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Title: iDeath
Post by: philw on January 03, 2011, 07:47:48 PM: for those that hate all things Apple

iDeath: Artist's 'shots' of Apple products
http://www.cnet.com.au/ideath-artist-s-shots-of-apple-products-339308210.htm
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Michael Tompert, a San Francisco-area digital imaging and CGI artist, bought an assortment of brand-new Apple gadgets with the express intent of destroying them and photographing the results as a statement on "our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage."

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_1.jpg)
Targeting
One of the giant prints, "Targeting," shows a 2009 iPhone 3G that had been shot with a Heckler & Koch handgun.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_2.jpg)
Breathe
This 2008 MacBook Air, pictured in "Breathe," was also shot with a Heckler & Koch handgun. It's one of the prints on display at the WhiteSpace Gallery in Palo Alto, California, not far from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_3.jpg)
Breathe
A closeup of the damage on the MacBook Air. Tompert's friend, Paul Fairchild, photographed the damaged gadgets and turned the photos into giant high-resolution digital prints.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_4.jpg)
Liquid Crystals
A MacBook got the sledgehammer and torch treatment. The result: "Liquid Crystals," which measures 38 x 48 inches.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_5.jpg)
12LVE
This is what an iPhone 4 looks like after getting smashed with an 8-pound sledgehammer. Though some might assume that Tompert's an Apple hater, he used to be part of the company's graphic design team and calls himself an Apple fan from the early days. 12LVE, he says, is meant as a statement on consumer culture.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_6.jpg)
You're so 200&L8
Ouch. The 2008 iPhone 3G pictured in "You're So 2000&L8" has definitely been through it.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_7.jpg)
Tompert got the idea for the project after seeing his two sons fight over a game on an iPod Touch he gave them for Christmas. Tired of their squabbling and wanting to make the point that the gadget was just that — a gadget — he grabbed the device and threw it to the ground. The screen broke, liquid oozed out, and the mangled device looked surprisingly cool.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_8.jpg)
Bookburning
The iPad pictured in "Book Burning" had a date with a sledgehammer and a soldering torch. Each gadget "had to be a brand-new product," Tompert said. "It's not about destroying old products. It's about our relationship with the new."

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_9.jpg)
Caltrain Fatalities: Left Track/Right Track
When a train ran over a bunch of 8GB iPod Nanos, it left behind a vibrant rainbow of destruction.

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_10.jpg)
Caltrain Fatalities: Left Track/Right Track
A detail from "Caltrain Fatalities: Left Track/Right Track" shows a shock of colour

(http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339308210/targeting-apple-art_11.jpg)
After having been exhibited briefly in San Francisco, 12LVE is currently on display at the WhiteSpace Gallery in Palo Alto, in California's Silicon Valley.
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: twyacht on January 03, 2011, 07:52:20 PM: Damn,...I could be on exhibit with them. I shot a Dell Desktop Tower that "died the blue screen of death", with a 50 BMG. Would have fit in perfectly.

:-\
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: fightingquaker13 on January 03, 2011, 08:02:15 PM: I was going to roll my eyes here. A " a statement on "our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage."? Seems more like a statement of "I suffer from ADD and like shooting things up". :D ;) Still, the last photo showing the photos framed in the exhibit? They don't look too shabby. Maybe we should buy one for the corner? ;D
FQ13
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: Big Frank on January 03, 2011, 08:15:58 PM: I like the more colorful ones. There's a kind of beauty to them.
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: Majer on January 03, 2011, 08:19:13 PM: where does one apply for a job helping to shoot up these various apple products? ;D
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: Pathfinder on January 03, 2011, 08:19:51 PM: There's an app for that!!! ;)

;D
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 03, 2011, 08:20:13 PM: Until I saw the movie "Serpent and the Rainbow" I had always thought Zombies were a euphemism for television.
(By the way, after I did see the movie, it was at least 2 days before I could sit in a chair without flinching ;D )
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: shooter32 on January 04, 2011, 12:19:36 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder on January 03, 2011, 08:19:51 PM
There's an app for that!!! ;)

;D

That there is funny!!!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: Tyler Durden on January 05, 2011, 02:59:16 AM: This is art?

???

How much for a print?

And did he get an NEA grant to do that?

Sounds to me like the artist is into BDSM and certain other proclivities.
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: sledgemeister on January 05, 2011, 06:10:26 AM: Mine was shot with all kinds of shit.
I call it "Dealing with stupid peoples computer problems drives me F#$ing NUTS"

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs403.snc4/46645_1568209890670_1398138947_31512836_7193245_n.jpg)
Title: Re: iDeath
Post by: Texas_Bryan on January 05, 2011, 09:51:47 AM: As an artist, I'm going to declare those masterpieces. My favorite example yet of 'non traditional' media.