{"id":216731,"date":"2010-01-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5455369"},"modified":"2010-01-23T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:00:00","slug":"this-disgruntled-artwork-perpetually-sells-itself-on-ebay-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/216731","title":{"rendered":"This Disgruntled Artwork Perpetually Sells Itself on eBay [Art]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caleb Larsen<\/a>‘s “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter<\/a>” isn’t quite as menacing as its name makes it out to be, but it’s definitely a flighty little fellow: it continually creates new eBay auctions for itself via a built-in Ethernet jack.<\/p>\n

No owner is quite good enough for this big-headed piece. Larsen’s “Tool,” a shiny, black cube with an Ethernet jack, pings a server every ten minutes to determine if it is listed for sale on eBay. If it’s not, it creates a new auction. Mind you, this isn’t only a conceptual function of the piece; it really is constantly auctioning itself and being purchased by new owners. You can view the current auction at http:\/\/atooltodeceiveandslaughter.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The going price for the current auction, ending in five days, is $4,250. The piece has been in circulation since 2008.<\/p>\n

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“A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” isn’t for art collectors with fragile egos. It will leave you. Unless, of course, you forget to plug it in. [Caleb Larsen<\/a> via Make<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Caleb Larsen‘s “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” isn’t quite as menacing as its name makes it out to be, but it’s definitely a flighty little fellow: it continually creates new eBay auctions for itself via a built-in Ethernet jack. No owner is quite good enough for this big-headed piece. Larsen’s “Tool,” a shiny, black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}