Hot Tub in a Dumpster

Michel de Broin built a hot tub in a dumpster: "The dumpster is used to frame its contents - 1649 litres of filtered, chlorinated water. Its interior is lined with waterproof blue material while a pump and filter system ensures the purity of its contents. Powerful jets stimulate the sensorial experience." Blue Monochrom | 2003 (via Make)

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@ #18: Or it could go with one of these:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/09/24/container.homes.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
A New Challenger

What a piece of junk!
Jack

@#22 POSTED BY A NEW CHALLENGER
She’ll make point five past jet pump speed. She may not look like much but she’s got it where it counts, kid. I’ve made a lot of special modifications myself.
demidan

Makes me think of Gibson and his “Stealth Houses”, what a great way to hide your solvency, right out of Zoolander.
sirspocksalot

@22: She’ll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much kid, but she’s got it where it counts.
sirspocksalot

Not once but TWICE Jack has beaten me to a punchline on this post.

I bow to his superior reflexes.
minTphresh

i for one welcome our new dumpster-hottub-soaking overlords. it needed to be said.
Jack

Sir Spocks-A-Lot, you are not up to speed. Are you in the midst of Pon farr?
Not a Doktor

I’d love to have this, but I’m sure it’s an anti-getting laid device.
minTphresh

sir spock, perhaps his katra is stronger than yours, eh?
seanboing

Mmmm, stewing in garbage juice.
PaulRedeker

@27

It could have been said on slashdot instead.
mdh

@27 – overlords schmoverlords, I can see the pixels
toxonix

Shit. I wasted all that time building a concrete one. I’m much better with steel. double shit.
pig_meat

Reminds me of Louisa Dawson’s “Temporary Displacement” – part of the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Awards 2005.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigmeat/6357385
Purly

Won’t you get dirty climbing in and out?
Eric Carlson

That is much cooler than a snorkel tub, though could you imagine if it were wood fired?
Jake0748

What… why?

Well, let me be the first to suggest a nice soak in the dumpster jacuzzi, before retiring to the comfort of your bed complete with cardboard duvet.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/27/cardboard-duvet-set.html
ZippySpincycle

Deep enough for real dumpster diving?
Daemon

Is it just me, or is the waterproof blue lining actually painted on? There’s blue paint splatter that looks to be exactly the same colour as the inside of the dumpster…
Wigwam Jones

When you fall asleep in it, do you get picked up and compacted by a trash truck, like the homeless people do?

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=96648&provider=top
wolfiesma

To me it looks like one of these shape shifting machines, a la The Fly trans-mutator, or the thing from Altered States.
wolfiesma

Okay, here is the clip from Altered States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbYT3UclhNY
Wigwam Jones

Possibly a new type of Tardis.
grimc

@#4

If you go to the site there’s a slightly closer shot, and the paint splatter looks much lighter.
mokey

i thought this would be something way different. and i was trying to imagine where this glorious dumpster might be. big rock candy mountain perhaps?
Jack

Hot tub in a dumpster, I know… I know… It’s serious.
Wigwam Jones

@ #11 Jack

Let me whisper my last goodbye, I know, it’s serious.
PaulRedeker

Dumpsters are a great place to hide from zombies; providing you can get one with a metal roof. Eventually, the zombies, (climbing over other zombies), will break through a plastic top.

But, once they get inside and devour the “contents” you have a dumpster full of zombies that can’t get out!

Add gasoline, and you have an empty dumpster in short order.

Of course, after the zombie war, there was no more gas, but I digress.
loganbouchard

i saw this in montreal. unfortunately there was a security guard around…

i thought it was what the artist would have wanted.
travelina

Bubble bubble toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
MichaelRN

totally…WANT!
neurolux

It’s a good size and has a built in lid, perfect. I would’ve painted the outside too, maybe a different color, or tiles.

How does one acquire a dumpster. Does the city auction off used ones?
nanuq

A dumpster hot tub would go perfectly with this hotel room:

http://www.thestar.com/article/258045

What is it with dumpster art anyway?
iamcantaloupe

@#6

The thing from Altered States is a simple isolation tank, used for deep meditation and other explorations into the psyche induced by sensory deprivation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank

No crazy tubing or machinery needed.
mdh

it’s missing something