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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Coward writes "Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!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."
...but this is actually kind of gay.
I mean, he hasn't built a house from computers, has he? He's build some room dividers which are about as interesting as piles of dirty laundry. Wake me when he does build a house.
Definitions of art:= define%3Aart
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That's a lot of definitions. Art is art when 'articians' say it is so.
Authoritarial justification.
Even extreme things, like burning crosses or crossdressed foetusses can be considered art. And before modding me down for this: I do not agree with the examples I just gave.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
I don't know if it's supposed to be pretty or scary.
Pictures like these remind me of how eery a society we live in. It's actually kind of depressing or even scary.
(In an I'm-in-front-of-my-computer-at-4:45AM kind of way)
Amateur Execution.
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I would look at some of those pictures and start thinking "I have one of those computers..and one of those..that one too.."
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
Seriously... I get headaches some times when I spend too much time around too many turned on computers. I have three at my desk, or four if you count the desk... (Long story, dont ask.)
Seriously... that much screen radiation, buzzing, hot air and electrical interferance just cant be good for... well, anything or anyone.
Just as something is humor when it makes you laugh, something is art when it makes you stop and wonder. So art is, just like humor, quite personal, and it's not because you don't get it that it's a bad joke per se.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Unless these machines end up in permanent exhibitions, which I guess few will, all you're doing is moving the problem along. The organisation will have to dispose of them eventually.
I note the lack of LCD flat screens in these projects - bet it wont be that way in five years time...
"Recycling", sounds more like a bunch of clunkers wasting of power on processes which could be completed with a mere Transmeta.
Your Momma's so fat she makes emacs look like nano!
Constructed from 16 monitors and 60 computers in a dimly lit round basement space, the circular structure of The Blackhouse faces outwards, yet allows the viewer to look over and into complicated interior.
It's the whole 'dimly lit round basement space' that gets me... I walked past this when it was built a few weeks ago, as I live 2 blocks from the Art School, and not only was it in the floorspace of an empty shop, but it was looking out onto a busy main road. To be perfectly honest, it looked like someone was bored and had arranged a pile of junk computers in a circle. Completely uninspiring and boring. I even told my girlfriend about the 'pile of crap in the shop' and that she shouldn't worry as I won't be asking for any of it. I'm sorry, but I can't see how this passes for 'art'...
he's not blaming the computers, he's just noting that it's one way careless people pollute the environment. sheesh.