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A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs
Anonymous Coward writes "Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them! Photographs of his work; rooms and structures made out of up to 100 (switched-on) computers and other equipment can be seen at computersforart.org/create/;
these should be of interest to anyone who has a habit of collecting old (working)
computers, or just hates the thought of throwing out their old 486 friend."
Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!
I'll have to ask my mom if I can build a house in her basement.
Aw, she says I have to bathe first.
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...if you had a house built of running PCs.
That would be quite an electric bill, though.
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.. or the study when something's cooking.
But seriously - what to people consider art ? This looks like someone who just piles computers up and plugs them in. Kind of like kindergarten but with stuff only adults can lift.
Looks at old 486... "And this is my living room"
My living room is a Packard-Bell. I'm not inclined to brag about it. How come something that never worked right in the first place refuses to die?
KFG
basement-dwelling nerd who has saved every system he's owned since 1980. :)
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http://www.computersforart.org/create/blue/big/sa
I'm going to feng shui my garbage and pawn it off on ebay to some unsuspecting idiot who thinks it's art.
My apartment already looks like this. My electric bill is about $700/mo. The neighbors complain about brownouts, and the insane fan noise scares away the women.
:D
So, if I call it "art" I can claim my pad is an art gallery, eh?
I don't know if it's supposed to be pretty or scary.
It's okay. Those things in the picture are called "girls". What you're feeling is natural.
In any case, you're posting on Slashdot at (apparently) 4:45 your time, so they're nothing you'll ever have to worry about.
say, 2000 per house x about 200 watt each.
400 kilowatt power usage, and emission. The "emission" part would be good if you live in Alaska or Antarctic, or so. The "usage" part would be acceptable if you're a millionaire or own a power plant. I've also seen many CRT monitors. a LOT of them, and old ones, when emission wasn't taken into account so much...
Run SETI@Home on it all, and expect the aliens will visit you really soon. Your house will be shining like a radio-beacon in the space.
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It's okay. Those things in the picture are called "girls". What you're feeling is natural.
Pfft. Dude, I think I know what girls look like. I do see my mother every once in a while so she can cut my hair.
...a beowulf housing development...
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these...
Yeah, I can just feeeeel the awsome computing power equivalent to three gameboys and a HP48 pocket calculator.