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A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-most-modern-art dept.

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Coward writes "Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!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."

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  1. Hmm. by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them!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.


    BTW, Coral cache mirror, MirrorDot mirror

  2. Queer eye for the... by merpal · · Score: 5, Funny

    basement-dwelling nerd who has saved every system he's owned since 1980. :)

    http://www.computersforart.org/create/blue/big/san dy_smith_07.jpg

  3. What defines art? No, it's 'WHO' defines art by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Definitions of art:
    http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q= define%3Aart
    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.
    1. Re:What defines art? No, it's 'WHO' defines art by datafr0g · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I disagree...
      Art is "art" to an observer whenever they think something has the qualities of art.
      Errm, in other words:
      Anything at all is art (to the observer) when the observer thinks it is because of a (artistic) quality or meaning percieved...

      If I find a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk artful, then it is to me because I think it is.
      It is arrogant (and unfortunatly common) though to force a perception of art upon others.... that's what pisses people off about the "what defines art" question.

      --
      "Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
  4. Pretty? Scary? Sad? by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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)

  5. Re:Pretty? Scary? Sad? by xstonedogx · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Pretty? Scary? Sad? by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.