The Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

A significant objet d'art

We've mentioned a few other art projects that use eBay as a platform or medium. The idea-based artist Caleb Larsen's A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a fun one. It's a significant object — a sculpture, supposedly, though it looks pretty much like a black box with wires running into it — that forever attempts to auction itself on eBay.

From Larsen's website: "Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is f...