Hardware and Software Art

Lupulack writes "Worried about where your discarded obsolete technology ends up ? If it's lucky it might be at electronic-ouroborus.com/, where broken - down electronics are transformed into eye pleasing sculpture. Recycling can be art." And yaxu writes "The runme software art repository is now open. Share your favourite piece of software art; whether it be an algorithm, an irc bot, a software app misappropriation, a virus or sendmail exploit..."

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subjective

[selectspec]

eye pleasing sculpture

If you find old computer junk glued together eye pleaseing. Don't sell your Picassos yet.

From the site

[jcoy42]

I will be away from my studio from Feb 7 to 20 ...

Which makes this a nice time for a /. front page link. :)

I wonder what he'll make out of the puddle of muck his server is likely to be when he gets back?

Does this count?

[Peterus7]

I went to a halloween party as a crazy tech junkie scientist type and I had a motherboard strung around my neck. Well, it looked cool, and it was really functional.

For some reason, all the girls there couldn't get their hands off my motherboard, and they kept on fawning about how it was so big and hard. A friend commented about the reason it was green was I had that string tied around it.

But anyhow, that motherboard was how I met my most recent girlfriend. That's pretty damn functional, if you ask me.

I wonder if I'm the only person who uses old hardware to be functional as pimpware...?

Re:Does this count?

[Sneftel]

Gosh darn it, I want the girls at parties I go to to be like the girls at parties you go to. Lucky SOB. :-P

The Only Eye-Pleasing Computer Art...

[Quaoar]

...is when a Windows machine is cleaved in twine with a battle axe.

Re:Hard Disk Platter Art

[Dark Lord Seth]

I also heard a story where someone took a bunch of these and fashioned a skirt out of them. He attatched them together using monofiliment line. When he wore that skirt and did a twirl, it would be an awsome sight and the sound could be heard from quite a distance away.

Actually, I'd be mighty worried if I saw a GUY in a SKIRT made out of HD PLATTERS do a TWIRL...

winner, best algorithm

[frenetic3]

/* inspired by chris rock */
void get_home_from_work_talk_to_gf( void )
{
say( "how was your day?" );
while ( 1 )
{
switch ( rand() % 10 )
{
case 0: say( "Get out of here!" ); break;
case 1: say( "Go on." ); break;
case 2: say( "I don't believe it!" ); break;
case 3: say( "You don't say..." ); break;
case 4: say( "Really?" ); break;
default: say( "I told you that bitch crazy!" ); break;
}
}
}

Re:RedHat 6.0 box is strategically placed ;-)

[$$$$$exyGal]

If that doesn't work, maybe this one will: Is this art? #2

--naked