<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a1a6d62a-08c3-4655-a369-534061e3f91f/2DEFD813-BC7A-49DB-8879-95DE79FE9A18/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html" href="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">poppypetunia.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><DIV>Most of us like to eat potatoes but Lebanese artist Ginou Choueir likes to paint them. Literally. He uses potatoes as his canvas of choice when doing these JUST COOL portraits. He has painted sacks of potatoes and each seems to have a personality all it's own!<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/poppypetunia.blogspot.com/img/310F59C9-2AC6-498E-B9A7-38A466E39EDF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/poppypetunia.blogspot.com/img/6D39CFAF-884D-4015-899C-8DBC4BE56106" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/poppypetunia.blogspot.com/img/D681887A-EF34-423B-9232-E8D07E671632" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/poppypetunia.blogspot.com/img/416E59C4-248C-45C7-A61B-6053EB79F764" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poppypetunia.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-hot-potatoes.html"><DIV>What's behind his Mr. Potato Head inspiration? <BR /><BLOCKQUOTE>"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature."</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><DIV>So I wonder what these faces turn into when they start to rot? For now they look JUST COOL to me!</DIV><BR /><SPAN><SPAN>via </SPAN><A target="blank" href="http://toxel.com/">toxel</A></SPAN><BR /></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2DEFD813-BC7A-49DB-8879-95DE79FE9A18/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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