When we buy art, or consume something, we hardly think about where it came from, the process it took to land into our hands, or who made it and the conditions they made it in. Of course, there has been a rise in consumers becoming more aware of where they
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Bob Arno is a world renowned pickpocket comedian and Las Vegas showman. He has called himself the worlds best pickpocket and can embarrass an entire crowd of people on stage expecting his moves. He has done well to show the skill required to perform this art, and using his abilities
In the four years of being a college student, I’ll admit to seeing my fair share of questionable activities. I remember once as a junior, I came across a person (let’s call him Gregg) who collected traffic signs. In his dorm, his walls were a collage of stop signs, no
John Robert Hill, also known as Boonk Gang, went viral on Instagram for posting videos of himself stealing from fast food restaurants, barber shops, and random people off the streets. Hill gets millions of views for his version of “art”. Is committing burglary socially acceptable when someone is doing it
In a string of contradictions, one man successfully attains the status of being both a famous artist and infamous criminal at the same time. Joe Gibbons is the man, his notoriety as an art thief makes him the myth, and his legacy as an artist makes him the legend. Since
I am a 4.0, honor student, delinquent. I volunteer my time with refugees, keep up a rigorous academic schedule, am on multiple executive boards for extracurricular activities at my school and I have a criminal record for petty theft. It all started back in middle school when me and my
A few weeks ago, I watched “The Social Network” for the first time, not at all expecting the controversies and insanity that surrounded the creation and founding of one of the largest, if not the largest, social networking sites in the world: Facebook. Facebook, in and of itself, is an
For the most part, Shameless the American (and British) running TV show is a brilliant representation of the use of the word shameless. The show is about the Gallagher family, a low income household with a drunk father, severely bipolar mother and kids that practically raised themselves, with help from
This is the story of the violin stolen in Milwaukee (for ful story visit: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/the-case-of-the-stolen-stradivarius). This was no ordinary violin, in fact it is a famed Stradivarius. For those who do not know the Strad is supposedly one of the best designed violin, with its old nature creating deep rich
When I hear the word crime I think of the typical types of crime such as murder, drug use or trade, and weaponry. I never really think of stealing art as a major crime. Just last year, in an article titled “After Drugs and Guns, Art Theft is the Biggest