OK, This Is Kind of Gross

by Robert Koehler on October 26, 2008

Some 40 Korean artists based in Korea and the United States are holding an exhibition entitled “Barack Obama – HOPE” at Rogue Space in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Anyway, for the exhibit, print artist Lee Ho-cheol has done a portrait of the Anointed One made from the hair of 1,000 Korean-Americans:

Obama portrait

I’ll assume wjk didn’t make a donation for this one.

Anyway, the exhibit continues until Oct 28 — 25% of sales would be contributed to the Obama campaign, 25% would be used to cover gallery rent and other expenses, and 50% would be given to artists.

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1 Wedge October 26, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Man, a lot of people are going to be disappointed when their messiah loses on Nov. 4.

2 user-81 October 26, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Man, a lot of people are going to be disappointed when their messiah loses on Nov. 4.

The last time choosing a messiah was put to a mass vote it didn’t go well for the messiah.

http://bible.cc/matthew/27-21.htm

I think they made a movie about it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/ (includes spoilers)

3 a-letheia October 26, 2008 at 11:02 pm

#1-#2. Did you two actually vote?

I voted Obama — in Florida! I will be proud of my country again when he wins.

4 captbbq October 26, 2008 at 11:04 pm

I’d rather the Messiah win, so that I can taste the sweet sweet tears of irony as the he slaps protectionist tariffs on Kia and Hyundai for the sake the US union. lulz

5 Cheggue October 26, 2008 at 11:05 pm

Wait a minute, so you’re only proud of your country if your preferred candidate wins? That’s a very contingent idea of pride.

6 dogbertt October 26, 2008 at 11:08 pm

I never heard that John McCain was anybody’s messiah.

7 Jewook October 26, 2008 at 11:31 pm

#2

Very funny :)

8 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 October 27, 2008 at 1:08 am

i would actually not even consider pubic hair for this.

this is in line with Korean tradition, however.

kowtow, kowtow, kowtow.

it’s sickening.

9 KrZ October 27, 2008 at 1:15 am

Pubic hair? Are you comparing African hair to pubes? You’re such a racist, please get back to stormfront.org

10 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 October 27, 2008 at 1:40 am

never said that. YOU said that.

pubic hair is probably something cherished by the individual, but probably something held as disgusting by anyone not having sex with you or yourself and so forth. It’s a valid repulsion, if you hold into account std’s.

actually, you can’t make the above depiction with pubic hair. Korean pubic hair is wavy, but I would say from experience that African scalp hair isn’t wavy, but curly, but I digress. African pubic hair is also very different from Korean pubic hair.

all I was saying was I wouldn’t donate even repulsive hair to the project.

what is stormfront?

a porno site?

another how to guide in making illicit drugs?

11 Acropolis7 October 27, 2008 at 6:05 am

Stormfront is a website dedicated to Korean racial superiority wjk. If you join you get a free corndog.

12 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 October 27, 2008 at 6:57 am

acropolis7, what was the point of your blatant lie?

it’s a white trash racist site.

why would I join?

those losers are white trash white supremacists, who certainly would refer to Koreans as sub-human.

I would imagine if there was a Korean racial superiority site, it would have a Korean name.

maybe they’ll provide kimbab.

I’m sure there is a black superiority racist site, probably headed by someone like Louis Farrakhan. This is one dude, who gets away with a lot of racist crap, primarily because it’s black man spewing hatred against whites. If it was the reverse, it would make national head lines. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are borderline.

13 hitest October 27, 2008 at 11:38 am

Actually, since it is being displayed, it should be called public hair, no ? ;)

14 William_G October 27, 2008 at 2:33 pm

I would imagine if there was a Korean racial superiority site, it would have a Korean name.

And that name has the initials “W.J.K.”

15 WangKon936 October 27, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Question. Did the Korean Americans in question know that their hair was going to be used for this purpose? If I had known, I would of flatly refused.

#4,

What polls have you been looking at? Polls sponsored by the NRA, any organizations affiliated with Jerry Falwell, and the Washington Times don’t count.

16 SomeguyinKorea October 27, 2008 at 4:05 pm

The world wants a US that it can look up to, one that is optimistic of our future. That’s why we dislike Bush and prefer Obama.

17 user-81 October 27, 2008 at 4:16 pm

McCain is not Bush. The world will be able to “look up to” America whether Obama or McCain wins.

18 mcnut October 27, 2008 at 8:34 pm

this is scary back in 2001 he is on record speaking about redistribution of wealth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

vote mcain palin 2008

19 user-81 October 28, 2008 at 7:35 pm

this is scary back in 2001 he is on record speaking about redistribution of wealth

As scary as redistributing $700 billion of taxpayer money to financial institutions that nearly tanked the country’s economy?

“Redistributive change” = redistribution of wealth? It can mean redistribution of power, redistribution of state moneys to local neighborhoods, redistribution of other things than monetary wealth from rich Americans to poor Americans.

It’s interesting how the YouTube video cuts to the next clip immediately after he says “redistributive change” so that we can’t hear the whole context.

And “spread the wealth around” is an expression that means allowing everyone to share in something good, like a strong economy or a technological benefit. It’s a leap to say it automatically means socialist redistribution of wealth.

These kind of “gotcha” moments don’t make the case for McCain. Actually it makes McCain seem like an empty shirt. When McCain supporters bring these up it makes me wonder if I should reconsider voting for Obama.

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