Found Footage: Spinning Wheel of Death painting

My Painting Has Crashed from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

James Théopane was asked to create a piece of artwork for his employer. He fused an old painting, a motor built from a kit, and new art done on canvas to create a fantastic interactive piece that pays tribute to the spinning pizza of death / rainbow pinwheel cursor / Marble of Doom. Read about how Theopane developed this work on his Posterous site.

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Source: http://www.theophane.co.uk/painting-crash

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Alex Terry

That's really cool.

You can buy an awesome Spinning Pizza Wheel of Deathâ„¢ t-shirt from here...

http://www.365tshirtdesigns.com/2010/02/spinning-pizza-wheel-of-death-t-shirt.html

February 01 2010 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Janne

Is it just me, or is this Jordan-character constantly whining and moaning about everything? Every time I check the comments, I seem him moaning about something.

January 08 2010 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Mr Lizard

They embedded a video on a different site.

January 08 2010 at 3:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AGS

really neat!!

January 08 2010 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darren

Hey TUAW, it's always been called the Beachball. And it's often used as a verb, e.g., "...and then Photoshop started Beachballing on me".

I can't believe you guys don't know this already.

Spinning Wheel of Death doesn't even make any sense. The Spinning Wheel of Wait a Little Bit, maybe...

January 08 2010 at 2:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tzohar

Fail. That's not what it looks like when it spins.

January 08 2010 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

csb1227

i don't get it

January 08 2010 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Carl

What don't you get? Apple computers have a Spinning wheel of death, the equivalent to Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death.

January 08 2010 at 12:03 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

nicroma

The colors should be stationary.

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Kevlar

Yah... a cellophane layer with highlighted sections would look more accurate.

It looks kind of weird this way... But kudos to the guy for making something unique and eye-catching!

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D. Graham

Spinning beachball of death

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