I could give two spits.

December 17, 2006 3:37 PM

Albert Reyes is an artist who saw a chicken in spilled water. He told the New York Times Magazine, "I could do that." The result? Spit art.
posted by landedjentry (21 comments total)

Um, gross.
posted by psmealey at 3:47 PM on December 17, 2006

Some of us are just gifted with a gap between our front teeth.
posted by xthlc at 3:55 PM on December 17, 2006

I do something very similar in the snow.

I don't use spit though.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:55 PM on December 17, 2006

I do something similar in the snow too. I use PeterMcDermott...
posted by Samizdata at 4:14 PM on December 17, 2006

Here's the stupid thing: It's actually a pretty good, er, picture.
posted by niles at 4:29 PM on December 17, 2006

It has certain advantages over vomit art.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:34 PM on December 17, 2006

Um, gross.
Well? What did you expectorate?
posted by hal9k at 4:46 PM on December 17, 2006 [2 favorites]

I for one am surprised there is no "painting in shit" community... a sort of art bowel movement.
posted by tehloki at 4:53 PM on December 17, 2006

Chickens are nothing. Terrell Owens can spit out a mean falcon.
posted by hal9k at 5:00 PM on December 17, 2006

Samizdata: "I do something similar in the snow too. I use PeterMcDermott..."

And there I was, thinking that was the hand of God. Turns out it was Samizdat all along....
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:45 PM on December 17, 2006

I meant Samizdata! Samizdat's fingers are obviously much smaller and his aim far less accurate.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:47 PM on December 17, 2006

Not very interesting - he's just drawing the same stylized comic-y face he drew with marker before. Not specific in any way to his method, and not exactly creative (well, except for the idea of spitting water). At least it's bound to evaporate before long.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 6:38 PM on December 17, 2006

Done with gasoline and fire, I applaud. I just find water a little flat. Oh, and that awful music helped shift disinterest into loathing.
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 7:19 PM on December 17, 2006

Damn. I was hoping this would be something similar to the khepri art of Grimnebulin's insectoid girlfriend Lin in Mieville's Perdido Street Station.
posted by The God Complex at 7:47 PM on December 17, 2006

I for one am surprised there is no "painting in shit" community...

tehloki--check this shit out . . .
posted by Kibbutz at 9:23 PM on December 17, 2006

Shit.

I mean, this shit.
posted by Kibbutz at 9:27 PM on December 17, 2006

That soundtrack reminded me of the NPR bumper music that gets used between segments: "Next up, a young man who uses saliva to enliven his own urban canvass....The streets! But first a message about how your contributions keep our own canvass of the airwaves up-to-the-minute on today's cutting-edge of culture...."
posted by maryh at 12:27 AM on December 18, 2006

there's actually a beautiful tradition in china of doing calligraphy on the streets and pavements using water (and a brush). The temporary nature of the calligraphy and poems is rather lovely.
posted by silence at 11:59 AM on December 18, 2006

Defying expectorations ...
posted by Araucaria at 2:06 PM on December 18, 2006

When I was watching this I came to the sudden realization that in Real Life this guy was not surrounded by bouncing violins giving an uplifting air to his performance. He was a crazy man spitting water on the street, not unlike the guy I saw last night taking a hammer randomly to the sidewalk and that if I saw him performing his art then I would likely walk on the other side of the street.

That being said, I wanted to take this immediately to my art professor since it seems to be the kind of thing he likes.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:29 PM on December 18, 2006

Wouldn't this be easier if he just poured the water out of the bottle in the first place?
posted by designbot at 8:00 PM on December 18, 2006