{"id":8659,"date":"2018-10-07T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:40:52","slug":"image-shredded-after-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=8659","title":{"rendered":"Image shredded after auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>This is some interesting kind of protest. An image<br \/>\nsold at Sotheby&#8217;s auctions just started to shred<br \/>\nitself after it has been sold for \u00a31 million to an<br \/>\nanonymous buyer. The image was made by Banksy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He decided to protest against enormous money shifting during auctions when art is sold. So he built a shredding mechanism into the bezel and as soon as the image got sold, it would start shredding.<\/p>\n<p>Watch his video here:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8659-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Banksy_ImageShred.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Banksy_ImageShred.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Banksy_ImageShred.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>It is not sure however, if Banksy has started the shredding process as a potential visitor.<\/p>\n<p>The main question is, how would the image detect it&#8217;s sale on an auction anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some interesting kind of protest. An image sold at Sotheby&#8217;s auctions just started to shred itself after it has been sold for \u00a31 million to an anonymous buyer. The image was made by Banksy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,150],"tags":[3234,1931,3237,521,3236,3235],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","category-video","tag-gallery","tag-image","tag-protest","tag-sale","tag-shred","tag-sothebys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}