There is nothing stupid enough people like to do and sell!

Please see this picture and the original link:

http://cgi.ebay.fr/SAN-FRANCISCO-U-S-A-AUTOMOBILE-dans-MUR-DE-TELEVISIONS-Pub-ANT-FARM-en-1975-/400276826198?pt=FR_JG_Collections_Cartes_postales&hash=item5d325ba856

I should agree, if these TV sets were turkish BEKO and turkish Grundig flat screen sets
and the car an Audi/Volkswagen :yippy: , but not this way!!!!!:no:

Happy week-end,

TV-Collector :stupid:

Looks like a screen shot of a TV program, and old enough that those sets were probably picked off the curb on garbage days, and that old modified Cadillac was probably considered in the same way we see beat up early 90's cars today.

Sad to see to day.....But probably sorta awesome back when it was filmed.

Disgusting.

This is a postcard of "Media Burn," a 1975 video art piece/"happening". You can watch the whole thing here:

http://www.mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?uid=4574

"Original version of Ant Farm's classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a "media circus" assembles at San Francisco's Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets."

Just think this was a time when these were not collectables.. Someone would do this to today's junky electronics and take a picture of it and upload it 60 years from now.. Someone who collects stuff made in 2012 may look down on this.. But who in the world would collect anything from today, 60 years from now? Stuff is made so cheap nowadays it probably won't be an existence 60 years from now..

That video clip was used as the outro for the PBS show "Image Union" for years.

Stuff is made so cheap nowadays it probably won't be an existence 60 years from now..
Ironically, that may make the few still-working flat-panel TVs of this era very valuable then.

Ironically, that may make the few still-working flat-panel TVs of this era very valuable then.

I really doubt, with all my heart, that in 60 years from now there will still be any of todays TV sets in working condition. These things are not made to last or to be repaired. The only way I can possibly imagine a TV set from today still operating in 2072 is in the case of those TVs whose owners used the TV very, very little. Only TVs with very little "mileage" might still be functional after so many decades.And probably you will not find parts to repair those TVs in 2072.

Compared to the number of people who today collect 20th century TV sets, the number of people in the future who will collect today's TVs will be very dim... if there will be any people collecting those TVs at all.

This restores my confidence in our kind collecting (or specializing) within an era.

No matter how worthless a 1990's set seems today, I will do my part and keep my Toshiba FST, a 20" Panasonic and parent's Sony 27FV100. They will look like dinosaurs soon enough.

I should agree, if these TV sets were turkish BEKO and turkish Grundig flat screen sets
and the car an Audi/Volkswagen :yippy: , but not this way!!!!!:no:
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I was given this card around 1979 or 80 by a freind of a girlfreind, while working at a TV repair shop.

People have a stupid gene that presents as destruction-as-art farces like this one. "Artists" that mutilate pieces of past-its-prime hardware usually have an ivory-tower looking-down view of their fellow citizens, and such myopic displays that are supposed to shed light on the human condition end up being a waste of alledgedly good intentions.

Whats worse is destroying a '59 caddy! I think there is plenty more TV's around. Every spring they come out of the woodwork. I have enough to last for years to come.

I wish more 50's Cadillacs would come out every spring. Problem is, they often go straight to the d-derby! Spotted one not far from Idaho on ePay, but what a hassle getting it home! U-ship, maybe?

In the land of my borning, a man who did such things would become stoned. Before he is died, he would be drag in gutter, spit there face, and hair burned off over body. At end, crowd would stomp him until he came apart. Such an act would be GISLAN! :thumbsdn::thumbsdn:

In the land of my borning, a man who did such things would become stoned. Before he is died, he would be drag in gutter, spit there face, and hair burned off over body. At end, crowd would stomp him until he came apart. Such an act would be GISLAN! :thumbsdn::thumbsdn:

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the folks that made "Media Burn" happen did get stoned multiple times in the process of preparing for it, just in a different meaning of the word stoned. :lmao:

It matters not how baked one is, destruction of a 59-60 Cadillac is deserving of a medieval number as outlined above!

I recognized my long-lost CTC16XL-GG643 Scandanivian modern on the bottom second from left... and that hertz!

It really doesn't matter when it was, stupid is stupid.

As a kid in 75 with no color set I would have gladly suffered through with one of those old Roundies. Not to mention back then you could still fix those up and get $200-$300 for them!

My uncle sent that postcard to me for my b-day 30+ years ago.I have trashed many tv's in my day,but I have
rescued/saved even more.