Mobbile
Gustav Metzger, Mobbile, 1970
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I saw this sculpture in Chelsea last summer that was a pentagon composed of seven air conditioners, each one connected by glass to the next. When turned on (which it wasn’t while I was there) each air conditioner’s exhaust fed the next one’s intake. On closer inspection, there were two more rings of air conditioners, made from smaller units, nested inside the outermost pentagon.
Xbox & PlayStation vs San Diego
“Noah Horowitz, at the Natural Resources Defense Council, calculated that the nation’s gaming consoles, like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Sony PlayStation 3, now use about the same amount of electricity each year as San Diego, the ninth-largest city in country.” –Nytimes
The Banquet
Purell hand sanatizer ¶ Five bags of chips, each ripped open lengthwise ¶ One liter of each of the following: Pepsi, 7-Up, Orange Crush, Canada Dry ¶ A stack of square napkins ¶ Four columns of wax-coated paper cups
Payloads
A tugboat is pushing three barges upstream. The first carries a highly refined mineral; the second is stacked with dry van shipping containers, two of which contain seven stowaways all together; the third’s payload is all garbage, and there are a pair of archeologists who have set up a temporary lab to study the artifacts.
Models and Makes
Gabriel Orozco
Harm van den Dorpel
Inflatable Batman Loop
September 2009 Issue Out Now: Featuring Dog Ear by Erica Baum
More work by Erica Baum here, here, and here.
Dressed Up in My Nicest
