Mark showed this to me for inspiration…unfortunately, this idea didn’t pan out as I couldn’t get the receipt paper (in the mechanism I built) to roll evenly backwards and forwards. However, it was interesting nonetheless.

No joke.

At least I sort of have an idea of what I’m doing for senior project now.

At first, when I bought my receipt printer, I didn’t think I’d find a lot of art that utilized thermal paper, the concept, style…etc. However, over the past couple of days, I’ve found some art work that relates to my medium:

Carolyn Porter’s art work here, I believe, shows all the purchases made from a museum store.

This was a print add for a school. I love how funky it is.

In this work entitle Monochrome Till Receipt, Ceal Floyer bought all white items and this piece of work sold for th0usands.

This collaborative work is similar to Tom Taylor’s work (that I mentioned in an earlier blog post). The thermal printers continuously print expressions from twitter.

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Here are a couple of articles that peaked my interest when I was looking through the internet regarding my topic:

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/06/29/2008-06-29_why_we_spend_money_when_were_trying_to_s.html

I loved the aforementioned article because it talks about what we should know. We’re irrational people when it comes to spending.

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/10/27/the-balanced-money-formula/

http://www.accumulatingmoney.com/top-10-reasons-people-spend-more-than-they-earn/

http://www.themindsetofsuccess.com/2007/01/emotional_spend.html