![]() ![]() ![]() I just bought sixty pounds and need you to sell it to your friends." At that point, I didn't really want to be a drug dealer and figured that the hassle of working eight hours a day only to be paid in drugs that you had to work another eight hours to sell didn't make any sense. He said, "Paul, you and I need to think of a way to supplement our incomes." I'm thinking, "It's going to be drugs." And he says, "Do you know anybody who smokes weed?" I'm seventeen at the time, so I say, "Of course I know people who smoke weed." He says, "Great. One day, my boss called me into his office. Even at seventeen I knew that that there was something wrong with that. They'd hand me a few thousand dollars every week. They were paying me a lot of money, but it was all cash. It was pretty ridiculous, especially since the fall out of the whole thing was about ten months later. A week after I dropped out, to the pleasure of most of the staff and administration, there was a huge front page article with a picture of me saying, "High School Student Drops Out to Make a Ton of Money." They started calling me the next Bill Gates. She heard about me from everyone else at the party and decided to write this article about me dropping out of school. She's taking people's names and stuff." I went outside and, sure enough, there was a husky woman with a notepad writing down people's names. Someone ran in and started screaming, "Hey, there's some woman outside who says she's with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The big newspaper in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, picked up the story because I was throwing a Happy Dropping Out Party at my house with a couple hundred kids. ![]() I rented one of those fat Elvis body suits and, on my last day of school, got all my teachers to sign me out as, "The king is leaving the building." They offered me an inordinate amount of money for a seventeen year old, so I decided to drop out of school. I got an offer to go work for this company in Atlanta. I was a pretty bad student near the end of the year and I had been impeached from the class presidency because my grades were poor and I had a couple of weapons violations. Tell me about your senior year of high school. He's survived Katrina, shot grenade launchers, fallen into canals, and thrown parties for Philippine Orphans. Later, Paul helped launch Consumption Junction, a site renowned for its collection of graphically shocking videos, a position that has allowed him to travel the world. Alas, it is still consumption."Ĭontributions by Amy Chan, Guy Debord, Design Management AS, Dan Graham, Komar & Melamid, Learning Group, Nicola Lopez, Scott Massey, The Miss Rockaway Armada, Ester Partegas, Tim Rietenbach, 5.Paul Dinin dropped out of high school his senior year to make gobs of money working with computers. Environmental activism is expressed in the things we buy and how we live, demonstrating our support for a better world through collective consumption of organically certified and socially accepted green products, actions and services. But egregious waste, over-indulgence and mass consumerism continue to define contemporary society. A number of green organizations, labels, and certifications have contributed to more environmentally conscious ways of living and pushed these issues to a public forefront. "There is currently an extraordinary surge of interest in the state of the environment as we become increasingly aware of the cultural and ecological consequences caused by acts of over-consumption. This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Consumption Junction, organized by Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, and on view from September 13 to Decemat Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus. ![]()
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