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My great art ideas

I am an art student and am quietly confident about achieving great success in the art world.

Actual piece by Michichi Takahashi

I am an art student and am quietly confident about achieving great success in the art world. However, before I become a Brat-art millionaire I have my degree to attain. I am sitting on a couple of ideas for pieces I might work on. Perhaps Vice readers could help me choose which project I should see through…

Satan's Football Boots

Description: A pair of boots painted red to indicate El Diablo. Instead of studs, each one has eight tiny models of popular footballers who have fallen from grace. George Best, Gazza, Joey Barton, and on and on. The boots are hooked to a pair of mechanical legs, and they 'kick' a series of balls of bundled money (50 pound notes), shot from an air-propulsion system.

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Meaning: This is a witty commentary on how football is the ultimate corrupter of the modern world, of how we have let money become 'the goal'.

Sexy Bitch

A series of film pictures of dogs that look like several serial killers are framed on one wall, in front of cheap-looking 'sea side' backgrounds, in the style of The Sun's Page Three.

For instance:

Rottweiler: Ted Bundy

Bulldog: Son of Sam

Pug: Fred West

Inside each dog picture, on its tags, is the face of its 'killer-lookalike'. In front of each picture is a mound of dog food in a Perspex cube filled with flies. On an inscription underneath the mound, it says that each of the dogs was put down and that their remains were mashed into the dog food you now see. In a moment of supreme artistic wit, this isn't in fact the case, and the dog food is just ordinary Chum or whatever.

Meaning: Comment on tabloid glorifications of serial killer violence being equivalent in their lexicon with heart-warming stories of lookalike dogs. Also a subversive switcheroo in which the 'hunter becomes the hunted', and so on.

Reginald K Dwight's Living Room

A mid-90s-themed studio apartment, based around the notion that Elton John had never become famous, and instead ended up in modest accommodation.

Warning labels will be all around on a series of household objects. For instance. A stereo, tagged 'Warning: Playing Favourite Songs From Yesteryear May Cause You To Remember Happier Times', a fridge: 'Warning: Fatness Is An Affliction', a bed saying 'Warning: Love Made Here Cannot Be Returned Or Refunded', a photo-frame saying 'Warning: Knowing People Does Not Make You Less Alone'. On the walls are various cancer-riddled organs in individual glass jars, so that if you move from left-to-right around the room, you work your way up from the colon to the complete set of human viscera.

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Meaning: A satire on joyless, regimented government-sanitised living, and a poignant hymn to the unsung, narrowing lives of unremarkable people in middle age.

Puddle of Ev

The face of BBC economics editor Evan Davis reflected in various puddles, photographed in and around the City Of London's Square Mile.

Meaning: Capitalism has become an illusion – a hall of mirrors, a game turned upside down, and through it all, we are now beholden ever more to the popular economists to help us peer into the murky waters of 'securitisation', etc - they are the lens through which the all-pervasive credit crisis comes to us.

I think I'm leaning towards Sexy Bitch