October 11, 2003

I love this

First he copyrights his brain, as a sculpture, to cheat death (life plus 70); then he sells options on his neurons. Brilliant. [Wired News: He Thinks, Therefore He Sells by Ryan Singel]
Jonathon Keats, a 32-year-old conceptual artist and novelist, has announced plans to auction off futures contracts on 6 billion neurons in his brain, which he copyrighted this spring.
Great line from the prospectus: "While experts agree that Jonathon Keats's brain is currently in reasonable working order, past performance is no guarantee of future functionality."

There's a quote from Donna Wentworth in there too.


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