Comments on: One thousand paintings

By: sazz

sazz — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:42:52 +0000

Its great to have something so unique. I don’t think the Initial artist will do half as well. I wish the paintings were more visually appealing though. My birthday date is still available so thinking of buying it but I read on another site that theres some kind of DateArt being sold in Dublin that has a patterned background in black n’ white. Anyone know anything about it? Can’t find much info about it!!

By: Brian Baute

Brian Baute — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:27:33 +0000

I graphed the sales history of One Thousand Paintings and posted the results at 2000 Bricks. It’s interesting stuff.

By: epredator

epredator — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:15:21 +0000

It is really an interesting story, and one that shows that there still are new idea to be found and being the first one, or atleast the most popular one has some merit and adds to the richness of the world.
As we are increasingly seeing things happen, solely based on a web buzz, bands get signed, singles get to the top of the charts, the million dollar home page etc. This is another fine example.

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:22:33 +0000

People may scoff (and indeed I probably did when the million dollar homepage was taking off) but his idea seems to be working. Over 400 paintings sold now, with over 200 of those being sold in the last 24 hours. I wonder if things will slow down as things approach the expensive end of 1000 paintings though? Coverage on Boing Boing was clearly a big help for him, but I suspect it might need to be picked up by Wired, BBC, etc to see it through to the end.

By: Darren Shaw

Darren Shaw — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:56:02 +0000

Nevermind hex numbers, how about selling paintings of all the possible HTML hex colours. Who wants FF66B9?

By: epredator

epredator — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:33:30 +0000

Surely we should encourage hex digits? Anyone want to buy my F0FF?

By: robsmart

robsmart — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:39:30 +0000

So gutted I threw all my old maths books away now, there were loads of numbers in there, I could have made a fortune…

By: Brian Baute

Brian Baute — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:22:37 +0000

Brilliant! It reminds me of the 2000Bricks project, which is also starting to take off.

By: nol

nol — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:11:33 +0000

I’m hurridly trying to pick a 3 digit number that hasn’t gone.. will report back with my pick soon.. :)