8,300 Down: Artist Plans to Draw Every Living Person in NYC

“I came up with the title ‘Every Person in New York,’ and it just sounded like such an all-encompassing, ridiculous idea," Jason Polan, a Manhattan-based artist, told the New York Times.

December 27, 2009 at 1:22 pm - CNN
Dateline: New York, NY
Use-yer-brain   December 27th, 2009 - 4:44 pm

Obviously he can’t accomplish this task, nor can he keep track of who he has drawn and who he hasn’t. He’s just like the other 10, 000 artists in NYC sketching in public, but in his case he thunked up a cute gimmick, and the media fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Roger   December 27th, 2009 - 6:18 pm

Can just draw one stick figure and it should cover everyone in new york. Kind of like how they stick it to us with thier bailouts and liberal media. Or is that just Wall Street and Manhattan??

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Marx   December 27th, 2009 - 9:19 pm

He is just waiting for the $50,000 NEA grant to draw everyone… coming soon!

anon   December 27th, 2009 - 9:57 pm

How does he do that without Photoshop?

Gandhi's Fist   December 28th, 2009 - 1:35 am

Two things…

First, he’ll never get it done. The numbers are not on his side. Second, he is a crap artist. The quality of those sketches are poor. It was said that Windsor McKay–the man who drew Little Nemo–made over 1 million drawings in his life. he was reputed to be what was known as a “lighting artist”, able to do a drawing show, on stage, accommodating the requests of the audience. He hand drew one of the most accurate accounts of the sinking of the Lusitania and animated it.

This clown doesn’t hold up a candle to Windsor, but the visually illiterate press have no clue what graphic quality is anymore so this becomes a story. More of a condemnation of our culture than the story it purports to be.

Gawd, he’s even using a pigma felt marker to do the sketches. The training wheel pen for those who never mastered the far superior dip quill. A laughable story.

snaggletoothie   December 28th, 2009 - 7:15 am

This guy is obviously one of the low IQ types who at least had enough sense to figure out that if he goes around claiming to be an artist no one will notice that he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

MB   December 29th, 2009 - 2:04 am

The guy is just trying to encourage enough people to visit and spend time on his website so he can make money from advertising. His gimmick is to provide crappy content for potentially millions of people to periodically look at and decide if it resembles them or not. It’s not about the art, it’s all about the traffic for his site.

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