Hasta La Gadget!

Exploded iPads, melted iPods, shattered iPhones. Tragedy incarnate for the gadget obsessed or works of art? Michael Taggert has made a fairly compelling argument for the latter, destroying a slew of Apple products (including the above image of an iPhone 3G shot with a handgun entitled “Targeting”) and getting his pal Paul Fairchild to take some graphic shots of the carnage.

The photos are now hanging at Palo Alto’s WhiteSpace Gallery, a hop, skip, and jump away from One Infinite Loop. And while Taggert clearly relishes the destruction, he’s an Apple lover who once actually built the products as a member of the company’s legendary design team.

Those who don’t share Taggert’s enthusiasm for the company’s products, however, will likely find a lot to like in the artistic mayhem. Check out some shots after the jump. More images are available over at CNET.

What happens when you burn an iPad? Take a sledgehammer to an iPhone 4? Leave a stack of iPod nanos on the train tracks? Shoot a iPhone 3GS with a 9MM handgun? Carve up a Magic Mouse into sushi-sized chunks? Artist (and former Apple graphics designer) Michael Tompert strove for the beautiful, horrific truth. You’ll find his answer to one of these questions above, and eleven others at our source link below.

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Artists and geeks have a lot in common. Namely, they often share the plight of social awkwardness, a trait that grants them the freedom (or perhaps, sentence) to fritter hours upon hours toiling away at their chosen pursuit. Be they Wozniak or Duchamp, Zuckerberg or Banksy, these peculiar creatures of culture place a singular effort into building the next great technology or crafting aesthetic perfection.

On occasion, these two wonders of society are merged into one. The above video is an effort of three “artists” who spent three days that they will never get back working in the medium of Google Docs Presentation software to create a fairly impressive animation sequence. This is just about the geekiest piece of art since the multi-faceted image made in MS Paint that took four years to complete (video of that amazing and sad creation after the jump).

This is not part of Dan Brown’s novel. Researcher Silvano Vinceti— chairman of the Italian national committee for cultural heritage—has found a secret code in the Mona Lisa by scanning her eyes. A code that could reveal her mysterious identity: More »

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