– • david ross macdonald • extras and journal

It’s kind of easy to read too much into things these days.

Recently I was walking down a street in Melbourne admiring a 2010 Toyota Prius parked beneath a tall gum tree.

Gleaming in all it’s hybrid and aerodynamic beauty I remarked to myself “those silvery lines and duco finish look exactly like my Macbook Pro”. That metallic brushed but lustrous aluminium patina makes any object appear more like an ingot of impossible value than a pimped up email machine, urban runaround or even an electric toaster for that matter. It seems that most iObjects come in this colour nowadays.

But something was amiss.

As I approached Toyotas flagship of eco-responsibility there was a strange creaking and crackling sound and then, in front of my very eyes, with me not more than ten feet away from the futuristic silvery battery mobile that the shading gum tree decided to drop one of it’s branches directly onto the cars’ hood and roof … crash!

The Prius was bitch-slapped by a eucalypt.

Eco-irony is now a word.