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Disembowelling your car

As I was driving back from Kent this evening, I couldn't get that ad where bits of a car were used to construct a choreographed sequence of events out of my head. I guess I was also linking it to some of the more complicated performance art pieces I helped create back in college (hey, Martin!), and the not-quite-subconscious knowledge that the car is due for its annual check-up...

Well, through the joys of the web and a brief Google, I now happily point you at both the UK Honda Accord ad, 'Cog' [click on the cog on the table once it comes to rest] and a clip from the 1987 short film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss that (probably) inspired it, 'The Way Things Go'. Available *now* at Amazon and assorted online retailers...