Red Paints Yao Ming Portrait With A Basketball (VIDEO)


First Posted: 01/25/2012 9:14 am Updated: 01/25/2012 9:14 am

Why paint with a paintbrush when you can use the most awkwardly sized tool ever? One spunky young girl, who goes by "Red," has doubled the functionality of a basketball by using it and it alone to paint a scarily accurate rendering of Yao Ming's profile. Don't go pigeonholing Red as a basketball painter though -- this one time, she created a large-scale Ai Weiwei portrait using only sunflowers, the artist known (in part) for his "Sunflower Seeds" installation. Do basketball paintbrush only work when they're making basketball-related art? Do Ai Weiweis only grow from sunflower seeds? Does everything in the universe make sense now? Yes! Thank you, Red girl!

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Why paint with a paintbrush when you can use the most awkwardly sized tool ever? One spunky young girl, who goes by "Red," has doubled the functionality of a basketball by using it and it alone to pai...
Why paint with a paintbrush when you can use the most awkwardly sized tool ever? One spunky young girl, who goes by "Red," has doubled the functionality of a basketball by using it and it alone to pai...
Why paint with a paintbrush when you can use the most awkwardly sized tool ever? One spunky young girl, who goes by "Red," has doubled the functionality of a basketball by using it and it alone to pai...
Why paint with a paintbrush when you can use the most awkwardly sized tool ever? One spunky young girl, who goes by "Red," has doubled the functionality of a basketball by using it and it alone to pai...
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Splevich
Nothing...is what it seems to be!
10:14 PM on 01/27/2012
Innovative!
08:27 PM on 01/27/2012
Sweet!
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jacmed
72, female - whatever happened to common sense?
11:36 AM on 01/27/2012
Well, it's a lot less random than shooting paint-filled balloons with darts (as in the movie "The Princess Diaries"). Interesting - but I have one simple question: Why????
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Gronkie
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04:20 PM on 01/25/2012
A true artist can create compelling work out of anything. Nice job.
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surfandshop
"What we think, we become."
02:29 PM on 01/25/2012
very artistic and clever... loved it!
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Holly H
10:18 AM on 01/25/2012
AWESOME!!!