artiste machine

long time no post, bet you were all getting a bit worried and thought i'd caught the swine. well i haven't and im class. anyway we had a project at college where we had to choose one painter from a pretty boring list and one sculpture from another, yet surprisingly more boring list. My choices were Rothko and Claes Oldenburg. when you look at my final outcome, if you can't see the influence you are obviously hella ignorant or hella blind.

I've never really made a sculpture so i wanted to give this a shot, and although the idea of making an interactive sculpture that ultimately destroys itself isn't original, i wanted to do it by dropping a tin of paint on itself splashing everyone and being fucking hilarious. i'll get to why this didn't happen later.

Firstly, i think you all should watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZCgFl6SRs

if it reminds you of something, its because the original thinkers that are honda blatently stole this for an advert and then blatently got sued for it. nazis. This is the kind of thing i wanted to do, a big pointless machine that is just a bit of fun at the end of the day.

To start myself off i found a nicely sized box some one else was using, stole it then damaged it so they wouldn't know it was theirs, then i bought some wood, a lot of 6 inch nails, some screws, some plastic pipe shit and other bits and bobs in order to essentially kill it.











i found the hardest thing was getting a succesful pully system and as a result found a practical use for fashion, yeah you heard it. fashion students have fuck loads of these things that you put thread on and they are perfect for sticking on nails and wrapping string around, lube them up nicely and you've got yourself a little pully set. get the fuck in fashion.



and as a whole.




and the video of it in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSWtd1hgwWc

-Jeffro