Burger Wars

November 29th, 2009. Filed under: exhibitions, painting, printmaking.

I have two pieces in a show called “The $1 Burger Wars” opening on Friday at the Mill Gallery in Santa Cruz:

burger

If you spent the revenue of an average Burger King restaurant on $1 burgers, the losses incurred would be of equal value to this many $1 burgers.
Inkjet Print and Gouache on Paper
2’x2′
Code Snippet:
float revenue2008 = 2454.7; //in millions
float restaurants2008 = 11565;
//multiply by one million to convert revenue to dollars
int averageRevenue = int(revenue2008/restaurants2008 * 1000000);
int burgerLosses = int(averageRevenue * .10); //you lose 10 cents on each burger
for (int i = 0; i < burgerLosses; i++){
drawBurger();
}

burger2

If everyone in the US bought two $1 burgers this year, Burger King would be operating at a loss. Eating burgers is radical politics.
Inkjet Print and Gouache on Paper
2’x2′

2 Responses to Burger Wars

  1. liz

    i really like the second piece. is it video in real life? who are all those people?

  2. nick

    thanks! they’re all youtube screenshots of people imitating andy warhol eating a hamburger (except for the second down on the right column, which is actually andy warhol).

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