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And an odd, but strangely enlightening, time was had by all.

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:
Click here to see cellphonehenge

Cellphonehenge was an installation that we created in the spring of 2006.

To learn more about the history of henging follow this link:
http://swcamborne.com/archives/category/henges/

The laptops for Laptophenge are being loaned to us by Goodwill of Southern California.  At the end of the installation, about 5:00pm, we will be taking the laptops back to Goodwill and would be delighted to also take your surplus electronic gear for you.

The pig pots come from El Museo de Cerdos y Alcancias de Mexico that I founded many years ago.  If you have any piggy banks around and want to bring them I believe it is a sponsorship opportunity.

Sponsors:      Wine                 Alan Whitman
Appetizers            Barbara David
More Appetizers        Available
More Wine            The Lorin Family
Plastic Cups            Ken Gerst
Paper goods            Available
More Wine            Steve Hartford
Tee Shirts            E F Hilton Co.
Lap Tops            Goodwill Industries
Transportation        Rotter and Associates
Security                Friends of the NRA
More Wine            Available
Dessert                Lillian Burrow
Official Photographer    Paula Blacher
Video                Camborne Productions
Survey Administration  Wally Geer

So the deal is:  you can have a short extremely humorous out of the normal experience, a photo opportunity, a glass of wine with friends and clean out all of the electronic stuff you’ve been meaning to recycle for two years all on one Sunday afternoon in November.  All you have to do is email an RSVP and bring your sense of humor. Additional guests are welcome if you tell us in advance.

Simon

Simon Burrow
simon@swcamborne.com

http://swcamborne.com/

626 221 7808

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 me a 3 day heads up so I can prepare the laptops or you can come choose them.

Albert Montanez Recycling Manager
Goodwill of Southern California

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 loose synapses combined with a bag of potatoes to make potatohenge. The photos were terrific and we couldn’t wait to make more.

The next year David B. and I created brickhenge. We used the swimming pool to recreate how the ancient druids floated the stones to Stonehenge. We again took some great photos.

The next few years were spent discovering other enterprising hengers. Nurit and I visited Stonehenge of Maryville on the Columbia River and Rebecca and I almost visited Carhenge in Nebraska. Both of these are permanent structures and well worth visiting.

But we build henge installations. Non-permanent henges that are photographed, toasted perhaps oohed and aahed and then removed.

By far the most successful installation to date was cellphonehenge in April of 2006. It was created by Rebecca, Lillian and I and was heralded as establishing a new standard for henge installations. Click here to see the entire set of henge photo on Flickr.

New installations are being planned. It is possible that one Sunday in October 2006 we could install pighenge and laptophenge on the same day. A two-henge day! What a dream! Is it possible? Stay tuned for details.

Carhenge puts all of my henging to shame. I’m looking forward to visiting this summer when I’ll just happen to be in Nebraska.

They also sell postcards. What a good idea.

“The Western Hemisphere’s reproduction of Stonehenge,” built by Samuel Hill in Washington State overlooking the Columbia River.

Click here for the official information about this ambitious, but poorly executed, project. Click here for a nice series of photos of the project.  We toured the Columbia River Gorge a few years ago and I insisted that we visit this Henge. It was disapointing in that it was dimensionally correct but failed entirely to capture the essence of Stonehenge. If you ever have issues getting a contractor to execute an idea that is in your head, you are not alone, remember Sam Hill and his “replica” of Stonehenge.

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 therefore it is assumed that it predates the inner ring and the altar phone.

This view shows the “Avenue of Pagers” leading up to the henge.

This view from the west show how the light from the setting sun at the summer solistice shines through the Motorola arch and on the altar stone. The astronomical knowledge required to build these ancient henges was phenomenal.

Thanks to Lillian and Rebecca for there help constructing the henge, to Nurit for her patience and good humored acceptance of the phenomenon and to Shari Cates for collecting many of the phones over the years.
Other historic henges that will appear soon are: Umbrellahenge, Potatohenge, Brickhenge and of course the Stonehenges. Both the original in Washington State, USA and the copy in Salisbury Plains, UK.