Week after week I see more and more TVs and
CRT monitors sitting on the curb. THE GARBAGE PEOPLE DONT TAKE THESE! So
they just sit there with these stickers on them that say.. OOF! YOU
IDIOT! WE DONT TAKE THESE! They just sit there till scrappers in a big truck come by and start ripping them apart for the
metal inside... Or just some Mt. Washington hooligans who like smashing
things tear these apart... So now you got glass all over the place
and exposed big capacitors.. Unsafe! I think about this every day.. All
these TVs and cheesy church lady particle board organs from the 70s and
80s that people can't give away so they try to throw them away and even
the garbage doesn't want them.. But I do! I wish I had a big
warehouse I could put them all in. I'd wire all the organs to one
central organ that played them all and turn the televisions into
oscilloscopes that danced a long with the sounds. I get kinda mad about
this garbage and I start thinking about the movie WALL-E. I think..
well.. at that point you won't ever have to buy anything
because it will be free in the streets.. Which is a point I'm already at
I guess because I've been pulling things out of the trash to make
instruments for years now which may have resulted in HOARDING... But it's
made things a lot cheaper and made me realize as a designer we're only
really making more and more garbage.. Does the world really need new
toasters and blenders when there's already been a bajillion made? But
anyways.... I was walking home last night and on the fence of this
veterans memorial was this little TV. Sitting there completely out of
place next to this flagpole, nice flowers, and plaque that someone works
hard to maintain so I gave the TV a new home before its new life as a
synthesizer.
The pictures were taken using an iPhone, mirrored acrylic, and TV static.
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