Ooh that was fun! I figured out who it is, too!
Maybe the pill popper is planning on killing the artist so they can cash in sooner!
I agree with Samantha Leigh, this was an amusing Google hunt.
Perhaps we can make this into a continuing game using other people.
And, I now want to know what happens next.
That was a fun bit of internet detecting. Thanks, OP!
I’m not sure his name sounds that much like a sneeze, mind you.
Zombifying my own thread with an update - they caught the guy who was stealing from Chihuly. (Yes, several of you guessed right in spite of my trying to avoid naming him.)
I’m actually kind of surprised to find out it was all true. FWIW, I never contacted anyone about the stuff I had heard of because I figured my hearsay wouldn’t be worth anything anyway and/or that my coworker (who ended up getting fired a few months after I started this thread) was making stuff up. I wonder if he got caught as well.
$200,000 worth of sculpture went to $3 million pretty quick…that’s a lot of pills!!!
WTF? Mr. Law and Order who believes in Punishment at least as much as Crime, sill hasn’t contacted anyone about your former coworker who may still have a quarter million dollars of stolen are in his garage?
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
I was sort of hoping that Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo was promoted and now your boss.
Thing is, those glass bits weren’t really worth anything. The only thing that would make them valuable is the Chihuly name on them. The stolen pieces wouldn’t have that, and so they wouldn’t be any more valuable than any other glass pieces made by no-name artists copying the Chihuly style. And of course, Chihuly doesn’t actually make the pieces that go out with his name, they’re made by the aforementioned no-name glassblowers at the Chihuly studio.
So you literally have pieces made by no-name guys, without the Chihuly name attached. Which are worth not much.
Not worth much, unless someone gets caught with stolen ones, in which case they use the same calculator that they use to make up the ‘street value’ of drugs and come up with $3M.
Though I’m disappointed that it wasn’t Jeff Koons as I first suspected (living sculptor, doesn’t actually make the art himself, some of his stuff is fragile) because I was picturing some twitchy drug dealer guy standing in a garage full of life-sized porcelain Michael Jackson sculptures thinking “I’m going to be rich!”.