Baseball card collage art

Artist Pat Riot launched his website, Popular Vulture, featuring a wonderful gallery of collage art baseball cards.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

dcell

cool site he’s got. i just started a flickr group for baseball cards with players wearing glasses…will be expanding to afros, facial hair, jewelry, etc in the future! http://www.flickr.com/groups/balkmag/
WarEagle

“art”
therevengor

“comment”
Anonymous

These cards are awesome. Nice work. Hand cut, no less…

And that Dave LaRouche, a.k.a the human Ritz cracker, threw a mean splitter back in the day.
Anonymous

these are awesome!
http://www.acollageaday.com
phogtom

I cannot imagine doing this to my collections…but the players he’s “updated” aren’t exactly blue chips.

I like that someone had the idea for this. I clicked over immediately from the Twitter post about this when I saw “baseball cards” and “art”.

How could I not?
Anonymous

Bottom right is swiped from an old eightball comic, a strip about looking for inspiration which makes it quite ironic.
EeyoreX

Hmm…

I wonder what this does to the monetary value of these cards.
Do they become more collectable or less collectable?
Ian70

Um… no.
Next!
adamnvillani

the players he’s “updated” aren’t exactly blue chips.

Well, some people think Edgar Martinez deserves a spot in the Hall, but I think Frank Thomas beats him by just about any reasonable metric.