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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."
How well is it dealing with being on fire?
Now I can combine my two dream jobs into one exciting career path: art thief and data pirate!
Oh man, I can't wait for a high-brow credit card company to install some of these in their art gallery / server room.
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Stuff that matters? That some guy wants to sell some art on Slashdot? On the plus side, when the dupe is posted, it will have some funny comments. (unlike this post)
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The fans spin, wow! Sign me up for that, talk about art pushing innovation.
To be honest, this might have been worth something if the drive was anything other than a Maxtor.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
so he mounted a hard disk drive to a picture? i mean, case mods are cool. This is unique i guess, but I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed..
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It's an interesting idea, and kudos for pulling it off, but I do have a little constructive criticism. The hard drive seems minimally integrated into the piece -- there is a large neuron area where you cut the hole for the drive, but the actual aesthetics of the hard drive don't have much to do with the surroundings. It feels like a first draft in this respect.
Secondly, the fans baffle me. Given their distance from the drive, while they may be function in that they work, they're not functional in that they have no practical purpose. And how do they integrate with the "neuron" metaphor? Fans don't transmit information -- it seems that they were put there for the sake of having more things poke out for the back, but I think it would have more of an impact if the drive itself were more of a focus.
Again, this is intended as constructive criticism, stuff to think about for the next iteration. Congrats on completing the project. I hope there's more to come.
..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.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/522c43281d7bde218 5d2d7a523fdf2cf/index.html
that's just stupid.
not even clever. ooo, i glued a hard drive to a poster.
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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.
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A serious work of art with a joke for a disk drive.
What would the MTBF of this painting be?
Oh well, what the hell...
The art itself is decent enough, but I don't think that's necessarily the thrust of this.
I think what he (the artist) might be asking us to do is to challange our technological paradigms. I mean, why shouldn't our hard drives have ornamental value as well as technological? A lot of computers are still ugly white rectangles that invade a room's space rather than compliment it. How about a hard drive vase? Maybe a webcam inside of a bust? I don't really know where to take it myself; 'course I'm not an artist. But I think it's a good idea for our gadgets to be works of art as well as utilitarian tools.
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Technically, the hard-drive can be replaced if needed. Hmmm, Would it still be art with a 400GB SATA drive in there. I dunno, seems like a waste of a good picture to me.
Two whole weeks ?! Wow, what an immense amount of sweat equity. And the planning was included in the two weeks? Wow, um, I'm underwhelmed.
I guess it shows how much planning went into it.
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1) Integrate hard drive into painting
2) POST ON SLASHDOT
3) Profit!!!
Hey - I'll give you 50 cents for the fans if you give me free shipping?
...and some of the articles I submitted to /. were rejected!
I liken the fans to Alzheimers or other neurocentric deficiencies of the mind. They are insanity and confusion, a spiraling of the thought process out of control.
... partaking of both +Funny and +Insightful, yet different from either ... I'm not sure what to call it, perhaps +Dreamtime or +Neal-Stephenson-Metaphoric ....
Your intriguing comments deserve a new mod category
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This is a bold attempt at combining different media that challenges the way we think about blah, blah, blah... Just kidding. This sucks.
So, is that what the goatse picture is all about? The man trying to get the CPU back out?
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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.
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What about flush mounting the drive with a Plexiglas cover (yeah warranty voiding) and do a partial cover with come of the oil paint for a more integrated look.
I do like the idea of peripherals as art, and with the slew of laptops auto magically turning into wall tops this is an interesting addition to it all, For future art projects a wall top with the interesting hard drive (like the one I described above) displayed in a full height canvas would be a very interesting art meets technology project.
With this you could have the laptop screen saver be various alternative images to fill in the hole it created and change the art work it is in. (family pictures would definitely be a lame use of this kind of art hack.
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