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Suicide Machines

submitted by chingalera

1 decade 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago

"Suicide Machines, Kinetic Sculptures That Slowly Destroy Themselves
By EDW Lynch on October 18, 2013

Artist Thijs Rijkers has created a pair of “suicide machines,” kinetic sculptures whose sole function is to slowly destroy themselves. “Suicide Machine Saw” uses an electric motor to power three moving saw blades, which slowly cut into the machine’s electric motor. “Suicide Machine Sand” uses an electric motor and gears to slowly pour sand into the gears, thus slowly wearing them down until they break. According to Rijkers, the machines are intended to elicit empathy from viewers."- Laughing Squid

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This is his first one.

Suicide Machine V 2.0 from Thijs Rijkers on Vimeo.

jokingly says...

The sad thing is that its little machine children won't benefit from its life insurance policy due to the nature of its death.

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...and it's reminding my teeth through impulses of pressure to my temples that I need to arrange for a dentist-

This is his first one.

criticalthudsays...

a prelude to robot torture and the eventual demise of humankind

This reminds me of America. No, no, I mean before it was weakened by in-fighting and subsequently invaded by European privateers and colonists.

LiquidDrift says...

These machines are .. deeply moving.

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