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The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle depicts a super slow motion car crash. The impact runs continuously 24-hours a day for six days. Car crash testing data was analyzed to estimate realistic forces encountered in a front-end collision. These force calculation were the starting point for designing the steel framework and hydraulic ram system used to simulate the collision.

 

The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle, Artopolis Fair, Chicago 2008. Photo: Jonathan Schipper