[illu]

love the lil creeper...one of the best images imo!

[Drymounted]

Pretty powerful image. Turtle without a home (shell), using the hard hat of a construction worker working on the cleanup. Beautiful and I hope it finds a nice home.

[jakek]

Interesting piece - how did you manage to get it at the time?
And have you got any pictures of it sawn down.
I'm not after it but i'm sure there are people around here who will be interested.

[ricobenfico]

Wearology?!?! Where arrrrrreeeeee youoooooooo?!?!?!/!

[illu]

that's the right question!

[wizzy]

It sold then?. Saw this advertised yesterday somewhere. I think J had already seen this, wasnt it offered sometime ago as still being in New Orleans?.

[Wearology]

I am here - I am on it - I can smell a turtle from a 100 miles away -

[wizzy]

There was an ebay link to it the other forum J, apparently it sold at $5k plus, was it real or a duffer?.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220702354278#ht_777wt_883

[illu]

Dec 1, 2010 23:06:04 GMT 1 Wearology said:

I am here - I am on it - I can smell a turtle from a 100 miles away -

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

can you help me get mine back...it "ran" away some time ago....with a big round yellow sticker on the back reading my address...

[Wearology]

Illu2305 I found your turtle it on holiday with 4 of its friends - please read below :
Frankfurt- Five German-born turtles are to fly to a Seychellois Island beach this week aside vacationers, guests of a German charter airline, the Frankfurt Zoo reported Wednesday. The turtles hatched at the zoo in March from eggs smuggled into Germany by a woman. She was caught as she came home from a holiday trip to the islands. Zoo director Manfred Niekisch said the eggs were put in an incubator. "They looked a bit shrivelled, but they smelled fine."
The hawksbill turtle, whose scientific name is Eretmochelys imbricata, is critically endangered in the wild.
Full-grown hawksbill turtles can weigh 75 kilograms and survive 100 years. Hunters have wiped out huge numbers to obtain tortoiseshell from them for combs and hairclips.
The animals are now 20 centimetres long and ready to fend for themselves. Condor, an airline, has given the turtles a free place in the hold on a flight to the Seychelles and will fly a German animal protection officer, Dirk Hausen, there and back to release them.
The smuggler was fined 5,000 euros (7,300 dollars), German officials said.

[illu]

thanks that was quick....but still I'm a bit worried that a Condor flew them out....sounds like a proper meal for the bird

[boaty]

where's Fragile?

[wizzy]

Dec 1, 2010 23:37:45 GMT 1 @boaty said:

where's Fragile?

He is busy.

[Wearology]

I have absolutely no idea if this piece being offered for sale on our forum today is authentic or not - but I can tell you that the so called Banksy New Orleans turtle door that I was approached about buying almost a year ago does appear to be different than this one.

[Michael Jacob]

did one just sell today on ebay. it claimed to be the door from new orleans?

[wizzy]

Yes, that was the one that was on here then removed after the end of the ebay auction.

[wizzy]

I hear this was a fake. Wonder why the original poster removed it from this thread?.

[jB]

this casey999 fella, reached out to me when i was after an OG (mid march or so) but wanted to sell the entire door for $10K - not sure if he's reproduced it, but pretty sure he was the one who stole the door in the first place.

[wizzy]

Wonder if it actually did sell on ebay the other night then?.