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Like Jan Robert Leegte's slot machine in a previous post, Rubens Mano (São Paulo, 1960) made an artistic statement by removing the options of a gambling tool a decade earlier.

Having no choice or options can either be liberating or frustrating, depending on you state of mind ... to put it in a zen way.


Rubens Mano, 'Let's Play' (1998)

HEALTH

Gambling is often warned about being a negative attitude towards life

... and to gamble with your health a VERY unwise thing to do.



That'll give you something to chew over!

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DICE PRINTING NO GAMBLE

Brooklyn artist Stukenborg leaves no room for chance in his 'letterpress dice prints': classical patterns emerge when arranging the dice to plan.

LUGGAGE ROULETTE

Traveling is to many a journey into uncertainty.

One of the most anxious moments is waiting for your luggage to turn up on the airport's luggage belt ... remebering the mixed feelings we had checking-in our luggage at the check-in counter at the start of our journey, a gamble in itself.

The Venetian Casino thought to use these emotions as a way to promote themselves.

While waiting for your luggage you can make a bet with your fellow travellers which number your suitcase will land on.

On 'zero' the house wins of course!

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Dutch artist Jan Robert Leegte mostly uses the virtual world of the computer screen to create installations, media art and sculptures. The empty architecture becomes structure. The same approach he uses for his 'Slot Machine': an actual slot machine with it's graphics removed.

Being void of any means of telling wether you win or lose this slot machine offers true liberation, one might say.
Very Zen!



Jan Robert Leegte, 'Slot Machine' (2010)

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