well made!
the best visualisation of an awful scenario like this!

Ayn Rand would be proud.

benches must stay free.

wonder city !!!!!

isnt this the type of bench they have in north korea? you know to keep people out of parks and force them to sit on the ground?
bench=public property=equal access

I really hate your bright idea.

Sad future, very sad.

Is this why rich people are obese? (HAHAHA!)

Wow, you really wouldn't want that thing to malfunction and give you a few extra ***holes! ;)

aw i was hoping to actually see the sitter when time ran out

Seriously... WTF?!

i would hate to fall asleep before the time runs out.. OUCH

Let's use our creativity to make better things, not worse....

Funny and creative, but this would be very unlikely to ever happen in the real world. No one would want to use a bench like this. Much more likely that benches would be free to use with paid entry to a privately owned park, or there would be advertising on the bench, or one of numerous other "customer friendly" possibilities.

Well, I'm from Chicago, where they privatized the parking meters and they quadrupled in price. That's the perils of profit.

it is art, is n`t ?

dangerous benches... ;)

i sure hope this is a joke ;) culture jamming.
otherwise i agree with jeremy, astronaut and adrian. :P

hey fabian,

good work.

cheers

Masochists sit for free.

The coinoperated system was first designed by German sculptor Fabian Brunsing – as a protest against the commercialisation of modern life.
But ironically his idea and art installation found implementation, particularly in China.
‘This seems like a fair way to stop people grabbing a bench at dawn and staying there all day,’ said an official at Yantai Park in Shangdong, east China, where this idea has been implemented into life.

This is the same as Steve Mann's "SeatSale" in 2001, San Francisco Art Institute. See wearcam.org/seatsale/

To literally pervert the idea of public space using this simple torture device is a brilliant act of art, in a sense of exposing peoples almost natural cupidity and jealousy.
I actually don't get this point with your project @steve.

Very cool.

awesome. Very Philip K. Dick.

I'd be standing next to it, handing out free pieces of plywood to lay across it.

I do really think it is a clever device though.

you forget that we already do that for our cars. a thing that actually started not so long ago in Beirut. and it still feels sometime bizarre that ther eis no free space to put a car...

lawlz... in my city this would be broken in pieces like first night :) unless a cop or two are watching every bench 24/7... yay! more cops and more jobs for people :D

This is the final step in evolution of the urban bench: Its a interesting mash up between the anti-skating knobs that popped up in many cities and those horrendous "design" benches that keep the homeless at bay... Nice idea I'd love to see it integrated in a fiction story.

For the previous less narrated version:
wearcam.org/seatsale/seatsale_edited_288KB_per_sec.mpg