The Neuron Drive

billy writes "After two weeks of planning, painting, cutting, and slicing, I have completed my idea for the Neuron Drive, the world's first 80GB canvas. It is a fully functional USB hard-drive. The Neuron Drive contains 2 fans and 1 Maxtor 80GB hard-drive. It is fully functional as a hard-drive and both fans spin."

Comments

in case you don't know what the heck he means..

[Anonymous Coward]

..and don't want to click the link..

some amateur artist has stuck a hard drive onto a painting.

Personally, it does nothing for me, the painting would be more interesting without that hard drive stuck there (and with a few lighter colors or highlights so it isn't so dark overall).

Or at least don't show the brand and label of the hard drive, it really sticks out like a sore thumb.

If I were creating something like this, I"d put the hard drive where you couldn't see it, and just put some LEDs or something on the front. And the fans too, those are okay and would make the viewer "think twice" about what might be behind.

Keep trying though, it's a cool concept.

Mirror at Mirrordot

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/522c43281d7bde218 5d2d7a523fdf2cf/index.html

Art??

[djdanlib]

That's just ugly.

I wouldn't hang it on my wall.

Seriously, something you painted to fit a "cool someone will buy this" theme plus computer parts does not make an art piece. I don't care how much of a geek you are. Was there ANY thought about composition?

If you want to be an artist, you need to think about making art, not making something "cool" that someone will want to buy. Don't sell out like that.

- From an artist to you.

Re:wow

[Anonymous Coward]

no. breeder 'tardedness. gay is good.

Re:Just had to be....

[Sir_Real]

I've had half a dozen die on me in the last 18 months. I kept buying more, thinking, "what are the odds that *FIVE* of these could die in a row?" ... I'm posting this from a machine I spent all day rebuilding because it's Maxtor drive died. That company is pure evil. There will be a class action suit against them like there was against IBM and their deathstars years ago.

BACK UP YOUR DATA

Re:Artist missed the "art" portion of the project.

[mrchaotica]

The AC was wrong; the hard drive IS visible. He thought this was the final shot (presumably because it was captioned "the completed oil, still a little wet"), but this was actually it.