A designer living in China is selling pig live pigs for $50,000 pounds or close to $100,000
how does he do this well it turns out that he tattoos the pigs with a Disney theme and
then after the pigs pass away I should note he sells the skin to designers who then turn
the skin into handbags which is amazing so you see those pictures there it's amazing
to me that he thinks tattooing pigs is acceptable but he says that there are three individuals
who massage the pig as a tattoo artists puts these mediocre tattoos on the pigs bodies
and then you know he sells them amazingly people will buy these pigs for an incredibly
amount of money now I should note that he started doing this in the United States however
PETA and other animal rights activists went after him and he was also a little tired of
some of our regulations when it comes to animal cruelty so he decided to go to a country that
is much more lax when it comes to these issues so he went to China and he's doing his thing
well if he keeps getting people to $100,000 per pig he'll be living high on the hog I
guess he'll be in hog heaven bringing home the bacon I guess with all that money he could
pig out OK I just wanted to get all of those out the way with one OK now my main point
about this story is why isn't that amazing I guess if there's 7 billion people on the
planet there's going to be one dude that's like I got it he had an epiphany about this
one day and he went and told people dude I'm going to tattoo pigs when they're alive and
hold hold not yet and they're going to be Disney characters on the tattoos and everybody
must have thought what a jackass but I guess if you do anything for long enough people
are like wait a minute did you say you put Disney characters tattooed on pigs brilliant
I say brilliant here's $100,000 so the artists name is Jim Delvoye and I looked into him
I guess he was devoid of any other ideas I guess so I guess so and so he's actually a
pretty controversial artists he's gotten into some trouble in the past but what I find so
fascinating about this is that there's look there's a market for shitty art we've talked
about it on the show before but how is anyone willing to sign on to the fact that these
pigs are going through the torture of being tattooed getting a tattoo is not painless
obviously it's painful and then also you really make handbags out of this like let's say you
don't care about ethics at all you don't care about the animal's well being at all you don't
give a shit about any of that you're just genuinely a designer who cares about fashion
you want to make these great handbags look at these pigs look at those tattoos they're
disastrous that looks like a tattoo that was done in a prison well it was kind of a prison
for the pigs unfortunately no you're right first of all on ethical grounds don't do this
man the pigs didn't agree to get tattooed it's so then on art grounds what is to quote
my dad what is this why would you want a purse made out of a pig that was tattooed with a
Disney character why I don't know why why what's wrong with you you know what the problem
is Cenk we don't understand art OK Delvoye is a deeper human being who understands concepts
that we just can't really grasp yeah yeah yeah and so we're in the wrong here yeah I
was reading about Jackson Pollock and how he was doing his art the more you read about
the more you're like what an utter load of crap it is he's like oh I have to be in the
right zone which I sprinkle the paint sometimes I'm not and it doesn't come out right you're
like why why was like what's the difference between this sprinkle of paint and that sprinkle
of paint that time I was kind of in the right mood like what does that mean it doesn't mean
anything he doesn't intend anything by it he just gets like high and start going with
the paint what does he get high on I don't know right and then this dude does this but
look the one upside to this story is it's a testament to willpower like you can literally
the shittiest idea anyone has ever come up with and turn it into a lucrative living for
yourself just by like sheer persistence I'm going to it work people are going to really
be into these handbags one day one day and it turns out he was kind of somewhat right
yeah