DNA portraits are available through a company called DNA 11 for prices starting as low as $199 USD. Granted, it’s a prohibitively expensive luxury that I would never consider in this kinda economy but at the same time, despite being a sucker for this kinda stuff and despite the fact its a prohibitively expensive luxury
in this kinda economy, the real reason I believe people outta think twice before endeavoring to embark on one of these –point of no return– DNA reads is because if someone is not too paranoid to wear his or her DNA on his or her sleeve, then perhaps he or she should be. And if confused by what it is I’m saying everyone outta be paranoid about, have you ever seen that movie, Gattaca?
Not that I’m not still deep-deep-down, secretly wishing I was one of those happy few. And if you happen to be, one of those happy few who saw the movie, Gattaca in 1997 and twelve years later are able to look back and reflect upon it as though it were something as dated as, say, retro-futurist-revisionist nostalgia is (when executed poorly, at any rate) then I envy you. I envy you for living your life unencumbered by Andrew Niccol’s doom and gloom prophetic dystopia that bodes will all one day find ourselves in a Prada clad, dystopia starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law but —okay— back to my original point. My original point here is that, I have neither the stupidity nor the faith in humanity to invest a three to fourdiget sum in customized wall art, screen savers, Facebook avatars and business cards that will publicize the my genetic info to anyone who bookmarks the permalink. Fact is, you couldn’t pay to publicize something so utterly, personal, fatalistic and inalterable! And lest you think I’m making a mountain outta a mole here, lemme re clarify the context, again: if the sickest team of glypheratti wanted to transform your social security digits into visually and conceptually fly wall art, would you comply?
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Ah, Gattaca was a great movie! I think the DNA wall art could be cool and probably pretty safe to display until DNA readers came about. It’s in your home, so who’s going to see it? And what about DNA of long dead celebs? Like, wouldn’t a DNA portrait of Andy Warhol be a hoot? He’d probably get a kick out of that too. That would make some pretty cool art!
There’s no telling where this kind of technology will lead. Good post!