Last night I was trying to impress my relatives by showing them photos of my henges and telling them about clonehenge.com. At the same time Christine was impressing everyone by carrying a bag of a few dozen knitted bears that were being given to charity. At the end of the evening we built one trialith with three of the bears. This morning I woke up with a brilliant idea. I’ll get some of the knitters I know to knit grey stones another to a green… Read More »Knit Henge
I was helping my nephew Matt move a couch last week. And passed a Monterey style home on Indian Hill Blvd in Claremont, CA that had a mini-henge. After delivering the couch I of course circled back to take some pictures. The house is a classical tile roofed Monterey with a dramatic ten foot trilithon and a very mysterious hitching stone in front. The hitching stone in the parkway has large iron bolt and what appears to be an ancient Anasazi snail design. The single… Read More »Claremont Henge
“No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married more than a quarter century.” Mark Twain
Well while I dithered a couple of brilliant people have started Clone Henge. The site focuses on henges around the world. They found me through Flickr and featured our post about Laptop Henge. Carrothenge by Rachel B I am adding them to my blog roll and I highly recommend their posts on: Foam Henge Bamboo Henge and Pez Henge Maryhill, Washington Here is a second order idea. How about a henge of henges? I made a list of henge ideas a few years ago that… Read More »Clone Henge
Here are two more examples of mysterious structure. Flotsam and jetsam (I don’t know the difference and neither do you) have been been put on a piece of driftwood in the middle of a beautiful Caribbean beach. Stone piles have been built in Eaton Canyon Park in Pasadena. These piles are near where the trail that leads to the waterfall and Henninger Flats crosses the stream and are being built by school groups. I admit to building some of them a few weeks ago when… Read More »OOMS (part 3)
OOMS is the acronym for On the Origin of Mysterious Structures. It is a story that started on simonburrow.com/ yesterday. BTW the name is a takeoff on Darwin’s classic “On the Origin of Species.” I expect that, in the fullness of time, OOMS will be as significant a work as Darwin’s. We went on a walking tour in Maine in September and while walking on Monhegan Island between the harbor and the high cliff we passed through a wooded glade. Nestled in the roots of… Read More »OOMS (part 2)
On the island of Maui, past the snorkel bay north of Kapalua and before the famous church, you pass a barren cliff with a huge collection of rock piles on it. The rock piles are “Mysterious Structures.” They were built for no apparent purpose in a far away place. Who or what built them and why? We journeyed around the world to find out the answer to this question. Read tomorrow’s installment to learn what we discovered. Do you think you know? Leave your answer… Read More »On the Origin of Mysterious Structures
This is one of the great ideas that I wish I’d had. An artist named Ari Kletzky has been putting up signs around LA naming the traffic islands a National Park. There is one of the signs down my hill: www.islandsofla.com Kletzky and his idea were featured in an LA Times story last week. It reminds me of “The Roundabouts of Derby” which were featured on a calendar my brother Tom gave me a few years ago. I still cherish the calendar. although I couldn’t… Read More »Islands of LA National Park
About 45 minutes north of NYC on I 87 is the Storm King Art Center. It is one of the worlds premier large outdoor sculpture gardens. “Storm King Wall” by Andrew Goldsworthy They have Calder’s, a beautiful Henry Moore, the famous running fence by Andrew Goldsworthy and many more large and magnificent pieces. Henry Moore I have visited twice. The first time with Nurit and Rebecca and even though it was raining we loved the place. This time I was by myself, it was overcast… Read More »Storm King Art Center
Henges are everywhere