Destroyed Apple products as art (photos)
Provocative photo exhibit shows giant pics of mutilated Apple gadgets as a statement on consumers' attachment to their toys.
Targeting
Michael Tompert, a San Francisco-area digital imaging and CGI artist, bought a series of brand-new Apple gadgets with the express intent of destroying them and photographing the results as a statement on "our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage."
One of the giant prints, "Targeting," shows a 2009 iPhone 3G that's been shot with a Heckler & Koch handgun.
Breathe
Closeup on "Breathe"
Liquid Crystals
12LVE
You're So 2008&L8
Ouch. The 2008 iPhone 3G pictured in "You're So 2000&L8" has definitely been through it.
Tompert got the idea for the project after seeing his two sons fight over a game on an iPod Touch he gave them for Christmas. Tired of their squabbling and wanting to make the point that the gadget was just that--a gadget--he grabbed the device and threw it to the ground. The screen broke, liquid oozed out, and the mangled device looked surprisingly cool.