Witness the art of microwaving a PlayStation 3
by Majed Athab 
{ Mar 12th 2009 at 3:00AM }
It's difficult to rationalize microwaving a functioning device like a PlayStation 3, but we suppose most ideas from the "art" realm don't ever make much sense in the first place. From d0vetastic, comes this Whether you want to call it art or not, it's still an interesting sight to see. You can watch how it all went down via the video clip we've posted after the break. Now that we know what happens to a PS3 when it gets microwaved, there's only one adage left unanswered: Will it blend? Perhaps someone else will get down to the mystery of that one.
[Via What They Play; Image: Kenny Irwin]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ryanpaulmcgowan @ Mar 12th 2009 3:25AM
Looks very much like a mix of a Khorne and Nurgle PS3. I like.
Steven @ Mar 12th 2009 10:36AM
Yes it blends!
karmatrom03 @ Mar 12th 2009 1:30PM
YOUR A FKING IDIOT!!!! WHATEVER PURPOSE YOU HAD , THIS JUST SHOWS WHAT AN IDIOT YOU ARE!!! THIS IS NO ART !!! ITS JUST THE HATE OF AN XBOX RETARD TORCH THE PS3!!! IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU XBOX IDIOTS DO , PS3 IS THE FORCE OF THE FUTURE !!! & NOW A MINUTE OF SILENCE FOR A COMRADE KILL ON ACTION!! PS3 # 40 million RIP!!! WE DONT NEED TO MICROWAVE XBOXS , THEY BURN IN THEIR OWN!!! HA HA HA HA!!!!!
wocyob @ Mar 12th 2009 3:26AM
EVIL!!! but looks pretty cool
Michael Godina @ Mar 12th 2009 3:28AM
this guy is a fucking lunatic. Ya good job buddy on wasting 400 bucks, now go get a job and try and find at least one friend.
f disco @ Mar 12th 2009 3:33AM
BRILLIANT.
KHCloud @ Mar 12th 2009 3:42AM
That kid is dying in about a year. That microwave with no filter and all that burning plastic is gonna kill him pretty quick.
EI8HT @ Mar 12th 2009 5:08AM
Serves Him right
Wasting Money
Wasting Power
Polluting the air
Taking Internet Bandwidth
Depriving someone from a PS3
wasting my time and bandwidth on watching something that could be summed up to 30 sec instead of 12:29 min
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and if the guy who posted this is reading this, off course you're not gonna nuke the xbox, it does that on its own
Kinsey @ Mar 14th 2009 6:10PM
That grid mesh on the door is the microwave filter.
I doubt the fumes will do any more damage to the guy when clearly hes already messed in the head.
"Artists" aren't exactly known for their logic and rationality
DirasyajX @ Mar 12th 2009 3:40AM
You RICH people sicken me! that's just a waste of money.
Rygar @ Mar 12th 2009 8:14AM
Yeah, but not your money.
Vinner @ Mar 12th 2009 3:19PM
Maybe he should've spent that money on taking lessons on how to handle a camera or how to edit video.
Mein Bratwurst @ Mar 12th 2009 3:39AM
Oh great, just what we need, more console flame bait (no pun intended).
tystyck1982 @ Mar 12th 2009 3:54AM
This is completely sickening. You waste 500 dollars in a microwave, while the rest of the country suffers.
THIS IS WHY WE ARE POOR. Take this video off Joystiq. because it was already banned off of Youtube.
keithchung @ Mar 12th 2009 4:56AM
Can't agree more! that's one of the rare 60GB PS3s too. What a complete waste that £300 over here in the UK I can't understand any one doing this to any console even an Xbox.
That guy needs to go without food for a week and then see if he feels like nuking a console.
Exemplar @ Mar 12th 2009 3:55AM
Another fine example of the throw-away society we have become. Hang your head in shame.
Max @ Mar 12th 2009 4:02AM
wonder if it still works.
Jack Spicer @ Mar 12th 2009 11:05AM
That would be so awesome if it did. After a nuclear holocaust, the only things left in the world would be cockroaches, twinkies, and PS3's. If only such a place were true.
JaseH @ Mar 12th 2009 4:13AM
What's with his retarded behavior at the end of the video?
I'm starting to think he has some sort of mental disability.
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CH3BURASHKA @ Mar 12th 2009 4:29AM
Kind of like Sauron's offspring, if he were a bug.
Bacchus @ Mar 12th 2009 4:32AM
Did this guy microwave his head too? This guy must have something wrong with him, and I'm not just referring to the PS3 destruction, what's with that stupid ass humming at the end? Wow...
Crimson_Ryan @ Mar 12th 2009 4:59AM
Anyone see his annotation? I stopped watching it there. He acts like people actually care about what he does.
Seriously, this isn't art. This is why the economy is in the shape its in. And even if he is an Xbox 360 fanboy in hiding, WHO wastes that much money? I'd like to kick him in the face. I'm serious. I would inflict pain upon him because he could have used that money for something more than that.
xBRuTaL-HoRRoRx @ Mar 12th 2009 5:18AM
So it's a piece-of-shit that's supposed to resemble art? Is that possible?
JayFight @ Mar 12th 2009 5:26AM
okay yes he torched a good ps3 and yes it cost him around $500 but if he is an artist like the article claims then he probably can sell it for several thousand dollars if not more (especially if he's well know in art circles) so you see he may be getting rich off of this act which in others would be called stupid
Khalil @ Mar 12th 2009 5:30AM
Why why WHY WHy Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ?
Andrew Ryan @ Mar 12th 2009 5:30AM
This video was made by a dumbass & made me feel stupid watching it. Not interesting at all Majed, it was pretty retarded, no offence... At least if he opened the PS3, there's something substantial to watch but that was so gay lol %%%
Pete @ Mar 12th 2009 5:44AM
For something to be art, it has to have meaning; the fact he's turned the whole thing into flamebait cheapens whatever point he was trying to put across - I sincerely hope it's enough to have its status as 'art' re-assessed. Also, unless he can prove it was working before going in the microwave, then it's point is nullified anyway.
Ultimately it's a testament to the idiotic curators at the 'Baltimore National Modern Art Museum: AVAM', for classing this as 'Modern Art' and enabling his ego. To the video author, thank you for saving me time by removing that museum from any 'must visit' list I may have had.
Peter @ Mar 12th 2009 5:45AM
For something to be art, it has to have meaning; the fact he's turned the whole thing into flamebait cheapens whatever point he was trying to put across - I sincerely hope it's enough to have its status as 'art' re-assessed. Also, unless he can prove it was working before going in the microwave, then it's point is nullified anyway.
Ultimately it's a testament to the idiotic curators at the 'Baltimore National Modern Art Museum: AVAM', for classing this as 'Modern Art' and enabling his ego. To the video author, thank you for saving me time by removing that museum from any 'must visit' list I may have had.
Darkdrium777 @ Mar 12th 2009 5:47AM
lol 'art'. Case modding is would at least be creative. Microwaving is just random destruction, not art. Stick a few melted plastic eyes on it after, wooo. :/
Personally I don't care what this guy does with his stuff (He could microwave his junk for all I care, at least he won't be reproducing after), but to call this art is just depressing... -_-
His 'solo' at the end just proves my point.
Jerry @ Mar 12th 2009 5:51AM
This is horrible. If the system wasn't broken to begin with, then this is completely shameful. Not only is this jerk wasting power and polluting the air, he's wasting $500. I'd donate $500 before destroying it. Also, if this was a broken PS3, it can be recycled. It's absolutely sickening that people do this with their money. People are losing jobs left and right, our economy is in the hole, pollution is a huge concern, and yet people do this crap. This is not art. I could take a hammer to my PS3 and call it "art" by these standards.
wallywallas @ Mar 12th 2009 5:57AM
I don't get why everyone is so angry at this guy. People wreck stuff up in movies all the time! You think those cars they wreck in action scenes aren't cheap?
The reason i'm pissed off is the fact that this is guy is A) a douche who thinks what he does is actually art (it isn't, it's a guy nuking a PS3, that's all), and B) it's a really REALLY boring video.
lasersanchez @ Mar 12th 2009 6:03AM
Seriously. At least a Ferrari blowing up looks cool. Not as cool as one sitting in my driveway, but still.
Anyway, dude probably should have just donated it for Child's Play or something.
Pvt. Joker @ Mar 12th 2009 9:00AM
Typicaly the cars they blow up in movies are just that...a fabricated frame over an old toyota or something.
T-Mart @ Mar 12th 2009 5:57AM
"Live in your world, play in ours... Bwwwaaaahhhh-ha-ha!!"
darkdestroyer33 @ Mar 12th 2009 6:08AM
how dare you. why would you do such a thing to a ps3. a ps3 is not a toy that you can break and fuck with. how about i microwave your hand and call that art. it's just as precious. u people sicken me. that ps3 deserved better. and whoever did this deserves a painful hook to the face.
Feba @ Mar 12th 2009 6:10AM
Looks like it held up remarkably well, all things considered. Although it does remind me how much I wish they'd make a new case. Boxes might be boring, but to some of us at least, they look a lot better (not to mention the practicality factor)
And am I the only one who finds gamers whining about how much someone wasted odd? First of all, this little effort probably entertained him for quite awhile, and got him a lot of attention. As mentioned, if he is an artist, he may be able to recoup or even profit off it, in addition to getting his name out and whatever joy he got in creating it. Secondly, how much better are we? Most gamers will have at least three expensive machines (PC + Console + Handheld), to play games. If you get all of the major ones (PS3+360+Wii+DS+PSP+PC), you're looking at at least $1500, and quite probably more if you go for more than the basics. If you don't have all of them, there are things you'll miss out on.
So once you've spent about two thousand dollars on hardware, you need games. You're looking at $60 for most new ones; the cheapest older ones you can find are usually around $20. In some of the biggest name titles, you're paying $60 (or more, for collector's editions), and maybe staying out in line all night, or going out at midnight to pick it up, and the game lasts ten hours at most. And why do we spend all this money?
To push buttons on little pieces of plastic, which makes imaginary electronic characters move around on TV.
Obviously, most of us find this fun. Entertaining. Worthwhile. But to quite a lot of people (most of us probably have family or know someone older who is of this mindset) find it completely incomprehensible.
I would hope that people with such a new and demonized hobby would understand that sometimes people find things fun, even when they seem expensive and wasteful to others. I would hope people would see the irony of calling wasteful someone who burns something, while not saying it's wasteful to buy something and not use it. And I would certainly hope that people who are spending their time, electricity, and possibly money browsing a site that talks about video games-- when they could put that time into productive efforts, and the money into charity--understand that what they see as normal or acceptable would be seen as incredibly wasteful by someone without the same resources to burn.
In short, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
goku1910 @ Mar 12th 2009 7:56AM
It looks cool. but he could have used a blow-torch or something to create his art.
His method of choice was poor.
total waste of my time.
Bioburn @ Mar 12th 2009 8:03AM
All I have to say is WOW!!!
OddyOh @ Mar 12th 2009 8:43AM
Argh...that beatboxing at the end...my ears, my ears! Spare yourselves!
j.howlett @ Mar 12th 2009 10:05AM
i think the chemicals overtook him then. boring clip, okay result, boo hooing it got flagged.
jarhead906 @ Mar 12th 2009 8:53AM
It looks like a PS3 that got infected with the T-Virus+Plagas combo in RE 5.
Very cool but what a waste of money. Of course his little 'art' circle will probably eat it up and he'll receive at least twice as much as what he paid for it in the first place.
Orion @ Mar 12th 2009 8:58AM
Wow Joystiq. You're getting worse. This is news?
It's like the news putting mass murderers' faces and names on the news. It's what they want, and will only encourage more to make crap like this.
Ughh.
Pvt. Joker @ Mar 12th 2009 8:58AM
You know forgetting the whole fact that for me it's a real shame to destroy something as asskicking as a PS3 simply for kicks... certain artest receive grants from the government i sure hope this guy didnt receive any of my money to melt an expensive toy in a kitchen apliance in the name of some sort of creative expression...that would suck...
Pvt. Joker @ Mar 12th 2009 9:02AM
If this guy receives a government Grant he should be fired...out of a cannon...into the sun.
Pvt. Joker @ Mar 12th 2009 9:27AM
and for the record it dosnt look like some special addition PS3...it looks like someone took a great big dump on the console after eating Giant Corn.
chimaera9 @ Mar 12th 2009 9:33AM
One of the problems here is that we're reacting to it. That's the goal of an artist: to get a reaction. I don't consider this guy an artist at all, because it requires no skill to produce what he did--any moron with a microwave and $500 to burn can do the same thing. Here's how to stop people like this from claiming themselves as artists and becoming a blight to the real art community: don't react.
chimaera9 @ Mar 12th 2009 9:37AM
The goal of an artist is a reaction, and we're all giving him that. Don't give him the satisfaction. Anyone with a microwave and $500 to burn can do what he did, so that doesn't make it art, as it requires no skill whatsoever. The way to stop wanna-be artists like this from giving REAL artists a bad name is: Don't React.
zat1983 @ Mar 12th 2009 10:31AM
And for his final piece, he will be microwaving his head.
The1stMJC @ Mar 12th 2009 10:40AM
Hey as a fan of PS3
all I can say is at least it is one more PS3 sold.
Bobulous @ Mar 12th 2009 11:02AM
This guy isn't an artist. He's just an arsehole. Wow. He melted a PS3. His parents must be proud.
What annoys me is that this isn't an artistic endeavour in any way, shape or form. It's just some tosser putting a console in a microwave and destroying it, which is just an mindless act of stupidity, regardless of whether it was a PS3, 30 or Wii.
If it was working, and he didn't want it, he could have given it to someone who did. He could have even loaded it up with Linux and given it to a poor kid as a low cost computer. At least someone would have enjoyed it's use.