Lawrence Journal-World: Art habit: Vintage cigarette machine dispenses art on the cheap
SEATTLE — One of the coolest vending machines you’ll ever see is inside a longtime Seattle shop. The Art-O-Mat is a vintage cigarette machine that dispenses small pieces of art. There are roughly 250 ...
Inhabitat: Art-O-Mat: Vintage Cigarette Vending Machines Recycled to Dispense Art Instead of Cancer
Art-O-Mat: Vintage Cigarette Vending Machines Recycled to Dispense Art Instead of Cancer
High quality, original art is available in McKinney thanks to cigarettes. Well, sort of. "The machines are vintage, retro cigarette machines," Karen Zupanic said. Zupanic is the executive director of ...
Diane Macrae stepped up to the vintage cigarette machine in her Seattle art boutique recently, dropped a gold coin into a slot and waited to hear it clink against the inside of the steel machine.
PHILADELPHIA — Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit -- buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more ...
Someone walks up to a vintage cigarette machine. They put in a $5 token, and out pops a cigarette box. But it isn't cigarettes inside. It's art. "It's sort of like the new addiction," said Diane ...
PHILADELPHIA - Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit – buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more ...
Daily Camera: Once a cigarette machine, Art-o-mat at CU now dispenses art
Remember when buying a pack of smokes was as easy as $1, $2, $3 bills slipped into a vending machine? Perhaps unfledged youth or a sensible upkeep of lungs clouts that vintage memory. Purchasing a ...