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The Art of Mechanical Vending – How Vintage Memorabilia Turns Up The Nostalgia

For many of us now, thinking back to a time when things existed in simpler terms, seems almost archaic; however, pastimes have a way of creeping up on us. Yet, when we reflect of all our surroundings that motivate us to those nostalgia driven moments, we always arrive at what was simpler, maybe even more artistic, and something that strikes significance. This strikes us, particularly, with the vending machine, as a piece of art and not simply an autonomous unit of service. That being said, one deft American artist remarked:

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have" and that was Andy Warhol.

It is true that the vending machine has been a steady friend to our desires for a long time, and even more so it has been a mechanism for the delivery of something we never truly need, but that is what keeps us coming, that and the convenience of course.

It can be said that the art of mechanical vending is truly an ambiguous term. We simply may place the vending machine in the collection of things left better unsaid, such as dirty shoes, pocket change or candle wax--the various boring tangibility of our existence. Perhaps we are all correct in saying that vending itself is just a mechanism to deliver a product, and nothing more, but perhaps there is art in that.

Voltaire said:

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason"

And this may be true, because we have attached a certain stigma to the vending machine, as something to satisfy our convenience, and nothing more. But for that reason, we may overlook how the various backdrops of life have situated our environments, and created a landscape, filled with art.

It can be said of old things that they are mere reminders of the decay of time, but old things also hold memorable value.

Perhaps that is why Mark Twain comically noted:

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Sometimes we assign anything old as something outdated, or not even worth our time, but hey, if we don't mind, it doesn't matter, right? In response to all of this, a vending machine museum erected in Darmstadt, Germany pays homage to the art of mechanical vending.

And noting this, Oscar Wilde said it best, when he spoke of the interconnectedness of life to art:

"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life"

The vending machine museum features vintage set-top, push-pull and wall-mounted mechanical vending machines that are a significance of décor in appealing vibrancy, shown in wavy and unending lines, with spectacular color combination's, which excite the eye and make the vending machine transform from a simple machine into a vivid dream of art and beauty.

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by Carl Drummond

Noting this post is a de facto examination of art, beauty and vending, the writer wants to ensure that no stone be left unturned, which is why he recommends further reading on the mechanical vending machine, if you are into technical stuff, or even if you are not, information is always great knowledge to possess.