I did this one two ways. The photo above was a mashup of my four Clonehenge mugs. The one below is using different mugs but featuring the Clonehenge mugs. Continue reading “Mug Henge”
Wine Cork Henge
Why We Henge
I have built some great henges in the last few years some as events like TubeHenge:
TubeHenge
Some solo like CitrusHenge:
CitrusHenge
Now an article in the Clarion Legend (Clarion, Mississippi) talks about Henging and why it happens. After visiting Stonehenge and some other replicas the author Felder Rushing was inspired to make Peghenge, a henge made of clothes pins and wrote “When you do something like this, two things happen: You feel a little silly and exposed, and also, because what you’ve done is creative but out of the ordinary, you are personally and socially liberated. And it feels good.”
Here is a link to CloneHenge.com the go to place for information and good humored fun about Stonehenge replicas big and small around the world. http://clonehenge.com/
And for a picture of PegHenge go here and scroll down.
We are in Santa Fe, NM for the next few weeks and I’m hoping to go to the site of the deceased RefrigeratorHenge and get a photo. It is sacred ground for serious hengers.
And then as a tribute to the beginning of the end of the US Postal Service, as signaled by the end of Saturday deliveries, I’m going to start gathering the material for MailBoxHenge. Stay tuned.
New Henge Ideas
In no particular order here are some henge ideas that came out of the wine at recent events leading.
In the alliterative catagory we have:
- Hingehenge
- Foamhenge
- Tomehenge
- Bonehenge
Small henge proposals include:
- Filmhenge (35mm film containers)
- Ricehenge
- Microchiphenge
- Beermathenge
- Cassettehenge
- Scissorhenge
- Walkmanhenge
- Cornonthecobhenge
- PS2henge
- Postcardhenge
- drinkumbrellahenge
- and my favorite Matchbookhenge
In the large henge catagory some of the most creative ideas where:
- VCRhenge
- Typewriterhenge
- Sewingmachinehenge
- Filecabinethenge
- Pianohenge
- Lazyboyhenge
- Shoehenge
Now that I have won the coveted Golden Druid Award from CloneHenge I am ready for some new challenges.
My plan is still to build the much delayed Great Pyramid of Gates
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 I was taking a big risk, even though it is well designed and not in the least dangerous.
A bit of perspective:
- This stone weighs about 330 tons.
- One of the large stones at Stonehenge weighs about 25 tons
- A medium sized office building, like the one in the background of these pictures weighs about 12,000 tons. Office building construction facts
The Levitating Mass can be seen as a driveby from 6th Street just East of Fairfax. But this exhibit is best seen from below. If you can find parking entry is free. Parking is $10 in the LACMA lot.
We had lunch first with Gil and Nanci C. at Short Order at the Farmers Market. A very nice outing.
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 if I may say so myself. Kudos to Nancy Wisser and the CloneHenge Blog for a henge making contest that end today. I am hoping to get honorable mention for CitrusHenge. Nancy shot down my claim to the world first CitrusHenge with this reminder of a Henge at a Spanish citrus festival. Which is bigger, better and earlier. Drat.
But I am undeterred in my desire for henging glory. Next I’m going to make the extravagant claim that I have created a record number of Henge-like installations. I’m going for the Guinness Book of World Records.
And finally a bad visual pun:
A group of citrus hanging around contemplating their Navel Orange.
November 29, 2012 Maxim
“The best and most beautiful things of this world can’t be seen or touched… they must be felt by the heart!”
Helen Keller
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 winter solstice.
This is my first entry in the Clonehenge End of the World Festival contest as announced on October 23, 2012. Life is Good.
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 amazing food and for generally planning the event.
And to everyone who attended, actually pretended that henging was fun and finally it seems laughed with me not at me. The theme was my arrival at the Medicare Buffet and the table centerpieces were Depends based.
