Appliance internals
August 21, 2008 11:30 AM   Subscribe

 
I wanted to hate this.

I failed.

Cool!
posted by ardgedee at 11:33 AM on August 21, 2008


If I wanted to see these, I'd look in my neighbor's yard.
posted by boo_radley at 11:34 AM on August 21, 2008 [5 favorites]


I wish he had higher-res versions available, but still: Sweet!
posted by everichon at 11:38 AM on August 21, 2008


Her composition is just amazing.
posted by nasreddin at 11:41 AM on August 21, 2008


I like her composition and cropping, but I actually wanted to see all the parts so was kind of disappointed.
posted by GuyZero at 11:49 AM on August 21, 2008


Gah. Her. I am an ass.
posted by everichon at 11:54 AM on August 21, 2008


I like this, but would love it if there were 4x as many pixels.
posted by aubilenon at 12:03 PM on August 21, 2008


This is like that scene in Apollo 13. "Houston, we have a problem." "OK, here's what we have. Make a blender."
posted by DU at 12:04 PM on August 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


Big deal, I do this with bike parts and an old blanket. Seriously, these are nice.
posted by fixedgear at 12:23 PM on August 21, 2008


Really nice. Thanks for posting it.
posted by Shepherd at 12:29 PM on August 21, 2008


No disassemble! No dead! REASSEMBLE, Stefanie!

Oh... beautiful! Many fragments. Some large, some small. Beautiful disassemble! Beautiful dead!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:48 PM on August 21, 2008


Gah. This reminds me of the last time I tried to fix the stand mixer. Tried, and failed. brittnybadger, why must you mock me?
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2008


Wish I had done this as a kid, I might have been able to put back together all the things I took apart.
posted by zengargoyle at 1:12 PM on August 21, 2008


You know, zengargoyle, when I took apart our stove, I made a video of the process so I could remember how to put it back together. It worked quite well, actually!
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:17 PM on August 21, 2008


This art student has a future laying out the pieces in the assembly instructions for IKEA furniture or what have you.

Or since she now has a fairly intricate understanding of how these things are assembled, she could apply her artistic abilities to adding form to the function of these apparatuses.
posted by clearly at 1:23 PM on August 21, 2008


Cue Grandaddy's Broken Household Appliance National Forest.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 2:46 PM on August 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


The extraordinary in the everyday; the art in the artifice. Nice. Thanks.
posted by nax at 2:50 PM on August 21, 2008


I'm going to show these pictures to the microwave so it will do its damn job.
posted by louche mustachio at 4:45 PM on August 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work,
must be resisted for they never fit together agaiiiiiiin....
posted by pompomtom at 4:55 PM on August 21, 2008


Edythe Wright
posted by InkaLomax at 5:02 PM on August 21, 2008


Reassembly?

Engineers talking back to art students isn't *quite* as lovely - better stick with taking things apart.

Great post, thanks!
posted by puckish at 6:35 PM on August 21, 2008


Disassembled car
posted by hydrophonic at 8:18 PM on August 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


Interesting post and very depressing in that the guts of common machines should seem so mysterious or surprising that they become art. Maybe if you're old, as I am (thumps cane), you can't help thinking you're looking at pictures from disjoint service manuals.
posted by jet_silver at 9:23 PM on August 21, 2008


I love these. Nice find, AZ.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:56 PM on August 21, 2008


Interesting post and very depressing in that the guts of common machines should seem so mysterious or surprising that they become art.

Few of the parts were mysterious or surprising to me. It's the color combination, layout, composition and so forth that makes it artistic.
posted by DU at 2:55 AM on August 22, 2008


...the guts of common machines...

At last! Art that the common machine can understand and appreciate! Never mind all that paint splattered onto canvas, and pictures of soup cans, or cows cut in half. That's stuff only some kind of high-falooting supercomputer could fathom! This is art that the machine-on-the-street can relate to! Art that the common machine can feel in his gut. Cause it's made FROM his guts!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:11 AM on August 22, 2008 [1 favorite]


Yet again I have a complete and utter failure to see or appreciate art.
posted by TomMelee at 4:48 AM on August 22, 2008


The Edythe Wright link is interesting as well. Not just for the "stuff taken apart" aspect but also because of what it says about archeology (or at least museum presentations of archeology). The way the vacuum cleaner is laid out doesn't tell you anything about how it either works or is used. The logic of the layout has nothing to do with the object and everything to do with the person doing the laying out.

It would interesting to see what kind of layout a more engineery artist would come up with. Something like an exploded view maybe. Or maybe something from a users point of view.

In fact, that would be the interesting thing. Give a bunch of identical vacuum cleaners (say) to people of different backgrounds (graphic designer, engineer, cleaning person, etc) and ask them to "explain" the item in a sculptural format.

PS: interesting interesting interesting
posted by DU at 5:21 AM on August 22, 2008 [1 favorite]


I guess it's my turn for this:

metafilter: interesting interesting interesting.
posted by Herodios at 7:01 AM on August 22, 2008


but stupid but stupid but stupid
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:10 AM on August 22, 2008


Add me to the list of appreciators.

Even though they are rendered in very different media, for me it calls to mind both Ives Tanguy's "things on a horizon" paintings and Peter Aschwanden's pen and ink exploded views (regrettably, these tiny images don't do them justice) for the original VW "Idiot's Guide" books.
posted by Herodios at 7:13 AM on August 22, 2008


You know who else said "interesting, but schtupid". . . .
posted by Herodios at 7:14 AM on August 22, 2008


Here's another nice Peter Aschwanden illustration, of a CV joint assembly. Not as many parts, but here you can see what's going on.

Machinery can be beautiful.
posted by Herodios at 7:18 AM on August 22, 2008


She has a great eye. Can't wait to see what she goes on to.

I would love a set of prints of these in the kitchen.
posted by fiercecupcake at 9:26 AM on August 22, 2008


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