Digital-imaging and CGI artist Michael Tompert is fascinated by the destruction of Apple products.  Ever wonder what an iPad would like after a sledgehammer beating and torch treatment?  Your inquisitiveness get resolved in the image above titled “Book Burning.”  Sick and tired of antenna issues and feel like pounding your iPhone 4 with an eight pound sledgehammer?  Don’t do that–just flip through the gallery below and visualize it.  There you’ll also find “Breathe”, a MacBook Air with 12 rounds in it (damaged by a Heckler & Koch handgun); “Liquid Crystals”, a sledgehammered and torched MacBook; “You’re So 2000&L8”, a disfigured iPhone 3G; and “Caltrain Fatalities: Left Track/Right Track”, a rainbow of iPod nanos ran over by a train.

All of these disturbing images are part of Tompert’s 12LVE photography exhibit located at the WhiteSpace Gallery in Palo Alto, California.  “The images are large-scale yet microscopic, providing a canvas for contemplating our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage,” says Tompert.  The inspiration behind the gallery is rather simplistic; when Tompert got tired of his two sons fighting over an iPod touch, he took it from them and smash it on the floor.  “They were kind of stunned — the screen was broken and this liquid poured out of it. I got my camera to shoot it,” he told the LA Times.  “My wife told me that I should do something with it.”  And the rest, as they say, was history.

It’s important to note that Tompert is not anti-Apple; in fact he calls himself “an Apple fan from Day 1”.  If that doesn’t do it for you, he’s a former Apple graphics designer.

Again, take a look in the gallery below to gaze at the beautiful destruction and head over to Cult of Mac to gain insight into the making of the gallery.

[Via CNET]