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 catalog all things henge-like.
Recognition for Tube Henge
Tube henge and the Awful Tower got a nice write up on Clonehenge.com. Take a look and be sure to give it five stars. I’m trying for henger of the year.
Toilet Paper Tube Henge 2010
It was an an amazing event. Twenty people gathered to see the worlds first ever henge made out of toilet paper tubes. Kimberly Clark’s announcement that the toilet paper tube was an endangered species inspired this tribute.
A poem about the end of the Tube written by Rachel B was read by Katie W. Video to follow on YouTube when I can figure it out.
And because there were extra tubes we spontaneously built the awful tower.
Special thanks to Randy, Joe and Johnny for building this unique cultural icon.
Remarkable.
TP Tube Memorial Henge Trial
Since Kimberly Clark announced last week that they were going tubeless we have been preparing to build TP Tube Memorial Henge. Over the weekend we performed this important test of the hengeability of toilet paper rolls. It looks great. The full henge will be installed on December 19. The nearest Sunday to the winter solistice. If all goes well and the TP astronomer has calculated correctly the late afternoon sun will shine through main arch and illuminate the toilet paper wad on the throne. Please feel free to contribute puns, jokes and slightly distasteful comments. Invitations to the event to follow. Adult beverages will be served.
We still need to decide the surface and color and the important question of whether we remove the paper remnants.
Toilet Henge
This just in courtesy of Joe R:
In the words of the ancient druids: “To henge is to live.”
Bellflower Public Art
Michael S. and I went down to Bellflower and Santa Fe Springs on Sunday morning to look at some public art. Michael is an expert on the public art in LA and an excellent adventure companion. It was sunny in Pasadena so I extrapolated twenty miles to sunny in Bellflower but was wrong. Even with the overcast the “Invitation/Decalogue” in Bellflower was pretty impressive.
It is not clear what the circle of golden fiberglass tusks are supposed to represent but they looked cool and kind of hengy
The installation will be at the corner of Bellflower Blvd. and the railway tracks until November. This more traditional bronze is a permanent installation at the old train station nearby:
Tomorrow public art in Santa Fe Springs. A surprising collection.