Respect Authority

With the depressing state of the American economy, and Treasury Secretary Paulson suddenly deciding today that he’d rather use the $700 billion bail out to buy himself a Volcano fortress in the shape of a skull instead of buying up banks’ troubled assets, consumers may be looking for new ways to use their increasingly worthless currency. Self-described money-folder Won Park has come up with some pretty amazing alternative uses for dollar bills with his unique breed of origami.

That’s certainly the cheapest SLR I’ve ever seen — the coolest part about his work is that most of his creations use only one dollar bill. However, the spider pictured after the jump breaks the bank, using an obscenely exorbitant two dollars. Talk about stretching your savings.

The level of detail on these is absurd considering they’re not that much larger than a quarter. The koi are particularly gorgeous — the way the dollar bill’s own intricacies work into the koi’s design is masterful to the point that I’m left to assume that Park is, in fact, a machine.

You can dazzle us with your high-tech dollar bill wizardry, cyborg bitch, but you can never take our humanity away from us! You know, until armies of robots begin harvesting human beings to power their insatiable doomsday infrastructure — but other than that, forget about it, fuckers!

Regardless, considering how stunning the results are, this is really one of the cheapest artistic endeavors you could possibly attempt, to say nothing of actually proving that the U.S. dollar is still worth something anyway. And just think, come the imminent apocalypse, all that folding will keep your mind off of the fact that you’ve been eating a diet of cardboard for weeks and everyone you know is a skeleton. See, money can buy happiness after all.