An associate is an urban sculptor up in Cleveland. He’s recently done an installation to reuse excavator buckets . . . but i wouldn’t advise using one on anyone’s nightstand.
Edited 8/6/2007 10:12 am ET by draftguy
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Edited 8/6/2007 10:12 am ET by draftguy
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Interesting Looking. Not sure about the term re-use to describe them. That just has a little bit of an environmental connotation. Those buckets looked brand spankin new.
Jason
They also look like they were special made for the job, and not just 'fitted'.
Yeh... That'll work.
Looking back on them, they seem to be missing a second attachment point. They probably were custom made.
Yup.Is that a sculpture all by itself ?It looks like they will hold lights.Are they to be left together like that, and in that place, or are they to be set at different places in the city ? If the latter, that would explain having some buckets custom made. When you are working with municipalities on this sort of thing, they tend to get picky. The bean counters and lawyers get involved. All of a sudden the light that you made with an old used bucket becomes the worst threat to the public safety since the bubonic plague. Everything has to be redesigned, engineers have to sign off, and it has to all be made according to their own plans. From the beginning.
Yeh... That'll work.
Each bucket in the sculpture will be lit from the inside. It's the first part of a series. Two different sculptures are being installed this week and next, one of which apparently looks like a water tower. All of them will be lit in an upcoming ceremony.We've worked together on another sculpture he did for a local neighborhood in Columbus. A couple of tall tower pieces made from Cor-Ten steel that also acted as planters. There were all kinds of gyrations he went through to get those approved.
It would be great if we could get some pics of the final installations after they have been lit.=0)
Yeh... That'll work.
Kind of funny, I was watching Country Fried Videos last night, and they had video of some dude who had fitted a sand bucket for a Komatsu excavator out like an amusement park ride.
This'd be the 7-8'wide sand scraping bucket, so even had a bit of "ride" look to it. Can't imagine what that would be like in the operator chair with the joystick cranked over for max rotate though . . .
i for one enjoyed it and "got" it, It spoke to me of love won and love lost, Of dreams yet to come and how on a hot day a mars bar will melt and make a mess, I would like to see this at night with tiki torches in the background, May be the only way to really see it im not sure
I think they would look good with 450 watt metal halide lites in them.
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i think i will wear seersucker bell bottoms, with a severed clown hand in my back pocket, and dance like tuna turner to the handclaps of the assembled multitudes.
Bobby,
You're reminding me of Steve Martin at the art gallery in LA Story. ;)
They don't allow hoes on the street corner where I live.
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