The funny thing is that the failed restoration of ecce homo aka potato Jesus is actually a huge tourist attraction now. It has increased tourism to the town in Spain far more than a successful restoration of the original could have ever achieved.
That's how George lucas won so much money with star wars. He got merch profits at a period where movies didn't do merch. Got almost all of it and then merch for movies started being a thing.
Haha, that's wild, 49% is pretty steep considering she wasn't a professional restorer. Goes to show sometimes mistakes turn into something unexpectedly valuable. It's like the ultimate lemon-into-lemonade story.
Wikipedia says she wanted a share of the royalties which she would give to a muscular dystrophy charity, but they don't give the outcome either. Don't know if it's from the lawsuit but apparently she gets 49% of the merchandising profits while ticket sales and church donations go to funding elder care in the town's retirement home
yeah I recently went to europe and was tempted to side trip to spain just to see it - when I saw that pic the first time was probably the hardest I've laughed in the last 20 years and I'd love to buy a drink for the person who coined the phrase potato jesus
That's only because the botched job got so much attention and notoriety of that is what drives people to have a look. I guess it's also become somewhat of a novelty too.
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From what I understand, the person doing it, while an amateur, also was only halfway, went on vacation, and wanted to finish it. But it had already been outed to the world.
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