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Washington DC Compliment Box: You Smell Good!
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The world would be a much better place if artist Tom Greaves' Compliment Machine was installed on street corners from Los Angeles to Beijing.
The Compliment Machine is part of a Washington D.C. art exhibit along 14th Street sponsored by SiteProjects DC. Fifteen other artists have contributed their visions for making Washington D.C. a better place but it is Greaves' installment that has everyone talking.
The idea of the Compliment Machine is very simple. The five-foot tall box stands on the street corner and dispenses compliments to random passers-by.
"You smell good," "People are drawn to your positive energy," and "You are on a constant quest for knowledge" are just some of the fortune cookie-like salutations elicited from the strange box.
People love it, going out of their way for daily doses of self-affirmation and positive motivation. I sure hope some of the local politicians stay far away from this automated sycophant.
(photo: Jay Tamboli, Flickr)
Filed under: Arts and Culture
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Marilyn Terrell Aug 5th 2007 8:41AM
Automated compliments are fine, I like the strange art Mark Jenkins creates on the streets of DC, especially his Tape Babies, realistic looking babies made of transparent tape and attached to lightpoles and things: http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/storker.html