Mon 7 Feb 2005
It’s Monday, so it’s time for another picture.
This one is a bit harder than last week, I think.
Your job is to tell
(a) Where this picture was taken, or what it is of;
(b) Anything you remember about this location.
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Mon 7 Feb 2005
It’s Monday, so it’s time for another picture.
This one is a bit harder than last week, I think.
Your job is to tell
(a) Where this picture was taken, or what it is of;
(b) Anything you remember about this location.
February 7th, 2005 at 7:48 am
Sawyer?
February 7th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Nope, it’s looking down into the basement from the top floor of Bronfman.
That’s such a fun little toy!
February 7th, 2005 at 8:09 am
My favorite story about that thing was not one I witnessed, but having spent to much time there I spoke with a lot of the profs and heard it through them. Apparently a monkey got out once (who even cares at this point why a monkey was there, although I suspect it was related to the psych side of things in the building) and the first thing it did was jump onto that thing and people had to chase up and down the steps trying to get it off of the kinetic sculpture as to climbed and descended to avoid the humans.
Any story involving chasing a monkey is a good one in my book.
February 7th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Also, for those of you that don’t know it (I thought everyone would know it immediately) - that little box that you can see on the railing with the knob on it is connected to a box at the bottom of the sculpture which contains a motor.
Turning the knob turns the motor in that direction, which then rotates the center wire of the sculpture, which then causes a wave to go through it up to the top as the outer edges spin to catch-up. It then will deflect off of the stationary top and come back down - causing interference along the way and generally not being as pretty as the first ripple.
February 7th, 2005 at 10:24 am
Someone (I no longer remember who) tried to convince me that the sculpture had something to do with DNA because of the spiral. But it doesn’t have enough “double spiral” for me to ever buy that explanation.
I like Eric’s explanation that it’s to show the wave moving along the chain and eventually interfering with itself.
February 7th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
My favorite memory of this scuplture is the year that some group of students (a freshman entry perhaps?) spent a night attaching mini cereal boxes to each of the cubes. Brilliant!