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..it looked so modern at the furniture store..
..modern is the new chic.. and we all know that “chic” doesn’t always mean great…
..”La Freak”, on the other hand, is definitive..
All is great with the other hand…
Trying out a great new avatar pic…
Not bad, but the legibility at that size isn’t so great.
Thanks for the great tip, Prince!
still wondering how do you set your avatar in the first place
Sco76, there’s this great site to get your avatar. It’s called Gravatar dot com. I decided to go back to my old avatar, since my new one kinda sucks.
Oh, that’s a wordpress feature then
Doesn’t look like it’s changed
Or does look. Damn, it changes globally. How then Lemmie Tellya was able to have two different pics on one page?
It’s a great feature, yes?
Puking bookshelves are the best =D
That’s what I thought.
Someone must have put a collection of Twilight books in there.
Looks like it’s an exhibit in an art museum to me
That’s what I was thinking.
yeah me too… i dont think this is a fail… except a fail from failblog… Failed to fail…
I think the artist intended it to be funny and fail looking. I am personally glad to have bumped into it.
Well if you bumped into it, you should have picked up the books. Sheesh.
And it is.
Sad bookshelf is sad.
Bookcase spliced with a slinky?
A blinky.
It’s more of a display case for your Dalis.
Art installation win.
Looks like art to me.
IT’S MODERN ART.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO YELL. WE’RE RIGHT HERE!
Ya, i find it kinda funny, don’t see how it’d be a fail.
first thing I thought when I saw it was that it was a sweet piece. i’m pretty sure there is no material that bookcases are constructed from that could just do this on its own.
My thoughts exactly.
It’s a design student project I bet.
Art.
Awesome art!
disse iz mar ove a fell ferome deh pearsune
Now you’re just trying to hard to spell incorrectly.
*too hard
(really wishes there was a way to edit your own comments)
How is this a fail?
Do you think the shelf melted or something?
Obviously done on purpose.
The fail is that you can’t put anything in the top of it. The design itself it’s a fail.
It’s done on purpose.
That’s what makes it a fail, because the purpose is usability, but the design is utterly unuseful :p
It’s art. As far as usability goes, your comment is an obvious user error.
your brain is error
this is obvious fail
Well, then it’s more of a person fail trying to put the book anyway, didn’t they realize after one book falling that the 20 others would also fall…
your mother is a fail because nobody put the books on those shelves, they just put them on the floor as if they would fall from the shelves, because its art and its pretty original… and unlike your mom it’s really not a person fail
This looks like some kind of art piece. The designer in NO way intended for books to be places on the upper shelves.
bookcase win obviously, 999/1000 books are literally garbage anyways
literately garbage?
literary garbage?
literlarelly
literlolly
obviously the sun warped it because of how cheap it is
It’s wood though…
it’s ikea!
you can warp wood silly.
not like that
Drunk bookcase throws up in the library.
Agreed. If you look at the books, you’ll notice this was staged. You’re bound to get one or two books that open up when they fall out binding first. The picture itself is likely to be a piece of art. That usually constitutes a Win, not a Fail.
^Dis!
Actually, it seemed like more of a compliment.
More like – sad bookcase is sad.
Maybe it was stuffed full of misery memoirs and is now depressed.
Somewhere right now, MC Escher is sobbing gallons of tears of pure joy.
This would be more a Dali thing than Escher.
Yeah, this doesn’t remind me of Escher at all.
Win for Lytrigian. This is a perfect example of Surrealism, just like Dali would have done.
Who would design such a thing?? It’s like having a hole in the bottom of a coffee mug and calling it “art”!
Bingo. And I’m glad you put quotation marks around “art.” A bookcase by Frank Loyd Wright is art. You can call a turd a rose, but it’s still $hit.
Don’t assume that art needs to serve YOUR practical purposes. Art only needs to have meaning. I’m sure this means something.
People pretty much everywhere waste resources. For example, food and money is spent on you.
Also, art doesn’t even need meaning. Sometimes you create art because it’s fun and you just want to show your friends.
“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn’t tell you.”
Pablo Picasso
I wouldn’t want to show my friends a bookcase that you can only use half of. And I certainly wouldn’t call it art. Good lord, people can now just throw any crap together and call it “art”. I’m all for dadaism, but this is ridiculous.
Art is ALL about meaning. Without meaning it is “craft”. I can built a hundred bookcases that are full of craft and hold books. But, if I make ONE that doesn’t hold books, but makes a statement about our educational system (or some such BS…) Then, I have created ART. If I create a bookcase that doesn’t hold books that doesn’t make a statement I have made useless craft.
I disagree. I’ve seen things crafted so wonderfully that they couldn’t really be described as anything but art.
They can if you use the language correctly.
What is the functional purpose of a painting?
There’s no functional purpose to a painting, but at least it’s nice to look at and requires artistic talent. All this bookshelf requires is not having a life, and adding insult to injury by making something that’s supposed to have a “functional purpose”, but doesn’t, and then excusing that by calling it art.
I believe the thing as a whole, including the books on the lower shelves and the ones that appear to have fallen from the top one, is meant as art. The empty bookcase that “you can only use half of” isn’t the whole thing.
I’ve seen more than my share of paintings that are not nice to look at and they are also art.
Art is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps the artist is speaking on the futility of trying to fit every bit of knowledge in until you are ‘full’
Actually, that would rather be my guess anyways.
Look, I crapped on a plate: Art.
seen it.
No, that’s cuisine. Go eat it.
It got you thinking and it got you talking. That’s what many artists strive for.
In which case it’s a win :O
Gheyest comment ever.
I’m soo sad that you feel that way.
On metal, its sometimes used as a rust inhibitor.
In the military, it can be used to allow an object to blend in with its surroundings.
In industry, it can be used to denote the contents of a pressurized container.
On the road, it indicates whether or not a vehicle may pass another, a turning lane, and where a vehicle is supposed to park in a lot.
I think I see a book about John Lennon, cool.
The bookshelf looks sad
Hey – someone gets it!
Well, when you consider all the people online commenting about this photo who don’t get it, who in the past might have been reading a book…
I thought the same thing… I was concerned that it should get counseling, or at the very least a nice warm hug!
The bookshelf has been reading failblog comments.
i would guess it is installed upside down and supposed to be standing on against a wall O_O
so rather installation fail? if not, it is an epic design fail. however, whenever putting together something like this, make sure your girlfriend holds the instructions up side up
Obviously NOT installed upside down… See the gap between the bottom and the floor? The runners go on the bottom
Sad bookcase is sad.
Sick bookcase had too much to drink last night.
exactly what I was thinking
A collection of a specific type of literature would have given this more..flavor. Barkeeping, perhaps? Politics..education, so on.
I was going to say this belongs on the Happy Chair site.
This is an art installation, ya dinguses. It’s a study in impractical design.
It’s a study in crap. How enlightening.
Who was the artist who canned dollops of his own poo? THAT was a study in crap! (But, it was still art.)
I just made some “art” an hour ago. I’ll take pictures next time and send them to you.
No thanks. But, if you (or someone) can argue that it means something you can call it art.
It does mean something and it’s very important. It means my body digested the food that I ingested. The whole process is so amazing that I find the final result beautiful, and after all beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My poop is art.
You’ve failed to state your case why this isn’t art. You’ve admitted that you think your poop is art and seem to have drawn comparisons between your poop and this bookshelf. Since you think that your poop is beautiful, you’ve only shown that it’s not unreasonable that someone might find this beautiful too.
No, to me it looks like it could hold books on the top shelf, but someone took out the books and put them on the ground just to make it look like it couldn’t.
Additional Fail in that the book that appears to fall by itself, is caused by the guy behind the bookshelf. You can see his shoulder behind the bookshelf shaking it so the photo could include a falling book.
Pretty sure that’s a trash can…
Get some water!! The bookcase is wilting!
bookcase is
I hate my shelf and I want to die.
WIN!
+1
You’re just trolling for comments now, aren’t you?
This is a great pic, but it was ruined with the inappropriate FAIL stamp.
THIS IS ART YOU MORONS.
chill out, man. some people just need to the heck.
The fail is people not recognizing this as art.
The fail is people who think it’s art. Whocares? Apparently you do.
How is this a fail? Slow fail day, failblog editors?
Isn’t this upside down?
..if you mean artistes criticizing everyone about everything, then maybe yah..
touch my butt RPAPREPRPPRAPEEEEEE
I find it strange that lot of books are down. If the library was really designed like that, there wouldn’t have a pile of books down there, that would happen if the bookshelf curved up over time. Any expert on the matter can explain how can a bookshelf curve perfectly like that? o_o
I hope I won’t go into to much detailed physics and engineering here, but there is no other way to make this explanation make sense.
Ok, so here it goes: It was made this way. (that is – the wood was cut in this perfect curve)
There, hope I didn’t lose you half way through the explanation.
Why you don’t make bookcases out of frozen butter.
it’s art. it is NOT a fail. this site is getting pretty desperate.
I understand that it’s art, and it’s a cute idea – but if the artist was trying to make a statement, shouldn’t the bookcase have dumped a pile of Stephanie Meyer books on the floor?
This looks more like something you’de find on unhappyhipster.com
After this, Ailene was never allowed to by furniture again…
Artsy people scare me.
They create crap like this on purpose and try to give it purpose.
We often find things we don’t understand scary.
In case you are unaware, this is a real product for sale. You fail in differentiating designer bookcases and a true fail.
… Is it weird that I want this shelf?
No. It is a clever piece.
Not only is it art, it’s probably old art. That’s a World Book Encyclopedia on the bottom shelf. When was the last time anyone used a printed encyclopedia?
I’m guessing that’s part of the point of the piece…
2nd. I’d also wager that if one were able to actually see which titles were dumped by the bookcase, the significance would be greater.
I like it.
999 out of a 1000 books are garbage? maybe in the past 20 to 30 years but that is rubbish sir
Are you arguing with yourself? Or is it just some completely obscure reference that no one understands but yourself?
Depressed bookcase fail.
Is it me or the bookcase is puking books? *gross*
This one looks like an art project rather than an actual book case. Could even be a win.
If the bookcase threw up those books because their Twilight books, then its a WIN
Finally someone I agree with. I was feeling rather alone.
Twilight…syrup of ipecac for your bookshelf.
Rub it with varnish, that will stiffen it back up.
Books: 0 Bookcase: 1
it looks like it dropped the books and now it’s looking at them very sadly…
The sun melted it … no biggy.
The fail is on the bottom shelf. Who the hell still has a full set of encyclopedias? Do they even still print those?
I have a 30 year old set of World Book Encyclopedias. I don’t use them for reference. But, they are still fun to thumb thru.
This is an art piece. It is designed to highlight how e readers and the internet are killing off the traditional books. So the bookshelf is sad.
form follows function.
Oh, those wacky wacky artists… so inciteful…. so genius….
haha modern at the furniture store
It would hold the books up find if the whole thing was flipped upside down, which makes me think that whoever installed it is the fail.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL i see so many dumb people here wtf
this is not a fail,the bookcase its contrarily
epic FAIL,FAIL BLOG
U THINK THAT WE ARE DUMB OR WTF?GET A LIFE DUMBIES TURNING THINGS ON contrarily
yea wtf?fail blog,that the correct name for this site
This is a piece of art.
Holy cow, Failblog. You suck. Stop sucking.
See, what happened was, the sun was shining in through the windows, and heated up the back of it, and whatever it is built of expands extremely with heat, and so..
The bookshelf its upsidedown….. i have one similar to that one from IKEA, and its supposed to stay the other way around…
fail from failblog intentional is not fail
Don’t know if it is art. Don’t mind if it isn’t. I would want one myself; maybe I’ll make one. Can’t be all that hard.
It IS art.
It’s a sculpture that can double as a storage unit.
WIN!
Failblog’s fail.
sad bookcase
Sad book shelf is sad
It’s alive!! o-O
a perfect example of established modern art. wow. where is this world going?
Got wood fail
F-Art.
Bungee cords and/or duct tape could fix that!
I didn’t bother with reading every comment here, but judging from the ones I read, about 90% or more of these people didn’t consider putting this piece on its side.
tired of reading
As many have said, it looks alot like modern art.
Don’t look down! Duh.
Looks like the bookshelf has a mind of its own. DO WANT!
Demotivated bookcase is demotivated
this looks like an art installation, are you sensationalizing, failblog?
Sad bookcase is sad.
http://okayface.com/
Reminded me of this, had to do it.