The Monkees Draws Raves At Burning Man
Reprinted from the Mercury News:
The Monkees Draw Raves At Burning Man
By Mark Boslet
Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:05 pm in Burning Man, General.
The most talked about piece of art on the Playa this year is “The Monkees,” a sculpture formally called Homouroboros. It is simply awe inspiring to see at night. It has a strobe light and a merry-go-round of branches that spin in a circle. Once in motion, a posse of monkees seems to leap from branch to branch and a snake slithers down each curved limb.
Of course it is an illusion and a very convincing one. Each time The Monkees sculpture comes to life, the crowd roars with delight, and then the most altruistic of the viewers takes their turn on stationary bikes to generate enough electric juice to start the operate again.
Mark your calendards for 10 pm tonight. A wooden oil rig - a wooden sculpture standing about 40 feet high - is to burn. Expect the crowd to be large. Everybody it talking about it
Reprinted from the Mercury News:
The Monkees Draw Raves At Burning Man
By Mark Boslet
Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:05 pm in Burning Man, General.
The most talked about piece of art on the Playa this year is “The Monkees,” a sculpture formally called Homouroboros. It is simply awe inspiring to see at night. It has a strobe light and a merry-go-round of branches that spin in a circle. Once in motion, a posse of monkees seems to leap from branch to branch and a snake slithers down each curved limb.
Of course it is an illusion and a very convincing one. Each time The Monkees sculpture comes to life, the crowd roars with delight, and then the most altruistic of the viewers takes their turn on stationary bikes to generate enough electric juice to start the operate again.
Mark your calendards for 10 pm tonight. A wooden oil rig - a wooden sculpture standing about 40 feet high - is to burn. Expect the crowd to be large. Everybody it talking about it
posted by Mark Boslet at 11:16 PM
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