For most hoi polloi , interchange presents is a regular part of the holiday season . ButCards Against Humanity — the ego - described “ political party secret plan for atrocious people”—has a different idea of what talent - giving mean value .
The Chicago - base company uses the holidays as an excuse to generate interesting promotion . Last year on Black Friday , theysold 30,000 boxes of cow poopfor $ 6 a boxful and donated the proceeds to Heifer International , a non-profit-making organization that provide developing communities with livestock . This class , they need customers to donate $ 5 to incur nothing for Black Friday . They ended up accumulating $ 71,145 “ deserving of nothing , ” whichteam membersthen donate to their favorite charities .
This year , Cards Against Humanity constitute theEight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah , in which 150,000 multitude signed up for — and paid $ 15 to receive — a different gift every day for eight daytime . So far signees have received three pairs of air-sleeve , a class - prospicient rank to Chicago ’s NPR place , contributed to paid vacation for employees of the Chinese factory that prints the plot ’s cards ( CAH paid the manufactory to produce nothing for a whole calendar week , while employee used the time to engage in leisure activities like fishing ) , and shortly signees will decide the destiny ofTête de Faune , a 1962 Picasso linocut .
The sign artwork is just one of 50 made by Picasso and was reportedly buy from a Swiss auction sale house in June for $ 14,100 . On December 26 , Cards Against Humanity launched what they take for " a social experiment " by opening a poll on their website enquire signees to vote on whether the fellowship should donate the mark to the lasting accumulation of the Art Institute of Chicago , or optical maser - foreshorten it into 150,000 cards , to be ship out as one of the Eight Sensible Gifts . ( In rescript to vote , you must have purchased the Eight Sensible Gifts , and it ’s too recent to sign up now . )
Basically , the stunt boils down to consumers deciding whether they desire to own their very own ( tiny ) piece of a Picasso mark , or put it on presentation so that the whole world can see this half - human , half - goat masterpiece . “ Cutting upTête de Faunewould be more akin to an act of malicious mischief,”wrote Artnet , “ like punching a Claude Monet or ruin a Dale Chihuly . ”
The artwork ’s fortune will be decide on December 31 , when the canvass close and we incur out whether Cards Against Humanity fans have the fondness to send Picasso to the chipper .
[ h / tGizmodo ]
