Minimum wage machine

Loving this by Blake Fall-Conroy!


Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress)

2008 

Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) 

The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine's mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.

Sebastian Horsley Died :(

So I've only just discovered Sebastian Horsley died this year, I'm a little bit mortified. I only found out because I was planning to write about him in my dissertation, he was fantastic.

Oh, Sebastian, you shall be greatly missed.

Here is where I found out about his death.

Fuze

So I've not used this in a while, but last weekend I had a piece of my work in ArtSway, an art gallery in The New Forest, Dorset.

Here it is, my work in an actual gallery :D