Is your temper hard but brittle? Meet the Anger Release Machine: a ware-dropping spiral vending machine stocked with precious porcelain.
There’s a bit more engineering and user experience design behind [Yarisal & Kublitz’s] art installation than meets the eye. The Anger Release Machine drops your purchase from dangerous heights, but like every passive aggressive vending machine, it also does its best to infuriate you using controlled disappointment. Insert a coin, see the steel spirals turn, and just when you’re already dying of the suspense…
Release your anger right below in the comments! We feel with the person in the video.
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It would be better if it intentionally jammed.
+1
I expected someone to shake/tilt the machine to loosen the plate, but I suppose that’s not classy enough for an art gallery
Actually if it was functioning properly it would jam so often someone would eventually shake the machine so hadr it wild fall on them and kill them, now THAT would be art!
I have a feeling this “artist” is amongst those that demand you find meaning is something that is devoid of it.
Ah yes the ultimate minimalist.
It’s all about how the man tries to control your anger by keeping it behind glass bottled up, denies you the freedom of expression like throwing plates at a greek weeding, but sanitises it and makes it a product and shit.
Selling you your anger one mask at a time man…
https://crayfisher.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/irony.jpg
Both irony and brassy!
I feel like it should have a bigger internal space an arm that grabs the plate and then throws it at the floor violently.
The wonders of modern tech, when I was a kid we used to have to wait all year until the School’s summer fair until we could pay to break plates. Basically parents donated all their chipped and old ones, and money was raised selling 3 balls for a buck or something to throw at them propped up on shelves.
hah you had it good boy, in my day we used the chipped and old plates for eating (the good ones were only for looking at), and we had to make our own plates out of sand and elbow grease.
You had Plates?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
I was expecting anger release through physical violence directed at the machine. This machine would just piss me off further. The machine then would then end up turned on its head where all objects within would be released and broken. Anger problem would then be solved. I am just a bit disappointed.
Hope it was engineered with durable buttons.
.. coin slot, panels and bullet proof glass
Paying to “release your anger”? I’d rather hit the machine a couple of times, that’s free at least (if you can run fast enough).
At least do an Apple 1984 on it and video it, then it’s meta art.
dell keyboards are a buck at goodwill.
How heavy are they? Since the Model M incident of 2004 I’m no longer allowed to possess a keyboard weighing in excess of 6oz.
“controlled disappointment”?
are you saying its intended to jam?
Looks like its just poorly made rather than intentional fraud.
Either way a lousy way to relieve anger.
+1
It’s modern art, being good is for squares
“So many artists are willing to suffer for their work, so few are willing to learn to draw” – banksy
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I would have made it so that one coin moved a plate half way to dropping and the next coins and additional 1/4 of the way then 1/8 of the way, each time getting less and never dropping.
Don’t forget to move it back when nobody’s looking, so that after the first few coins the motion doesn’t become imperceptible.
I was expecting that, after moving the first plate halfway to dropping, the coin-mech would reject all further coins put in.
It needs something extra like it could launches them at you, hitting the window or at least drop the items with a bit of gusto.
How about a BB gun mounted pointing at the bottom so you can put them out of their misery for an extra 50c?
Idea is nice, but vid sadly shows how it doesnt work at all, would be good to spend a little more time on it, to make it more reliable. Also personally i would want the porcelain to come out so i get to chuck it at a wall above a bin or something
Spirals? What spirals? I see no spirals. Many helices (or helixes, if you lean that way), but no spirals.
Now THAT makes me so angry I need to vent (or even vend).