Kinetic Sculpture Race 2004 69
YetAnotherName writes "Tom Jones again has coverage and eye-candy of the 2004 Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race where engineers and artists come together, with tongues firmly in cheeks, to create land-riding, mud-crawling, sea-slogging, human-powered works of art. Amongst the winners were the Cirque de Sore Legs and La Kafkaracha."
Looks like fun! (Score:5, Insightful)
"Fifi" won the Best Bribes Award when two of her crew serenaded the judges on bended knee.
"The Valking Viscar Boot" was awarded the Worst Honorable Mention, for "half-baked theoretical 'engineering' which did not deter its Pilot from the challenge of the race"
"The Rat" won the Next-To-Last Award for coming in right near the end of the race.
I wish I'd known in advance, I only live about 45 minutes away and it would have been fun to watch.
Happy Trails!
Erick
can't resist - - FP! (Score:1)
Late Entry! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Late Entry! (Score:1)
Re:...mud-crawling, sea-slogging,.. (Score:3, Funny)
Slimy things with legs? Damn, did I miss Coleridgepalooza again?
Re:...mud-crawling, sea-slogging,.. (Score:4, Informative)
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
The very best kinetic sculpture... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The very best kinetic sculpture... (Score:4, Funny)
Wether the artwork includes a cloth medium or not is a big factor, as is the total amount of material used for the sculpture. Too much, and you go from breath taking to nauseating.
Re:The very worst kinetic sculpture... (Score:1, Funny)
These kinds of races are a lot of fun (Score:5, Informative)
These races (and the racers) are quite fun. A very entertaining group of artists, engineers, and nut cases
Re:These kinds of races are a lot of fun (Score:2)
You make it sound like there is a distinction.
Re:These kinds of races are a lot of fun (Score:1)
Hilarious... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hilarious... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, the kayakers are pulling the train cars, due to the "sculpture" breaking up when trying to be towed.
I would offer some scorn about reading the article, but I, sigh, am not new here.
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Re:Hilarious... (Score:1)
In particular, "Cigars, Logging Trucks, and Know-it-Alls."
That book was humor anyone who's gone camping can enjoy.
Re:Did even one of those floats run linux? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did even one of those floats run linux? (Score:1)
Humour always matters.
Tom Jones? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn. The guy went from Vegas heartthrob to nerdy kinetic sculpture race guy.
Re:Tom Jones? (Score:1)
Not only that, but the novelization [amazon.com] of his life is already out.
Re:Tom Jones? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tom Jones? (Score:1)
I'm a little disappointed (Score:1, Funny)
Swedish trends (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Swedish trends (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Swedish trends (Score:1)
Re:Swedish trends (Score:1)
Bzzt, wrong. It means "plowing day". Which is also an accurate description if you look at how the contestants meet the ground.
Red Bull gives you wings...sort of. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Red Bull gives you wings...sort of. (Score:5, Funny)
If I remember correctly...
Re:Red Bull gives you wings...sort of. (Score:2, Funny)
Link Borked (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Link Borked (Score:1)
Re:Link Borked (Score:2)
it is, unless you're the slug!
"wait up, guys!"
Bitter slashdotters (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Bitter slashdotters (Score:2, Interesting)
Good lord (Score:5, Funny)
That aside, what a neat idea, some of the designs are pretty interesting. However I would have just loved to see videos of that pink poodle going in the drink.
Re:Good lord (Score:2, Informative)
Not that Baltimore Harbor isn't as dank as water gets on this planet.
More photos (Score:5, Informative)
Link here [dyndns.org]
Californian's and others in the west (Score:5, Informative)
I have been going to the grand daddy [kineticsculpturerace.org] of all Kinetic Sculpture Races for a few years. It is in the fine north-west; Arcata to be exact.
Go check it out (May 29-31) if you want to see some home grown hilarious technology. The sculptors are bizarre and have to do some amazing feats!
Re:Californian's and others in the west (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.kineticsculpturerace.org/rulez/index . sh tml
Which are very strict:
2.01a: Since mothers are discouraged from running alongside, racers must carry a comforting item of Psychological Luxury no smaller than a restaurant coffee cup at all times. An old security blanket (your "binkie", or whatever you called it!), a soft teddy-bear or sock doll will suffice. "Teddy Bears" are highly recommended or an unreasonable facsimile thereof.
9.00:
In case of sunshine, the race shall b
Breakdown? (Score:5, Funny)
well... (Score:2, Funny)
Come to think of it, this is kind of unusual. zing!
Boulder, Colorado Kinetics are this weekend (Score:5, Informative)
Should be a lot more fun than watching my grass grow! ;-) [komar.org]
Re:Boulder, Colorado Kinetics are this weekend (Score:1)
I know they have one in Boulder, CO (Score:3, Informative)
is the link to the kinetics race they have in Boulder. Its not so much about science as it is about getting super wasted and a sun burn and a hangover to show for it.
peace.
Any ant-theme works? (Score:2)
I already have:
1. Photograph [hoover.com]: Ants carrying a float.
2. Photograph [ev1.net]: A pick-up truck with ants: This picnic is suffering from a serious ant invasion.
Re:Any ant-theme works? (Score:1)
Port Townsend KSR (Score:5, Interesting)
One year I helped my friend Mike [lampi.org] build a kinetic sculpture. His plan was to make a vehicle that could carry four people. He has welding equipment in his garage, to help with all his hobby welding, so he put together a large vehicle. The plan was for it to use car wheels and a car seat, side pontoons, and a water drive with some sort of propeller.
This vehicle looked sort of like a shuttlecraft from the original Star Trek, so Mike wound up naming it the Shuttle Distress [lampi.org]. (This is a sort of pun on Shuttle Express [shuttleexpress.com], a company that takes you to the airport in minivans for less money than a taxi.)
At a costume shop, I bought a Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform shirt. This is basically a very cheaply made bicycle jersey; bike jerseys are made from polypro, but don't have annoying seams or rough raspy fabric. (I was in red; that's command and navigation, right? I was in the copilot seat so it sort of works! Fortunately it wasn't an original series red shirt. "Dressed in red, soon be dead...")
We had no idea how heavy the vehicle actually was. As it turned out, just the vehicle was over 800 pounds; with Mike, me, one of his kids, and all our gear, we figured it was 1200 pounds or more easy. Well, "easy" isn't the word for pedaling that thing uphill! Fortunately Mike designed it with a really low gear ratio. We didn't set any speed records, but we got up the hill.
If you look at the pictures [lampi.org], you can see the swing-down pontoons on the sides. (These really look a lot like shuttlecraft engine nacelles...) That part works fine. But we ran out of time and never got any sort of propeller. The Shuttle Distress floated okay, but our fallback plan of paddling with oars just plain sucked. One of the volunteers standing by in a boat offered us a tow, which we gratefully accepted, and then of course we had to bribe the Kinetic Kops to look the other way.
It's actually normal at these events to have vehicles that can't quite perform well enough to do everything. You don't get disqualified if you can't do everything; on the contrary, there is a special award you can get if your vehicle can do everything. The "ACE" award goes to vehicles that can do the whole course without the driver having to get out. (For example, on the Shuttle Distress, you have to get out to lock the pontoons down. On ACE vehicles like Lutefisk [corvallis.or.us], you can stay inside even during the land-to-water conversion.)
These events are really fun. You see some beautiful, well-built machines with clever engineering; you also see some weird things that were hacked together in a weekend with dead bicycles, random bits of foam, Barbie doll heads, and what-have-you.
If you live near one of these, go and check it out.
steveha
Kinetic Sculpture (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.arthurganson.com/pages/Sculptures.html [arthurganson.com]
Re:Kinetic Sculpture (Score:1)
All too easy, try -flying- kinetic sculptures ! (Score:3, Interesting)
The Icarus Cup gathers hundreds with the same spirit... except they're flying their sculptures ! :
This event happens in october every year, here are the best pictures I could find
Check the flying effeil tower [claranet.fr] and Tintin's submarine [cquest.org]
The King of Kinetic Sculpture Races (Score:2)
Duane Flatmo [duaneflatmo.com] is hands down the king of kinetic sculpture makers. View a number of his creations at his web site. You may have seen Flatmo creations at other KSR races around the United States.
Re:The King of Kinetic Sculpture Races (Score:1)
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Re:The King of Kinetic Sculpture Races (Score:1)
Great Time (Score:1)
The course is 15 miles long including 2 water entries, a mud pit, and a sand pit. You must be in pretty good shape to make it. The guy in the beaver suit was easily in his sixties...
baltimore (Score:1)
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