So the recession is in full swing, unemployment is skyrocketing, and you can barely scrape together enough to buy a dimebag. Tough times indeed. The whole country seems to have been powerfully hit by financial woes, the only bright side being the increased number of women turning to exotic dancing to pay the bills.

I was at an “End the Fed” rally in LA recently, and I beheld a man burn a dollar bill as a statement of contempt for the the federal reserve system, which may be largely to blame for the country’s downturn.  The whole time, I was wondering two things: first, why wasn’t he burning a c note instead to show even more contempt, and second: how could I snatch away the bill and use it toward the above mentioned dimebag? Unfortunately, the dollar met its crispy end before I could save it from its Libertarian captors, but the incident got me thinking about the use of money as an artistic statement. Enter master tattoo artist Scott Campbell and his astonishing art, etched onto stacks of bills.

check out more amazing examples here.

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