tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53453424638204536672024-03-13T05:31:20.500-07:00X tHe ArtPrize MichiganUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345342463820453667.post-85792394648598439192017-09-03T19:00:00.000-07:002018-01-10T09:48:15.113-08:00What is x the Artprize Michigan?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">X the ArtPrize</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">What is X the ArtPrize? It’s a treasure hunt worth 1 million dollars. It includes $100,000 in cash and $900,000 in art collectibles. I’ve hidden this treasure in Kent County, Michigan. The clues can be found in the book you are holding in your hands—X the ArtPrize: Clue Book to Finding Treasure Worth 1 million dollars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">As a kid, I used to love playing the game of hide-and-seek. It was exciting and captivating. As I grew older, my adventures became riskier. I enjoyed fearsome stunts like jumping from heights, burying myself alive, climbing large structures, and hanging upside down. These gave me an adrenalin rush and thrill beyond imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The idea of this treasure hunt came when ArtPrize banned me for life for making and displaying the World’s Longest Painting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">You would think that a record-breaking painting would be good for ArtPrize, that it would bring more art enthusiasts and spectators to the art show. So why would the people running ArtPrize say, “No”? Other artists have stated that ArtPrize is “nothing but a huge scam.” They think the voting system is fake and the winner is preselected. Projects like the World’s Longest Painting are derailed from the contest because they create suspicion in the public’s eye regarding the validity of the declared winners. According to the ArtPrize website, “everything goes,” but in reality, owner Rick Devos controls the contest including:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I realize that some of my fans might not like my direct attacks on ArtPrize, but I can only speak the truth, and if I don’t, I’m not doing justice to myself and others. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">About the treasure hunt </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This treasure hunt is my parting gift to the people of Michigan, in particular the people of Grand Rapids. It was in Grand Rapids that I won the Guinness World Record for the World’s Longest Painting. This painting is worth over $700,000. I am giving $100,000 to the people as a parting gift. Why? Because they have been very supportive of me and my art, and I am grateful.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In July 2017, I did The Detroit Treasure Hunt—my first art treasure hunt. I gave away $1,000,000 worth of art treasures to the people of Detroit. I had a great response; thousands of people went out to discover the hidden art treasure. However, the Detroit Treasure Hunt was not designed to be difficult and, therefore, lacked real challenge. Therefore, I have designed X the ArtPrize to be more difficult than the Detroit Treasure Hunt. X the ArtPrize involves a multilayered code, and it’s really exhilarating, a challenge for thrill seekers and treasure hunters alike.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Freedom in art </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Without the freedom to create, my soul would freeze, my imagination would come to a halt, and I would feel as if I didn’t exist. I would feel like a machine that takes instruction from others to produce in mass quantities that which already exists. If I don’t have freedom, I’m not going to invent or discover new ways of doing things, and I’m not going to have any impact on the arts and culture, on our economy, on health and wellbeing, or on society and education. And if that’s the case, I might as well surrender and not ask for artistic freedom. But fortunately, I will always seek and find artistic freedom, one way or another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Supposedly, ArtPrize is an art contest in Grand Rapids where “everything goes.” This sounds like complete freedom, yet in my experience, this isn’t true. They banned me for making the World’s Longest Painting. Apparently, they didn’t want my artwork displayed in the contest. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have banned me for life. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Why am I doing this treasure hunt?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I created and am offering X the ArtPrize to promote artistic freedom, encourage other artists, motivate the arts community, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expose the ethical limitations</b> of ArtPrize. And finally, it is my parting gift to the people of Grand Rapids.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345342463820453667.post-57938960270039911722017-08-07T14:53:00.000-07:002018-01-10T09:48:45.108-08:00Book<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In my book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">X the ArtPrize</i></b>, you can find clues to the treasure hunt and read about my fight for artistic freedom.</span></span><br />
<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I discuss my interaction with ArtPrize officials: the rich and the powerful. I explain how they buy the media and how the city authorities favor them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My personal story can be a distraction so read this book solely for the purpose of hunting. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">If this book is read and inspected carefully you should able to break the code to $1M treasure.</span></span></div>
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New Clues: <a href="http://www.xtheartprize.com/p/poem-by-artist-singh.html">"The Message" </a>poem by Artist SinGh<br />
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