You Call This Art? I’m Calling You Stupid!

Art is an act of self expression. Whether that is creative, criminal, or what we would consider “stupid.” If that is what this guy is truly doing (and that’s a big if) who are we to say he’s not expressing himself? Sure it’s not in his best interest to destroy a Porsche, but that doesn’t make it “not art.”

he’s an idiot but its his money let him do what he wants, i was an art student (and funny thing about it thats not the craziest/dumbest piece of “art” i’ve seen) …but isnt it crazy the rims were all still in tact, also it looks like a combination mini cooper and VW beatle between 1:32-1:50

ha ha ha great video dude :bowdown: for crushing the over priced coke can!

good job retard its a good thing you killed that p.o.s. now we dont have to see it any more

That was just stupid. And waste of my time. I`m not a car lover or an art lover. But if that guy wanted to make a name for himself why didn`t he just give to a charity. Now he has a bad name.Plus he is AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t even see the full video, it’s like seeing someone beign killed. that guy maybe can do that to his balls instead of that car… and that isn’t art in any way, it’s just stupidity of someone who’s bored of life. DUDE KILL YOURSELF!!

OK we all agree that thing ain’t art… exhibing it (museum) is an insult to the car makers and if the only motivation for that “artistic expression” is to show how much money that ass has… well I’m really sorry for him, because that only shows how meaning less is his big ass life. He should put the pedal to the medal and make the same “ART” against a wall, at lest that way he could enjoy what that engine could do and have a nice adrenalin rush. That guy is an ass hole >:(

Ok first, that wasn’t art, who the hell was that guy anyway. I’m no art person but, he obviously he doesn’t recognize art. because if he knew art he would have done something else. as for a few of the post on here and u know who u r. saying that a Porsche is just an over price vw is like saying a Corvette, Viper, Ford GTare over priced baseline models of their perspective brands. Obviosly u have never driven such fine pieces like they should b driven. Maybe you would appreciate more cars if u weren’t stuck in your prideful ways of being an American. Yeah I’m 100% AM PROUD of it, I’d b willing to bet that those of u who commented who care that it was a PORSCHE also think the portrait of the dogs playing careds is fine art!

What a dumbass. I don’t really like foreign cars but I have more intelligence than that. to be honest, i would love to have a car like that. If i was there, I would have shot them and stolen the car. To bad his parents never considered birth control. I’ll give him a work of art that will begin with my foot up his ass.

fuck you europian. america didn’t cry for the buildings, they cried for the thousands of people who died you fucking moron. you should of been in the fucking car bitch!!!

what an idiot

I think this is awesome! Porsche sucks ass, just an overpriced VW.

it look like a slug bug it gos from 911 to bug to shit

that’s not art, that’s bullshit. what a waste

That was the stupidest thing I have ever seen!!!!!! He should have put himself in it, I”d rather see that then a nice car being crushed.

Next time he should crush a civic instead, at least it would look better then

Goldfinger will have to extract the gold bars from the trunk. That is, after he kills James Bond.

Ok….i like art, im an art student but what the hell? Cars are art as is…stupid fuck.

how fucking stupid can people get
what an idiot

maybe, just maybe, the artist did this just too see how many people he could piss off.

Art is the act of creating something. All this guy did was to destroy someone elses work. The true artists here are the designers and engineers who made this car. Whats this guy going to do for an on core tear up paintings in gallery ?

Forget the jews, hitler has a new enemy

FINISH HIM!
… FLAWLESS VICTORY

no…noo.NOOOOOOOO WTF ARE YOU THINKING mind you, if the guy’s got the cash, let him get a hard-on over it

It’s only a souped up bug…It was junk when it was made and its just nicer junk now.There a dime a dozen.

IDIOT ART

would some one please translate what the “artists” point is, so we can have a better idea why he would do something like this. what is the symbolism? instead of saying stupid Americans why not be a hero and translate. That is unless you don’t know yourself.
After all there are stupid people all over the world.

well here we have a very rich cock sucking indulgent just plain stupid jackass and i think if i meet this person i would shoot him and take his money.i mean my dad has three porsches and you don’t see him crushing any of them and calling it art.

I think I might have to go over to Europe and kick some rich boy ass. Jk. I ain’t paying that money but someone over there definately should.

He deserves to be shot

i think im going to be sick…

taking a dump in the toilet is art to some , get a life check here This is car domain , why?????

i think you are all missing the point of this video. you don’t have to speak german, or be an artist, or even like the porsche. look at his clothes… he’s well dressed in what looks like a brand new suit. he picked an expensive sports car… a porsche 911… and crushed it. he’s not an fucking artist! he’s a rich prick! he did this to show all of you that he’s got soooo much money that he can just piss it away! he’s showing off… and he’s prolly got a small dick…nothing more to say except next time use a CIVIC!!!

Oh, and by the way: for those who’d respond by saying “The commentary that’s being made on life has to do with the shock that this act evokes in those that view it”, I say you’re a dumbnut. Is “shock value” the only thing that you can resort to in order to say something meaningful in your art? You’re unskilled, and technically deficient. Even Picasso learned how to paint a pretty tree before he became famous for his cubism. What’s in this guy’s sill set besides being able to press the “on” switch on the crusher?

I’ve been in the arts all my life, and this guy just makes my blood boil.

He should be banned from riding in motor vehicles for the rest of his life. Let him ride on top of his “art”.

There’s art, which is the artist’s commentary about some aspect of life as he/she sees it, and then there’s masturbation. The more an “artist” has to explain the reasons or the motivation behind his commentary in a specific piece of art, the more that artist is simply “pleasuring himself.” You can philosophize it all you want, but if the only one enjoying an artist’s piece is the artist, the piece is nothing but a big spooge on the bedsheet.

(Ooh wait: this guy would probably call that bedsheet art too!)

Destroying art just because you have money to do so and an idiot museum curator who agrees to put the result on disply does not make you an artist. Poor you. You’re SO misunderstood. Go get a real job.

if thats art then the junkyards must be like the museum of fine arts

Art? well if that is art i leave some serious artistic shit in my bathroom this morning… JAJAJAJA…

Ups Sorry, just kidding, now seriously, we don’t understand the comments of the artist, so we cant judge his art. We’re missing half of it!

Why a Porsche 911? because other wise we wont give a shit about it!!!

You know what ya its a nice car but its that guys money to blow so who cares. But art it is not so fuck justin and both of the european guys for bashing Americans especially on september 11 of all days have some damn respect.

personally, i thought the porsche was a work of art before he crushed it.

just my $.02

crush some more overpriced german, french,yourapeein cars.

Aaaaahahaha nice one buddy. I’m pretty sure it’s United States OF America, not AND. I enjoy that you called everyone a stupid idiot despite that.

Reguardless… thats like an abomination of god.

U stupid idiots, all of u, he killed a porsche woooow big deal.Killing a porsche in Germany is like a killing a dodge neon in US and A or Canada.

Porsche 911 =into=> ‘68 VW Bug

To paraphrase the immortal words of Clint Eastwood, that guy should “have his ass removed”.

I suppose the filming of the crushing is a form of art…but I still find this completely and totally pointless. I’m not jealous, as it’s his money wasted and not mine, but I do feel he should have at least used a cheaper car. If this had been a Boxster, or something similar, it wouldn’t have bothered me nearly as much. Also, I have to say, there is a place about half an hour from my house that crushes cars and regularly sends semi-trucks with loads of “art” to recycling centers in the area. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if he wanted to buy these car-cubes from them. Of course, since this “art” was made by another “artist”, he’ll have to pay a premium…hell, I bet a Camry Cube is worth as much as an original Picaso painting!

Hm, wonder what he’ll crush next?

OK…I am an artist, and sometimes it just escapes me what the F**K people are thinking about, and that for me is the missing link. What did a Porsche 911 do to this guy? As far as I am concerned it is not art, just another display of mans destructive nature. If he wanted to be truly artful he should have done one hell of a detail job on the car making it something Porsche hadn’t thought of. Oh, and don’t give me that crap about artist freedom. Read your art history and you’ll know what I mean. Just to do something because you can afford it, is not art, it is indulgence.

Now what the fcuk is he going to drive home. I made millions displaying a box with dog shit in it. I just dont see the art in crushing a good car and not donating it. i vomited a little when I saw this. What an Austrian dingle berry. Anybody writing and saying that he is just expressing his feelings is a joke. I dont care if he got raped in this thing 2 days ago, you dont crush a car like this or any good car regardless of make.

If this is art then what about the artists he stole this “idea” from, you know, the guys that destroyed the playstation 3 or the new x-box after waiting in line for it all night. they destroyed those game consoles in front of the people waiting in line that were probably not going ot get one because of avalability.
I don’t really care what he does with his cars there are plenty more where that came from.

Whew, at first glance I thought this would be a story about a guy i should care or be worried about. Nope, just some euro-trash idiot looking to get some exposure for his waning career. Sad.
At least he wasn’t crushing anything one-of-a-kind or a rare vehicle. I would hunt him down and hurt him if he did something like that to a 1967 Corvette Stingray or 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa.
An act of that kind of disobedience would just have to result in this guy meeting a similar horrible demise.
Maybe we just let him crush whatever he wants provided he’s sitting in the car at the time.

Isn’t that Arnold Schwartznegger (sp?) talking in this video?

I find it funny because I can see this guy out there hugging trees and telling people to stop trashing the enviornment, yet he kills a perfectly good car because he feels like “expressing himself”. Just because you have an idea, doesnt mean you do it. Common sense here.

Also, what if everyone in the world felt like expressing themselves in this manner?

All of you complainers are just ignorant or jealous. This is a great piece of art created by Porsche and re-created by a man with the money and the vision to stir a thought or emotion in people. The posters who yell about it, really don’t get it. I guess if it was done by just some yahoo that more money than what he knew what to do with and would much sooner crush and throw away a car before he owned a dirty one, I would probably shake my head. However, in this case I shake my head at all the people who don’t appreciate one man’s idea of self expression. Think about all the cost’s involved in buying supplies to create something original? Nobody thought about that, did they?

What was the point? Will someone explain the “art” in that? It would have been great if the artist was in it or it EXPLODED!

They should of done it to a “tuner” sunfire or cav….they really desrve to be crushed

Who cares?Just don’t be doing a new Z06 Vette.

Whatching that so called artist crush that car reminded me of that old cartoon “BEEKY BUZARD.”

Thats just like a lazy German artist, get someone else to do all of the work for you.

Loved it! if you dont understand what he speaks, then you dont get what he does, then you are noone, you’r just another stupid american.

That was stupide.

I thought it would look nice, if it wasn’t a porsche. The guy should have gone and gotten a crappy 85 camery or something.

So what if it’s a Porsche, it was a brand new car, if it were a vintage one then it would be a travesty for sure!

Too many cool older cars get destroyed in movies and TV all the time, have you ever noticed how many “Boat-tail” Buick Rivieras get destroyed in TV and movies? Now that sort of thing is more of a waste to me!

BTW, that’s the cleanest scrap yard I’ve ever seen!

If he’s such a great artist then why didn’t he simply paint a picture of a crushed Porsche?
Dick head, that’s all he is, ein grose Scheise!
These sort of art galleries are for detached morons

This is the worst thing I have seen done to a perfectly good car. Let alone a Porsche! This actually brought a tear to my eye. Let the “artist” succomb to his own work!

I think it was a total waste of a Beautiful car.He might as well be burning Stacks of money in a firepit.What an idiot!!!!!

guys all due respect to the porch but it is a porch after all not like it was a rare car cry over a lambo or another car worth 250,000 not the lawyer special.

I dont think that Porsche minds. They still make their money and thats one less car that the have to stand behind with a warranty. If this is art, then maybe murder is as well? Still its unacceptable. -)

Clever and creative – but a total douche bag for doing it.

I think all of you who complain that it isn’t art, or that just complain about it don’t understand.

The whole reasoning behind it is that the car meant so much. If he had used any car or one that was already non-functioning where would be the frustration? Where would the aggression be?

The fact that he has it so well documented, how the car crushes from the inside. No one wants to know how a Porsche crushes or how it looks from the inside…certainly an Austrian wouldn’t.

It’s about fighting our perceptions, fighting beauty with destruction, the beauty of destruction and the anguish. Porsches are generally thought of being works of Art in and by themselves, moving or not. So for some part he’s creating art by destroying art.

I think it’s a very nice peice, I don’t think there’s any way one could say there wasn’t enough execution. There was no point in using a “waxed” or “detailed” 911 because the point wasn’t for it to come out anything resembling clean. It’d dirty, molested and destroyed…he wants you to cry about it.

Im curious to see what the “art critics” had to say on this.. “Oh the way the light shines off the slightly scratched wheel resembles……”

At least the Schipper guy used die-cast replicas. Someone who destroys a car that can no longer be produced is an idiot. Now, taking a brand-new Ferrari and letting Eddie Gri…I mean, having someone wreck it – well that’s not nearly as bad as a classic 1960’s Ferrari. The difference? If they found out about it, Ferrari could produce one more to make up for the fact that there’s one less out there.

I get it. It IS art regardless of what any of you think.

Although, I don’t quite understand why he used a dirty car. I also don’t understand why he didn’t use padding on the crusher to reduce scratching. It IS art… but the artist really didn’t take much into consideration before he executed his concept.

Were i the one crazy enough to do this, I would’ve used a black Boxster and had it professionally detailed beforehand…

This idiot needs a good swift kick in the nuts.

If thats art then the Artist is Sick.
I hope this is not Government funded art.
In this country it would be our Tax Money funding such Stupid Artists.

When will People Come to their Senses and spend time and money on doing Good like feeding the hungry or helping the poor.

The End of the World has to be very near.

God is very Patient.

I wouldn’t be.

and re:
“Dave @ Sep 10, 2007 9:46:24 PM
Honestly, that’s pretty bad, but I see stuff like that a lot in movies. They’ll take a mint ‘68 Charger and drive it off a cliff, or make a perfectly good ‘69 GTO and crash it end over end.”

The hollywood guys usually use stunt double cars… and a lot of the time they are really shaddy re-contruction props like old rotted out shit tanks packed with bondo and quick sprayed to look cool, usually rolling chassis of very little value.

if i evr saw that bloke i would crush him and see how he likes it hah

He could have at least used a non working car. I don’t really see the art here, I just see another wannabe artist with a lot of money and no artistic talent. Congratulations you crushed a car. There’s a few million more where that came from you unoriginal fool.

“And for my next trick I’ll display a dumpster, full of trash, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art!”

Humans really are dumb….

I’m surprised he didn’t wax it first… why would you make art out of a dirty car? I wouldn’t want a dirty P.O.S. crushed car in my gallery if I were some fancy pansy artist… not to mention all the rad fluid, oil, cv-joint grease, and other shit that comes from a car you drove into a crusher…

at least it was only a 911… us (can)americans are a little more shocked because they are expensive to us… but he could have crushed so much worse… like some cool prototype only the select elite have seen…

I would kick that “nancy boy faggot” in the fucking nuts if i got hold of him.

How is this art again? It looks like every other crushed car in a yard, except this one is on exhibit.
If it is art, the guy that pulled the levers that allowed the car to be crushed is the true artist because this guy didn’t do a thing, but to say “go ahead”, lol. Man, rich folks have lost all sorts of common sense.

Honestly, that’s pretty bad, but I see stuff like that a lot in movies. They’ll take a mint ‘68 Charger and drive it off a cliff, or make a perfectly good ‘69 GTO and crash it end over end. At least crush a Chevette or something.

It’s his money. stop crying. who cares if another mass-produced piece of commercialism is destroyed? how is this worse than the guy who gives his 16 year old son a 911 who then goes out an totals it, killing himself?

get over it.

“So in conclusion this is how you make a Porsche 911 into a compact car comparable in size to that of the British Mini.”

What a waste…

That video was repulsive noir vomit.

Now is the time on Schprockets when we Dance!!!!

The idea reminds me of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Batman. “I’m the first, fully-functional Homocidal artist”. “I create art until somebody dies” and such.

I think the guy behind this is just as depraved, but not at all as entertaining.

Art is supposed to make you feel something. I feel like kicking his ass.

HOW MANY PPL WOULD KLL FOR A CAR LIKE THAT, AND THIS IDIOT WRECKS IT!!! AND IT JUST FIGURES HE PUTS IN NEXT TO A JAR OF WATER

Oh Im back, and i do have something to say. He’s a large pair of crotchless panties that were worn by a 600 pound fat guy, and i hate his guts. He didnt even crush it in a artistic way.

Its germany -they’re domestics over there. dont worry about it.

I thought that video was pretty cool.
How often do you get to see inside a car as it’s being crushed?
They could have used a different car, but all-in-all, it’s a very interesting idea.

Well…. atleast he didn’t destroy a classic car that can’t be replaced in a day or so on an assembly line. Still a friggin stupid ass idea.

How bout this instead: Leave the car in one piece, and put it in the gallery right next to a crushed and cubed artist. Now THAT’S art!

The guy could’ve at least called me and asked to donate to my “I-would-love-to-own-a-Porsche Fund”. And why didn’t he stay inside?
Take a picture of the car going at 160 mph and frame it and tell me that is not art in motion.

This guy and Jonathan Schipper must have attended the same art school:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/06/21/the-slow-inevitable-death-of-american-muscle/