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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.
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
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)
nothing to see here
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.
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.
- From an artist to you.
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.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
did taco have a kid?
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1) Integrate hard drive into painting
2) POST ON SLASHDOT
3) Profit!!!
...and some of the articles I submitted to /. were rejected!
This is a bold attempt at combining different media that challenges the way we think about blah, blah, blah... Just kidding. This sucks.