This is a potentially off topic question, but what is the average wage that the typical sculptor makes, considering hours invested/sale price of the art? I have known at least a few former art student friends/family that have definitely worked for less than minimum wage.<p>Is it possible for an artist to create a piece like this that is actually more profitable for the user of the art than it is for the artist who created it?
The original, non-linkjacked page is strangely barren compared to the Boing Boing attention-a-palooza. <a href="http://blakefallconroy.com/18.html" rel="nofollow">http://blakefallconroy.com/18.html</a>
How about hooking this up to the power grid and paying you for how much power you generate into the grid? They already do this with solar panels.<p>You'd make a lot less than minimum wage though. Say .5KWH in an hour, that's 5 cents.
That isn't work. That's subsidized pseudo-work in the Roosevelt New Deal tradition. Some poor schmuck has to pour pennies in the top hopper, and gets nothing for his pains.