"You're not a cannibal if you eat art"

I'm currently working out of the Sydney office and staying at the local Hare Krishna temple, which is handily ten minutes down the road from the office.

Yesterday was the Community Open Day at Linux Conf.AU. It rocked. I talked to a bunch of people and gave out some Fedora DVDs. Props to Danielle Harrison for doing everything down in Sydney to make the Fedora stand possible, and big ups to jdub and Pia for an awesome event.

And in other news, I just had to share this article with you all. I've had it for a while, but I can't hold on to it any longer:

"BON APPETIT," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.

"Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery.

On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.

"The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation.

"You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.

Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.

A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.

In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.