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Taken from frinky.com:
A hard-up graduate has sold his soul on an internet auction site for £11.61.
Artist Gareth Malham came up with the idea after watching an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart makes a similar transaction.
The 26-year-old, of Byker, Newcastle, posted an advert on the eBay site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma for £11.61.
Mr Malham said the buyer wanted a new soul as he had lost his own in a bet over a game of air hockey. He said he would sign over his soul by writing a legal document in his own blood when he receives his cheque.
Mr Malham graduated in photography, video and digital imaging from Sunderland University last year. He works part time in the University's photography department and began selling possessions on the Internet when he was short of money.
It was then that he decided to sell something less tangible than old videos or computer games.
He said: "I don't think I'm really selling my soul, I believe my soul is me. I'm more interested in the fact someone wanted to buy it. I'm playing with the idea of marketplaces and the fact that people will sell anything nowadays."
Malham, who said he was an atheist, did not believe he would come to any harm from making the deal - although he has received warning emails from Christians. "I asked the guy who was buying it and he said he wasn't a Satanist, thank God," he said.
He plans to sell other bits of himself and will auction off photographs of various body parts later. Eventually he would like to issue shares in himself on the Stock Exchange.
"In a way it is like the Internet bubble where companies were being hyped out of all proportion and I am trying to talk my own worth up," he said. "But I only got £11.61."
A hard-up graduate has sold his soul on an internet auction site for £11.61.
Artist Gareth Malham came up with the idea after watching an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart makes a similar transaction.
The 26-year-old, of Byker, Newcastle, posted an advert on the eBay site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma for £11.61.
Mr Malham said the buyer wanted a new soul as he had lost his own in a bet over a game of air hockey. He said he would sign over his soul by writing a legal document in his own blood when he receives his cheque.
Mr Malham graduated in photography, video and digital imaging from Sunderland University last year. He works part time in the University's photography department and began selling possessions on the Internet when he was short of money.
It was then that he decided to sell something less tangible than old videos or computer games.
He said: "I don't think I'm really selling my soul, I believe my soul is me. I'm more interested in the fact someone wanted to buy it. I'm playing with the idea of marketplaces and the fact that people will sell anything nowadays."
Malham, who said he was an atheist, did not believe he would come to any harm from making the deal - although he has received warning emails from Christians. "I asked the guy who was buying it and he said he wasn't a Satanist, thank God," he said.
He plans to sell other bits of himself and will auction off photographs of various body parts later. Eventually he would like to issue shares in himself on the Stock Exchange.
"In a way it is like the Internet bubble where companies were being hyped out of all proportion and I am trying to talk my own worth up," he said. "But I only got £11.61."
I hate America.
Well, since I can just issue a certificate saying "you own my soul. Well done" as many times as I want, £11.61 seems quite fair.
Put it up on eBay a few hundred times, and you're on to a winner.
Put it up on eBay a few hundred times, and you're on to a winner.
Not for £11.61
So would anyone actusly ever consider selling their soul?
Crazy world
Cool, i would sell my soul. Infact i would do it multiple times and make lots of money.
Taken from frinky.com:
A hard-up graduate has sold his soul on an internet auction site for £11.61.
Artist Gareth Malham came up with the idea after watching an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart makes a similar transaction.
The 26-year-old, of Byker, Newcastle, posted an advert on the eBay site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma for £11.61.
Mr Malham said the buyer wanted a new soul as he had lost his own in a bet over a game of air hockey. He said he would sign over his soul by writing a legal document in his own blood when he receives his cheque.
Mr Malham graduated in photography, video and digital imaging from Sunderland University last year. He works part time in the University's photography department and began selling possessions on the Internet when he was short of money.
It was then that he decided to sell something less tangible than old videos or computer games.
He said: "I don't think I'm really selling my soul, I believe my soul is me. I'm more interested in the fact someone wanted to buy it. I'm playing with the idea of marketplaces and the fact that people will sell anything nowadays."
Malham, who said he was an atheist, did not believe he would come to any harm from making the deal - although he has received warning emails from Christians. "I asked the guy who was buying it and he said he wasn't a Satanist, thank God," he said.
He plans to sell other bits of himself and will auction off photographs of various body parts later. Eventually he would like to issue shares in himself on the Stock Exchange.
"In a way it is like the Internet bubble where companies were being hyped out of all proportion and I am trying to talk my own worth up," he said. "But I only got £11.61."
A hard-up graduate has sold his soul on an internet auction site for £11.61.
Artist Gareth Malham came up with the idea after watching an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart makes a similar transaction.
The 26-year-old, of Byker, Newcastle, posted an advert on the eBay site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma for £11.61.
Mr Malham said the buyer wanted a new soul as he had lost his own in a bet over a game of air hockey. He said he would sign over his soul by writing a legal document in his own blood when he receives his cheque.
Mr Malham graduated in photography, video and digital imaging from Sunderland University last year. He works part time in the University's photography department and began selling possessions on the Internet when he was short of money.
It was then that he decided to sell something less tangible than old videos or computer games.
He said: "I don't think I'm really selling my soul, I believe my soul is me. I'm more interested in the fact someone wanted to buy it. I'm playing with the idea of marketplaces and the fact that people will sell anything nowadays."
Malham, who said he was an atheist, did not believe he would come to any harm from making the deal - although he has received warning emails from Christians. "I asked the guy who was buying it and he said he wasn't a Satanist, thank God," he said.
He plans to sell other bits of himself and will auction off photographs of various body parts later. Eventually he would like to issue shares in himself on the Stock Exchange.
"In a way it is like the Internet bubble where companies were being hyped out of all proportion and I am trying to talk my own worth up," he said. "But I only got £11.61."