How cool does this thing look!? Sure, I wouldn’t want it in my living room, but darn, I have to admit I think this iPhone 3G ‘tower’ looks kind of freaky-cool… Although, I’m sure there’s more than one iPhone / Apple ‘hater’ out there that will think this looks like a pile of…… You fill in the blank 🙂
Russian art collective Electroboutique put this piece together, inspired by ‘Tatlin’s Tower‘. Here’s the official description:
A giant distorted iPhone 3G, shaped as Tatlin’s Monument to the 3d International. Tatlin’s work is considered one of the avant-garde icons, whereas iPhone is a bright techno-consumerist icon of today. Back in the 20’s of the last centuries avant-garde artists have invented design as a way to bring art into people’s homes. During the 20’s century designers were gradually taking artistic ideas and implementing them into product design. Today we see companies claiming their products are art objects themselves; art has to re-define its role in the society again. The Monument to 3G links together the beginning and the current state of nearly a century of art-to-design dialogue and follows the strategy of re-claiming the designers’ ideas back into art.
Oooook then. Love it or hate it, and say what you will… I kind of like it. But I was wondering, could I perhaps get a Nexus One version of this thing!?
[Electrotoutique via Gizmodo]