I think I found something worse then fish tanking...

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6798/1425365medium.jpg

(Unless im reading this wrong) The guy that took the photo claims that each set was actually operating! No photoshop!

https://www.usefilm.com/image/1425365.html

Salvador Dali's TV room?

The 32 sets must take a lot of power.

Operating with a modern set inside.
Fortunantely I don't see anything super desirable in that pile, except perhaps the Motorola VK-106, the GE 801 and possibly an Andrea?

Operating with a modern set inside.
Fortunantely I don't see anything super desirable in that pile, except perhaps the Motorola VK-106, the GE 801 and possibly an Andrea?

Kinda what I was thinkin' too, Eric...

I agree; modern sets inside. I can see most of the screen edges.

I sure hope that the Westinghouse in the upper center isn't a 22" color set :pity: !!!!!!!!!

Charles

I have seen a couple of similar displays. Lucky for us, most people don't seem very interested in a pile of TVs. They stare for about 5 seconds, then move on -- especially if the TVs are playing some pompous rant by the artiste about the meaning of the "installation."

Phil

I think this pic is in Milwaukee or Chicago. My cousin took the same picture with her in it and put it on facebook awhile ago. I told her it was disgusting, and copy cat art.

Reminiscent of the work of Nam June Paik. link (http://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/2009-04-14_nam-june-paik/selected-works/)
('nother link (http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/paik/index.html) if you're still interested!)

I was exposed to Paik years before I started collecting TVs and might have even tried some of that stuff if I had been a little more artistic. I actually think a lot of his stuff is kinda cool, although some of it is a little too weird even for me. And Paik was the original fishtanker, but he did it the right way (the exact reverse of what today's boneheads are doing!):

http://accad.osu.edu/~ayoungs/260/jpgs/nam-june_videofish.jpg

--Dave Sica

I agree; modern sets inside. I can see most of the screen edges.

I sure hope that the Westinghouse in the upper center isn't a 22" color set :pity: !!!!!!!!!

Charles

Nah, looks like the fish tank from Caroline In The City.

Reminds me of the endsing video featrured on Channel WTTW Image Union in Chicago, had a guy racing a rocket car, and crashing through a giant wall of operational TVs

Here's the Image Union clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNmMQhKygw

That video was done by a group called The Ant Farm, it was 1971 so those sets were just common old TV's at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Farm_%28group%29


What irritates me about Nam June Paik is his followers still want to copy him.

His work also includes some very desirable sets too, several Philco 48-1001's Hallicrafters, several Farnsworth 651P's etc... :sigh: