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Stoned

We visited the “Levitated Mass” at the Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday.  It was heavy.  The LACMA website calls it a Megalith which in my mind makes this installation a henge.  The artist is Michael Heizer.  What I admire most, having moved some big stones around myself, is that he was able to convince art patrons to put up the money to move and install the stone. Walking under the Levitated Mass gave me a control of nature feeling, as if… Read More »Stoned

CitrusHenge the Blog Post

On a very recently discovered and translated Mayan carving it said something like: “build a Stonehenge replica out of citrus and the 2012 apocalypse will be averted.” So we did and it was. Saved that is. Our little row of citrus trees had a bountiful harvest this year. And while I was harvesting my henge gene kicked in and I couldn’t resist the urge to give CitrusHenge a try. A little experimenting and viola: The world was saved from the Mayan apocalypse. Well done Simon… Read More »CitrusHenge the Blog Post

Wine Rack Henge

It is the curse of the henger.  I was building a new wine rack for the hall closet and the nicely shaped maple pieces suddenly started talking to me.  And what they were saying was “we are a henge.” And they became a henge. Then the spirits intervened (it is a wine rack after all) and the sunlight reflected of the car window shone directly through the southern trilithon. A clear message that the Mayans were wrong and the world will go on after the… Read More »Wine Rack Henge

Camera Case Henge

CameraCaseHenge Photo courtesy of Gordon C This installation henge was a subset of sweaterhenge on August 26, 2012.  It was created by a splinter group of attendees led by Doug M. Note how this exceptional photo shows the afternoon sun shining through the center of the keycase arch. (center foreground)

SweaterHenge

We (the royal we, since it is mostly me) build an occasional henge as installation art.  Henges are a great photo-op and a fun mixer opportunity.  See more henge stuff here  Yesterday for my 65th birthday which was a few months ago we had a lovely party and an interesting henge.  I have built a flickr set of the best pictures from the party which you can see here Many thanks to Henry L. for taking the party photos. To Lillian B for preparing the… Read More »SweaterHenge

Sweater Henge

Sweater Henge or SweaterHenge Is coming on August 26 to Pasadena A celebration of Simon’s reaching the head of the line at the Medicare Buffet. If you come bring a sweater to donate. It won’t be destroyed and will end up helping a good cause.  

Sconehenge

Thanks to the alert reporting and cosmopolitan culinary interests of reader Stephanie M. we have been made aware of the Sconehenge Bakery and Cafe in Berkeley CA. Good find.  Henges are everywhere.  It may be that there is a genetic instruction set for building them.

Energy (Bar) Henge

Last week in a teaser post I promised to build Millennium Bar Henge and here it is. Energy Henge is (was) a thing of beauty looming on the workbench in the garage and giving of the sweet artificial smell of cherry cough syrup.  Its completion was held up by the need to recalibrate the bars to account for the daylight savings time adjustment. If you like hengy things you should check out Clone Henge.  Where the extremely creative Nancy Wisser perseveres in her attempt to… Read More »Energy (Bar) Henge

Moving Henges

Nobody visits Maryhill Henge and even less people go to Carhenge. So few in fact that according to this story in a local (northwestern Nebraska) newspaper Carhenge is for sale.  Why not move Carhenge to Maryhill and build the critical mass of both.  I imagine a blend of Area 51 and Storm King Art Center.

Maryhill Henge

In September I visited Rebecca in Oregon and we took a few great road trips which I have yet to post any pictures from.  But because I have been on a blog henge roll for the past few days I thought I’d post this updated picture from Maryhill Henge in Washington.  We drove out the beautiful Columbia River Valley past Hood River and crossed at this this bridge into Washington and after a short search found the henge.   I had been before (previous post) and… Read More »Maryhill Henge