There seems to be no end to what people consider art. The artist featured below seems to savor the attention his controversial art brings. Not mentioned in the article is if the visitors actually ate his fat. He apparently eludes arrest because he claims they are eating art- therefore it is not cannibalism.

What kind of people buy this kind of art? The National Endowment for the Arts financially supports many artists like this, but don't these artists need to put food on the table? (Pardon the pun) Did he actually sell his meatballs for $4,000? What statement is this artist trying to make? Is he implying that everything is art- including fat?

Artist Serves Friends Meatballs Cooked in His Own Liposuctioned Body Fat

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

SANTIAGO, Chile — "Bon appetit," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.

"Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated last Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery.

On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.

"The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation.

"You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.

Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.

A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.

In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.

It's always a sad day when a cartoonist dies. One of the greatest losses was Charles Schulz in 2000. For 50 years he inspired people from around the world. His cartoons generated plays, movies, and endless toys. We will always wonder if Lucy ever let Charlie Brown kick the football or the little red-headed girl ever liked Charlie Brown.

Still other artists cause us grief when they cease to create cartoons. The most notable cartoonist who did this was Bill Watterson. His strip, "Calvin and Hobbs" was enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people. Whether it be that they developed a creative block or just plain burned out, they stopped cartooning.

Iwao Takamoto is not a well known name, but his cartoon is. Scooby-Doo has been published in books, movies, and television series. The 1970's flavor to the cartoon remained popular into the 2000's. Jinkies, we'll miss him!

Scooby-Doo Artist Passes Away

Updated: 9:07 a.m. ET Jan 9, 2007

LOS ANGELES - Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the beloved Scooby-Doo and directed the cartoon classic “Charlotte’s Web,” has died. He was 81.

Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said.

In a career that spanned more than six decades, Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows for Disney and the Hanna-Barbera animation team. They included “Cinderella,” “Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “101 Dalmatians,” “The Jetsons” and “The Flintstones.”