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We'll Donate To Spermcube.org If You Will

Posted by Bryan Christian


It's been a while since we've encountered something that made us throw up in our mouths a little. Last time around, it was yogurt cultured from someone's hoo-hah. Now... now, it's a cubic meter of refigerated sperm being collected by French artist Philippe Meste. Yuck.

The ‘Spermcube’ contains all the possibilities of life, all possible figures in distressing agglomeration, one on top of the other, without a background, or with their own interlacing and gesticulation as background, a biopolitically incorrect machine celibataire that generates anonymity, undifferentiated and powerless life.

Sure does. You know what else it's got? 264 gallons of goopy, clotted spooge. Ohhh, yeesh... right now, in our throat, it feels like we just did that one shot of tequila where you're like "Seriously, that was fucking stupid," and start to figure out where the nearest exit/bathroom is.

Still, we like art, and we like random French shit, and we like having orgasms, so we'll make a pledge to all of you right here and now: if we can get five dudes to commit to joining us, we -- meaning me, Scanner Bryan -- will get over our disgust and pledge to donate a lovin' spoonful of our own little sailors to the project. That apparently entails sending a note to the artist and getting some sort of "donor kit," which we're assuming we fill up and mail back, or maybe they send the Sperm Fairy to get it or something, and probably doing some sort of interview with us about it later so that we can blog it all.

So gentlemen, who's with us?


Comments

eldeano1 said:

If I donate, the French dude better get a bigger box!

April 15, 2008 3:14 PM

ikketiens said:

probably my only chance of being immortalized through art... i'm in.

April 15, 2008 5:46 PM

dte said:

i'm down like white on sticky sweet rice

April 15, 2008 6:27 PM

Hi-yoooo!!! said:

That's a lotta baby batter!

April 15, 2008 11:57 PM

farknerve said:

I volunteer my boyfriend.  He masturbates all the time anyway, so why waste the fruits of his labors?

April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

dippy_gumball said:

I'm so sick.  

April 16, 2008 7:42 AM

John Constantine said:

Man, they better keep that cube under lock and key before some Japanese guy steals it and dumps it on someone

April 21, 2008 4:28 PM

About Bryan Christian

Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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about the blogger

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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