Baseball Bat iPad

A group of young men joined many others in the rush to buy an iPad, Apple's latest release. But they decided to do what no other consumer could think of doing that day. They filmed it being smashed outside of the store where they bought it, with a baseball bat. They dropped it, hit it and uploaded it to You Tube.

Since that posting earlier this week, there has been a huge backlash of angry comments directed towards these practical jokers. Some saying it's disrespectful others claiming it's a waste of money. So why can't we call this sort of behaviour art? I've seen people paint a picture of Jesus Christ cover it in urine and it was hung in an Australian art gallery with an admission fee to view it. That was called art, yet for some reason, smashing a $500 piece of equipment is an outrage. I personally see that as a far more worth while costing for art.

He payed for that product and could do with it as he saw fit, instead of using it, he decided to smash it, and that's his prerogative. Shame on those who respect the art that lines our city streets, those tax payer funded pieces of twisted metal that somehow attract a $200'000 plus price tag and usually get shoved away in a small suburb in five years. And these same people think one $500 product being filmed as it is destroyed is not art.

Don't these people subscribe to the theory that art is subjective, by opinion and personal?