If only Michael Faye did this instead…

I don’t keep my car well. I don’t like wash­ing it, and it’s not a good thing that it’s a black car, because it’s usu­ally so dusty it’s more like a shade of dark grey.

I’ve had peo­ple fin­ger paint on my car the usual epi­thets — “wash me”, “dirty fel­low”, and “www.washme.com”.

But a cou­ple of days ago, Naomi caught this on Fox News (no she doesn’t usu­ally watch Fox News, it was one of those just so hap­pened to press wrong num­ber on the SCV remote and hey look that’s inter­est­ing kinda sit­u­a­tions ya know), and said, hey, since you don’t like to get the car washed, you should do some­thing like this. Then again, nei­ther of us can paint, so scratch that idea. (Ged­dit? Scratch that idea? Car? Scratch? No? Long bow? Too oblique? Come on, it’s Christ­mas! Let it go!)

So any­way, this fler by the name of Scott Wade idly fin­gered his way to fame and for­tune by “paint­ing” a dusty wind­screen. Sev­eral mag­num opii later, he’s got on sev­eral television programs, and even a website that sells mer­chan­dise like caps and prints of his art­work. I was hop­ing for some­thing equally off­beat like “Dirty Car Art Starter Kit 5oz. bag of dust”, or some­thing, but I sup­pose the mad­ness has to end somewhere.

Scott Wade’s per­for­mance art:

You don’t really have to be an artist/painter to make some­thing out of a dusty wind­screen though:

"I wish my wife was this dirty" - Photo by Darling Snail

Ex Wal­laby 2005 — Graf­fiti on a dirty tank

More of Scott Wade’s art <a href=“http://flickr.com/photos/the_tings/tags/dirty/” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://flickr.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/flickr.com’);”>here.

Where is <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://en.wikipedia.org’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/en.wikipedia.org’);”>Michael Faye now anyway?