Well, with 3 mm on the edge, it's already thin anyway, you'd say. Well, Japanese artist Shimabuku didn't quite think so. He presented his idea at this year's International Art Biennale in Venice, which took place under the slogan "Let it live!"
Shimabuku is edged with a whetstone MacBook Air thinned to such a thickness that he could cut an apple in half with it. Pretty meaningful, right? To make the whole thing look even more convincing, the artist used a wooden handle to which he attached the 'blade', so that the final appearance was quite similar to an axe. Shimabuku wanted to show a comparison between ancient and modern tools, as he has always been driven by curiosity to investigate human habits. After all, practically since the first day of existence, man has been using a very similar cutting method to the one we know today. Only the tools have changed a bit. The event or the installation was broadcast at the biennale via video rather than live.
Image gallery: MacBook Air - as sharp as a kitchen knife
Um, what would you like to do? Apple said that we use their laptop to cut nothing but apples. (?) There is some irony in this, however.
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