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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.

When visiting ancient sites like Machu Pichu, The Pyramids or Stone Henge we are asked to marvel at the amazing astronomical skills of the ancients. At the equinox or the solistice we are told the sun shines just so and this proves that the builders were really amazing blah blah blah.

Here is another theory. The two fixed objects in the sky are the North Star and the Southern Cross. if you build your big thing facing one of them on the solistice the sun will rise and set at exactly a right angle to the direction and amazing things will happen.

Look at this picture taken at the spring solistice:

Ignore the dog. My house was built facing north. When the sun shines in my East facing office window on the spring solistice it shines all the way into the front hall. Is this proof that the builders of my house were great astronomers or the unintended consequence of building the house facing north in the first place.

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.

But I was at Chichenitza in Mexico and saw the pyramid and realized that monitors could be used to build a beautiful 5 to 7 meter (20 foot) high pyramid.

The Model for Monitor Pyramid

I am going to start working on this idea for early November. What is needed now is a better name than “Monitor Pyramid”, a venue and a charity to donate the proceeds of this great cultural event.

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