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Ball of Batteries Re-Energizes Old Trash
Posted by Mark Wilson at 2:00 AM on September 27, 2008
By artist Michel de Broin, the Dead Star is a sculpture formed from batteries at the end of their functional life. He explains, "Left to itself, the sculpture will slowly cool down since there is no longer electronic activity taking place in it." On exhibit at the Eyebeam Centre for Art and Technology in New York, we enjoy the sculpture because it perpetually looks like it's about to explode. [Michel de Broin via MAKE]
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Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:23 AM 27/9/08
@schtum: Clearly he was spinning a little artistic license there.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:20 AM 27/9/08
@Curves Wants a Classic View Default: Perhaps the artist was trying to convey that we, as a society consume far too much energy and precious resources while giving very little back in return...
..On the other hand maybe he was just bored one day and had a bunch of spent batteries lying around.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
schtum
Posted 2:20 AM 27/9/08
Cool down? Why is it warm to begin with? There are no closed circuits shown in that photo. And of course there's no electronic activity taking place in it, because batteries aren't electronic!
schtum
Y2KGTP
Posted 2:13 AM 27/9/08
I am now thinking it looks kinda like a chia-pet.
For batteries.
Y2KGTP
FrankenPC
Posted 2:12 AM 27/9/08
@Curves Wants a Classic View Default:
Sometimes, I think it takes an artist to appreciate some of the art work that's out there.
That being said...Here is what I see when I look at the "blob-o-batteries": Chemicals leaking ALL over the place in a few years.
FrankenPC
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Posted 2:06 AM 27/9/08
I know I am not an artist or anything, but, this looks like a pile of dead batteries to me. Thats it. It doesnt say anything, its not pretty, it doesnt convey a message. Its just trash. Maybe I am too much a realist but, well, its pointless.
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Y2KGTP
Posted 2:03 AM 27/9/08
Needs Blue LEDs inside to make it glow.
Y2KGTP
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:02 AM 27/9/08
Cha, Cha, Cha Chia!
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 2:40 AM 27/9/08
As a Mets fan, I think it needs more D cell batteries if I'm going to be taking it to a game.
OMG! Ponies!
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 2:40 AM 27/9/08
@Y2KGTP: Du-Du-Du-Dura! It's Dura-pet, the pet that warms itself. Just soak Dura-pet in a bowl of salty water, and watch it shock you dead when you reach in to pull it out! Available at all Quick Cheks, K-Marts, Duane Reed drug stores, and anywhere else fine quality goods are sold.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 2:38 AM 27/9/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: This is why the proposed legislation on Hot Glue Guns should be passed. I want a 21 days waiting period, stricter licensing guidelines, background checks, and a ban on high capacity glue sticks.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
SirBeef
Posted 2:26 AM 27/9/08
This guy should sell these things. I'd buy one, and if I got tired of it, I could put it in my microwave and really make it blow up.
SirBeef
beyondthetech
Posted 2:52 AM 27/9/08
Put some tentacles on that thing and it reminds me of The Matrix...
beyondthetech
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:51 AM 27/9/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: *to
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:51 AM 27/9/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: Yes and as I understand it the Scrapbookers are lobbying hard so quash this.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
zenpoet
Posted 2:49 AM 27/9/08
Is it wrong that I want to put that in the microwave?
zenpoet
Con Seannery
Posted 3:08 AM 27/9/08
I want one with a subwoofer in it, and the batteries push in and out in time with the music, each battery moving randomly.
Con Seannery
Con Seannery
Posted 3:06 AM 27/9/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: A license to kill?
Con Seannery
thefutureisnow
Posted 3:39 AM 27/9/08
looks like a giant brain made out of batterries to me.
thefutureisnow
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 3:36 AM 27/9/08
It looks like a piece of coral to me.
Kaiser-Machead
J. Nadeau
Posted 3:30 AM 27/9/08
Until the batteries start leaking...
J. Nadeau
frigg
Posted 3:50 AM 27/9/08
If Daryl Hannah were here, she'd point to it and go: "ooooh, pretty!"
frigg
Omni Loser
Posted 4:19 AM 27/9/08
if those where live batteries, could that thing be used as an engine for an elcetric car?
Omni Loser
DeusExMach
Posted 5:01 AM 27/9/08
@frigg: may she rest in peace.
DeusExMach
vinnyr
Posted 5:01 AM 27/9/08
what about when they start leaking?
vinnyr
DeusExMach
Posted 5:00 AM 27/9/08
@Curves Wants a Classic View Default: And maybe the pointlessness IS the point.
...whoa. existential.
DeusExMach
Stem_Sell
Posted 5:40 AM 27/9/08
No Igor, you fool, not *that* brain! It's obviously been exposed big-time lithium doses!
Stem_Sell
FiveLiters
Posted 5:34 AM 27/9/08
Looks like a hemmorhoid from the LHC.
FiveLiters
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 6:41 AM 27/9/08
@Con Seannery: No, more like Thunderball.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Toshie
Posted 8:05 AM 27/9/08
@DeusExMach: Hehe, you got me.
Toshie
jscseattle
Posted 9:26 AM 27/9/08
The leaking batteries will be the best part, natural decay... self acting performance art.
jscseattle
jscseattle
Posted 9:28 AM 27/9/08
The decaying, leaking batteries will be extra cool. Performance art, the decay of tech, the hole in the table, the hole in the floor, the smell of the acid.
jscseattle
hindsight2020
Posted 12:07 AM 28/9/08
@J. Nadeau: my thoughts exactly!
hindsight2020