Quirky thoughts from an old man.
Last year we built Laptophenge and although it was fun and creative it did not measure up to Pigpothenge or its predecessor Cellphonehenge. Laptophenge Recently Stephanie R. sent me a picture of some monitors waiting to go to there final resting place and suggested a henge. Monitors in storage But I was at Chichenitza in …
It’s spring in Southern California and an old mans fancy turns to thoughts of Henges. Check out this article about Henges in America. It doesn’t mention fridgehenge (shown above) but we found this link to Fridgehenge in Sante Fe New Mexico and this run of photos on Flickr
This is the back of the extremely non-commercial shirt sponsored by EF Hilton Co and the Dietz Family Foundation for the Henge installation on November 11. To see more pictures of the Henges click here. To read the story of the recent Henge installation click here. This Shirt is a good example of how an …
This is some excellent research on the origin of the word henge done by David B. Click on the photo to see a run of Paula B’s terrific photos from the henge event. The following is from the Online Etymology Dictionary. These references provide an historical perspective of the origin of the word. henge 1740, …
This is the invitation we sent out for the Doublehenge installation: Hi On Sunday, November 12 at 3:30 pm. in the garden of **** **** Rd, Pasadena. You are invited to participate in a historic two henge event. Laptophenge and pigpothenge. For those of you not familiar with henges, this is a picture of cellphonehenge: …
Cellphonehenge I received via email the following extremely good news from Goodwill of Southern California: Hey Simon, That’s really cool, have no problem letting you borrow some laptops for your project as long as people know the laptops were provided by Goodwill of Southern California, thanks a lot for considering Goodwill of Southern California Give …
The modern art of henge installations began in 1998. During June of that year Nurit, Rebecca and I visited the original Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England. It was raining and we took a picture of group of tourists huddled under their umbrellas and called it umbrellahenge. That winter Lillian and I and some …
These are some pictures from the cellphonehenge installation in Pasadena last weekend: If you click on any of the pictures you will be taken to the Flickr site and can see a slide show of all the cellphonehenge pictures An aerial view of cellphonehenge note that the phones in the outer ring are older and …