Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine smashes fine china, doesn't give your quarter back

Proving that money can indeed buy happiness, artist Yarisa Kublitz's Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine vends various fine china into a fine powder. We're confident there's a reason destroying a porcelain kitty costs $.25 more than a plain white vase, but we'll leave speculation on the deeper meanings of smashy time as an exercise for the reader. Essays are due Friday at noon in the main department box.

[Via MAKE]

[pwnicholson Posted Jun 10th 2008 4:25PM]

actually - original is here: http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/06/07/passive-aggressive-anger-release-machine/

[Aguiluz Posted Jun 10th 2008 4:40PM]

Which happens to be the READ link. Thanks for pointing that out.


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[(Unverified) Posted Jun 10th 2008 5:00PM]

I think half the engadget posters could use this, because the other half doesn't understand the concept of "passive" in context.

Maybe a web-enabled version with real-time video feed? :)

[ChrisAre Posted Jun 10th 2008 5:23PM]

Haha, I saw the word china, and even though I understood it wasn't referring to the country, I still just assumed the machine was in China... I amused myself.

[kcanuck Posted Jun 10th 2008 5:51PM]

Nice. I live just down the street from there... should check it out. I wonder why they chose that neighbourhood... or maybe they have more around the city...

And you know the city is multicultural when the SPECIAL is Canadian food. :D haha

[muzik 4 machines Posted Jun 10th 2008 5:59PM]

it's not in china tho, it' sdowntown toronto

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 10th 2008 6:01PM]

I'm surprised the glass of the vending machine is not cracked. Cos I would be kicking it when i realized that i just wasted a quarter and couldn't break the dang thing myself. Might as well have a vending machine where the snacks keep getting stuck and people never get it. Equally frustrating and fun for onlookers watching a Canadian going postal on a vending machine.

[Tokyo Yuri Posted Jun 11th 2008 1:56PM]

PASSIVE hun, it's a PASSIVE aggressive machine.

Not ACTIVE

PASSIVE

Wikipedia is your friend

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2008 1:37PM]

i get the passive part... just don't think most people would realize it until it happens the first time.....

[keithwwalker Posted Jun 10th 2008 7:53PM]

The only true satisfaction is taking away satisfaction for others by running this machine over with a truck....

[Benson Posted Jun 12th 2008 12:41PM]

No, no, it's waiting with the truck, watching for losers, waiting till the quarters drop, they enter their selection, and just as they gaze, watching for the impending satisfaction of destruction...

WHAM! You run over _them_ with the truck; that way you can come back and do it again later. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg shards!