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George Zimmerman photoshops a painting; bidding on EBay nears $100,000

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UPDATED: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 15:01
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:01 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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The rumors are true: George Zimmerman is a painter now.


And his first creation, which was listed on EBay this week, has sparked a bidding war that has pushed its price up from a starting point of $0.99 to almost $100,000 as of Tuesday morning. It's a blue American flag featuring part of the Pledge of Allegiance.

"Everyone has been asking what I have been doing with myself," the EBay posting from user therealgeorgez reads. "I found a creative, way to express myself, my emotions and the symbols that represent my experiences. My art work allows me to reflect, providing a therapeutic outlet and allows me to remain indoors :-)"

And Zimmerman is also -- like Casey Anthony, the most famous Florida defendant before he came along -- in debt: In a legal filing for his most recent arrest, he claimed to be at least $2 million in debt, with no home and less than $150 in cash.

Which must make a $100,000 painting look awful pretty in its creator's eyes. Zimmerman's attorney, Jayne C. Weintraub of Miami, confirmed the authenticity of the EBay posting with the Los Angeles Times. "Yes, it is my client, George Zimmerman, selling his paintings," Weintraub said in an email.

[Updated 10:16 a.m. PDT Dec. 17: The work's originality, though, has already been questioned. Side-by-side photos show that Zimmerman's flag may have been copied from a Shutterstock photo of an American flag.] http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-george-zimmerman-pain
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Why would people pay that much for something like this?
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Some of the bidding suggests that prospective buyers may be treating the painting like a form of a donation to Zimmerman: Several of the 98 bids thus far appear to be from users who keep submitting higher bids even when they're already on top.

When awaiting trial, a website set up for his defense apparently crashed because got so many visitors while managing to collect more than $130,000 in donations from the public.

Those supporters, though, have largely remained out of public view. The EBay bidding for Zimmerman's painting is also private, though Zimmerman has used it as a platform to shout out to his fans.



One commenter: "First off, I believe photoshopping is art. What the close up looks like to me, since the canvas wasn’t gessoed (layers of paint to smooth the canvas marks) is that it was photoshopped from the flag wallpaper, digitally printed on canvas, he glopped some paint on the colored blocks and then a layer of some type of semigloss was put on top of it. Then he put the words in white matte on top of the gloss, including his signature. But he definitely lifted that flag from the wallpaper which was probably on his laptop screen."

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