Yes, Apple's new iPad ad is ugly and crushing, but art can't be flattened
Briefly

There is something so ugly about crushing an acoustic guitar. Making it buckle, making the middle of it explode in splinters.
But the most spectacular crushings are of musical instruments – that guitar, a piano, a drum set, a trumpet standing on its end until it gives way.
The ad … is meant to communicate, I suppose, that this tiny, thin iPad can contain what is important from all these things. It can replace them all.
But these are not practical items to begin with. Nobody owns a piano because it's practical; it's about the least practical thing you can own.
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