OKYbH-8L1zGkB1Bq5_KzgHNuZlnyOuPkEJIAd7vAtfviDhbf14BL-LoJL1nLouX2YzfpV8/s400/sylvain-weiss.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 218px;" /></a><br />Agathe Teubner brings the American Eagle to life:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtKqtfAREfJ7C0STi3fbI3uB8TJv6dJWvwKFmVk_79Nz8JFO5zOBIQz-6OzxrdQjoZaIqSML0bwFZ-h81Q60SjXq0p243Naq6eKak7yn_G1HDsY_OpE0MQtiDh4nyRR4ulWcf7uzS2pw/s1600/agathe-teubner.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611186235229670578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtKqtfAREfJ7C0STi3fbI3uB8TJv6dJWvwKFmVk_79Nz8JFO5zOBIQz-6OzxrdQjoZaIqSML0bwFZ-h81Q60SjXq0p243Naq6eKak7yn_G1HDsY_OpE0MQtiDh4nyRR4ulWcf7uzS2pw/s400/agathe-teubner.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 222px;" /></a><br />Some colorful currency from Martin Joubert:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGRUEYuen70cwIpz1eDp-wjR2TnpWm80t7hIsbh6fTzOmKUzskxZ9v7Xn7ZWqPgOqUuglOGy0i56D89wsVS5-sKG84rIu4UUUTNtKWxSqdzsSZ-JQAJpNnaKRrBw8VXAJ_U7IV8DAlV4/s1600/martin-joubert.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611191366106479842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGRUEYuen70cwIpz1eDp-wjR2TnpWm80t7hIsbh6fTzOmKUzskxZ9v7Xn7ZWqPgOqUuglOGy0i56D89wsVS5-sKG84rIu4UUUTNtKWxSqdzsSZ-JQAJpNnaKRrBw8VXAJ_U7IV8DAlV4/s400/martin-joubert.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 214px;" /></a><br />Cedric Bariou asks Why So Serious? with his joker version:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4YaKtizbXlCJr5GguPcpzGzJg0g5s9znnjqbK-_uKn6fqIR4MrrJPeZGgUsgL2EVr7i4t5eQ3zj-vXKGrmnuKwPfJZh1Ih1HKvWdVt_ryTnln6GNo75KfxQl3E6SI7GEfoqq07vycsCA/s1600/cedric-bariou.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611186616631362946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4YaKtizbXlCJr5GguPcpzGzJg0g5s9znnjqbK-_uKn6fqIR4MrrJPeZGgUsgL2EVr7i4t5eQ3zj-vXKGrmnuKwPfJZh1Ih1HKvWdVt_ryTnln6GNo75KfxQl3E6SI7GEfoqq07vycsCA/s400/cedric-bariou.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 223px;" /></a><br />Dekker Dryer's Monopoly Money:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgLN1q6isBb8X_PN5YpjxRnTxgQlVVarO1XV-aJ6FHLXutPT-v9MVJaO1YYFC4TH1gFcORBmGlSeqP2ALlPWN8YxtOfS1Jm6rBDjrdhQClhvOs4S6aRFwBSgDYcOB7NaaB6fyNsGHRNg/s1600/dekker-dreyer.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611189562719321378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgLN1q6isBb8X_PN5YpjxRnTxgQlVVarO1XV-aJ6FHLXutPT-v9MVJaO1YYFC4TH1gFcORBmGlSeqP2ALlPWN8YxtOfS1Jm6rBDjrdhQClhvOs4S6aRFwBSgDYcOB7NaaB6fyNsGHRNg/s400/dekker-dreyer.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 221px;" /></a><br />Superhero C-note from Arlam:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaplPf33ndnnMhH09k-sCe5E0YXDS4dtgFx6o1Y60U7UJQDc5Kl-uT-08oDK4OeK3SjXLqERo3Nl82Fq02Ji9t5TLJHf67ICzDW11P8xnQ33BNwVyRLZh2SLzQd_7De1r4fZTaMAUbsg/s1600/arlam.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611191723009295666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaplPf33ndnnMhH09k-sCe5E0YXDS4dtgFx6o1Y60U7UJQDc5Kl-uT-08oDK4OeK3SjXLqERo3Nl82Fq02Ji9t5TLJHf67ICzDW11P8xnQ33BNwVyRLZh2SLzQd_7De1r4fZTaMAUbsg/s400/arlam.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 220px;" /></a><br />Wasted Rita's take on a song we all know:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbGfD3XGHj349fOWx6hFMwc3BkP5KBbiuJ_pNS1QdkVP_SYB4EcmNtMVx9L2RtDvBtPXF5hfC4GO_iWhQBgAhZHdRVcx6poyMWn10BBSPQarh1A0ezIIF_OTcYwduc0XsTJrBTPIYz_I/s1600/wasted-rita.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611198354857593218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbGfD3XGHj349fOWx6hFMwc3BkP5KBbiuJ_pNS1QdkVP_SYB4EcmNtMVx9L2RtDvBtPXF5hfC4GO_iWhQBgAhZHdRVcx6poyMWn10BBSPQarh1A0ezIIF_OTcYwduc0XsTJrBTPIYz_I/s400/wasted-rita.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 219px;" /></a><br />Vivien Cormier's illustrated version:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_16M2l1QDaWuh5SRANlg25VSuULF2JrdaUA1aCPZMGBX8FV6vZ1R8iXmNqNYhsr-B5W9wQZC-ACNbRfmhcPVPV0Jmop2eAKFs2Zm28qt_YffGhRuMQbtZtM1fJwBZBYukVNsOX32IWU/s1600/vivien-cormier.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611192079372725378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_16M2l1QDaWuh5SRANlg25VSuULF2JrdaUA1aCPZMGBX8FV6vZ1R8iXmNqNYhsr-B5W9wQZC-ACNbRfmhcPVPV0Jmop2eAKFs2Zm28qt_YffGhRuMQbtZtM1fJwBZBYukVNsOX32IWU/s400/vivien-cormier.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 215px;" /></a><br />Fabio Maiorana cleverly gave Ben some time off:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7uvjB41E_5EaYMut1hDvy9-xeEGHK_QeuiEvmdREWp1JK4G26i9EPJxu9nxkmDIqLGT1cwVqGNUFvaEgFdUrrbipVfKINpiYT7B0-AHOy2vZfzaeSDBt9KBoDQvv8gnZR5Fy8MAL7rQ/s1600/fabio-maiorana.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611193816063518802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7uvjB41E_5EaYMut1hDvy9-xeEGHK_QeuiEvmdREWp1JK4G26i9EPJxu9nxkmDIqLGT1cwVqGNUFvaEgFdUrrbipVfKINpiYT7B0-AHOy2vZfzaeSDBt9KBoDQvv8gnZR5Fy8MAL7rQ/s400/fabio-maiorana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 222px;" /></a><br />and Cabanes' toxic money:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hwsA9VHey1N72jmi2iZPPdqBHqC2w8ATFJm7Y2J9V9toTB_h1OZFnOKfoHIT3leUUXuI94a4sT0xXPU3RK3KIWnnDQu2oOuAn2d9PwXzYdGGJRi8wcHFpxpY1K45w9LG1iTEDv2g1ZM/s1600/cabanes.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611191017317408674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hwsA9VHey1N72jmi2iZPPdqBHqC2w8ATFJm7Y2J9V9toTB_h1OZFnOKfoHIT3leUUXuI94a4sT0xXPU3RK3KIWnnDQu2oOuAn2d9PwXzYdGGJRi8wcHFpxpY1K45w9LG1iTEDv2g1ZM/s400/cabanes.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 219px;" /></a><br />Bouton Bleue punks it up:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSL-68lbnWVhm920zUCW8ugRFN30xUyC3gKaPkb7S-ccGed6_AHi6tzuDURKb0L32kBPCyBtpeGkrEI84OXmWxYLTR0GGWTWq3TwE5_ByWf7nWk275SjAyqHseM_N4QZzIco7ogutMArU/s1600/5764978256_5a9227d3ac_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611414064704466818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSL-68lbnWVhm920zUCW8ugRFN30xUyC3gKaPkb7S-ccGed6_AHi6tzuDURKb0L32kBPCyBtpeGkrEI84OXmWxYLTR0GGWTWq3TwE5_ByWf7nWk275SjAyqHseM_N4QZzIco7ogutMArU/s400/5764978256_5a9227d3ac_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 218px;" /></a><br />and a lovely minimal take on it from Burkhardthauke:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifbWhpnyMmdPFQib30gOe22mKFB96vc41dCIxujB1tCe5N_yBY31IBpH7v6OcKVZ8wvEe60F4u-ufjx7UqtD5__iRo-fVvrfHO2JiY35wFBO62l06NTei6wVdq34OUJM6rrkXSg-rrUL0/s1600/5764978074_bcac1a0822_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611414483088165074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifbWhpnyMmdPFQib30gOe22mKFB96vc41dCIxujB1tCe5N_yBY31IBpH7v6OcKVZ8wvEe60F4u-ufjx7UqtD5__iRo-fVvrfHO2JiY35wFBO62l06NTei6wVdq34OUJM6rrkXSg-rrUL0/s400/5764978074_bcac1a0822_b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 217px;" /></a><br /> <br /><br />Give it a try or just view the gallery of submitted designs at <a href="http://makeyourfranklin.com/">Make your Franklin.</a>

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Candy Bar Or Gold Bar? Two Companies Offer Solid Gold Via Vending Machines.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrg006hMccDFXvMjUGi94TYlowqAHTcE-fQ6dCVKcrI4dLkEkThtVmV-F8NjVNan1ABEmrypV40rXuX-grSa4W2K6Gti5bP4MN3_HM1Jrt5PTTuydvz7GpuDcx4Erxq5tA9oGJrTrQVPj/s1600/16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517344490020295506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrg006hMccDFXvMjUGi94TYlowqAHTcE-fQ6dCVKcrI4dLkEkThtVmV-F8NjVNan1ABEmrypV40rXuX-grSa4W2K6Gti5bP4MN3_HM1Jrt5PTTuydvz7GpuDcx4Erxq5tA9oGJrTrQVPj/s400/16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 351px;" /></a><br /><br />Historically, during financial downturns, the price of precious metals rises. Paranoia about the safety of financial institutions and the future of the world economy has people investing in precious metals like gold, platinum and silver, driving prices up. At the moment, gold is actually off the charts having reached its highest prices in history.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJ_XXePBdJTztvCNF1br2mMjUraOnBNpi_GwFenuMg_BM7cQZdXLDsPDxFkjrqWa2h65LxIzfOYPdkYamG77aDE5BJAAa50Fe8c3nNveLJznu5u3uJoGctHEA1ryd-HLIiFcQZOGxw2Q9/s1600/GBX_LINE_1825DAY.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517321928400766258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJ_XXePBdJTztvCNF1br2mMjUraOnBNpi_GwFenuMg_BM7cQZdXLDsPDxFkjrqWa2h65LxIzfOYPdkYamG77aDE5BJAAa50Fe8c3nNveLJznu5u3uJoGctHEA1ryd-HLIiFcQZOGxw2Q9/s400/GBX_LINE_1825DAY.PNG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 259px;" /></a><br /><br />Capitalizing on this trend is not one, but two, different companies that manufacture vending machines that dispense solid 24k gold krugerrands and/or coins.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_hbng4o6M8yNZVs-m3gezE7wZ09CfJKVcBBi-FdxZ0MbekIqsFQarE-_GVwMT1_uFXtk3GexY4n7FFshkG3HCh7Yhm38qAIfioC7jOvP1uC-ff9qWHz3h3Xt1IUqGLkEXQk_nKSLU9Wm/s1600/Gold+Machines+hero.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517347509409834274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_hbng4o6M8yNZVs-m3gezE7wZ09CfJKVcBBi-FdxZ0MbekIqsFQarE-_GVwMT1_uFXtk3GexY4n7FFshkG3HCh7Yhm38qAIfioC7jOvP1uC-ff9qWHz3h3Xt1IUqGLkEXQk_nKSLU9Wm/s400/Gold+Machines+hero.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 519px;" /></a><br /><br />In Las Vegas, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gold Rush kiosks</span> by Korean company <a href="http://honcorp.com/">Hon</a>, popped up this year and just recently <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gold To Go</span> installed their first Gold ATM vending machine in the Arab Emirates Hotel in Abu Dhabi.<br /><br />While both brands make machines that take cash or credit cards, have touch screen menu navigation and the price of gold is kept updated at global market value via computer, there are differences. Most notably, the fact that the Gold Rush kiosks offer a shipping or gift option. You can enter an address into the touch screen when ordering, customize your card with special celebratory messages and the gold bar card will arrive at your chosen destination within 1 to 2 days of your purchase. They also offer a different number of gold denominations - Gold To Go offers 10 products, Gold Rush offers 6.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Gold To Go Vending Machines</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-6UiUnNIZbBzNkrIxxhjrGeq9Hb1DBjM_urqdShhxD_15ZGYaiLk0O2owauNvg7sFoEIj5_zeRxYmC54_otbYg_pu1JJHOiSqaJyLo18yw6r4QXiNbZl0LSZw4_JyRGkmoFwdr-uXJd8/s1600/GOLDTOGOlogo.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517328214524393538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-6UiUnNIZbBzNkrIxxhjrGeq9Hb1DBjM_urqdShhxD_15ZGYaiLk0O2owauNvg7sFoEIj5_zeRxYmC54_otbYg_pu1JJHOiSqaJyLo18yw6r4QXiNbZl0LSZw4_JyRGkmoFwdr-uXJd8/s400/GOLDTOGOlogo.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 112px;" /></a><br /><br />Aesthetically, Gold-To-Go has the edge with an actual gold-plated vending machine. Specially branded coins and bars are available too, like the one shown below for the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi where they installed a "Gold To Go" brand gold vending machine for guests.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglll6mtAZ62MpYPUPKhc4k2A-gKMt5sf4tzoOxHmL2uxZ86rk9RqwZrQrPc6D8D4e0vOl7e_I0uCezLzHpHRhyphenhyphenctju_jX4AQgn3Dwru7ueieJA4cm59WGn-Pbp__TVvvuSsHd-LhQyL_nl/s1600/gold-to-go_atm-2_72dpi.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517321705884118434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglll6mtAZ62MpYPUPKhc4k2A-gKMt5sf4tzoOxHmL2uxZ86rk9RqwZrQrPc6D8D4e0vOl7e_I0uCezLzHpHRhyphenhyphenctju_jX4AQgn3Dwru7ueieJA4cm59WGn-Pbp__TVvvuSsHd-LhQyL_nl/s400/gold-to-go_atm-2_72dpi.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 370px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_tANiJuI0R6BB8limK8Dme5s6UkV-vzUMwpUJjvDfFnt0gkljtBrjeCm-JfTRmMEZV1TneErWsaoZvXs-k9T7QO_DeKU8FA1skgKEL8Fefqnn3MiXMh9FSmiqD_XTY9YrG7GYzwoBqUG/s1600/emirates-palace_gold-bar-02.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517326300780631746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_tANiJuI0R6BB8limK8Dme5s6UkV-vzUMwpUJjvDfFnt0gkljtBrjeCm-JfTRmMEZV1TneErWsaoZvXs-k9T7QO_DeKU8FA1skgKEL8Fefqnn3MiXMh9FSmiqD_XTY9YrG7GYzwoBqUG/s400/emirates-palace_gold-bar-02.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 371px;" /></a><br /><br />According to Gold To Go, "the business philosophy of selling precious metals via gold vending machines, is to give potential customers a sense of being able to acquire precious metals of highest quality (24 carat) at reasonable prices. Additionally the customer receives a money-back-guarantee. The bargain is largely independent of opening hours and without participation of sales personnel in a pleasant and reputable environment."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWpyELmVRJtskqTrFm782hvXEnyCh602-MnD7XL2XgsWgk-akROSaYg5ifRC5KL5qaVmiR-h_B-J8G5klt1V0bb8A6On4MImZoG4AE1Am6n484m47e9iY-6qANONEixm5E2RTc3-0uxJN/s1600/03.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517323186683497298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWpyELmVRJtskqTrFm782hvXEnyCh602-MnD7XL2XgsWgk-akROSaYg5ifRC5KL5qaVmiR-h_B-J8G5klt1V0bb8A6On4MImZoG4AE1Am6n484m47e9iY-6qANONEixm5E2RTc3-0uxJN/s400/03.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 251px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2Nj8wGjKg9RzjILoFvY5lsbMu4IWRgXrfG7lo8pdphnxGrj_0IVK3sMKtHIvgkecOrrvz3Oe9qhsRh7MbStHf1hNdYFgDa_xBB27QKMAklw9vu_phxW7n3YItFz8Ya4L6cK6Z-ZdCCZW/s1600/05.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517323734728566674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2Nj8wGjKg9RzjILoFvY5lsbMu4IWRgXrfG7lo8pdphnxGrj_0IVK3sMKtHIvgkecOrrvz3Oe9qhsRh7MbStHf1hNdYFgDa_xBB27QKMAklw9vu_phxW7n3YItFz8Ya4L6cK6Z-ZdCCZW/s400/05.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 172px; height: 234px;" /></a><br />German company <a href="http://www.ex-oriente-lux.de/">Ex Oriente Lux AG </a>designed the machines.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >GOLD RUSH vending machines</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3tHfBDB6R8BPXmt9uLLbt-5i5D6PFQNCHHp9jqL4kv0vXwL_4D_2aCX3ZZNKkJ5vuhdB8Kgcrl-8-5rq0wXXPhnFbKbFRGbZrxiuca08VgIexJvW4mIUhixaAKTciqcZHbhgHiev5AkL/s1600/gold+rush+logo.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517329446483386578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3tHfBDB6R8BPXmt9uLLbt-5i5D6PFQNCHHp9jqL4kv0vXwL_4D_2aCX3ZZNKkJ5vuhdB8Kgcrl-8-5rq0wXXPhnFbKbFRGbZrxiuca08VgIexJvW4mIUhixaAKTciqcZHbhgHiev5AkL/s400/gold+rush+logo.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 110px;" /></a><br /><br />The Hon Corp., a Korean jewelry group and manufacturer with branches in New York and Hong Kong, unveiled its first Gold Rush vending machine in June 2009 in Seoul. Hon now has 20 machines in stores throughout Korea. The gold-bar cards are the size of credit cards and they offer 6 sizes, ranging from 0.5 gram to 10 grams.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFgqP8bgl4PCaXhYjPE0JdsCYIgIdST7FawD28rUVvfnCDvUN4cZUgPFswfb3YuMcYWjx6EkUAncoRCkJgS1cVFjgSXM-FCqWV9lZy29KrGsayfhsR9NN71lKPv3DgwTdnk6tMQ5MxkGV/s1600/Gold-rush-screen-detail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517355588743326114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFgqP8bgl4PCaXhYjPE0JdsCYIgIdST7FawD28rUVvfnCDvUN4cZUgPFswfb3YuMcYWjx6EkUAncoRCkJgS1cVFjgSXM-FCqWV9lZy29KrGsayfhsR9NN71lKPv3DgwTdnk6tMQ5MxkGV/s400/Gold-rush-screen-detail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 531px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1as2qy3G9M7kxq5BCwrcJ_pTJ-Nk4EOrrOOh1uOsSoULaJoU6xFej-BDSFQ1XRwXBZscq2ZhzF56495TlaE1ExBIZqlrEUE9UiUYqN5SX1uGucLIkdoML76wxLek_YofFOXMOk5o9yeG/s1600/Picture+13.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517335375222042034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD1as2qy3G9M7kxq5BCwrcJ_pTJ-Nk4EOrrOOh1uOsSoULaJoU6xFej-BDSFQ1XRwXBZscq2ZhzF56495TlaE1ExBIZqlrEUE9UiUYqN5SX1uGucLIkdoML76wxLek_YofFOXMOk5o9yeG/s400/Picture+13.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 618px;" /></a><br /><br />A customer can get a card right out of the machine or have it sent to a specific address. "We wanted to change the role of gold, not only [as an] investment but as a gift," says David Lee, general manager of Hon. The company next hopes to install its machines in U.S. casinos, supermarkets, and other stores, he says.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8k5rW1hbLUThSmM5dKAJQu6FIwn1cRsBra-8jtT_S_CNda2r7VN-SlmL9zGp5bQZK-ewxZeXOBTwimDgTJfzZFBL-BzY9nJQx8agZAkrqFyzHMqSyD9kQ8yuuqv-DgZ00Qf0x8jgHzX-y/s1600/gold-rush-card.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517328758406621394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8k5rW1hbLUThSmM5dKAJQu6FIwn1cRsBra-8jtT_S_CNda2r7VN-SlmL9zGp5bQZK-ewxZeXOBTwimDgTJfzZFBL-BzY9nJQx8agZAkrqFyzHMqSyD9kQ8yuuqv-DgZ00Qf0x8jgHzX-y/s400/gold-rush-card.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 196px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-0O7FzcWfA_FhUwPd_4tA4Vel-qv9vdJoZVEDbGUE3fqcv3DZrCc51yfkH2ZslyIyPhlNSoaksSipSzSC46jcBVVZbQ6GQHpv5yf2rwzG_Ig5MN10YUi1JsWoyj4Ei-cO26U4Ntlmuai/s1600/gold+rush+packaging.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517344106571000946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-0O7FzcWfA_FhUwPd_4tA4Vel-qv9vdJoZVEDbGUE3fqcv3DZrCc51yfkH2ZslyIyPhlNSoaksSipSzSC46jcBVVZbQ6GQHpv5yf2rwzG_Ig5MN10YUi1JsWoyj4Ei-cO26U4Ntlmuai/s400/gold+rush+packaging.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 195px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Over beers two years ago, Virginia entrepreneurs Tim Oldfield and Price Shapiro devised a plan to make cashing in old jewelry quicker and more convenient than mailing it to a cash-for-gold broker or going to a pawnshop. They opened their first Goldrush kiosk in 2008 in a Virginia Beach (Va.) shopping center. The company now has 300 kiosks in the U.S. and 200 in Australia, with plans to expand to Asia and Europe, says Maurice Levine, Goldrush's global director.<br /><br />Both companies plan to expand their machine locations into airports, convention centers, casinos, shopping malls and hotels in the near future.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gold-to-go.com/">Gold To Go</a><br /><a href="http://www.goldrush25.com/">Gold Rush</a>

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Johnny Swing Turns Cold Hard Cash & Currency Into Furniture & Textiles. Literally.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XEy6vv8ZrkL0MUv_bv0Ronj8epnKu5fZKu7GYMWYScsEjwUxtNmGyc03SjyxutIyVGcXuT_V2RpL95610id_4FLRlyOKhiMkPDVJPdz72bT51hG6x_5jhO8hCQAyoAW8ub1MvrhpSAmb/s1600/JohnnySwing_hero2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485008467168200002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XEy6vv8ZrkL0MUv_bv0Ronj8epnKu5fZKu7GYMWYScsEjwUxtNmGyc03SjyxutIyVGcXuT_V2RpL95610id_4FLRlyOKhiMkPDVJPdz72bT51hG6x_5jhO8hCQAyoAW8ub1MvrhpSAmb/s400/JohnnySwing_hero2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 523px;" /></a><br /><br />A trained sculptor and licensed welder, 49 year old Vermont-based artist Johnny Swing, an alumnus of Skidmore College and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture uses found materials and objects to repurpose into art, furniture and more.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJjE0MKzSLSKqe5pDUvZT87C4FMH1IB0_WXWEJoFkrVhOQvxlvFWjpE6WiROhp_t4L_aAbyeKGhuQQFQEWVpI574oy2u41JXu5PrnhFFre1I3wW8dw96VKq_oQR1MPswvwU3KwHsFtjfb/s1600/johnny-swing-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484992832653154802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJjE0MKzSLSKqe5pDUvZT87C4FMH1IB0_WXWEJoFkrVhOQvxlvFWjpE6WiROhp_t4L_aAbyeKGhuQQFQEWVpI574oy2u41JXu5PrnhFFre1I3wW8dw96VKq_oQR1MPswvwU3KwHsFtjfb/s400/johnny-swing-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 386px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: artist and welder Johnny Swing on his Nickel couch</span></span><br /><br />With a vast amount of work to his credit, it's his American coin-soldered furniture and paper currency printed objects I want to share with you today. Below are several angles, images and information pertaining to his soldered coin furniture followed by some of his textile objects made with dollar printed fabrics.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Nickel Couch, 2006:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVk3uQd7rigUazyQLjPEpWXclas5aQLXpHd8ycbSfc_LlGhyphenhyphen0k2TN4qGQNQMngXOZM3pNL81d_LlR5iki5vPN7iNJ-N-ltcPNPQJQZnO9uwcqGn4GI-rSwV1GeSELq3LthN7kn3Zg4Yjx/s1600/Picture-14.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484979792000611938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVk3uQd7rigUazyQLjPEpWXclas5aQLXpHd8ycbSfc_LlGhyphenhyphen0k2TN4qGQNQMngXOZM3pNL81d_LlR5iki5vPN7iNJ-N-ltcPNPQJQZnO9uwcqGn4GI-rSwV1GeSELq3LthN7kn3Zg4Yjx/s400/Picture-14.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 317px;" /></a><br /><br />His second in his series of furniture made from coins, the nickel couch is comprised of 7,000 nickles, 35,000 welds, and a substructure of stainless truss work utilizing 350 feet of stiffening rods. 80"wide x 42"deep x 28.5" high and weighs 125 pounds.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEqqRyzb8BJbJIw6QYxpnZjKw0qeMsYkUdHjUgC4pVJRL6R5wO7wrVUKZRGu3JBGJC9UJ9WBvz3KUcHRTD_y3iqNrzr-OcKeKWPclKuiB2jHhghqY8POoOUjgbuYVHAE4cTcPKkHBWOHl/s1600/Picture-15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484979592107505778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEqqRyzb8BJbJIw6QYxpnZjKw0qeMsYkUdHjUgC4pVJRL6R5wO7wrVUKZRGu3JBGJC9UJ9WBvz3KUcHRTD_y3iqNrzr-OcKeKWPclKuiB2jHhghqY8POoOUjgbuYVHAE4cTcPKkHBWOHl/s400/Picture-15.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 404px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6I3az7niqz9I7ndS73dIfnr7-bXbbHaSgWuXAg_WGWTMBRSNnFthvE3sU0GCZUApkuF74a-G1Yr4SnjRPzyZ1q22tWxmaxnRSkVbNziLAarWw4Ta6429PiTQCCX0KxwrV7ZioMQpeJPs/s1600/Picture-16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484979364402405826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6I3az7niqz9I7ndS73dIfnr7-bXbbHaSgWuXAg_WGWTMBRSNnFthvE3sU0GCZUApkuF74a-G1Yr4SnjRPzyZ1q22tWxmaxnRSkVbNziLAarWw4Ta6429PiTQCCX0KxwrV7ZioMQpeJPs/s400/Picture-16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 353px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2Eg9zRdKnIyZSSuUZUnrjkB8lrIlW-QUCVLFuecjD7QdEu5-_TYgpIQiGLbjZzV1jF2KYdQGzSyZPiDH84at25_qAzO1hIA6ZITFgkpeEA5aqA0VwMDosrIqL7x-2lfPMr2f3PXsk0cQ/s1600/Picture-17.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484979275947465186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2Eg9zRdKnIyZSSuUZUnrjkB8lrIlW-QUCVLFuecjD7QdEu5-_TYgpIQiGLbjZzV1jF2KYdQGzSyZPiDH84at25_qAzO1hIA6ZITFgkpeEA5aqA0VwMDosrIqL7x-2lfPMr2f3PXsk0cQ/s400/Picture-17.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 284px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: Swing's Nickel Couch, 2001, fetched over $100,000 at auction at Sotheby in December of 2009.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quarter Lounge, 2008:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiSCTMM-CYjQMVL6e70f37mlDrW2AEndPlpnfmOLyj8kkhYX3P5wwEomdYc1Xij2Ltu83PmwLZ73yfX6IciQ4SgGGRwsw45xFrqPTFCSfKITXhbeEQeuyAaIwZ1EJw-Ywf57EgusJ8AUy/s1600/swing_install-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484987321326706338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiSCTMM-CYjQMVL6e70f37mlDrW2AEndPlpnfmOLyj8kkhYX3P5wwEomdYc1Xij2Ltu83PmwLZ73yfX6IciQ4SgGGRwsw45xFrqPTFCSfKITXhbeEQeuyAaIwZ1EJw-Ywf57EgusJ8AUy/s400/swing_install-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 393px;" /></a><br />Quarters and stainless steel, 96 x 47 x 28 inches<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGoA2L3mPggPzObN1rX0GSPbEvEbAzFYd_0oIzMh-ULIh61x4jqQTBsSDJsfeAwAjUq-X8fIA5erTBjV3rzBL3UyWe3q2nvLY7DZ9LDr94CkTwByj83ey5MoyTCzHwjV6Ilo_HRJHZ60b/s1600/Picture-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484987779509498306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGoA2L3mPggPzObN1rX0GSPbEvEbAzFYd_0oIzMh-ULIh61x4jqQTBsSDJsfeAwAjUq-X8fIA5erTBjV3rzBL3UyWe3q2nvLY7DZ9LDr94CkTwByj83ey5MoyTCzHwjV6Ilo_HRJHZ60b/s400/Picture-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 358px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVTZC7NTpT2vVYXVkUu4eZJOF4syttOTUkibVKlT86EhsmImoVypRov7mJHLx3HevQvEV855lqu7zRXW1lHEvN6M5dLRArEZfFsRXzelFCFtGro2UGA8QsE90Df_yp9D8g1XBOAAXbo7k/s1600/Picture-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484987709502342306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVTZC7NTpT2vVYXVkUu4eZJOF4syttOTUkibVKlT86EhsmImoVypRov7mJHLx3HevQvEV855lqu7zRXW1lHEvN6M5dLRArEZfFsRXzelFCFtGro2UGA8QsE90Df_yp9D8g1XBOAAXbo7k/s400/Picture-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 375px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Half Dollar Butterfly Chair, 2009:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI0AR5r_PS9cHSE3O1VKQtZ3H74iX53MP6sYraS6fyZiq59oNYqywRMSs1ehPcEu2cw6KAZXoaG7EcACqdIlpWTw-42AqAEcYLMwJRii_mFqofRnd_chZkcZ6hjjg_jKXFf8TNByN34bZ/s1600/Picture-21.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484984442239543106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfI0AR5r_PS9cHSE3O1VKQtZ3H74iX53MP6sYraS6fyZiq59oNYqywRMSs1ehPcEu2cw6KAZXoaG7EcACqdIlpWTw-42AqAEcYLMwJRii_mFqofRnd_chZkcZ6hjjg_jKXFf8TNByN34bZ/s400/Picture-21.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 443px;" /></a><br /><br />The third in his series of coin furniture, the Butterfly chair, reveals an exposed substructure and is made of 1,500 half dollar coins and 7,000 welds. 46"wide x 32"deep x 34" high and weighs 58 lbs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSinhm1kIKs9lXUOBBFZgvv7FvYJZIT_umS5W4khpxgNX2hLLtDtI7friSe6Ll5nDCC1ROZcwcDLiueMg9GfYPeugvzyq7yYkYgAsxYeIbvHoQvgiH0o_c5xLFKzbs5cC_RVzifm4B0DQL/s1600/Picture-22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484984349186706290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSinhm1kIKs9lXUOBBFZgvv7FvYJZIT_umS5W4khpxgNX2hLLtDtI7friSe6Ll5nDCC1ROZcwcDLiueMg9GfYPeugvzyq7yYkYgAsxYeIbvHoQvgiH0o_c5xLFKzbs5cC_RVzifm4B0DQL/s400/Picture-22.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 447px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrazSoIlITI83y8x0X7OUrQD3kdH3nGTw7RQhobSuOx7K1oOAatOyVHCs-WLCefG-MAHdo4EQH1jWs4D_H2QLTeXXwW-ZFA00QTVAhJmgLdgmQ60QxkTlnehlGPyWvZKguvaL8lIie2ct/s1600/Picture-25.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484984546279165314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrazSoIlITI83y8x0X7OUrQD3kdH3nGTw7RQhobSuOx7K1oOAatOyVHCs-WLCefG-MAHdo4EQH1jWs4D_H2QLTeXXwW-ZFA00QTVAhJmgLdgmQ60QxkTlnehlGPyWvZKguvaL8lIie2ct/s400/Picture-25.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 394px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quarter Chair:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxSmAd8V-7QPUQ7W75cp32jkvI8w_7sFXCLv8IDN8sZGM2uIABnRzZvMsVEHCse-GpxZdl97P_EO46NBB0rEjxoGPsZRgw7MbDPQI-hgZV45aOUpQCrDoAsqLCpECC4rcCIuHDa3n0zW_/s1600/Picture-27.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484985734373149378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxSmAd8V-7QPUQ7W75cp32jkvI8w_7sFXCLv8IDN8sZGM2uIABnRzZvMsVEHCse-GpxZdl97P_EO46NBB0rEjxoGPsZRgw7MbDPQI-hgZV45aOUpQCrDoAsqLCpECC4rcCIuHDa3n0zW_/s400/Picture-27.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 519px; height: 555px;" /></a><br /><br />The fourth in his series of coin pieces, the Quarter chair has an hourglass shape and is made from approximately 1,200 quarters. The shape and proportion are that of traditional diningroom furniture. 21" wide x 24" deep x 36" high and weighs 28 lbs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx9_roDUH9i-evlJiU6-KesYfuRWiPTZmGhU71BnmRhMsSfwl2MePvCF3eKEUbDJEF5elpcgmRnH1nHQCrOoVTa0cYvIEUqGCj1nVPto1Aje-RHXIkVumkuSDnj0TbkYd5JGjsN7uWeO_F/s1600/Picture-30.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484985648665924546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx9_roDUH9i-evlJiU6-KesYfuRWiPTZmGhU71BnmRhMsSfwl2MePvCF3eKEUbDJEF5elpcgmRnH1nHQCrOoVTa0cYvIEUqGCj1nVPto1Aje-RHXIkVumkuSDnj0TbkYd5JGjsN7uWeO_F/s400/Picture-30.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 592px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUgtJR5nsWqibvfRcJ1eNFrPxQofymwJT8aIXzrfD7SqTkcGeYJW72EJkVXvFPeJBUYLCv5eeoE8PAcbldnBh9t-aex6UgKLrzt2JCbEu_KiOmD42iLbPqUWObqspDuNnhnxGlKpzkkhP/s1600/Picture-31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484985584060136162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUgtJR5nsWqibvfRcJ1eNFrPxQofymwJT8aIXzrfD7SqTkcGeYJW72EJkVXvFPeJBUYLCv5eeoE8PAcbldnBh9t-aex6UgKLrzt2JCbEu_KiOmD42iLbPqUWObqspDuNnhnxGlKpzkkhP/s400/Picture-31.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 294px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8dUYgMIkknx45XhILiKOR7E9B5ldXrKgK1ycVAKsTMkk2rDlh-4X3gwSYEaCamEX8G6O73zFbFYH6n-Te4heyEnTv-9b5TtBX2W4JMPd15OpZGeccQRfGtfpNoScd9sYfM02eXbeo0qg/s1600/quarterdetail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484985516944064338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8dUYgMIkknx45XhILiKOR7E9B5ldXrKgK1ycVAKsTMkk2rDlh-4X3gwSYEaCamEX8G6O73zFbFYH6n-Te4heyEnTv-9b5TtBX2W4JMPd15OpZGeccQRfGtfpNoScd9sYfM02eXbeo0qg/s400/quarterdetail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 353px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Loose Change Chair:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1E6Mwr8KjSszyU8boGxDi_lt8pOR1kyo534D1HlkPma3weEha00oiwMsgUB8EXJ-paQZjcqatOwNHxpDr-SNE0wabbP9bAZFk7sixsni5qS6ELmDB-7vLjNEmSSVOWIbB-jyZOZQgd5bc/s1600/Picture-14.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484986874256161794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1E6Mwr8KjSszyU8boGxDi_lt8pOR1kyo534D1HlkPma3weEha00oiwMsgUB8EXJ-paQZjcqatOwNHxpDr-SNE0wabbP9bAZFk7sixsni5qS6ELmDB-7vLjNEmSSVOWIbB-jyZOZQgd5bc/s400/Picture-14.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 565px;" /></a><br /><br />The fifth in the series of coin furniture, this was inspired by the childhood game Booby Trap. The substructure is created from technology shared from airplane wing design; it flexes to the ground but is torsionally rigid to accommodate thousands of pounds.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TRQh7QFJTy-SBmcR0Qoe5mhDvV2Z5tW2DygOH5C6Y0Epd1g-am8bs67uD_A2bGCHfJ9hejIcJheYTcL57mwC_E54N1capreQEfBPXXit-8PsfIHCDC1RkEltAvmLs2iTawbvcsPyIJOm/s1600/Picture-16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484986751148603218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TRQh7QFJTy-SBmcR0Qoe5mhDvV2Z5tW2DygOH5C6Y0Epd1g-am8bs67uD_A2bGCHfJ9hejIcJheYTcL57mwC_E54N1capreQEfBPXXit-8PsfIHCDC1RkEltAvmLs2iTawbvcsPyIJOm/s400/Picture-16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 338px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh34C3sTpQHLyadItaTWBgzUEFBBeE8hHr-n-YAEPXmy4cR9Uvsws226ubqx2R9jXBzmOiotU0cq1NjQ0cQTBuRJLzcnzv5YplsYo-YvUwYPey9H3Vb5pqZ9QIAQyCRXiIdTqFXtKS7e3pS/s1600/loose-change-detail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484987116565563666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh34C3sTpQHLyadItaTWBgzUEFBBeE8hHr-n-YAEPXmy4cR9Uvsws226ubqx2R9jXBzmOiotU0cq1NjQ0cQTBuRJLzcnzv5YplsYo-YvUwYPey9H3Vb5pqZ9QIAQyCRXiIdTqFXtKS7e3pS/s400/loose-change-detail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 287px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quarter Stool:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIT3R-zD74w4xQ-4d7aPraXsWmoEurBXEoTCzpp-IJrX_JPvvUzNIlLnt_jqbXQVMEWW17CDiG_IhvSQQ0qoMtLdiJmRypNfVCguY5WgQYEfQylgcPD-rfGQr01nzFOomI7Wg_-kJxHOV3/s1600/Picture-14.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484988260396963186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIT3R-zD74w4xQ-4d7aPraXsWmoEurBXEoTCzpp-IJrX_JPvvUzNIlLnt_jqbXQVMEWW17CDiG_IhvSQQ0qoMtLdiJmRypNfVCguY5WgQYEfQylgcPD-rfGQr01nzFOomI7Wg_-kJxHOV3/s400/Picture-14.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 282px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDlpCWVtddo9wDKlFKDAyMxfn5k4UTxTeFCQotp4sIZTAVqJ5v4BAamzQxOlJ2WJ8dNuGdBPPbRXZ4cI5j7I6u5v7pbqBQ6A08Tolb1CTrAtOpkB7O2LrA2Bt-_tejSzl8CjQbzNRruHf/s1600/quarterstoolcrop.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485001005321079986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDlpCWVtddo9wDKlFKDAyMxfn5k4UTxTeFCQotp4sIZTAVqJ5v4BAamzQxOlJ2WJ8dNuGdBPPbRXZ4cI5j7I6u5v7pbqBQ6A08Tolb1CTrAtOpkB7O2LrA2Bt-_tejSzl8CjQbzNRruHf/s400/quarterstoolcrop.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 283px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nickel Bowl:</span><br />His bowls are an effort to play with other shapes that force the constrained circular coin into complex forms and patterns similar to mosque screens and Native American woven baskets.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-f60Rz9bd4gYEm0iLoipqaqCMr5bJCx7NlmPKKMVVdyEzPO5dTaxcJuOF5ezUjG7hgX8urAyeAmY1chOEcsvJKXZ9Os6y0KsBr419Qt4dnWyGqK1tGyD9IwtmsuxfA8LM64Oq_ENSQT_/s1600/Picture-22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484991535061947842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-f60Rz9bd4gYEm0iLoipqaqCMr5bJCx7NlmPKKMVVdyEzPO5dTaxcJuOF5ezUjG7hgX8urAyeAmY1chOEcsvJKXZ9Os6y0KsBr419Qt4dnWyGqK1tGyD9IwtmsuxfA8LM64Oq_ENSQT_/s400/Picture-22.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 181px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidVZpNCkgNw7V-6rymyKR_My2oyrpKkJzwWaKcQabTqCuVK8KE8Tk6rngilH-2RiCcs3yo7R6VvXcQi4xrt9EhA4BlUhPWSTDfLJ_IV2sCX9aur5kfeWB0kiHZR46AZldMjw8Hq7kUNipA/s1600/Picture-25.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484991474111008882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidVZpNCkgNw7V-6rymyKR_My2oyrpKkJzwWaKcQabTqCuVK8KE8Tk6rngilH-2RiCcs3yo7R6VvXcQi4xrt9EhA4BlUhPWSTDfLJ_IV2sCX9aur5kfeWB0kiHZR46AZldMjw8Hq7kUNipA/s400/Picture-25.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 181px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">All The Kings Men, 2010:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzm8dkXG4OkzfCSvUbyyK9nGBhWVfDDqb7QJD7ozugV5Knp5gvdXLdMYydbX1zRbvZh64AuvvRQgi_9Vp9X3CmKopBA6B_qh1FJi9zQFbsAZbD8_YM2Y52say2Ij9B7blnHiJchX2qRPI/s1600/Picture-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484989043227844050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzm8dkXG4OkzfCSvUbyyK9nGBhWVfDDqb7QJD7ozugV5Knp5gvdXLdMYydbX1zRbvZh64AuvvRQgi_9Vp9X3CmKopBA6B_qh1FJi9zQFbsAZbD8_YM2Y52say2Ij9B7blnHiJchX2qRPI/s400/Picture-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 284px;" /></a><br /><br />One of his most recent pieces, <span style="font-style: italic;">All the Kings Men</span> is a curved settee with soldered open framework underside made of half dollars and stainless steel and measures 97" x 52" x 28" inches.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYW2J5rJzDZgtogwPmIIBUFHAVh9ChEYDVZt1XSKjceKCPUM5gZCsF3zsGjjOdb_QUioA2hCYICyPsqla2W3NMIjMm-lDuK3yngnm9FRAh3wj8oo1dl_yA9eEmHFdntmvmfxsC-xJ71H1y/s1600/Picture-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484988976182061426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYW2J5rJzDZgtogwPmIIBUFHAVh9ChEYDVZt1XSKjceKCPUM5gZCsF3zsGjjOdb_QUioA2hCYICyPsqla2W3NMIjMm-lDuK3yngnm9FRAh3wj8oo1dl_yA9eEmHFdntmvmfxsC-xJ71H1y/s400/Picture-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 286px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Gh-DmZVtJ36cv4HVUxch-9Lcyewhm69NTVoCTChK-b_nkk55dc655k1YZRFA9p21l32Lz9C0C4OobtAWwuK3cQ2OPmXd51fyoPVytyT4fiXo3muAIRN2J9QXsRimgXfLnj8yuqcrR-ij/s1600/Picture-5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484988912828753458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Gh-DmZVtJ36cv4HVUxch-9Lcyewhm69NTVoCTChK-b_nkk55dc655k1YZRFA9p21l32Lz9C0C4OobtAWwuK3cQ2OPmXd51fyoPVytyT4fiXo3muAIRN2J9QXsRimgXfLnj8yuqcrR-ij/s400/Picture-5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 308px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMBSMWpDSLJyegGRT-Gyap48FI70VgxD6GP3YQ1WOATHhb9Huh8X3rC3NbvvHAVQrbn-M3zUujEyly0YnUnQO18suQkeYwRphA6ZZJ86ePS1txKiU4hkeRAiZikMFsoOVfaswA0NahVJQ/s1600/atkmdetail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484989182127997602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMBSMWpDSLJyegGRT-Gyap48FI70VgxD6GP3YQ1WOATHhb9Huh8X3rC3NbvvHAVQrbn-M3zUujEyly0YnUnQO18suQkeYwRphA6ZZJ86ePS1txKiU4hkeRAiZikMFsoOVfaswA0NahVJQ/s400/atkmdetail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 284px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgswWr_h6F69GgHAntmjI8fsfR0HU48EiiNRQJQH1tjGLumiEzYHeePxFlC-fuxRZC0DRMuaUIv_yzwBAXPLFa1h5YhIAxk_uyqTuTSLXG-U6_pS_5YXaqLaHdHnpEj9p__8EIAuttM24AI/s1600/halfdollartdetail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484988733894898818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgswWr_h6F69GgHAntmjI8fsfR0HU48EiiNRQJQH1tjGLumiEzYHeePxFlC-fuxRZC0DRMuaUIv_yzwBAXPLFa1h5YhIAxk_uyqTuTSLXG-U6_pS_5YXaqLaHdHnpEj9p__8EIAuttM24AI/s400/halfdollartdetail.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 288px;" /></a><br /><br />As Kiera Scholten reported for <a href="http://artworksmagazine.com/">Artworks Magazine</a> about his Coin series in 2008:<br /><blockquote><p>When he began using coins, Swing says it wasn’t simply about money as a material-”it was about taking what was a useless piece of money and kind of making it special again.” With this idea in mind he constructed his first piece out of pennies. What many consider America’s most disposable piece of coinage suited his purpose perfectly. Swing was happy with his first piece, which he modeled after a Bertoli chair, but using the pennies became a problem. After 1981 pennies were made with zinc, which caused them to disintegrate when welded together. Finding thousands of pennies dating before Reagan took office made an already labor-intensive process even more of a chore.</p> <p>So he moved on to nickels. He’s now created 20 nickel couches, each assembled using about 7,000 of the Jefferson coins-that’s $350. His half-dollar chair utilizes about 1,500 coins, or $750. The price of these pieces, though, is much more than face value. You would have to save a lot of five-cent pieces to afford the couch made of them. An original Johnny Swing Nickel Couch can be had for upwards of $50,000. But the price pays for a painstaking process; for one couch it takes more than 300 hours to complete the 35,000 welds that hold all the coins together.</p> <p>Welding coins together simply to sit on them may seem like a strange concept, and some critics are quick to classify Swing’s work as “bad boy art” under the assumption that he’s defacing money by using it in this manner. At first, even Swing wasn’t sure if his art was illegal, though his original answer was that “the government doesn’t care if you use their objects in art; they’re sort of flattered.” He soon thought he had better check it out to be certain, so he called the Secret Service, which at the time was a part of the U.S. Treasury. “They said, ‘It’s your money, do with it what you want,’” says Swing. “The agent told me the rumor that destroying money is illegal is just an old wives’ tale to keep kids from putting coins on the railroad tracks.” Swing could breathe a sigh of relief and move ahead with his work.</p></blockquote><br />In addition to using coins, he has also created the following pieces using fabric printed with US Currency.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Piggy:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryDC4lnedXBUyFdB7IlG54g93zcn3h9SzOBpuOe8m31s-BzAPbtmxyG6EaONaG_B9pEB1ZQKFPFkXdOpH03Jp63V5AqV6D-4Dt3Bh8k928Z4oqqBRczrUwWaFhReM24OzvC6x3e17prqs/s1600/Picture-16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484990648882772562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryDC4lnedXBUyFdB7IlG54g93zcn3h9SzOBpuOe8m31s-BzAPbtmxyG6EaONaG_B9pEB1ZQKFPFkXdOpH03Jp63V5AqV6D-4Dt3Bh8k928Z4oqqBRczrUwWaFhReM24OzvC6x3e17prqs/s400/Picture-16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 519px; height: 359px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTs10_u37-hk4h2unyirap-j1pKIwxDSaRvs_UGce4MY-RRP8qxsTKkLw8kC8NxnU1Nh45vcFmbdlabeNKhfhbnjzY10HpDwclssmdLB4IoEjNdahCWzslmM9eUosYuvrLEIwQYSMTXp1v/s1600/Picture-17.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484990574271202418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTs10_u37-hk4h2unyirap-j1pKIwxDSaRvs_UGce4MY-RRP8qxsTKkLw8kC8NxnU1Nh45vcFmbdlabeNKhfhbnjzY10HpDwclssmdLB4IoEjNdahCWzslmM9eUosYuvrLEIwQYSMTXp1v/s400/Picture-17.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 472px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Teddy Bear:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0_f-fEi9g22Y1AUypIOR8uyXzNy_XnzLeI-zIbSBIFO1QIut3wmC3JcUqZcm2M2hKBFo0o0f8BFyR0LfB_zJ0IUUrUvuZXBQWjjGuxh9y3Bb_zS9TVroEfl_w43t4fhtCUOz6LIosG8A/s1600/Picture-14.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484990370714303922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0_f-fEi9g22Y1AUypIOR8uyXzNy_XnzLeI-zIbSBIFO1QIut3wmC3JcUqZcm2M2hKBFo0o0f8BFyR0LfB_zJ0IUUrUvuZXBQWjjGuxh9y3Bb_zS9TVroEfl_w43t4fhtCUOz6LIosG8A/s400/Picture-14.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 399px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhTInaQ_30H5ItznMdWkv0qYlzF4eR62Ii22oWCfXULha6nYdyy4atK2GWwNbE7EdtKYtat2lJAKSvk3a0CvpcKjcpgYpIyylAqqiNcMndd8pmHok8g-4S5ka0qSmyPcrUa0pWIDBwN0F/s1600/Picture-15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484990295967325778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhTInaQ_30H5ItznMdWkv0qYlzF4eR62Ii22oWCfXULha6nYdyy4atK2GWwNbE7EdtKYtat2lJAKSvk3a0CvpcKjcpgYpIyylAqqiNcMndd8pmHok8g-4S5ka0qSmyPcrUa0pWIDBwN0F/s400/Picture-15.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 370px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Throw pillow:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7T6W1YCSh_sNAFi2CZc0pUTG9nA2MSkThtIqy0iQg6B3mZmK62CKmN4zhqPWmYbXMn7GpE8AXuJPhD3-YVuPwLzrkjLaQTVkz-daxMns1a8aEw4xiGBZ6pTpokGbyXzeZCUbbxifeVgy/s1600/Picture-21.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484989834595938610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7T6W1YCSh_sNAFi2CZc0pUTG9nA2MSkThtIqy0iQg6B3mZmK62CKmN4zhqPWmYbXMn7GpE8AXuJPhD3-YVuPwLzrkjLaQTVkz-daxMns1a8aEw4xiGBZ6pTpokGbyXzeZCUbbxifeVgy/s400/Picture-21.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 423px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qMorIyKtaX2gMjww7vQqfbSBNjgyq2tywq-5VKNfJmatgWyMSyQvtRAy5Lsuwh-BqmQ0nRAywXSkByAZv1-eJGSGG2DVoanqigKZsykSZCY9dHPX1AnxRT1V5TGbSbW-nb4ILZ_tPWsB/s1600/Picture-20.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484989925763809122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qMorIyKtaX2gMjww7vQqfbSBNjgyq2tywq-5VKNfJmatgWyMSyQvtRAy5Lsuwh-BqmQ0nRAywXSkByAZv1-eJGSGG2DVoanqigKZsykSZCY9dHPX1AnxRT1V5TGbSbW-nb4ILZ_tPWsB/s400/Picture-20.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 422px;" /></a><br />By the way, you can purchase the Dollar Teddy ($1,250.00) and the Butterfly Coin chair ($59,000.00) <a href="http://www.vivre.com/search?filterBrand=d3a0ceca-964a-43c1-ae66-21d9734f5a56&query=johnny%20swing">here at Vivre.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">all images courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.johnnyswing.com/" style="font-style: italic;">the artist</a></span>

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A trained sculptor and licensed welder, 49 year old Vermont-based artist Johnny Swing, an alumnus of Skidmore College and Skowhegan School o...

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