Vuvuzelas

Binary Birds, by Jake Beckman - art that proudly projects you are member of the Social Media Tribe. "I do not even possess the sport gene but in 2010, I knew all about the World Cup, Vuvuzelas, the psychic octopus and all other things Soccer because of Facebook and Twitter. Being tribal means I now follow sports."  

Vuvuzelas is an original acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped stretched canvas. The work is 11 x 14 x 3/4 inches. It is painted on the edges so that it may be hung without a frame. Vuvuzelas, by Jake Beckman, is about World Cup Championship Soccer. In 2010 all the chatter on the net was about an obnoxious horn made famous at the South African games, a vuvuzela. As folks searched to figure out what a vuvuzela was, it trended high on places like twitter.com for weeks, becoming synonymous with the 2010 World Cup. In Vuvuzelas, a yellow canary cavorts with a soccer ball, against a backdrop of red vuvuzelas. The predominant colors are shades of red and yellow with black, white, and touches of orange. The painting was started before Spain won, so the colors are coincidental (or perhaps Jake was channeling the same psychic vibe as Paul the Octopus).  In keeping with the Binary Birds social media theme the canvas is overlaid with ASCII Binary reading "Vuvuzelas" The work is signed by the artist, "Jake," in the lower right hand corner. On the back of the work the title and date of creation are noted in paint; the FAR Tag No. 17506 is placed in the region behind the signature on the back of the canvas. A translation of the ASCII Binary is also provided in the rolled over margin of the canvas on the back. Inset images of back of the work, and the FAR tag itself, are shown on the image of the work displayed in a room. The work is federally copyrighted. All reproduction and publishing copyrights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imitated, derived OR otherwise used in any form without the explicit written permission of the artist.

To find out more about the artist's thoughts about Vuvuzelas, see the blog.