"Every few years America is struck by a fad. There was the Hula-Hoop and Davy Crockett. There were pop rocks and pet rocks. Now there is Pac-M[ondri]an, a craze that threatens to outdo them all!"
George Sullivan, How to Win at Video Games: A Complete Guide, 1982.
The Prize Budget for Boys plan to release a series of Pac-Mondrian fine art originals and artist multiples. Consumer products will be created as singular sculptural objects or in strictly limited editions. Artist multiples will be sold through our website via PayPal and at participating galleries, and originals will be sold via a gallery or by eBay auction to harness the power of the market for our art. PayPal accepts the following payment methods:
Note that PayPal lists "Neil Hennessy" (PBFB founding member) as the seller.
Each piece of official Prize Budget for Boys art comes with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by the members involved in production and stamped with the PBFB seal. Similarly, Prize Budget for Boys prints receive the PBFB printer's chop, in as strict accordance as possible with the methods of Tamarind.
This is the Digital analog to Pop. We are the Andy Warhol of the Internet. The Pac-Mondrian Artcade Cabinet simply substitutes Mondrian for Campbells, and Brillo for Pac-Man. All inquiries are to be directed to pacmondrian@pbfb.ca
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The epistolic story of the historic scandalous fight between PBFB and the Mondrian estate over the Pac-Mondrian copyright and money from the first Master Proofs eBay auction, commemorated in philately. A collaboration with Canada Post and the Canadian Bank Note Company.
- Pac-Mondrian Stamp Master Proofs | View | original, eBay auction to open May 30, 2005 with a reserve bid of $1000CAN.
Full sheet signed Master Proof with 20 stamps.
- Pac-Mondrian Postcard Portfolio | View | edition of 300, $200CAN.
The story of the development of the Pac-Mondrian Artcade Cabinet told through deltiology. A collaboration with the Coach House Press.
- Pac-Mondrian Postcard Master Proofs | View | original, eBay auction closed December 11, 2004 at $12,100CAN.
Full sheet signed Master Proofs of all four process colours.
- Pac-Mondrian Artcade Cabinet | View | original, on tour.
Single full-size fully functional hand-painted Artcade Cabinet.
- Pac-Mondrian Toronto Techno Painting, original, in production.
Full-size 52"x52" painting of 'Toronto Techno' board.
- Pac-Mondrian Prt Scr Screen Prints, edition, in planning.
Andy Warhol's silk screen aesthetic meets technical writing's screen shot document in a PBFB pop party of screen printed Pac-Mondrian screen captures with hand-painted Pac-Man and ghosts.
- Pac-Mondrian Vacuum Cleaner, original, in planning.
"Nothing sucks like a Pac!" As rapacious indiscriminate consumers, Pac-Mondrian and the electric suction sweeper easily merge in an objet d'art that asks is it too soon to use Koons' vacuum?
