Under normal circumstances, smashing up your iPad would be seen as a mindless, destructive act or maybe an assertion of protest against consumer society. Then again, perhaps you just needed a new skateboard or, more likely, wanted to find a cheap ploy that would get you some hits on your YouTube channel. The fact remains that for as much as we fetishize all our shiny new technological products, we love nothing more than seeing them be blown to bits.These images of destroyed Apple products—iPads, iPhones, and Macbooks—by artist Michael Tompert and photographer Paul Fairchild have been shot with an eye for the aesthetics of destruction. The splintered screens, bubbled exteriors, burnt circuitry, and savaged husks that formerly made up some of our most coveted commercial products are strangely captivating despite (or perhaps because of) their brutalised, shot-up, sawn, torched, and smashed appearance. Check out some of the devastation below and go here for the full gallery.Photo credit: Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild
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