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April 25, 2006 7:04 AM

"For years people laughed at me. But my dream reoccured so often that I was sure that one day the yellow gnomes would visit our planet with a very special message for us. Now I am not alone anymore." These yellow gnomes have apparently appeared all over NW Europe. Today a fresh batch was discovered in Abcoude, Netherlands (in Dutch). And yes, of course there is a forum. Art or crazy?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (26 comments total)

Neither Google proper and News nor a cursory glance at the forum linked produced an English-language news link. But given that the gnomes apparently popped up in a few different places, I would expect that news articles exist in other languages. If you can find any, feel free to share.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:07 AM on April 25, 2006

Art or crazy?

Crazy art.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:07 AM on April 25, 2006

Is this website is a rip-off of the Amelie gnome?
posted by three blind mice at 7:07 AM on April 25, 2006

I've learned through bitter experience not to eat the yellow gnome.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:14 AM on April 25, 2006

Nice use of the theydoexist tag, by the way.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:15 AM on April 25, 2006

ripoff of Amelie gnome?
that joke existed already before this movie.. done by ppl in the navy or something like that.. anywave, who cares: its fun ;) wouldnt call it art though
posted by borq at 7:19 AM on April 25, 2006

I think the extraterrestrial gnomes are getting into film production, too. Silent partnership with Elton John on Gnomeo and Juliet, maybe? I believe.
posted by amro at 7:21 AM on April 25, 2006

Surely it is these gnomes who are putting up the tiny fairy doors in Ann Arbor
posted by poppo at 7:21 AM on April 25, 2006

My ex-wife's first paying job was painting garden gnomes. She spent 4 hours painting the first one and was fired that afternoon. But she still has the gnome.
posted by 327.ca at 7:34 AM on April 25, 2006

It's a viral ad for Travelocity! Pepsi Blue!
posted by fungible at 7:44 AM on April 25, 2006

Leaving stuff around that other people have to pick up does not strike me as art. It strikes me as littering. Are there not enough trees around for these people to toilet paper?
posted by flarbuse at 7:45 AM on April 25, 2006

Perhaps it's just me, but I think this is pretty cool. Gnomes!
posted by WidgetAlley at 8:00 AM on April 25, 2006

Art or crazy?

or marketing... looks way too neat and mass produced to be a small scale operation.
posted by mdn at 8:26 AM on April 25, 2006

This looks like some sort of viral thing to me. What does the label on the gnomes say?
posted by Biblio at 9:15 AM on April 25, 2006

wouldnt call it art though

Performance art, perhaps?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 9:15 AM on April 25, 2006

Okay, can someone fill me in on the Pepsi Blue reference? I kinda get what it means from context but...
posted by Zinger at 9:17 AM on April 25, 2006

neither. . .
posted by 1-2punch at 9:20 AM on April 25, 2006

Zinger, here.
posted by tula at 9:27 AM on April 25, 2006

Hm, doesn't look like the Travelocity gnome.
posted by dhartung at 9:34 AM on April 25, 2006

The Doyle Owl of Reed College was making postcard appearances in exotic locations long before any lowly garden gnomes had gotten into the act.
posted by Araucaria at 10:04 AM on April 25, 2006

This truly is good news for the insane!
posted by jenovus at 1:41 PM on April 25, 2006

Thanks jenovus! One for my collection. :)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:11 PM on April 25, 2006

Toynbee Tiles, anyone?
posted by etoile at 10:29 AM on April 26, 2006

She spent 4 hours painting the first one and was fired that afternoon.

What'd she do, paint little genitals on there or something?
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:33 AM on April 26, 2006

What'd she do, paint little genitals on there or something?

If they were little, she'd have been finished sooner.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:26 PM on April 26, 2006

MeTa.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:02 PM on May 6, 2006