"doodon2whls" (doodon2whls)
12/20/2013 at 07:50 • Filed to: car crashes, art
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"doodon2whls" (doodon2whls)
12/20/2013 at 07:50 • Filed to: car crashes, art | 2
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I made a gruesome discovery at a Holiday concert last night...
The cars are crashing into one another at an impossibly slow rate of 1 ft per month... That's about 0.4" or 10mm per day - less than half a millimeter (0.016") per hour.
[[UPDATE: If you're having a slow month, you can watch the installation !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ]]
It's an art installation inside the Kimmel Center lobby (open to the public). The piece is entitled, "The slow and inevitable death of American muscle.", by Jonathan Schipper.
The cars are mounted to a frame and hydraulic cylinder with an eccentric-cam-driven pump moving at an impossibly slow rpm.
At one point I watched the hydraulic pressure gauge fluctuate and waited to hear some metal bending, but it was eerily silent...
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :
Don't have three months to watch this ? Here is a Time-Lapse video of a previous installation:
Some more of this madness with scale models.
And more full scale car crashes in super slow mo (with time lapse videos).
So what are your thoughts ? Is this a terrible destruction of two fine classic automobiles ? Or is this a great example of art that provokes contemplation ?
TheDon
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:03 |
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I think this isn't this "artists" first version of this. Why couldn't he have used some useless cars like a beige mobile or a Prius?
The Transporter
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:03 |
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Meh, I never cared about the Fox body, and you know what IROC stands for, don't you?
JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:07 |
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I think that it is actaully brilliant... the whole theme is super clever
turbokitten
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:09 |
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desertdog5051
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:13 |
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Could we speed this up just a bit? I have to be at work on Monday.
80CobraKid
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 00:36 |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT THE MOTHER FUCK WAS THIS 'ARTIST' THINKING? 80-81 COBRAS ARE GETTING RARER AND RARER. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
Takuro Spirit
> The Transporter
12/20/2013 at 08:02 |
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Idiot Rednecks On Crack?
DConsorti
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 08:21 |
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why don't this motherf**** put his f**king head beetween the cars and wait for the slow death he deserves!
Party-vi
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 08:26 |
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*Sees two '80s cars crashing into each other*
Cool.
*Sees some dummy call them muscle cars*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THEY WERE PONY CARS YOU DUMMY!!!!
MoparKetchup
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 08:35 |
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doodon2whls
> MoparKetchup
12/20/2013 at 08:38 |
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I KNOW ! And it gets worse, just wait for it....
It's coming.
Keep waiting...
Almost there...
The suspense is KILLING me.
Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 08:58 |
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YOU PIECES OF FUCKING SHIT.
USE A TAURUS AND A CAMRY OR SOMETHING. YA DONE FUCKED UP.
sorry... I get worked up when classics get needlessly destroyed.
tromoly
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 09:10 |
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Well, that's art for you these days. Wasteful and serves no purpose.
BKRM3
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 09:28 |
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I've seen that thing twice now - about 2 weeks apart and I barely noticed any difference. Snooze fest. I tried to post it to Oppo but I fell asleep in the middle of writing it up.
(OK, I'm being a little flippant about this serious "Art Installation" but it's only because of the incredible installations they've had in the Kimmel previously - I mean really... Eiffel Tower? Planes? Trains? Light show? Yes please!)
Mr. Edward Mann-Polandballer
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 09:33 |
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Needless destruction of the cars, unless it is just new body panels over terminally rusted salvage titles.
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Mr. Edward Mann-Polandballer
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
12/20/2013 at 09:37 |
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How about using a bunch of salvage titles with tinted windows instead of working, driving, useable, classic cars! Also, don't even think about using a base model car and tarting it up either! Cars like that are rare as f***.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 09:50 |
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Can we start smashing "art" instead?
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doodon2whls
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 09:55 |
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I think that's what he is kind of doing...
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 09:58 |
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I mean "art". Bullshit art that only hipsters, art history majors, and old people with money who were swindled into buying it think it's art. Because art is more dead than American muscle.
Dusty Ventures
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 11:12 |
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Honestly, I'm ok with this. For all we know these are salvage cars (flood damage from Sandy maybe?) or seized cars that the state ordered destroyed. My only complaints/concerns are the speed (I'd have it at a yard a month instead of a foot) and the point at which the cars are attached. It seems like in the previous iteration they were attached too far back, causing the teepee effect instead of the desired slow crushing.
Goshen, formerly Darkcode
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 15:13 |
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This is various degrees of stupid. I won't even bother mentioning how the guy is destroying two perfectly good cars - and fine ones at it.
Shoop
> doodon2whls
12/20/2013 at 19:23 |
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http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=c…
Chatham Harrison dba SPANFELLER DELENDUS EST
> 80CobraKid
12/21/2013 at 00:40 |
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At least it's not an M81 McLaren? I am grasping at straws here.
Shiftright
> doodon2whls
12/21/2013 at 14:35 |
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Interesting, but why do it again with two different cars? Did he run out of ideas?
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Shiftright
> 80CobraKid
12/21/2013 at 14:36 |
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Wasn't the '80-'81 Cobra just a stripe and decal kit? Also, I would hardly call it a muscle car, but still, I have a soft spot for angular malaise era Fox bodies
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doodon2whls
> Shiftright
12/21/2013 at 23:02 |
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He probably keeps getting commissioned to do installations, and he would be a foolish artist to turn down business.
Bandit
> doodon2whls
03/06/2014 at 20:56 |
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Second video: Does he have no clue what the price of good sheet metal on those F-bodies is?! Those fenders, doors, and hoods are impossible to find in undamaged shape. Trust me, I've looked. It hurts me inside.
Philbert/Phartnagle
> doodon2whls
03/07/2014 at 00:17 |
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That's not art, it is a simple display by someone who evidently cannot do real ART.
jogart43
> doodon2whls
03/07/2014 at 00:34 |
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Not an original idea, for what it's worth. This type of installation already been done in Europe using a VW Golf made to hydraulically crash into a wall (if I remember correctly). The only thing new here is wasting F-bodies and that Fox body in pairs. I do remember the time I had trying to get a new nose cone for my '77 Firebird when I accidentally rear-ended a Golf and that makes me a little irate to watch this. At any rate, this may or may not be art, but it sure is borrowed.
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doodon2whls
> jogart43
03/07/2014 at 07:51 |
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The artist, Jonathan Schipper, has installed "car crash" as art in many locations over several years .
The Golf crashing into a wall in the UK was also an installation of his.