SWCAMBORNE

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 find it for this blog.

I’m thinking about contacting him about the “Great Pyramid of Gates” One of my great project ideas that I’m having a hard time getting off the ground.

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 but not raining and I liked it even more. I’m looking forward to visiting it when the sun is shining. I have put up a short slide show on Flickr.

Isamu Noguchi

So if you are in the NYC area, you like art and it is a sunny day I recommend trying to visit Storm King Art Center.

Henges are everywhere

My brother Matt gave me this little kit for my 60th birthday last summer. I waited until the Winter Solstice to build it.

It is small. The tiles in the photo above are 4 inch squares.

But it looked great and very realistic.

And most important of all: when the sun rose over the patio cover it shone directly onto the gap between two of the stones. Proving once again the amazing astronomical skill and knowledge of the “henge builders” ancient and modern.

At dawn on the 21st of December while we were building this henge we danced and joked and generally lacked gravitas. As a result of our impiety that afternoon a furious wind blew and henge was destroyed. Most of the stones ended up in the bushes but some went into the neighbors swimming pool. Perhaps they will be discovered by future generations who will attempt to understand the ancient mysteries of the henge. Or not.

Moral of the story: Build your henges with bigger stones!

Carhenge has new postcards:

And you can’t buy some of them by visiting the gift shop at Carhenge.com because they have shut down the on line gift shop for repairs. Fortunately western Nebraska is a short drive, three four days max, from anywhere in the USA.

Rebecca drove from Wyoming to Pennsylvania this week and stopped in Nebraska to visit CarHenge. This is the first picture she sent:

I’m living vicariously through my daughter on this one.

What a beautiful and mysterious place:

Here is a link to a discovered henge phenomenon as reported in Newsday.

http://www.newsday.com/search/am-hedge0530,0,277744.story

Thanks to Ken G for sending me this link.  Planning is underway for the Great Pyramid of Gates on the first Sunday of November.

Here is a link to a picture of Manhattanhenge.

Life is good.

This years henge event is a pyramid.

collecting monitors

It’s working name is: The Great Pyramid of Gates, Monitor I. It will be made of 200 plus computer monitors all of which will be salvaged for a few days on their way to being recycled. Dimensions about 20 feet high and the same on each side.  The date will be in mid November on a Sunday afternoon
Sponsorships including naming opportunities are available. An artist rendition of the completed pyramid is in the works.

Nurit and I drove from Atlanta to Elberton to visit the Georgia Guidestones. They are included on many lists as a Henge in Georgia. You judge: There would be a picture here but see the previous post.

There is a list of advise for the world written in eight languages on the sides of the stones:

You can follow this link to see a picture:

http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/guidestones.html

or this one:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/OVERhenges.html

Like any good henge the guide stones have an observatory feature in this case a slot that the sun shines directly through at the solistice.  Here is a view through the slot:

While we were in Elberton we also visited the Granite Museum. It has free postcards but “only take a few”. Elberton is the self proclaimed “Granite Capital of the World”

The single piece of granite in a needle is one of the prides of the town:

It was an excellent day of driving in the piedmont and seeing the dogwoods and azaleas in bloom.