Category: Henges

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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Camera Case Henge

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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)

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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.

Life is good at the Medicare Buffet

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Sweater Henge

Sweater Henge

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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.

 

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Energy (Bar) Henge

Last week in a teaser post I promised to build Millennium Bar Henge and here it is.

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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 catalog all things henge-like.

More photos on Flickr

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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

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and after a short search found the henge.   I had been before (previous post) and had been woefully under-impressed but this time I went down the hill in the front and got this really great picture.

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I think that if I was in charge of Maryhill I’d move the parking lot down below the henge so that the approach was up the hill.  It also needs a gift shop and some more critical mass.  See tomorrow’s blog entry for an idea about building the critical mass.

We also drove around Mt Hood

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I love stand alone mountains.