Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money

[jimmy olsen]

Won't it sag during the rain?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/jobless-man-builds-house-1-82-billion-worth-042027289.html

Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money
By Tecca | Today in Tech – Fri, Jan 27, 2012

What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it — at least that's what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of mixed-media artworks called "Expressions of Recession," but he ended up building a house instead.

Buckley has been working roughly 12 hours a day every day since the beginning of December. During the early part of the construction process, he made bricks out of the decommissioned Euros Ireland's mint lent him. In all, around 50,000 money bricks went into building the house that consists of a bedroom, a bathroom, and a living room. He plans to continue expanding the house that sits on an empty office building to include a kitchen, a shower, and a patio.

If you're wondering how it feels to live in a house made out of paper currency, he said that it's quite warm inside: "Whatever you say about the Euro, it's a great insulator." Frank is one of the countless people all over the globe affected by recession, and he built the house because he "wanted to create something from nothing." It will take around seven more weeks to complete building his new home, but Buckley (who's been living in the house since December) welcomes any visitor who wants to take a look at his billion-dollar masterpiece.

Irish Times via Treehugger

This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca

[syk]

Stability umbrella will fix that.

[Eddie Teach]

unemployed artist

[mongers]

Hey, there's an outside chance this will prove more durable than our 'casino capitalism' experiment.   

[fhdz]

Won't it sag during the rain?

It's not outdoors, dude.

[mongers]

Won't it sag during the rain?

It's not outdoors, dude.

So it's quite like a model of a Western bank and the building it's in is analogous to government bailout.

[Admiral Yi]

And the monetary value of the work is analogous to the quality of your metaphors.

[Darth Wagtaros]

 

And the monetary value of the work is analogous to the quality of your metaphors.

[Ideologue]

I liked the model of Thomas Jefferson Law made out of rejection letters better.