{"id":2675,"date":"2010-11-19T23:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T06:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/11\/his-methods-of-destruction-varied-by-gadget\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:01:34","slug":"his-methods-of-destruction-varied-by-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/19\/his-methods-of-destruction-varied-by-gadget\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;His methods of destruction varied by gadget.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thestyleraconteur.com\/2010\/11\/19\/destroyed-apple-products\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Style Raconteur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Destroyed Apple\u00a0Products<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestyleraconteur.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/ap01.jpg\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0060ff; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thestyleraconteur.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/ap01.jpg?w=500&amp;h=232\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2697\" title=\"ap01\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" style=\"clear: both; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; max-width: 100%; width: auto; height: auto; border-width: 0px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This makes me wince a little because of my love of apple products but the results look very cool, a series of smashed, mangled, shot up and melted apple products are the subject of a recent photography project by a san francisco graphic designer who said he\u2019s trying to make people think about their relationship with these universally beloved gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Tompert said he had spent the last several months purchasing the newest in apple\u00a0consumer technology and then creatively destroying the pricey toys. the results, which\u00a0he photographed, briefly went on display at a gallery exhibition that ran over the weekend\u00a0at the small gallery in San Francisco. Tompert said the idea for the project came to him after he gave each of his two sons\u00a0an ipod touch for christmas. He said the two boys fought over one of the devices, which\u00a0had a certain game on it. fed up with the quarrel, Tompert said he grabbed one of the ipods\u00a0and smashed it on the ground.\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\u2018they were kind of stunned \u2013 the screen was broken and this liquid poured out of it.<\/em>\u00a0I<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0got my camera to shoot it,<\/em>\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">my wife told me that i should do something with it.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His methods of destruction varied by gadget. to destroy an iphone 3g device, he used a\u00a0heckler &amp; koch handgun to blow a hole through it. to obliterate a set of ipod nanos,\u00a0he placed the devices on a train track so that a locomotive would run over them.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/thestyleraconteur.com\/2010\/11\/19\/destroyed-apple-products\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TheStyleRaconteur.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Style Raconteur Destroyed Apple\u00a0Products This makes me wince a little because of my love of apple products but the results look very cool, a series of smashed, mangled, shot up and melted apple products are the subject of a recent photography project by a san francisco graphic designer who said he\u2019s trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}