Creative destruction

Here’s a cool idea – let’s buy those overpriced apple products and then destroy them for the sake of art. If it won’t catch on we’ll be a couple thousand dollars behind budget, but if it does we might actually sell the prints and get the money for even more gadgets to destroy. Some we can even spare and use perhaps? Naaah. Michael Tompert is an artist that specializes in destroying apple products and photographing the results. He uses sledgehammers, blowtorches and other tools not necessarily associated with electronics-care. And for some odd reason that twisted, colorful metal looks really, really good. But kids don’t do it at home! More pictures after the break.

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