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'Sculpture' Fires Beer Bottles at a Wall at 600KPH
Posted by Adam Frucci at 1:02 AM on July 16, 2008
Now this is what I call art. It's a sculpture/robot that flings empty beer bottles at a solid wall at 600 KPH, smashing them to smithereens. As the exhibit goes on during the day, a pile of green shards of glass piles up under the wall. It's a comment on rock and roll or something, but I'm a simple man. I just like seeing things smash. If you're like me, you can go check out the cannon at the SUPERDOME exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Hit the jump for another shot of the cannon in action.
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strider_mt2k
Posted 2:02 AM 16/7/08
@Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy: He's got a star for a reason, folks.
(thanks man!)
strider_mt2k
kwanzabot
Posted 1:59 AM 16/7/08
I totally want a few to set up my home perimeter defense system. Any volunteers to help me produce the empties for ammo?
kwanzabot
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 1:47 AM 16/7/08
I designed something similar to this to send my empties across my yard into the woods behind my house. The only thing that stopped me was a lack of a large CO2 cylinder. It was/will be a motar like device in which you slide your empties in, and it uses compressed air to shoot it skywards. This came to mind after designing a air powered potatoe gun.
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
ezman
Posted 1:45 AM 16/7/08
@Saboth: I was thinking the same thing... perhaps they become completely obliterated and the fragments are so small that they simply fall down harmlessly. That or they have plastic around the impact zone.
Nice vid, btw.
ezman
nutbastard
Posted 1:43 AM 16/7/08
ok, i know 373MPH SOUNDS like it's really fast.
but it's only 547 feet per second.
which is how fast it would be going if it did a free fall with negligible atmospheric interference from a height of 4896 feet.
/nerd
nutbastard
ripfire
Posted 1:41 AM 16/7/08
I'm clicking at the picture and it won't play. I think there's something wrong.
ripfire
erikislame
Posted 1:38 AM 16/7/08
bless you, stevedave.
bless you.
erikislame
Saboth
Posted 1:37 AM 16/7/08
"Citizens! Do not worry. It is impossible for any fragments smaller than 5 inches to bombard you through the wire fence! Please step closer to the exhibit!"
Saboth
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 1:37 AM 16/7/08
Here you go all. God Bless Google Video search.
+ Watch video
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
ANoel
Posted 1:29 AM 16/7/08
... so long Barry Zito... sign this up!
ANoel
Platypus Man
Posted 1:28 AM 16/7/08
The official site is here: [www.palaisdetokyo.com]
It's called Afasia 1. Even with that, I still can't find a video.
Guys: Don't blame Giz for the lack of video! It's the fault of everyone who has been there and took no videos!
Platypus Man
strider_mt2k
Posted 1:24 AM 16/7/08
@Wireless Joe: That was just Claus if I've ever seen it.
strider_mt2k
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Posted 1:17 AM 16/7/08
No Video???? I ...just want to SMASH a Bottle!!! ARRG!!
(this art exhibit is about anger and its release!)
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Wireless Joe
Posted 1:17 AM 16/7/08
@Wireless Joe: Claus. CLAUS.
Wireless Joe
strider_mt2k
Posted 1:17 AM 16/7/08
Where's your high-def slo-mo camera NOW????
strider_mt2k
Th3Chos3n0n3
Posted 1:16 AM 16/7/08
Give us video :(
Th3Chos3n0n3
graphx
Posted 1:14 AM 16/7/08
dammit i want a video :( things shooting, glass shards flying i mean cmon!!! damn art show people.
graphx
Wireless Joe
Posted 1:14 AM 16/7/08
There's no video? I was better off before I knew this existed. Now I know it's out there somewhere, but I can't see it. It's Santa Clause all over again.
Wireless Joe
hagrun
Posted 1:14 AM 16/7/08
@erikislame: Agreed. It's like picking up your cup of soda only to find there is none left because your greedy wife drank it while you were on the computer working your finances to make sure her overactive shopping habit doesn't end up making us live on the street then having your dog hit by a car because we have no walls in which to keep him restrained. I HATE that.
hagrun
Monty
Posted 1:13 AM 16/7/08
After I go on a crazy rampage in the Bellevue Square Apple Store and destroy everyone sitting at the genius bar with a stupid question, this is the way I would like to be put to my death: Beer bottles being tossed at me at 373 miles per hour.
Mmmmm... Beer.
Monty
Hectorvex
Posted 1:12 AM 16/7/08
I like this. It would be a great device to throw people out of bars. Just load in some empties and aim it at that obnoxious drunk guy hitting on all the chicks. You may have to slow down the MPH though... just a bit.
Hectorvex
Adam Frucci
Posted 1:11 AM 16/7/08
@erikislame: Trust me, if there was a video of it in action available I would post it.
Adam Frucci
whatnot22
Posted 1:11 AM 16/7/08
It's a science experiment from Mythbusters to see if light beer flies faster than regular.
whatnot22
videoCWK
Posted 1:05 AM 16/7/08
Slowmo video?
videoCWK
erikislame
Posted 1:05 AM 16/7/08
How can you have something this amazing and NOT have a videeo clip attached? Bad form.
erikislame
Titus_Andronicus
Posted 2:45 AM 16/7/08
so are you guys like drawing straws to see who gets to go to paris with casio ex-f1 to film this in slowmo? than a tomato
Titus_Andronicus
plailleur
Posted 2:40 AM 16/7/08
I have a vision...
Ammunition is far too much expensive.
Just mount those babies on military vehicles and organize the gathering of beer bottles across the US. Problem solved!
ps: Soldiers packed with full bottles could also reload on the battlefield!
plailleur
PeterSimpson
Posted 2:32 AM 16/7/08
I came for the Blues Brothers reference...
// Nice magazine for the ammo...
/// You call that a video?
PeterSimpson
plailleur
Posted 3:32 AM 16/7/08
I may move to the Palais of Tokyo... But i don't have a Casio EX-F1... Paypal? Anyone.
plailleur
NightElfMohawk
Posted 3:21 AM 16/7/08
Okay... looks like a bottle batting cage to me. Not so much "art". Someone put A-Rod at the end of that thing - maybe he'll get hit by a pitch.
NightElfMohawk
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 3:01 AM 16/7/08
@Titus_Andronicus: I think there will now be enough of a call to compel a French reader to wander down there and take some photos.
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
o0adam0o
Posted 4:42 AM 16/7/08
Ill make sure to purchase one of these...should come in handy on my next bar fight.
o0adam0o
DeCerbo
Posted 6:16 AM 16/7/08
Can we get a mash-up in here, please? This beer bottle gun + paintball sentry gun.
DeCerbo
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Posted 9:22 AM 16/7/08
Sir, were you drunk when you activated the beer bottle auto-cannon?
Well hell yeah! How's else am I supposed to get ammo for the cannon if I don't drink it?
Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy
Nick-Tick
Posted 1:30 AM 16/7/08
Who else wants to build one and have a battle with me? Of course it would be a shame to shoot full bear bottles.
Do you think that you could shoot a molotov cocktail out of one? I think I've just found a new hobby.
Nick-Tick
Tiago Sartor
Posted 11:52 AM 17/7/08
@Tiago Sartor: THE bottles. Sorry.
Tiago Sartor
Tiago Sartor
Posted 11:52 AM 17/7/08
At least to bottles are empty, otherwise I'd call it a waste of sacred liquid.
Tiago Sartor
cupidissimo
Posted 8:04 PM 16/7/08
funny, i was there a few days ago. so:
there's plastic around the last meters, so you couldn't get hit by anything.
you couldn't get hit anyway, because the bottle literally turns into dust.
you don't really see much either, it just makes a whole lot of noise and that's all. unfortunately it doesn't tell you when it's about to launch.
cupidissimo