mire.project

Victim of technological development, cathode ray tube displays nevertheless deserve a decent sign-off...

Overwhelming supremacy of flat-panel displays have made flourish on our sidewalks our old cathode ray tube displays which nobody wants anymore. Too bulky, too ugly... No compassion for these objects we loved so much in the past, which often occupied the central place in the living room.

Nowadays, we fixed our choice and our addiction on a new generation of more attractive screens, which let no chance to these old bulky televisions.

Test pattern is gone as its media : cathode ray tube display...

Facing with that general giving up and in order to offer them a worthier life-ending, mire.project decided to get them back from the street for a while, to dress them in their most beautiful finery, the one they endlessly displayed late at night, like a nightdress.

Here is the first television, left at rue du Chevaleret in the 13^th district of Paris,

and here is what it became, after one night spent on its pedestal,

An investigation is under way, several flat-panel displays of the neighborhood were put on custody.

To get over this irrevocable extinction, here are two posters of test patterns realized by St.Arsky (found on the web).