I like to crash cars ... for art

[modular9]

look away if you like muscle cars.

 

http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/schipperjCrash.html

 

Basically this is a machine that slowly crashes 2 cars together and at a certain point the artist stops the machine and calls it done.

 

'nuff said really.

[S30Mike]

Yeah! smash em!

[sexual_sushi]

I really like the idea, poor cars though They should do it with excels or something but it wouldn't look as good

[waxhead]

Why dont they get artists and slowly squash them together until there heads pop

 

What a waste of good metal i thought most artist were hairy kombi driving , grass smoking greenies

 

I dont think they would like such a waste of valuable minerals

[nizm0zed]

my big criticism? they attached the cars to the machine by the rear axle.

so when they push against each other, they bend the rear of the car too.

If they modded the subframe a bit and bolted it down like that, it'd look more realistic.

maybe even introduce a slight angle in the impact?

 

but i am wondering, if i do this in canberra (apparently a very arty place) can i apply for a government grant?

A friend of mine's mother got a grant of $40k to make some painted concrete posts.

[nizm0zed]

damn right im a critic, if i think its shit, i'll say so ;D

[modular9]

I agree I find the juxtoposition of the socio economic have-nots  and the top echelon of society being played out in a bourgeois SOHO art -space,  frankly deplorable. 

 

Closer look at the shots looks like the cars are stripped and in some cases the rust is too far gone. Still dont like to see it.