Saw this on Boing Boing today, it’s a $6000 “chair” that either starts as a steel cube you sledgehammer hammer yourself, or for an extra $800, someone will pre-hammer it for you. Designed by Marijn van der Poll for Droog it’s clearly another sign of the end times. I’m paying $4 for gas, living on survival wages, and somewhere some out-of-touch social parasite is blowing seven grand for the novelty of experiencing a brief moment of hard labor, followed by the novelty of sitting in an overpriced chair, and then, most likely, telling some equally debased subhuman just how expensive it was, and then, most likely, receiving a Pavlovian response from said debased subhuman. The faux-irony of this object is killing me! Literally!
Below is a video of someone “making” one of these chairs.
I’ll make you a deal. Why limit your aesthetic desires to neutral cubes of steel, when you can really make a personal statement about your commitment to aesthetics. If you really, really want me to, I’ll come to your house with a sledgehammer, and for a low, low fee, I will sledghammer your foot (your choice of right or left) into a really awesome, totally useless club foot. Get a head start on your post-apocalyptic decline into poor health. Why walk to the food riot like the other starving, diseased folks, when you can hobble in style? Or for only $19.95, I’ll mail you my brochure on how to give yourself a nice case of scurvy, with my helpful pamphlet on goiter concealment thrown in for FREE!
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Wow, there has got to be some way I can make money off these people. I mean, if they are willing to throw away that kind of dough, I have extensive experience with a sledgehammer and I am an artist; I can see the post-modernist possibilities of say, me bashing a hole in some rich schmos apartment wall for a quite reasonable fee.
Oh yeah. These guys are ripe for undercutting. For $7000 you could hire a whole football team to destroy your McMansion or something, and then you could live in the ruins! Wouldn’t that be awesome?
For only $50, I will urinate into a cup; dye it purple and let the purchaser drink it. For $75, I will throw in two ice cubes made from tap water with lichen.
For only $126.80, I will fill your car with taco sauce and smear the insides of the windows with special taco sauce.
For the mere price of $2,100.50, I will sneak into your house when you are on vacation (arrange time and hidden key location in advance: $50 additional fee) and paint a couch and plant in your house. For an additional fee of $250.00 I will glue your CDs together in the shape of a pyramid.
Please repost this so that I may begin to make money since I can’t seem to find a job doing something useful. We still live in a DickParischeneyHilton world which allows and seems to encourage this sort of thing.
It’s always amazing how much money people will spend to cure them of their interminable boredom, even if just for a little while. Super Chumps.
Oh, and for an additional, nominal, fee, I’ll distress your shirt with authentic looking sweat stains, so you can show your friends at the club how brutal you can get.
KM – What I love most about that image of the dude with sweat and hammer is how fake it is. Someone should totally start selling shirts with faux-sweat stains and BO to the super-rich.
“Dahling! You look so fashionably blue collar!”
Marshall, Me too! It’s totally fake. For one thing, no way a guy with a gut like that would not have belly sweat marks.
Now, where is that airbrush…
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