Balancing Rocks
Thu May 04, 2006 3:10 am
I want to try this, but I don't live where there are lots of these rocks like this.
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/gallery- ... ncing.html
But what I would like to do is try balancing some when no one is around and just leaving them. That would really confuse people I think, if they found stacks of perfectly balanced rocks with no explaination as to how they got that way.
Oh and if all else fails, I can just glue them together!
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/gallery- ... ncing.html
But what I would like to do is try balancing some when no one is around and just leaving them. That would really confuse people I think, if they found stacks of perfectly balanced rocks with no explaination as to how they got that way.
Oh and if all else fails, I can just glue them together!
Thu May 04, 2006 4:11 am
I'd like to be the person who knocks them down.
don't know what it is but I like to destroy things like that. I build sandcastles just to knock them down like I'm godzilla, same with little snowmen.... probably why my daughter won't build things with me anymore
don't know what it is but I like to destroy things like that. I build sandcastles just to knock them down like I'm godzilla, same with little snowmen.... probably why my daughter won't build things with me anymore
Thu May 04, 2006 5:42 am
oh yeah! i saw some guy doing that in some outdoorsy show. the guy was in a lexan box with rocks in it, so as to prevent people from knocking down with rocks
Thu May 04, 2006 5:55 am
How can I balance rocks, if I can't even balance myself? 
That's cool, though. ^-^ And you're right, smudge -- I would be quite frightened if I found a balanced pile of rocks with no one around.
That's cool, though. ^-^ And you're right, smudge -- I would be quite frightened if I found a balanced pile of rocks with no one around.
Thu May 04, 2006 7:09 am
Those are actually pretty cool. I used to create rock towers, although they looked more like the Leaning Tower of Pisa than actual art.
If you enter into Proctor, MN from off I-35 there is a stack of rocks on top of a really large boulder... not that anyone here actually lives near there, but still.
If you enter into Proctor, MN from off I-35 there is a stack of rocks on top of a really large boulder... not that anyone here actually lives near there, but still.
Thu May 04, 2006 10:38 pm
People do that? I seriously thought they were like that by themselves.
There's this rock area I drive through every day, and theres like 50 trillion rock structures like that. I thought they were just like that from when the road was blasted out.
Ohhh lordy I'm an idiot.
There's this rock area I drive through every day, and theres like 50 trillion rock structures like that. I thought they were just like that from when the road was blasted out.
Ohhh lordy I'm an idiot.
Thu May 04, 2006 10:52 pm
I always get the urge to knock stuff like that down when I see it. XD
Thu May 04, 2006 11:00 pm
There's an artist named Andy Goldsworthy who does things like this. He makes the most lovely books. It's terribly addicting stuff when you actually see what he's doing. He's got a movie, Rivers and Tides that talks a lot about the theory behind his work.
But I think a lot of his other stuff is cooler.
http://images.google.ca/images?q=Goldsworthy&hl=en
Google is my friend *Squee*
But I think a lot of his other stuff is cooler.
http://images.google.ca/images?q=Goldsworthy&hl=en
Google is my friend *Squee*
Fri May 05, 2006 6:03 pm
Wow, It is very artistic what people can do with just the rocks and leaves and snow around them. I'll have to try something like that!
Sat May 06, 2006 6:02 am
Wow that is really cool. 
I'm gonna have to show my husband this.
I'm gonna have to show my husband this.